Portal:Current events/2025 September 6
September 6, 2025 (Saturday)
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)
- Deportation in the second Trump administration
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 Italian Grand Prix
- 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)