The day
Saturday 5 July 2025
15 stories, biggest first.
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Money
Black Sabbath's final concert, Back to the Beginning, takes place at Villa Park in Birmingham. The event raises £140m for local charities.
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NewsIsraeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
Israeli airstrikes kill 78 Palestinians, including ten who were seeking humanitarian aid, and injure dozens of others.
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News
In Glendora, Mississippi, 13 cars of a Canadian National freight train derail, including one car spilling benzene, forcing an evacuation of the area.
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News
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.
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NewsIndia–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.
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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.
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News
Two minibuses collide head-on in Egypt, killing nine and injuring 11.
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News
A light propeller aircraft originating from Germany, crashes near Wald im Pinzgau, Austria, killing all four people on board.
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News
Four people are killed after an abandoned open cast coal mine collapsed in Ramgarh district, India.
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Crime
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.
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Crime
Two people, including a juvenile, were killed and five others, including two other juveniles, were injured in a shooting in Downtown Indianapolis.
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CrimePalestine Action
Police arrest 29 people following a Central London protest in support of Palestine Action on its first day as a proscribed terrorist group.
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Crime
A gynaecologist from Bonneville, France is sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment by a court in Haute-Savoie for the rape of nine patients.
Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 5 July 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.