Tuesday

May 6, 2025

Armed conflicts and attacks

2025 India-Pakistan standoff

Red Sea crisis

May 2025 Israeli attacks on Yemen

Israeli airstrikes hit Sanaa International Airport in Sanaa, Yemen, and destroy three of Yemenia's seven planes. (The Times of Israel)

United States attacks in Yemen

U.S. president Donald Trump announces that the United States has reached a ceasefire with the Houthis and will stop its airstrikes, after they agreed to stop disrupting international shipping. (Reuters) (NBC News)

Insurgency in Balochistan

Seven Pakistan Army soldiers are killed and five others are injured when their vehicle in a convoy heading to a security operation is exploded by a Balochistan Liberation Army improvised explosive device in Balochistan, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera English)

Disasters and accidents

Twelve people are killed and 23 others are injured after a bus overturns in Padang Panjang, West Sumatra, Indonesia. (VOI.ID)

Four people are killed, including an army trooper, and over 40 others are injured, including 11 critically, when a passenger bus rolls down into a gorge in Poonch District, Jammu and Kashmir, India. (The Times of India)

Law and crime

The government of Peru imposes a curfew and temporarily suspends gold mining in Pataz Province for 30 days after the bodies of thirteen miners who were kidnapped and killed were discovered on Sunday. (DW)

Politics and elections

2025 German federal election

The Bundestag elects Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union, as the 10th Chancellor of Germany in the second round of voting, with 325 votes out of the 316 votes necessary. He is the first chancellor of Germany to have been elected only in the second round. (BBC News) (Tagesschau)