Portal:Current events/2025 September 6

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • At least one person is killed and two others are injured in an improvised explosive device bombing during a cricket match in Bajaur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Dawn)

Arts and culture

• 82nd Venice International Film Festival
  • The 2025 Venice Film Festival closes with Jim Jarmusch's Father Mother Sister Brother winning the Golden Lion. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pakistan floods
  • Five people are killed when a rescue boat capsizes in the Chenab River while evacuating people from flooding in the Jalalpur Pirwala area of Multan District, Punjab, Pakistan, with search operations still ongoing. (Dawn)
• Six people are killed after a cable wire of a ropeway meant for material transport at the Kalika Mata Temple snaps, causing the cable car to crash to the ground in Pavagadh, India. (The Indian Express)
• At least three people are killed, nine are injured, including six seriously, and others are reported missing when an under-construction bridge collapses in Karbala Governorate, Iraq. (Al Arabiya) (Shafaq News)

International relations

• Immigration policy of the second Trump administration
  • Deportation in the second Trump administration
    • South Sudan repatriates a Mexican national who had been deported from the United States, after receiving assurances from Mexico that he would not face torture or unfair prosecution. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Gaza war protests in the United Kingdom
  • Around 890 people are arrested at a demonstration against the ban on the group Palestine Action in London, England. (BBC News)
• A Chilean court releases American pilot influencer Ethan Guo from detention in Antarctica after landing a plane without authorization, while ordering him to pay US$30,000 in penalties and leave the country under a three-year entry ban. (AP)

Sports

• 2025 Formula One World Championship
  • 2025 Italian Grand Prix
    • In auto racing, Red Bull's Max Verstappen secures pole position for the Italian Grand Prix at the Monza Circuit with a lap of 1:18.792, setting the fastest Formula One lap in history, surpassing Lewis Hamilton's record of 1:18.887 at the same circuit in 2020. (The Guardian)
• 2025 US Open
  • In wheelchair tennis, Tokito Oda defeats Gustavo Fernández in the men's singles final to complete the career Golden Slam in the event. (IOC)
  • In tennis, Aryna Sabalenka defeats Amanda Anisimova 6–3, 7–6^(7–3) in the women's singles final to win her second consecutive US Open title. (USA Today)
  • Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos defeat Neal Skupski and Joe Salisbury 3–6, 7–6^(7–4), 7–5 in the men's doubles final to win the US Open, becoming the first pair to win the French Open and the US Open in the same season since 2009. (US Open)
  • Erin Routliffe and Gabriela Dabrowski defeat Taylor Townsend and Kateřina Siniaková 6–4, 6–4 in the women's doubles final to win their second US Open title together. (WTA)