Wednesday 9 July 2025

2025 Jaalle Siyaad military academy bombing

Several people are killed and injured in a suicide bombing targeting the 14th October Brigade of the Somali Armed Forces at a military academy in Mogadishu, Somalia. Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack.

2025 Shabelle offensive

At least seven Kenyan police officers are injured after an al-Shabaab roadside bomb strikes their patrol truck on a highway east of Mandera in Kenya, near the border with Somalia.

Colombian conflict

A donkey packed with explosives blasts near a military outpost in Las Cruces sector, Valdivia, Antioquia Department, killing one soldier and injuring two. Authorities blamed the ELN of being behind the attack.

2025 Guatemala earthquakes

At least six people die when a Mw 5.7 earthquake strikes Guatemala and causes widespread damage.

United States and the United Nations

The United States issues sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Tariffs in the second Trump administration

U.S. president Donald Trump announces a 50% tariff on most imports into the United States from Brazil starting August 1, in a letter addressed to Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and citing the trial of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro.

Disasters

At least thirteen people are killed and nine others are injured after a section of the Gambhira Bridge in Gujarat, India, partially collapses during morning rush hour.

2024 South Korean martial law crisis

The Seoul Central District Court issues an arrest warrant for former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol over five key charges related to his short-lived martial law declaration on December 3, 2024, placing him in custody for the first time since March due to concerns of evidence tampering.

Tariffs in the second Trump administration

President Trump also announces a new set of tariff rates on imports from Algeria, Brunei, Iraq, Libya, Moldova, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka, assigning country-specific duties ranging from 20 to 30% following the expiration of a 90-day negotiation period.

Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure

Russian forces launch 728 Geran-2 drones at Ukraine overnight in the largest single drone attack of the war to date.

Censorship in Turkey

Turkey partially bans certain contents from X (formerly Twitter)'s AI chatbot Grok amid a criminal probe over insults to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the country's founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

Attacks on the Eternity C

The Eternity C, a Liberian-flagged ship, sinks in the Red Sea after being attacked by the Houthis on Monday. At least four people are killed, seven others are rescued and fourteen are reported missing. A rescue operation is underway.

World

The Syrian minister of foreign affairs Asaad al-Shaibani announces the country's readmission to the Union for the Mediterranean after 13 years of its suspension.