Portal:Current events/November 2025

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Terrorism in the United Kingdom
  • 2025 Cambridgeshire train stabbing
    • Ten people are injured, including nine in life-threatening conditions, in a mass stabbing attack on a London North Eastern Railway passenger train in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England. Two suspects are arrested, while the British Police suspects a terrorist motive.(BBC News)

• Gaza war
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • The remains of three bodies Hamas gave to Israel overnight are found not to have been of any known hostages, leaving eleven bodies still remaining in Gaza. (Reuters)
• 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
  • The Pakistani government partially reopens the Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan to allow Afghan refugees to flee home, while all remaining restrictions on cross-border movement stay banned, following an agreement to maintain a ceasefire. (AP)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • The United States threatens to carry out attacks in Nigeria due to continuous attacks against Christians by Boko Haram and ISWAP. (Al Jazeera)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Four people are killed and three injured in an Israeli airstrike against a vehicle in Kfar Reman, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)

Arts and culture

• The Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, Egypt, officially opens to the public following long delays. (AP)
• Pope Leo XIV of the Catholic Church declares saint John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church, one of 38, and a co-patron of Catholic education. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 23 people are killed and 11 others are injured in a fire and explosion at a Waldo's store in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. (CNN)
• A landslide triggered by heavy rain kills at least 21 people and leaves 30 others missing in Rift Valley Province, Kenya. (AP)
• A crowd crush at a Hindu temple in Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh, India, kills nine people. (Reuters)
• Five people are killed and two others are injured in an avalanche on the Vertainspitze mountain in the Ortler Alps in South Tyrol, Italy. (Bluewin)

Law and crime

• Two people are killed and six others are injured, including two suspects, in a shootout in Vorizia, Crete, Greece. Police say that it was caused by a long-standing feud between two local families. (AP)
• In the Maldives, people born since 2007 are permanently banned from buying or using tobacco, making it the first country in the world to impose a lifelong smoking ban from a certain age. (NOS)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Tanzanian general election
  • Incumbent Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party is declared the winner of the general election with 97% of the vote, amidst protests by the opposition. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2025 Major League Baseball season
  • 2025 World Series
    • In baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Toronto Blue Jays 5–4 to win the World Series. (ESPN)