Portal:Current events/2025 July 9
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Red Sea crisis
- Houthi attacks on commercial vessels
- 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. (The Guardian) (NOS)
- Attacks on the Eternity C
- Houthi attacks on commercial vessels
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- drone attack of the war to date. (Newsweek)
- Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- Somali Civil War
- 2025 Shabelle offensive
- 2025 Jaalle Siyaad military academy bombing
- Several people are killed and injured in a 14th October Brigade of the Somali Armed Forces at a military academy in Mogadishu, Somalia. Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack. (Reuters) (Hiiraan Online) (Somali Guardian)
- 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. (Hiiraan Online)
- 2025 Shabelle offensive
Business and economy
- 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. (Reuters)
- 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. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Guatemala earthquakes
- At least six people die when a Mw 5.7 earthquake strikes Guatemala and causes widespread damage. (ABC News)
- 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. (The Times of India) (NDTV)
Law and crime
- 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
- The evidence tampering. (Yonhap)
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- 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. (Reuters)