Portal:Current events/2014 June 25

June 25, 2014 (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

2014 Northern Iraq offensive
- The Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki calls for national unity as a Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant reaches Yathrib 87 kilometres (54 miles) north of Baghdad. (Washington Post)
Post-coup unrest in Egypt:
- Homemade bombs explode in four metro stations and a court house in Greater Cairo, injuring eight people. (Reuters)

Nigerian police say that 21 people have been killed in an explosion at a crowded Banex Plaza shopping center in Abuja's Wuse 2 district. (Voice of America)

Business and economy

South African platinum miners return to work after a five month strike ends. (Reuters)

Disasters

Four people are killed in a train accident in Bihar, India. (The Times of India)

International relations

The People's Republic of China sends its first minister-level official to Taiwan to build ties with the self-governing island amid trade suspicions. (AP via Wichita Eagle) (BBC News)
The United States has added several LeT-affiliated organizations including Jama'at-ud-Dawa to its list of foreign terror organisations.(IANS via Biharprabha)
Algeria–Egypt relations:
- Egypt's president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi makes his first official visit abroad to Algeria where security was top of the agenda. (Voice of America)
- Algeria agreed to ship five cargoes of liquefied natural gas to Egypt before the end of the year. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

Both houses of the Romanian parliament widely adopt a joint statement urging Romania's president Traian Băsescu to resign, following corruption scandals involving his arrested brother's graft case and one of his sons-in-law's implication in a criminal investigation. (Europeonline-magazine)

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