The Ukrainian Armed Forces launch a long-range drone strike on Krasnodar Krai, Russia, damaging the main oil refinery in Ilsky.
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July 7, 2025 (Monday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Russia launches over 100 drones at areas across Ukraine, killing ten civilians and injuring 38 others.
The Israeli Air Force strikes three ports and a power plant in Houthi-controlled Yemen in response to recent ballistic missile attacks on Israel.
Over 70 vigilante group members are killed and others are missing in a mass shooting ambush by bandits in Plateau State, Nigeria.
Al-Shabaab militants recapture Moqokori, a town in the Hiiraan region of Somalia. The heavy fighting resulted in the deaths of at least 40 Somali National Army and Ma'awisley fighters.
Eleven people are killed and 29 others are injured in clashes with security forces amid ongoing anti-government protests in Kenya, according to the National Commission on Human Rights.
Business and economy
Disasters and accidents
Four people are killed, including two children, when a Cirrus SR22 crashes into a field near Raleigh Executive Jetport in Sanford, North Carolina, United States.
The death toll from the flooding in Central Texas, United States, increases to 104, including 28 children, with 41 other people still missing. Flash flood warnings are issued for expected additional rainfall.
Four people are killed and at least 22 others are injured in a fire at the Ramses Exchange building in Cairo, Egypt. National connectivity data is brought down to 62% of ordinary levels, including banking and phone calls. Trading on the Cairo Stock Exchange is halted the following day.
Law and crime
Amnesty International says that Saudi Arabia executed a record 345 people last year, many of them over drug offenses.
Philippine police chief Nicolas Torre announces that 15 police officers have been arrested for their alleged involvement in abducting and killing at least 34 cockfighters across Luzon, Philippines, from 2021 to 2022.
The perpetrator is killed and three people, two police officers and a border guard, are injured in a mass shooting when a man opens fire on law enforcement officers before being fatally shot at a Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, United States.
The United States Department of Justice announces that the alleged "Epstein client list" does not exist, in contradiction of Attorney General Pam Bondi's claims of possessing it, and reaffirms that Jeffrey Epstein's death was a suicide.
Politics and elections
Russian president Vladimir Putin dismisses Minister of Transport Roman Starovoyt, with his deputy Andrey Nikitin replacing him. Hours after his dismissal, Starovoyt is found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot.
Kim Min-seok is officially inaugurated as the prime minister of South Korea at the Government Complex in Sejong City, four days after he was approved by the National Assembly.
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