The world, region by region

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Saturday 5 July 2025

15 stories, region by region.

Africa

  1. Disasters

    A minivan collided with a locomotive in Mpika, Zambia killing nine.

Americas

  1. Disasters

    In Glendora, Mississippi, 13 cars of a Canadian National freight train derail, including one car spilling benzene, forcing an evacuation of the area.

  2. Crime & Justice

    Officers conducting a welfare check on a woman at the request of her grandmother found four people shot to death in an apartment in Talladega County, Alabama leased by the woman's boyfriend.

  3. Crime & Justice

    Two people, including a juvenile, were killed and five others, including two other juveniles, were injured in a shooting in Downtown Indianapolis.

Asia-Pacific

  1. Disasters

    A boat, capable of carrying forty passengers, sank in conditions of strong winds in Dongjiang Lake, China. Of the 29 people on board, 27 were rescued and two died.

  2. India–United States relations

    X briefly withholds access to multiple Reuters accounts in India, citing a legal request under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000.

  3. Disasters

    Four people are killed after an abandoned open cast coal mine collapsed in Ramgarh district, India.

  4. Business

    The first Legoland in China opens in Shanghai.

Europe

  1. Business

    Black Sabbath's final concert, Back to the Beginning, takes place at Villa Park in Birmingham. The event raises £140m for local charities.

  2. Politics

    The Turkish government arrests the mayors of Adıyaman, Adana, and Antalya, who are all part of the opposition Republican People's Party, as part of a bribery investigation.

  3. Disasters

    A light propeller aircraft originating from Germany, crashes near Wald im Pinzgau, Austria, killing all four people on board.

  4. Crime & Justice

    A gynaecologist from Bonneville, France is sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment by a court in Haute-Savoie for the rape of nine patients.

Middle East

  1. Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip

    Israeli airstrikes kill 78 Palestinians, including ten who were seeking humanitarian aid, and injure dozens of others.

  2. Disasters

    Two minibuses collide head-on in Egypt, killing nine and injuring 11.

  3. Palestine Action

    Police arrest 29 people following a Central London protest in support of Palestine Action on its first day as a proscribed terrorist group.

Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 5 July 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.