July 25, 2014 (Friday)
Accidents
- An Indian Air Force helicopter crashes in the Sitapur area of Uttar Pradesh, killing seven people. (Patrika Group)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict:
- A cease fire deal proposed by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is rejected by Israel and not commented on by Hamas. Israel agrees to a uni-lateral 12 hour humanitarian ceasefire as negotiations continue. (Times of Israel)
- Israel Police admits that the kidnapping of the three teenagers did not occur on the orders of, or with the knowledge of the Hamas leadership and that the crime was the action of a "lone cell". (New York) (The Guardian)
- 2014 pro-Russian insurgency in Ukraine:
- U.S. President Barack Obama speaks by phone with Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte and they both agree on the need to impose more sanctions on Russia for continuing to arm pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine. (Reuters)
- Syrian Civil War:
- The Jordanian Air Force shoots down a drone as it flew over the northeastern Mafraq Governorate near the border with Syria, a security official said. The official said the drone flew near the Zaatari refugee camp, which is home to around 100,000 Syrian refugees. (CNA)
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant forces claim to have killed at least fifty members of the Syrian Army, summarily killing many of them. (AFP via Global Post)
Business and economy
- British broadcaster BSkyB buys 21st Century Fox's stake in Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland in a $7 billion deal. (The Wrap)
Law and crime
- Food safety incidents in China:
- McDonald's restaurants stop selling Chicken McNuggets and some other chicken products in Hong Kong, China and Japan from Shanghai Husi Foods that allegedly sold out-of-date items to fast food restaurants. (BBC News)
- Vietnamese authorities confirm that a shipment of Vietnamese-owned air-to-air missile parts bound for Ukraine was detained by Finland on June 24 after raising concerns the consignment of military hardware violated arms-export regulations. (The Wall Street Journal)
Politics and elections
- Edits to Wikipedia made via computers within the United States Congress are blocked for ten days after a series of disruptive edits on pages created by congressional staff members. (The Guardian)