July 24, 2025 (Thursday)

Cambodian and Thai troops exchange fire near the Prasat Ta Muen Thom site near the border. Fourteen people are killed and 46 others are injured in Thailand.

An Angara Airlines Antonov An-24 operating as Angara Airlines Flight 2311 en route to Tynda crashes into a forested area in Amur Oblast, Russia, killing all 48 occupants, including five children.

At least 12 people are killed, several others are missing, and 157 are injured in an explosion at an ammunition depot in Maarrat Misrin, Idlib Governorate, Syria.

French president Emmanuel Macron announces that France will recognize Palestine as a state starting September, citing reasons such as an immediate end to the war and helping the humanitarian crisis.

The International Criminal Court convicts Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona and Alfred Yekatom, leaders of the Anti-balaka militia alliance, of multiple counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentences them to 12 and 15 years in prison respectively for their roles in various massacres against civilians throughout the civil war in the Central African Republic.

Hungary bans Irish rap trio Kneecap for three years ahead of a music festival, citing a national security threat over their alleged support for Hamas and Hezbollah.