Portal:Current events/2025 July 30

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Constitutional crisis in Somalia
  • Jubaland crisis
    • Federal troops capture Beled Hawo, Somalia, from forces loyal to Jubaland. (Garowe Online)
• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
    • At least 71 Palestinians are killed and dozens more are wounded while seeking humanitarian aid in Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
• Kivu conflict
  • M23 campaign
    • M23 rebels expel Wazalendo militia Decisive Movement for the Liberation of Congo from Kamakombe, Kabare Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Radio Okapi)
• South Sudan–Uganda relations
  • Five South Sudanese soldiers, one Ugandan soldier, and one civilian are killed in a shooting at two villages in Yumbe District, Uganda, in a retaliatory strike against the South Sudan People's Defence Forces after the killing of a Uganda People's Defence Force soldier during border clashes on Monday. Both countries have agreed to an immediate ceasefire. (AP) (Daily Monitor)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Kamchatka earthquake
  • A M_w 8.8 earthquake strikes off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. Tsunami alerts have been issued along the Pacific coast of many countries. (The New York Times)
• At least nine people are killed and two others are critically injured in an explosion at a fireworks workshop in Ban Pho Tha Sai, Suphan Buri province, Thailand. (AP) (Bangkok Post)
• Five people, including four Ukrainian nationals, are killed after a truck collides with a minivan on the A1 motorway near Slovenske Konjice, Slovenia. (Slovenian Press Agency) (Sloboden Pečat)

International relations

• 2025 New York Peace Conference on Gaza, Canada–Palestine relations
  • Canadian prime minister Mark Carney announces that Canada will recognise Palestine as an independent country in September, conditional on the Palestinian Authority committing to certain reforms. (CBC)
• Syria–Turkey relations, Qatar–Syria relations
  • Turkey announces it will start supplying natural gas to Syria via the Arab Gas Pipeline to help Syria generate new electricity, while Qatar will also help with the project's financing. (AP)
• 2022 Brazilian coup plot
  • The U.S. Treasury Department imposes sanctions under the Magnitsky Act on Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes over alleged human rights violations and suppression of freedom of expression in his oversight of former president Jair Bolsonaro. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Internet censorship in Australia
  • The government of Australia announces the inclusion of video-sharing site YouTube in its social media ban for teenagers starting in December, following a survey on harmful content being reported on the site. (BBC News) (Reuters)
• Internet censorship in Russia
  • Russian federal agency Rospotrebnadzor blocks web service Speedtest after identifying alleged threats to the security of the public communications network and a segment of the Internet in Russia. (The Moscow Times)