The day

Thursday 5 June 2025

17 stories, biggest first.

1. 1

   NewsMexico–United States relations

   The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously blocks a 10-billion dollar lawsuit by the Mexican government against large American firearms manufacturers alleging their failure to prevent firearms sales to drug cartels and other criminal organisations due to a lack of evidence that the companies allow such transactions.

2. 2

   NewsIsrael–Hezbollah conflict

   Israeli Air Force jets launch airstrikes on southern Beirut, Lebanon, targeting alleged underground Hezbollah drone manufacturing facilities.

3. 3

   NewsMediterranean Sea migrant smuggling

   The Freedom Flotilla, a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid en route to Gaza with Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, Irish actor Liam Cunningham, and French European Parliament member Rima Hassan, rescue four Sudanese civil war refugees from a dinghy near Libya.

4. 4

   Science

   Nintendo's Switch 2 video game console is released in most regions.

5. 5

   Politics2025 Burundian parliamentary election

   Citizens of Burundi vote to elect 100 of the 123 members of the National Assembly.

6. 6

   Sport2026 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)

   In association football, Uzbekistan and Jordan qualify for the FIFA World Cup for the first time, with Uzbekistan securing a top-two finish in Group A and Jordan advancing from Group B following Iraq's loss to secure their places in the 2026 tournament.

7. 7

   Politics

   Zia Yusuf announces via X that he is stepping down as the Chairman of Reform UK.

8. 8

   NewsAttacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine

   An overnight Russian Shahed drone strike kills five people, including a child, and injures nine others in Pryluky, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine.

9. 9

   NewsRafah aid distribution killings

   A CNN investigation points to the Israel Defense Forces opening fire on crowds of Palestinians as they tried to get humanitarian aid in Rafah, Gaza.

10. 10

    NewsChad–United States relations

    Chad suspends the issuance of visas to U.S. citizens in response to a new travel ban announced by U.S. president Donald Trump, that includes Chad among twelve countries facing entry restrictions.

11. 11

    NewsAttacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine

    A Russian drone strike injures nineteen people in Kharkiv, including children and a pregnant woman.

12. 12

    NewsKherson strikes

    The Kherson Regional State Administration headquarters is destroyed in a Russian missile strike.

13. 13

    NewsGaza war hostage crisis

    Israeli forces in Gaza recover the bodies of an American-Israeli couple abducted by militants during the October 7 attacks.

14. 14

    NewsUnited States and the International Criminal Court

    The United States imposes sanctions on 4 ICC judges in retaliation over the war tribunal's issuance of an arrest warrant for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a past decision to open a case into alleged war crimes by U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

15. 15

    News

    A fire at a apartment building in Rheims, France, killed four people.

16. 16

    Crime

    Two members of the Ta' Maksar gang are convicted as accessories to murder for supplying the explosive that killed the Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017.

17. 17

    Science

    The government of the Ivory Coast declares an outbreak of cholera after confirming seven recent deaths from the disease, and calls on the population to remain vigilant.

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