All "educational activities, gatherings and workplaces, with the exception of essential businesses" are suspended in Israel due to the emergency situation.
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June 13, 2025 (Friday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Israel says it has launched targeted assassination strikes against senior Iranian government officials, Iranian military leadership and senior nuclear scientists.
Iranian state media says commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Hossein Salami has been killed. Senior nuclear scientist and former head of Atomic Energy Organization Fereydoon Abbasi is also killed in an Israeli strike.
U.S. secretary of state Marco Rubio says that American forces are not involved in the strikes on Iran's nuclear sites.
The Israeli Air Force launches a bombing campaign against Iran with multiple explosions reported across Tehran. A special state of emergency is declared in Israel by Defence Minister Israel Katz. Israeli airspace is closed to all flights.
The Israeli military confirms it has targeted nuclear facilities in Iran with the main goal of the operation being to destroy Iran's nuclear program. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirms Israeli warplanes have targeted Iran's main Natanz Nuclear Facility.
Iranian state media reports that all flights to and from Imam Khomeini International Airport have been suspended until further notice and that several residential buildings in Tehran have collapsed due to missile strikes.
Iran launches over 100 Shahed drones towards Israel in retaliation for the Israeli strikes.
Law and crime
U.S. district judge Charles Breyer issues a temporary restraining order directing President Donald Trump to return control of the National Guard to California, saying he violated the Tenth Amendment and exceeded his statutory authority. Later, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocks the order.
June 12, 2025 (Thursday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
At least 103 Palestinians are killed by Israeli fire in the past 24 hours across the Gaza Strip, including 21 people this morning near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) sites, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
Israeli forces kill one person and detain seven people, all Syrians, who they allege are Hamas members in an early-morning raid on the village of Beit Jinn in Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria.
Arts and culture
Dutch-Israeli writer Yael van der Wouden wins the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction for her novel The Safekeep, which was also shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize. British physician and writer Rachel Clarke wins the sister prize, the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction, for her book about palliative care, The Story of a Heart.
Disasters and accidents
The death toll in the flooding caused by heavy rainfall and snowfall from a winter storm in Eastern Cape province, South Africa, increases to 57, with several others still missing.
An Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner carrying 230 passengers and 12 crew members crashes into a residential area shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad Airport in Gujarat, India. Authorities find one survivor from the plane, and 204 bodies have been recovered from the crash site so far.
International relations
The International Atomic Energy Agency finds Iran in breach of its obligations to limit uranium enrichment and provision of information on its nuclear materials.
Law and crime
The Internal Security Agency of Poland announce the arrest of a teenager in Olsztyn, Warmian–Masurian Voivodeship, accused with two other men, arrested in April, of planning a far-right terrorist attack.
Politics and elections
Somalia's federal government calls for the dissolution of the C6+ international coordination framework, saying it is outdated and misrepresents the country’s current political and security progress.
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