June 25, 2011 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Arab Spring:
- 2011 Syrian uprising:
- Over 1,000 Syrians flee into Lebanon to escape the unrest. (Al Jazeera)
- Syrian forces attempt to reinforce the border with Turkey. (The Guardian)
- The Syrian military moves into two villages, one on the border with Turkey and the other on the border with Lebanon, with civilians reportedly being shot in the village near Lebanon. (BBC News), (AFP via Al Jazeera)
- Syria's deputy foreign minister says anti-regime protests have been ignited and fueled by "extremist" groups with religious affiliations while a human rights group says 1,337 protesters have been killed since anti-regime protests began. (CNN)
- 2011 Egyptian revolution:
- Dozens of people are injured in Cairo in clashes between supporters and opponents of putting former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak on trial for corruption. (The Jerusalem Post)
- 2011 Libyan civil war:
- Seventeen top footballers, some former members of the national team, defect to the side of the rebels, arriving to cheering crowds in the rebel stronghold of Zintan in western Libya. (CNN) (BBC)
- 2011 Syrian uprising:
- War in Afghanistan (2001–2021):
- 35 people are killed in a suicide car bomb attack in Afghanistan's Logar Province. (Reuters)
- At least 10 people are killed in clashes in northern Kenya amid a severe drought affecting East Africa. (Al Jazeera)
- Computer hacking group LulzSec announces that it is disbanding. (Business Insider)
- Forces from Mauritania and Mali clash with Al-Qaeda militants in Mali, destroying a base; several bodies are later found. (Modern Ghana) (Focus Information Agency) (CNN)
- Five people are killed and 25 injured in clashes with police in the Puno region, Peru, in protests over mining projects. (CNN)
Disasters
- 10 people are killed in Vietnam by storms, seven of which were struck by lightning. (Times of India)
- A strengthening tropical storm affects parts of eastern China, causing flooding, while a prolonged drought plagues the northwest of the country. (UPI) (Xinhua)
- The death toll from the California Zephyr Amtrak train colliding with a truck in the U.S. state of Nevada rises to six, with two dozen passengers unaccounted for. (RGJ)[permanent dead link], (AP via Forbes)
Law and crime
- Alleged personal details of former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair are published online by computer hackers. (Daily Telegraph)
- Former Egyptian trade minister, Rashid Mohamed Rashid, is convicted in absentia of profiteering and unlawfully taking money from the country's Export Development Fund and is sentenced to five years in prison and fined nearly 9.4 million Egyptian pound ($1.6 million). (CNN)
Politics
- Release of Chinese dissidents:
- Activist Hu Jia is released after serving three and a half years in jail for criticising human rights conditions in China. (Al Jazeera) (AFP via Google News) (Voice of Russia)
- Four associates of Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei are released. (BBC)
- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signs New York State's Marriage Equality Law, legalizing same-sex marriage in New York, and making New York the largest U.S. state to approve such legislation since California reversed its legalization in 2008. (CNN)
Science