Tuesday, September 2, 2025

2025 United States strike on a Southern Caribbean boat

The United States military conducts a precision strike and sinks a Venezuelan boat reportedly used by Tren de Aragua for smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea, killing 11 people. The Trump administration reports it currently has no plans of attacking the Venezuelan government.

Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip

At least 105 Palestinians are killed during Israeli airstrikes and shootings across the Gaza Strip.

Insurgency in Balochistan

At least 14 people are killed and dozens of others are injured, including seven critically, in a suicide bombing at a political rally in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan.

Insurgency in Balochistan

An attack near the Iran–Pakistan border in Balochistan, Pakistan, kills five people.

Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Six soldiers and six militants are killed in a suicide attack on a paramilitary base in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Belgium–Palestine relations

Belgian foreign minister Maxime Prévot announces that Belgium will conditionally recognize a Palestinian state at the upcoming United Nations General Assembly session upon the release of hostages and removal of Hamas, and impose sanctions on Israel, including bans on products from Israeli settlements and restrictions on certain public contracts.

Politics

A Turkish court annuls the Istanbul provincial congress of the Republican People's Party over alleged procedural violations, dismissing local leaders including the Istanbul chair, and appoints an interim committee to oversee the branch.

Catholic Church sexual abuse cases

A Bolivian court sentences two Spanish Jesuit priests to a year in prison for failing to report child sexual abuse by a fellow priest, whose posthumous diary revealed he abused at least 85 minors between 1972 and 2000.

Prosecution of Syrian civil war criminals

French judges issue arrest warrants for seven former senior Ba'athist Syrian officials, including former president Bashar al-Assad, on charges of complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity for a 2012 rocket attack on a media center in Homs that killed journalists Marie Colvin and Rémi Ochlik and injured others.

Justice

Five people are injured, including one critically and two seriously, in a mass stabbing attack at a hotel and a nearby street in Marseille, France. The perpetrator, a 35-year-old Tunisian, is fatally shot by police.

Justice

An Argentine court places the daughter of Nazi adviser Friedrich Kadgien and her husband under house arrest and accuses them of stealing the painting Portrait of a Lady, which had been missing since 1945.

Disasters

At least 60 people are killed and dozens rescued after an overloaded boat carrying more than 100 passengers strikes a submerged tree stump and capsizes on the Niger River near Borgu, Niger State, Nigeria, with search operations continuing for missing persons.

Economy of Brazil

Brazil's Federal Senate approves a constitutional amendment that phases in court-ordered debt payments to fiscal target calculations beginning in 2027, initially counting 10% of the total and gradually reaching full inclusion over up to ten years.