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MIDDLE EAST | Update from regional conflicts:

• Israeli military officials urged a full evacuation of Gaza City today ahead of its expected surge in operations in the city targeting Hamas militants. Reports cite Palestinian and U.N. officials as saying many Gaza City residents find it impossible to leave the area due to costs and lack of a safe location to which to relocate. [more]

UKRAINE | Today is day 1,293 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Here are your updates:

• At least 20 civilians were killed early today in a Russian glide bomb attack on the eastern Ukraine village of Yarova, according to a statement by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. [more]
• U.S. and European trade, finance, and diplomatic officials met yesterday at the U.S. Treasury Department to discuss potential forms of additional economic pressure that could be imposed on Russia and its trading partners over the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. [more]

U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CIVIL/POLITICAL RIGHTS | In a 6-3 ruling yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration's sweeping immigration operations in Los Angeles to continue while court cases play out, lifting a restraining order from a lower court judge who found that immigration agents were conducting indiscriminate stops in the city and barred agents from stopping people solely based on their race, language, job, or location. [more]

U.S. EDUCATION | New results from the Department of Education's National Assessment of Education Progress – considered the nation's educational report card – indicate that a decade-long decline in high schoolers’ reading and math performance continued during the COVID-19 pandemic, with reading scores at their lowest level since the assessment began in 1992 and math scores at their lowest level since 2005. [press release] [more]

U.S. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION | Reversing lower court rulings, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said yesterday that President Donald Trump can remove Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter from her position while related court proceedings play out. [more]

CONGO | Local officials say at least 60 people gathered at a burial ceremony were killed in an overnight attack carried out by the Islamic-State-affiliated Allied Democratic Force rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province. [more]

FRANCE | Prime Minister François Bayrou lost a confidence vote in Parliament yesterday, forcing the collapse of the French government and obliging President Emmanuel Macron to seek a fourth prime minister in 12 months. [more]

PAKISTAN | Emergency management officials in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province say more than 120,000 people have been evacuated from the city of Jalalpur Pirwala over the past 24 hours amidst widespread flooding brought on by weeks of torrential monsoon rains, cloudbursts, and water releases from dams in neighboring India. [more]

MORE PAKISTAN | A new report from Amnesty International says Pakistan's government is spying on millions of its citizens using a phone-tapping system and a Chinese-built internet firewall that censors social media. [press release] [full report] [more]

NORWAY | The minority Labour Party government and its four left-leaning coalition partners won a second term in power in Norway's elections this week. Reports note that despite Labour's win, right-leaning conservative parties increased their number of seats in the country's parliament. [more]

NEPAL | Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli announced his resignation, effective immediately, today following days of deadly anti-government protests sparked by a ban on most major social media platforms. Reports note that the social media ban was lifted by Nepal's government early today. [more]

UGANDA | International Criminal Court prosecutors are scheduled to present evidence before the court today to support their charges against fugitive Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony, who faces accusations of war crimes and crimes against humanity related to his actions as leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group in Uganda in 2003 and 2004. [more]

ETHIOPIA | Africa's largest hydroelectric dam – the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on a tributary of the Nile River – was officially inaugurated in Ethiopia today. The $5 billion project is expected to provide energy to millions of Ethiopians, but has sparked criticism from Egyptian officials who expressed concern that the dam could restrict Egypt's water supply during periods of drought. [more]

SLOVAKIA | Several downtown blocks of the Slovakian capital Bratislava were evacuated and blocked off today following the discovery last night of an unexploded World War II bomb at a construction site. The bomb is expected to be defused later today. [more]

ACADEMIC PRIZES | Winners of the 2025 Balzan Prizes, announced yesterday in Milan, include: Stanford University's Josiah Ober for his work on Athenian Democracy, Columbia University's Rosalind Krauss for her historical work on contemporary art, Christophe Salomon, of Paris' Laboratoire Kastler Brossel for the ultra-precise measurement of time, and the University of Pennsylvania's Carl H. June for his genetic research and gene-modified cell therapy. [press release] [more]

TODAY IN HISTORY | On this date in 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law. The measure – the first civil rights bill to pass in the U.S. Congress since Reconstruction – was primarily concerned with protecting voting rights and also established a Civil Rights Division in the U.S. Department of Justice. [more history]

This has been the Daily Brief for Tuesday, September 9, 2025. For more information and links to additional resources on each story, visit daily brief dot net.