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September 7, 2025 (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Middle Eastern crisis
- Gaza war
  - Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    - The al-Ruya Tower high-rise apartment building is hit by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Palestine. (Al Jazeera)
    - At least 65 people are killed and several others are injured in Israeli airstrikes on a school, refugee tents, and houses in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
- Red Sea crisis
  - Two people are injured, flights are halted and the airspace is closed after multiple Houthi-launched drone attacks, including some intercepted and at least one on the passenger hall of Ramon Airport near Eilat in Southern District, Israel. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kyiv strikes
  - At least four people are killed, including an infant, and eleven others are injured in drone and missile attacks on Pecherskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Darnytskyi districts in Kyiv, Ukraine. Among the buildings hit is the main government building. (BBC News) (AP)
Colombian conflict
- Forty-five Colombian soldiers are kidnapped by a mob in Cauca Department, Colombia, while conducting anti-drug cartel operations. The military says the soldiers are being held hostage by local villagers who are demanding the return of a killed insurgent's body which was transferred to a morgue in Popayán in return for their release. (AP)

Arts and culture

Disasters and accidents

Five people are killed, one person is seriously injured, and another is reported missing when a migrant boat collides with a Turkish Coast Guard vessel off the coast of Badavut, Ayvalık, Balıkesir Province, Turkey. (MSN)
At least four people are killed and 84 others are injured when a building hosting a religious gathering collapses in Bogor Regency, West Java, Java, Indonesia. (South China Morning Post)
Around 80 people are injured, including up to 20 seriously, in a mass crash at the RiderMan bicycle race in Bad Dürrheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. (MSN)

Law and crime

Leongatha mushroom murders
- Erin Patterson is sentenced to life in prison plus an extra 25 years without parole for 33 years for the 2023 poisoning of four relatives with Beef Wellingtons laced with poisonous death cap mushrooms, killing three and injuring the other in Leongatha, Victoria, Australia. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

2025 Buenos Aires provincial elections
- The La Libertad Avanza party of President Javier Milei suffers heavy losses in local elections in Argentina's most populous province. (DW)
Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba announces his intention to resign from office after his party lost seats in the House of Councillors election in July. (Reuters)
Guyanese president Irfaan Ali is sworn in for a second term in office after winning last week's election. (AP)
Romania's coalition government survives four no-confidence votes, enabling it to advance tax increases and spending cuts aimed at reducing the European Union's highest budget deficit and securing recovery funds, despite threats of public sector strikes. (Reuters)

Science and technology

Sports

2025 US Open
- In tennis, Carlos Alcaraz defeats defending champion and his rival Jannik Sinner in the men's singles final, 6–2, 3–6, 6–1, 6–4, to win his second US Open title and sixth major title overall. (BBC Sport)