Portal:Current events/October 2025

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • 2025 Gaza City offensive
      • At least 61 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip and Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • The Ukrainian energy ministry declares an "emergency situation" at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant as the New Safe Confinement structure meant to prevent radioactive material from spreading into the environment experiences a three-hour power outage due to a Russian drone strike on an energy facility in nearby Slavutych, Kyiv Oblast. (The Kyiv Independent)
  • Volodymyr Leontiev, the former Russia-installed mayor of Nova Kakhovka, is killed in a Ukrainian drone strike. (The Kyiv Independent) (The Moscow Times)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Siege of El Fasher
    • As El Fasher's humanitarian crisis continues to drastically deteriorate, the Rapid Support Forces reportedly makes further gains against besieged garrison units mainly composed of former Darfuri rebels and their Sudanese Armed Forces allies. (BBC News)

Business and economy

• Embargo of Russian oil during the Russo-Ukrainian War, Serbia–United States relations
  • The U.S. Department of the Treasury postpones sanctions on Serbian oil company Naftna Industrija Srbije, of which Russian state-owned companies Gazprom and Gazprom Neft hold a majority of shares, until October 8, 2025. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Cebu earthquake
  • Cebu governor Pam Baricuatro declares a state of calamity and suspends classes throughout the province due to the M_w 6.9 earthquake yesterday. (BBC News)
  • The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines reports that power has been restored shortly after midnight in five islands in the central Philippines, including Cebu. (AFP via Bangkok Post)
• Arerti Maryam Church collapse
  • At least 36 people are killed and over 200 others are injured when an under construction church collapses in Areti, Amhara Region, Ethiopia. (AP) (TRT World)
• The death toll from the collapse of a pesantren in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia, rises to six as rescue workers continue their search. Dozens of students remain missing and approximately 100 others were injured in the collapse. (AP)
• Two workers are killed, several are injured and others are reported missing when the ceiling of an under-renovation serail in Damascus, Syria, collapses. (AP)
• A flight attendant is injured when two CRJ-900 aircraft, one operated by Delta Air Lines and one by Endeavor Air, collide on a runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York, United States. (DW) (CNN)

Law and crime

• 2025 Moroccan Gen Z protests
  • At least three people are killed in Lqliâa, Souss-Massa, Morocco, as security forces open fire during nationwide protests over alleged corruption and public spending priorities. (Al Jazeera)
• Islamic terrorism in Europe
  • Three men are arrested in Berlin, Germany, for targeting Jewish institutions and preparing a terrorist attack on behalf of Hamas. (Reuters)
• The annual Oktoberfest is temporarily shut down in Munich, Germany, until 17:30 local time due to an explosion at a house earlier in the morning which killed two people, including the perpetrator. The police ultimately finds no link between the Oktoberfest and the explosion, which was related to a domestic dispute. (DW) (AP)
• The Italian Carabinieri Art Squad seizes 21 paintings by Salvador Dalí suspected of being forged pieces at an exhibition at the Palazzo Tarasconi in Parma. (AP) (The Irish Independent)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Malagasy protests
  • Protests in Madagascar continue and spread across the country, demanding the resignation of President Andry Rajoelina. Opposition leader Rivo Rakotovao says that his party will not join any new government under Rajoelina, asking him to step down. (Reuters)
• 2025 United States federal government shutdown
  • A federal government shutdown occurs in the United States after a funding bill fails to be passed, the first government shutdown since January 2019. (CTV News)
• The 2025 Right Livelihood Award is awarded to a student organization in the Pacific Islands fighting climate change, activist organization Justice for Myanmar, Taiwanese activist Audrey Tang, and the Sudanese Emergency Response Rooms for their work in combating injustice in their respective regions. (AP)
• Thousands of people march in Athens as part of a general strike across Greece to protest against proposed changes in labor laws that could change the 8-hour work day to 13 hours, or a 48-hour workweek. (AP) (The Guardian)
• Matteo Rossi and Lorenzo Bugli are sworn in as the new captains regent of San Marino, succeeding Denise Bronzetti and Italo Righi. (San Marino RTV)

Science and technology

• A research team at the Free University of Berlin announce the detection of new organic substances within water vapour plumes erupting from the surface of Enceladus by Cassini's Cosmic Dust Analyzer, a potential biosignature of extraterrestrial life under the Saturnian moon's icy surface. (The Guardian) (Nature Astronomy)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • 2025 Gaza City offensive
      • At least 53 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip and in Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
    • Israel intercepts the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters and detains hundreds of activists from 44 countries carrying humanitarian aid bound for Gaza, sparking international condemnation and accusations of violations of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. (BBC News) (The National)
• Terrorism in the United Kingdom
  • Manchester synagogue attack
    • Two people are killed and four others are injured in a vehicle-ramming and mass stabbing attack at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester, England, United Kingdom. The perpetrator and one of the victims are shot dead by police. The attack is later declared a terror attack. (CNN) (The New York Times) (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• At least eleven people are killed after a tractor trolley topples into a pond in Khandwa district, Madhya Pradesh, India. (The Hindu)
• One person is killed and four others are injured in a hydrogen capsule explosion in a laboratory at Tehran University in Tehran, Iran. (AP)
• Twelve people are injured in panic from a M_w 5.3 earthquake in Istanbul, Turkey. (Al Monitor) (AP)
• At least 500 families are displaced and 400 houses are destroyed in a large fire in Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Occidental, Northern Mindanao, Philippines. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

International relations

• Australia–Papua New Guinea relations
  • The Papua New Guinean Cabinet approves a bilateral defense treaty with Australia, which will increase integration of military equipment and personnel between the two countries. (AP)
• Foreign relations of Nicaragua, Foreign relations of Ukraine, International recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic
  • Ukraine breaks off diplomatic relations with Nicaragua over the latter's recognition of Russian-occupied territories in the country. (Priamyi)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Azad Kashmir protests
  • At least eight people are killed in violent protests in Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan, against benefits for the political class in the region. The regional government warns local media against covering the protests. (DW)
• At least 195,000 people hold protests across France to denounce planned budget cuts. (France 24)
• The seventh summit of the European Political Community is held in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Anadolu Agency)

Science and technology

• Mars 2020
  • NASA's Perseverance rover captures its first images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it passes by Mars. (Economic Times)

Sports

• The United States' National Football League announce it will roll out national flag football leagues for both men and women in 2026 ahead of its inclusion in the 2028 Summer Olympics. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Donald Trump's September 2025 Gaza Strip proposal
    • Hamas says it has agreed to part of the 20-point plan proposed by U.S. president Donald Trump to end the war, including the release of hostages and handing over administration of the enclave. (The Hill) (Reuters)
    • United Nations human rights experts warn that multiple portions of the plan contradict international law and the ICJ ruling on Israel's occupation of Palestine. (OCHR)
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip, 2025 Gaza City offensive
    • At least 72 Palestinians are killed from Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, including 42 killed in Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, Gaza genocide, Humanitarian aid during the Gaza war
    • The Israeli Navy intercepts and seizes the Polish-flagged Marinette, the last vessel of the Global Sumud Flotilla, an international humanitarian flotilla seeking to break the Gaza blockade. (Al Jazeera)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • With Ugandan support, the Somali National Army and other pro-federal forces reportedly recapture two villages from al-Shabaab. Government sources claim that al-Shabaab's forces suffered heavy casualties from the fighting. (Somali National News Agency)
• War on drugs, 2025 US Caribbean naval deployment
  • 2025 United States strikes on Venezuelan boats
    • The United States Navy conducts a strike targeting an alleged drug smuggling boat in the Venezuelan coast. According to U.S. defense secretary Pete Hegseth, at least four crewmembers were killed in the attack. (Reuters)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • More than 5,000 people flee from Borno State, Nigeria, to Cameroon after Boko Haram fighters seize the border town of Kirawa and burn multiple buildings. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • Seven terrorists are killed and a huge cache of weapons and ammunition is recovered in an operation by security forces in Sherani District, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Xinhua News Agency)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • List of journalists killed during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • French journalist Antoni Lallican is killed and photographer Hryhoriy Ivanchenko is injured by a Russian drone strike in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (RFE/RL)

Arts and culture

• Bishop of London Sarah Mullally is announced as the new archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first woman to lead the Church of England and the Anglican Communion. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Five people are killed after an overcrowded vehicle overturns on NR-165 in Nabari, Mie Prefecture, Japan. (Kyodo News)
• At least three people drown after catastrophic flash floods hit the southern Black Sea coast of Bulgaria. (Novinite.com)
• At least two people are killed and others are injured when an Iranian Red Crescent Society rescue helicopter carrying nine people crashes in Lorestan province, Iran. (Mehr News Agency)

International relations

• China–India relations, Sino–Indian border dispute
  • Indian airline IndiGo announces it will resume direct flights between Kolkata and Guangzhou, China, on October 26, launching the first direct flights between the two countries since border skirmishes in 2020. (DW)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Tunisia, Decree Law 54
  • A court in Nabeul, Tunisia, sentences a 56-year-old man to death over online statements criticizing President Kais Saied and state security agencies. (Reuters)
• Trial of Sean Combs
  • A court in Manhattan, New York, United States, sentences musician Sean Combs to four years and two months in prison for prostitution-related charges. (BBC News)
• The Bangkok Criminal Court sentences a Thai man to life in prison for the January 7 assassination of Cambodian politician Lim Kimya in Bangkok. (AP)
• A Finnish court dismisses charges against the crew of the Eagle S tanker, ruling prosecutors failed to prove intent in the 2024 Estlink 2 incident and that negligence must be addressed by the ship's flag state or crew's home countries. (Reuters)
• A court in Yerevan, Armenia sentences Mikael Ajapahyan, a prominent cleric of the Armenian Apostolic Church, to two years in prison for allegedly calling for the overthrow of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. (AP)
• At least two people are killed and five others are injured in a mass shooting in Les Moulins near Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. (Le Figaro) (Times Now)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Czech parliamentary election
  • Czechs vote to elect the members of the Chamber of Deputies. For the first time, Czechs living or stationed abroad can vote via mail. (Reuters)
• 2025 Indonesian protests
  • Indonesia suspends TikTok's registration as an electronic service provider after the company fails to submit complete data on its live streaming activity during nationwide protests. (Reuters)
• 2025 Maldivian protests
  • Police violently crack down on and arrest eight people during an overnight protest against government corruption in Malé in the Maldives. (AP) (Raajje TV)
• Abdication of Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
  • Henri, the grand duke of Luxembourg, abdicates and is succeeded by his eldest son, Guillaume V. (Financial Times)
• Lithuanian culture minister Ignotas Adomavičius resigns after one week in office amidst protests. (LRT)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • 2025 Gaza City offensive
      • At least 70 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip and in Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
• Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
  • Puntland counter-terrorism operations
    • Puntland Security Forces kill over ten Islamic State militants and capture another in a major operation targeting wells used by ISIS as bases to carry out attacks in the Cal Miskaad Mountains in Bari region of Puntland. Three soldiers are killed and six others are injured in the operation. (Hiiraan Online)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Mogadishu prison attack
    • At least seven people are killed and injured and several prisoners escape in an attack on a National Intelligence and Security Agency prison by militant group Al-Shabaab in Mogadishu, Somalia. The Somali government reports that no civilian or security officers were killed, and that all seven attackers were killed. (AP) (Hiiraan Online)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • 2025 Sumy offensive
    • One person is killed and at least 30 people are injured in Russian drone strikes on two passenger trains at a rail station in Shostka, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (The Independent)
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A Russian Buyan-class corvette is allegedly attacked near Lake Onega, in Karelia, Russia. The ship sustains damage to the right side of its power plant compartment. (The Kyiv Independent)

Arts and culture

• The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities formally opens the tomb of Amenhotep III in the Valley of the Kings to the public after 20 years of renovations following its excavation in 1989. (DW) (ANewZ)
• The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States, installs Reverend Yehiel Curry as its presiding bishop, making him the first Black bishop to lead the denomination. Curry succeeds Reverend Elizabeth Eaton, the first woman to lead the organization. (AP) (CBS News)
• Pope Leo XIV attends the oath-taking ceremony for the new batch of Pontifical Swiss Guards, becoming the first pope to do so since 1968. (The Catholic Herald)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025–26 European windstorm season
  • At least two people are killed and another is severely injured in northern France as Storm Amy makes landfall. (France 24)
  • A man is killed in Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland, and hundreds of thousands are without power as Storm Amy brings high winds to the United Kingdom and Ireland. (Sky News)
• 2025 India–Pakistan floods
  • At least ten people are killed and two others are reported missing when heavy rainfall triggered multiple landslides in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. (India TV)

Law and crime

• Islamophobia in the United Kingdom
  • Peacehaven mosque arson
    • A mosque with two people inside is set on fire in a suspected hate crime in Peacehaven, East Sussex, England. (CNN)
• Capital punishment in Iran, Iran–Israel relations
  • Iran executes six prisoners accused and convicted of carrying out attacks inside Iran for the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz on behalf of Israel. (AP)
• Lithuania temporarily suspends air traffic at Vilnius Airport after unidentified balloons are detected in its airspace. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2024–2025 Georgian protests
  • 2025 Georgian uprising attempt
    • Protestors attempt to storm the Orbeliani Palace and clash with police in Tbilisi, Georgia, during the local elections. (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 Azad Kashmir protests
  • Violent protests that killed at least ten people in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan, end as a peace agreement is reached with a civil rights alliance. (MSN)
• 2025 Czech parliamentary election
  • The second and final day of the election to elect the members of the Czech Chamber of Deputies takes place. (TVN24)
  • Former prime minister Andrej Babiš's populist ANO party wins the election with about 35% of the vote but falls short of a majority, prompting him to begin coalition talks with smaller right-wing parties. (BBC News)
• 2025 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) presidential election
  • Sanae Takaichi defeats Shinjiro Koizumi in a runoff election to become the next president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and prime minister-designate. She is the first female leader of the LDP and, should she be confirmed by the Diet, the first female prime minister of Japan. (Kyodo News)
• 2025 Malawian general election
  • Peter Mutharika is sworn in for his second non-consecutive term as President of Malawi following his victory in last month's national election. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2025 Speedway of Nations
  • In motorcycle speedway, Australia wins the 2025 Speedway of Nations, defeating Poland in the grand final at the MotoArena Toruń, BiT City, Kuyavia–Pomerania, Poland. (FIM Speedway)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • 2025 Gaza City offensive
      • At least 24 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Lviv strikes, Attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • At least five people are killed in Lviv, Ukraine, during an overnight Russian attack involving 53 ballistic and cruise missiles and 496 drones. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Over 550 people are trapped by a blizzard on the eastern slope of Mount Everest in Tibet. (Reuters)
• More than 60 people are killed in landslides in India and Nepal after days of heavy rain. (MSN)
• At least nine people are killed and five others are critically injured in a fire inside of an intensive care unit at a hospital in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. (MSN)
• American mining company Freeport-McMoRan confirms that all seven workers missing after a mudflow at the Grasberg mine in Central Papua, Indonesia, have died as recovery teams find the remaining bodies and investigations continue. (Reuters)
• At least three Croatian mountaineers are killed in an avalanche on Tosc Mountain in northwestern Slovenia. (AP)

International relations

• Eswatini–United States relations, Deportation in the second Trump administration
  • Eswatini announces that it will receive eleven more third country nationals deported from the United States. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2025 deployment of federal forces in the United States
  • Operation Midway Blitz
    • U.S. president Donald Trump authorizes the deployment of 300 National Guard personnel to Chicago, Illinois. (BBC News)
• 2025 Ecuador protests
  • Ecuador enforces a state of emergency in ten provinces amid ongoing Indigenous-led protests against the government's removal of a fuel subsidy that increased diesel prices. (AP)
• Five people are killed and six others are injured in a mass shooting at a local establishment in Commodore, Linstead, Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica. (CVM Television)
• A court in Mexico formally indicts footballer Omar Bravo with the aggravated child sexual abuse of a teenage girl following his arrest in Zapopan, Jalisco, yesterday afternoon. (TV Azteca) (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2024–2025 French political crisis
  • Lecornu government
    • French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu announces his first batch of minister appointments, including former finance minister Bruno Le Maire as armed forces minister, while facing a potential no-confidence vote in parliament. (AP)
• 2025 Indonesian protests
  • Indonesia lifts its temporary suspension of TikTok's operating license after the platform provided government-requested data on live streaming activity during the recent protests. (AFP via The Manila Times)
• 2025 Syrian parliamentary election
  • Syrians vote to elect 121 of the 210 members of the People's Assembly in the first election held since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. Elections are postponed in the Al-Hasakah, Raqqa, and Suwayda governorates due to security reasons. (CNN)

Sports

• 2025 Formula One World Championship
  • 2025 Singapore Grand Prix
    • In auto racing, McLaren win their second consecutive Formula One World Constructors' Championship after their drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri place third and fourth, respectively, at the Singapore Grand Prix. (AFP via France 24)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • 2025 Gaza City offensive
      • Ten Palestinians, including three people who were seeking humanitarian aid, are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip ahead of peace talks in Egypt, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks since Friday up to 104. (Al Jazeera)
• Syrian civil war
  • SDF–Syrian Transitional Government clashes
    • Clashes erupt between Syrian government troops and Kurdish militias affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces in Sheikh Maqsood, Aleppo. (Alarabiya English)
• Myanmar civil war
  • More than 40 people are killed, including children, and about 80 others are injured in a strike on a festival and an anti-junta protest in Chaung-U, Sagaing Region, Myanmar. (ABC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 tornado season
  • 2025 Enderlin tornado
    • The U.S. National Weather Service upgrades the rating of the tornado near Enderlin, North Dakota, on June 20 this year, to EF5, the most recent tornado to attain the highest rating on the Enhanced Fujita scale. (CNN)
• Three people are killed after an 80-year-old residential structure collapses in Veraval, Gir Somnath district, India. (The Indian Express)
• A migrant boat carrying at least ten Chinese nationals capsized on the Danube river in the area of Bačka Palanka, Vojvodina, Serbia, while en route to Croatia. One person was killed and nine others were rescued. (ABC News)

International relations

• Gaza war
  • Donald Trump's September 2025 Gaza Strip proposal
    • Indirect talks between Hamas and Israel begin in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to negotiate field conditions for the release of the remaining hostages in return for an undetermined number of Palestinian prisoners. (BBC News)
• Australia–Papua New Guinea relations
  • Australia and Papua New Guinea sign a defense treaty, formally granting Australia access to Papuan military facilities and requiring mutual defense in case of aggression. (BBC News) (AP)
• New Zealand–Samoa relations
  • New Zealand announces that it has paid a NZ$6 million compensation to Samoa over the sinking of the HMNZS Manawanui off the coast of Upolu in October 2024. (RNZ)

Law and crime

• 2025 deployment of federal forces in the United States
  • United States federal judge Karin Immergut temporarily blocks the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops from California and Texas to Portland, Oregon, saying there is no evidence that the city requires any federal military intervention. (BBC News)
• Mexican drug war, Mexico–United States relations
  • The United States Treasury issues sanctions against various Mexican companies, including those in the pharmaceutical, real estate, chemical, and cleaning sectors, and eight people who manage them for allegedly supplying drug precursors to the Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel. (AP)
• At least 14 soldiers are killed and five others are injured in a shootout after a suspected "love triangle" dispute in South Sudan. (CBS News)
• A man opens fire inside an appeals courts in Tirana, Albania, killing the presiding judge and injuring two others in the courtroom. Police later arrest the suspect. (AP)
• A person opens fire inside the Iberville Parish Courthouse in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, United States, killing a deputy and injuring another, before being fatally shot. (KATC) (BNO News)
• The International Criminal Court convicts Janjaweed commander Ali Kushayb of war crimes in Darfur, Sudan, including rape, murder, and persecution. Kushayb is the first militia leader to be convicted for these war crimes. His sentence will be determined in a later hearing. (Reuters)
• A group of human rights organizations in Myanmar file a joint lawsuit against Norwegian telecoms firm Telenor for allegedly sharing customer data with the Tatmadaw after the 2021 coup d'état and in the civil war. (Al Jazeera) (The Straits Times)

Politics and elections

• A teachers' strike in Alberta begins, making 51,000 teachers off-work and affects more than 700,000 students. Thousands rally across Alberta to support educators (CBC) (Global News) (The Globe and Mail)
• 2024–2025 French political crisis
  • First Lecornu government
    • French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu resigns after 27 days of being in office. With only 14 hours between the appointment of ministers and his resignation, Lecornu becomes the shortest-serving Prime Minister in French history. (BFMTV) (Libération)
• 2025 Malagasy protests
  • Youth-led protests against President Andry Rajoelina resume across Madagascar, with clashes with riot police taking place in multiple cities, including the capital Antananarivo. (Reuters)
  • President Andry Rajoelina appoints Ruphin Fortunat Zafisambo, a Madagascar Armed Forces general, as the new prime minister of Madagascar. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi are jointly awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discoveries relating to peripheral immune tolerance. (CNN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • SDF–Syrian Transitional Government clashes
    • The Syrian government announces an immediate ceasefire with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces following clashes last night that killed at least four people and injured at least eight others. (AP)
  • US intervention in the Syrian civil war
    • United States Central Command announces that US forces conducted a strike in Syria on October 2, killing Muhammad ‘Abd-al-Wahhab al-Ahmad, a senior Jama'at Ansar al-Islam attack planner. (The Hill)
• Red Sea crisis
  • Houthi rebels detain nine United Nations workers in Yemen as part of a long-term crackdown on UN presence in the country, bringing the total number of detained UN personnel to 53. (AP)
  • The Philippine Department of Migrant Workers confirms the death of a critically injured Filipino crew member of MV Minervagracht which was intercepted by the Houthis in the Gulf of Aden on September 29. The Netherlands-based operator of the vessel has reported that another injured Filipino is still being treated in Djibouti. (Philippine Daily Inquirer) (The Times of Israel)

Business and economy

• The value of gold futures rise above $4,000 per troy ounce for the first time in trading history. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Al-Khoziny Islamic Boarding School collapse
  • The death toll from the collapse of a pesantren last week in East Java, Java, Indonesia, rises to 67 as search and rescue operations end. (The Guardian)
• Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling
  • Four people are killed, including a girl, after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the coast of Lesbos, Greece. Police find the 34 survivors at shore. (AP)
• At least 16 people are killed after a bus is hit by a landslide in Himachal Pradesh, India. (Reuters) (NDTV)
• Four people are killed, three others are injured and others are reported missing when a former office block being converted into a hotel partially collapses in Madrid, Spain. (BBC News)
• Over ten people are injured when a ferris wheel collapses at a fair in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. (BNO News)

International relations

• Foreign relations of the Holy See
  • Visit by Pope Leo XIV to Turkey and Lebanon
    • The Holy See Press Office announces that Pope Leo XIV will visit İznik, Turkey, the location of the ancient city Nicaea, and Lebanon in November and December as his first papal visits abroad. (The Catholic Herald) (Anadolu Agency)

Law and crime

• Crime in Mexico
  • Six civilians are killed and two others are injured in a mass shooting when Mexican Army soldiers open fire on a vehicle that tried to ram them on the highway connecting Ciudad Mante and Tampico in Tamaulipas, Mexico. Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum vowed an investigation. (MSN)
• Crime in Germany
  • Iris Stalzer, the mayor-elect of Herdecke, Germany, is left in a critical condition. She has told investigators it was her 17-year-old adoptive African daughter who stabbed her repeatedly in her home and tortured her for hours. (CNN) (AP) (DW)
• Crime in Norway
  • A restaurant in Strømmen, Akershus, Norway, receives damage after hand grenades were thrown into it. The Norwegian Police suspects gang activity with links to the Swedish–Kurdish criminal gang Foxtrot, arresting two teenagers shortly after the incident. (VG)
• Residents of Bonaire, a Dutch special municipality in the Caribbean, file a class action lawsuit backed by Greenpeace against the Netherlands accusing them of failure to act in protecting the island's residents against climate change, as they are legally Dutch citizens. (AP) (Euractiv)
• The Supreme Court of Argentina approves the extradition of businessman Fred Machado to the United States, where he faces federal charges on drug trafficking and money laundering. (AP)
• The Supreme Electoral Court of Costa Rica requests the National Assembly to strip President Rodrigo Chaves Robles of immunity so that he can be prosecuted for corruption charges. (AP)
• Five people are arrested after an alleged assassination attempt on Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Barbadian presidential election
  • Jeffrey Bostic is elected President of Barbados by the Parliament. He succeeds Sandra Mason and becomes the second president after Barbados becoming a republic. (Barbados Today)

Science and technology

• 2025 Nobel Prizes, Nobel Prize in Physics
  • John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John M. Martinis are jointly awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantization in an electric circuit. (Euronews)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza war peace plan
    • United States president Donald Trump announces that Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire and the first phase of his peace plan to end the Gaza war. (Al Jazeera).
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • 2025 Sumy offensive, Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • A family is injured, including a 4-year-old girl critically, and dozens of civilian infrastructure facilities are damaged in a drone strike on a house in Sumy, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (RBC-Ukraine)
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A Ukrainian missile strike kills three people and injures nine others in Maslova Pristan, Belgorod Oblast, Russia. A search and rescue operation is underway for others believed to be trapped under rubble. (BBC News)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Eleven soldiers and 19 Pakistani Taliban fighters are killed in an ambush on a military convoy and subsequent shootout in Orakzai District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• The World Health Organization intervenes as the death toll from toxic cough syrup in Madhya Pradesh, India, rises to at least 20. (The Independent)
• Six people are killed and eight others are critically injured in a fire at a firecracker factory in East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India. (India Today)

Law and crime

• 2025 deployment of federal forces in the United States
  • Operation Midway Blitz
    • Hundreds of Texas Military Forces troops arrive at a United States Army Reserve military base near Chicago, Illinois, ahead of a deployment to the city. (Sky News)
• 2025 New Orleans jailbreak
  • Derrick Groves, the last remaining prisoner from a group of ten who escaped the Orleans Parish Prison in May in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, is captured in Atlanta following a standoff with police at a house. (NBC News)
• Capital punishment in Singapore
  • Singapore executes Pannir Selvam Pranthaman, a Malaysian man convicted of drug offenses, bringing this year's number of executions in the country to 12. (AP)
• January 2025 Southern California wildfires
  • A 29-year-old man is arrested for allegedly starting the Palisades Fire that killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,000 homes in Los Angeles County, Southern California, United States, earlier this year. (BBC News)
• Attempted assassination of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
  • Sabag Montiel is sentenced to ten years for attempting to assassinate the former president of Argentina and then-vice president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. His girlfriend, Brenda Uliarte, is sentenced to eight years for being an accomplice. (El País)
• Four people are killed, including the perpetrator, in a shooting spree at three locations across southwest Houston and Sugar Land, Texas, United States. (KHOU)
• At least six people are injured, including four musicians, in a mass shooting at an Agua Marina concert in Lima, Peru. No arrests have been made. (BNO News) (Lokmat Times)

Science and technology

• 2025 Nobel Prizes
  • Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar Yaghi are jointly awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on metal–organic frameworks. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of Gaza
    • Four people are killed and 40 others are trapped under rubble in an Israeli attack against a building in Sabra, Gaza City, Palestine, as the ceasefire agreement proposed by US president Donald Trump awaits approval by the Israeli cabinet. (The Times of Israel)
    • Twenty-nine people are killed in Israeli attacks against Gaza. (Wafa)
  • Gaza war peace plan
    • The Israeli cabinet formally approves the ceasefire agreement, with the Israeli military given 24 hours to withdraw their troops to the agreed-upon line within Gaza. The hostage and prisoner releases are expected to begin in the coming days. (AP)
    • US officials announce that 200 troops will be sent to Israel to run a civil-military coordination center established by U.S. Central Command to support and monitor the ceasefire deal, joined by members of the armed forces of Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. (AP)
• Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • The Pakistan Air Force carries out two airstrikes in Kabul, Afghanistan, targeting Pakistani Taliban leaders. (Amu.tv)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Seven Pakistani Taliban members and a major are killed in a raid and ensuing shootout in Daraban, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The Inter-Services Public Relations further reports that the security forces recovered a cache of weapons and ammunition, along with stating that the killed terrorists were actively involved in multiple attacks. (Daily Pioneer)
  • Three tribal leaders from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, are abducted and killed by Pakistani Taliban militants. (Press Trust of India)

Arts and culture

• 2025 Nobel Prizes
  • Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai wins this year's Nobel Prize in Literature "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art". (CNN)

Business and economy

• Argentina–United States relations, Argentine monetary crisis
  • US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent announces that the United States has purchased Argentine pesos and has finalized a currency swap framework, adding that the US is prepared to provide assistance to Argentina's economy, after ending four days of meetings with Argentine economy minister Luis Caputo. (AP)
• Serbia–United States relations, United States government sanctions, Russia–United States relations
  • The United States Treasury Department issues sanctions against Naftna Industrija Srbije, the primary petroleum producer and supplier in Serbia, which is majority-owned by Russian state company Gazprom. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • One person is killed in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, and hundreds of people are evacuated as Typhoon Halong makes landfall in the Izu Islands. (AP) (Kyodo News)
• 2025 Azerbaijan–Russia diplomatic crisis, Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243
  • Russian president Vladimir Putin says that Russian air defense shot down Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 in December 2024, in his first admission of responsibility for the accident. (CNN)

International relations

• Trinidad and Tobago–Venezuela relations, Trinidad and Tobago–United States relations
  • The attorney general of Trinidad and Tobago says that the United States has granted permission yesterday to the country to negotiate a gas deal with Venezuela without facing U.S. sanctions related to its relationship with Venezuela. (AP)

Law and crime

• The United States Department of Justice indicts Attorney General of New York Letitia James on a criminal bank fraud charge by in Alexandria, Virginia, United States. (CNN) (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Ecuador protests, Economy of Ecuador
  • The Ecuadorian Army deploys at least 5,000 personnel to Quito to "prevent vandalism" amid ongoing protests against President Daniel Noboa over the rise of price of diesel fuel due to end of subsidies. (AP)

Sports

• 2025 ATP Tour
  • In tennis, Monégasque player Valentin Vacherot defeats Holger Rune at the Shanghai Masters to become the lowest-ranked player on the ATP rankings to reach a Masters 1000 semi-final in 26 years, and the first Monégasque in history to do so. (The Independent) (ATP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza war peace plan
    • A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas comes into effect hours after the approval of the ceasefire agreement by the Israeli war cabinet. The Israel Defense Forces complete their withdrawal to the agreed-upon lines within Gaza. (AP)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Siege of El Fasher
    • The United Nations human rights chief says three days of attacks in and near a displaced persons camp in Al-Fashir, North Darfur, Sudan, has killed at least 53 civilians. (The Canadian Press)
• Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • Two unnamed high-ranking Pakistani Taliban leaders are confirmed killed in yesterday's Pakistani airstrikes in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Radio Free Europe)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • All the 30 surviving Pakistani Taliban insurgents involved in the attack in Orakzai District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, on Tuesday that killed 30 people, including eleven security personnel, are killed in a retribution operation. (Dawn)
  • At least eleven Pakistani soldiers are killed in an attack on a military post by the Pakistani Taliban in Tirah, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. (Reuters)
  • At least seven police officers and six militants are killed and 13 others are injured in an attack on a police training center in Ratta Kulachi, Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. (The Independent) (Dawn)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present)
  • The Lebanese government announces the arrest of a network affiliated to Israel which attempted to carry out assassinations and bombing attacks, mainly during a commemoration ceremony for the assassinated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Davao Oriental earthquakes
  • A doublet earthquake, consisting of two events measuring M_w 7.4 and 6.7–6.8, strikes Manay, Davao Oriental, Philippines, killing eight people and injuring more than 400. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
  • The United States Pacific Tsunami Warning Center raises a tsunami alert for the Philippines, Indonesia, and Palau for more than two hours. Local authorities record "minor tsunamis" in Talaud Islands, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and an inch-long wave in Tandag, Surigao del Sur, Philippines. (BBC News)
• 2025 Accurate Energetic Systems explosion
  • At least 16 people are killed and multiple others are injured after an explosion at a manufacturing plant in Hickman County, Tennessee, United States. (WKRN-TV) (CNN) (WBIR-TV)
• At least 28 people are killed in floods and landslides in central and southeastern Mexico. Roads and homes are destroyed. (AP)

Health and environment

• Senegalese health authorities confirm 17 deaths in a major outbreak of Rift Valley fever that began on September 21. (Africanews)

International relations

• Afghanistan–Pakistan relations
  • 2025 Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan
    • Afghanistan spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid says Pakistan launched an airstrike in the country's eastern Paktia Province, while the Pakistani government says the Pakistani Taliban was allowed to use Afghanistan as a base for attacks against Pakistan. (AP)
• Afghanistan–India relations
  • Indian foreign minister S. Jaishankar announces the country will reopen its embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, after it was shut down four years ago during the fall of Kabul. (DW)
• Qatar–United States relations
  • US secretary of defense Pete Hegseth announces an agreement with Qatar to build a new Qatar Emiri Air Force facility at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Elmore County, Idaho, that will host QEAF F-15QA fighter jets and pilots. (TIME) (CBS News)

Law and crime

• International Criminal Court investigation in the Philippines
  • Arrest of Rodrigo Duterte
    • The International Criminal Court rejects a request from former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to be released from detention, citing flight risk and witness tampering concerns. (AP)
• 2025 Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan protests
  • One person is killed and 22 others are injured during a Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan protest in Lahore, Punjab. (Dawn)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Nobel Prizes
  • 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
    • Venezuelan activist María Corina Machado is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her promotion of democratic rights in Venezuela. (CNN) (Nobel Peace Prize)
• Impeachment of Dina Boluarte
  • Following a vote of 124–0, the Peruvian Congress removes President Dina Boluarte from power after she fails to appear for a required defense in Congress regarding her government's inability to lower crime. (AP)
  • Congress president José Jerí is sworn in as the interim president following Boluarte's removal from power. (DW)
• 2024–2025 French political crisis
  • French president Emmanuel Macron re-appoints Sébastien Lecornu as Prime Minister, four days after Lecornu resigned. (France 24)
• Politics of Japan
  • Komeito announces their exit from the Japanese ruling coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • Following Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan in Kabul and Paktika on October 9th, the Afghan Armed Forces launches attacks on several border posts of Pakistan along the Durand Line and seizes several posts. (The Guardian)
    • Pakistan responds with retaliatory strikes, gunfire and ground raids on Afghan posts along the border. (The Guardian)
• Israeli–Lebanese conflict
  • One person is killed, seven others are injured, dozens of bulldozers are destroyed, and a key route connecting Beirut to Lebanon's south is severed in Israeli attacks in Msayleh, An-Najjariyah, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera) (Naharnetnet)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • At least two people are killed and four others are injured, including one critically, in a Russian strike on a church in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Ukrainska Pravda)
• Two Hamas members are killed by the Doghmush clan in an ambush in Gaza City, Palestine. A clan member is killed and 30 arrested in retaliation. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Mass shootings in the United States
  • 2025 Leland shooting
    • Six people are killed and 14 others are injured after an individual opens fire at the Leland High School homecoming gathering on a main street in Leland, Mississippi, United States. No suspect has been taken into custody. (The Guardian)
• British musician Ian Watkins of the band Lostprophets is killed in HM Prison Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, where he was imprisoned for sexual crimes against children and animals. Two men are arrested on suspicion of the murder. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• Helena Moreno is elected Mayor of New Orleans. (CNN)

Sports

• 2025 ATP Tour
  • In tennis, world 206th-ranked Monégasque player Valentin Vacherot defeats Novak Djokovic in the Shanghai Masters semi-final, becoming the lowest-ranked finalist in Masters 1000 history and the first finalist ranked lower than 200th. He also becomes the first Monégasque to defeat a top 10 player and is set to play his cousin Arthur Rinderknech in the final. (ATP Tour) (The Guardian)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • At least 23 Pakistani soldiers and nine Afghan soldiers are killed during the ongoing clashes at the border. Pakistan claims that it captured 19 Afghan border posts. (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 Malagasy protests
  • 2025 Malagasy mutiny
    • Malagasy President Andry Rajoelina says that an attempted coup has been initiated after a group of the military joined protestors and exchanged gunfire with pro-government security forces, demanding Rajoelina to step down. (AP)
• Gaza war
  • Societal breakdown in the Gaza Strip during the Gaza war
    • At least 19 Doghmush clan members and eight Hamas fighters are killed in a shootout in Gaza City. (BBC News)
    • Palestinian journalist Saleh al-Jafarawi is shot and killed by Doghmush clan members amid shootouts with Hamas in Gaza City. (TRT World)
• 2025 Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan protests
  • Three protestors, a bystander and a policeman are killed and dozens are injured during clashes in Muridke, Pakistan, as a pro-Palestine march, organized by the TLP Party, attempted to reach the American embassy in Islamabad. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • More than three people are reported missing and at least 34 others are rescued when remnants of Typhoon Halong causes flooding in Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, Alaska, United States. (ABC News)
• Forty-two people are killed and 49 others injured in a bus crash in Louis Trichardt, Limpopo, South Africa. (AP)

Law and crime

• Mass shootings in the United States
  • 2025 Saint Helena Island shooting
    • Four people are killed and at least 20 others are injured, including four critically, in a mass shooting at a crowded bar in Saint Helena Island, South Carolina, United States. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Cameroonian presidential election
  • Cameroonians vote to elect their president, with the incumbent Paul Biya seeking his eighth term. (Reuters)
• 2025 Ecuador protests
  • Police clash with protestors in Quito, Ecuador, amid ongoing demonstrations against President Daniel Noboa over an increase in fuel price. Noboa has refused to negotiate with the Indigenous federation, which leads part of the protests against his government. (AP)
• 2025 Seychellois general election
  • Patrick Herminie wins the presidential election in Seychelles by obtaining more than 52% of the votes, becoming the next President of Seychelles, defeating the incumbent Wavel Ramkalawan. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2025 ATP Tour
  • In tennis, Monégasque player Valentin Vacherot, who was ranked 204th on the ATP rankings, defeats his cousin Arthur Rinderknech in the Shanghai Masters final 4–6, 6–3, 6–3, to become the lowest-ranked Masters 1000 winner in ATP history, and the first from Monaco. (ESPN) (ATP Tour)
  • Following his win at the Shanghai Masters, Vacherot moves to rank 40 and becomes the highest ranked Monégasque player in history, surpassing Jean-René Lisnard who ranked 106th in 2006. (Olympics)
• 2025 Supercars Championship
  • In touring car racing, Grove Racing drivers Matthew Payne and Garth Tander win the 68th running of the Supercars Bathurst 1000. (Supercars)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza peace plan
    • Hamas hands over the 20 remaining living Israeli hostages to the Red Cross, and Israel releases over 1,900 Palestinian detainees, including 250 people serving life sentences for convictions in attacks on Israelis, as part of the ceasefire agreement. (AP)
    • Under the terms of the ceasefire agreement, local authorities shut down aid distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which were the locations of shootings by the Israeli military that killed over 2,600 people seeking food aid. (AP)
    • Hamas returns the bodies of four of the 28 deceased Israeli hostages, partially violating a provision of the ceasefire agreement for all hostages to be returned in one day, though the agreement acknowledged the possible inability of Hamas to be able to locate all the bodies in the specified timeframe. (BBC) (Haaretz)
  • Hamas publicly executes eight men in Gaza City accused of being criminals and Israeli collaborators. (Reuters) (BBC)
• Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • Nineteen security forces are killed in two Pakistani airstrikes in Spin Boldak and Bahramcha, Afghanistan. A local high-ranking commander is among the fatalities. (Kabul Now)
• 2025 Malagasy protests
  • 2025 Malagasy coup d'état
    • Malagasy president Andry Rajoelina flees the country after losing the support of the armed forces following weeks of Gen Z-led protests against him. Rajoelina says he has not resigned and confirms a coup d'état is underway. (AP) (Global Nation)

Business and economy

• 2025 Nobel Prizes
  • Joel Mokyr is awarded half of this year's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for "having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress", with Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt sharing the other half for "the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction". (CNN) (Nobel Prize)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 66 people are injured, including around 16 seriously, when two trains collide outside Jablonov nad Turňou, Slovakia. (Reuters)
• Two people are killed and one is injured when a SOCATA TBM-700 aircraft crashes in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States. (AP News)
• At least fourteen people are killed when a gold mine collapses in El Callao, Bolívar, Venezuela. The military sets up a command post to recover the bodies. (AP) (El País in Spanish)

Health and environment

• Tipping points in the climate system, Environmental issues with coral reefs
  • Scientists at the University of Exeter in England report large-scale die-off of coral reefs, the first major tipping point in large changes in the climate system. (The Guardian) (Nature)

International relations

• 2025 Gaza peace summit
  • Heads of government of 30 countries and leaders of several major international organisations gather in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt to discuss the next steps in the implementation of the Gaza peace plan. It is expected that the focus will be on the future governance of the Gaza Strip, security, and humanitarian assistance. (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian) (BBC News)
• China–Netherlands relations
  • The Dutch government invokes the Goods Availability Act to seize control of the Chinese-owned semiconductor manufacturer Nexperia, which is headquartered in Nijmegen, Gelderland, amid concerns that the company's governance "could pose a risk to Dutch and European economic security". (AP) (Financial Times)
• Pakistan–United States relations
  • Pakistani prime minister Shehbaz Sharif nominates United States president Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for a second time, citing his mediation of the Gaza peace plan. Sharif had previously nominated Trump in June for his role in mediating a ceasefire to the 2025 India–Pakistan conflict. (The Hill)

Law and crime

• Three faculty members are wounded in a stabbing attack at a private high school for neurodivergent children in Torrance, California, United States. The suspected assailant, an ex-student, is arrested, and the two bombs he left nearby are found to be inactive. (MSN News) (Los Angeles Times)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Nauruan parliamentary election
  • Results from Saturday's election in Nauru show that incumbent president David Adeang has been re-elected to his seat, though the parliament must decide whether Adeang will continue to serve as president. (RNZ)

Sports

• 2026 FIFA World Cup
  • 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)
    • Cape Verde qualifies for the FIFA World Cup for first time in its history after defeating Eswatini 3–0 during CAF World Cup qualifiers. (RFI)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Hamas hands the remains of three more dead hostages over to the Red Cross following the release of four bodies on Monday. Twenty-one bodies of hostages remain in Gaza. A fourth body was found not to be a hostage. (BBC News) (The Times)
    • Israeli forensic teams identify the four dead hostages returned on Monday as three Israelis and a Nepalese citizen, all of whom were kidnapped during the October 7 attacks. (The New York Times) (BBC News)
    • In response to the limited release of bodies on Monday, Israel notifies the United Nations it will not open the Rafah crossing and only allow 300 aid trucks to enter the Gaza Strip daily, instead of the 600 agreed to in the ceasefire agreement. (Reuters) (The Times of Israel)
  • Israeli troops kill nine Palestinians in Gaza, saying those killed violated the IDF's withdrawal line as established by the peace agreement. (Al Jazeera) (The Times) (Reuters)
• War on drugs, 2025 US Caribbean naval deployment
  • 2025 United States strikes on Venezuelan boats
    • The United States Navy carries out an airstrike on an alleged drug boat near the coast of Venezuela. U.S. president Donald Trump announces that at least six people were killed by the attack. (AP)
• Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
  • At least 13 people are killed and others are injured in attacks by suspected herders on two villages in Plateau State, Nigeria. (Xinhua News Agency)
• Ecuadorian conflict
  • At least one person is killed and several others are injured in a car bomb explosion near a shopping mall in Guayaquil, Ecuador. (BNO News)
• M23 campaign
  • The Congolese government and the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels sign an agreement in Doha, Qatar, to formally establish an oversight body to work towards a permanent ceasefire, which will include representatives from the two groups and the other members of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region. (Reuters) (AP)

Business and economy

• China–United States trade war, China–South Korea relations
  • The Chinese commerce ministry issues sanctions on and bans Chinese companies from dealing with five subsidiaries of South Korean shipbuilding company Hanwha Ocean, which has shipyards and investments in the United States and maintains contracts with the U.S. Navy. (AP) (The Wall Street Journal)
• The European Union fines luxury brands Gucci, Chloé, and Loewe over €157 million (US$182.5 million) for violating EU competition laws through price fixing. (DW) (The Fashion Law)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Dhaka garment factory fire
  • At least 16 people are killed and several injured in a fire at a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Reuters)
• October 2025 Mexico floods and landslides
  • The death toll from the past week's torrential rain-related flooding across five states in eastern Mexico, especially in Hidalgo and Veracruz, increases to 64, with 257 others still missing. At least 100,000 homes, 59 medical facilities, and 308 schools across the region are damaged by water and oil from the Gulf of Mexico. (NPR) (Milenio in Spanish)
• Twenty people are killed and 16 others are injured when a bus catches fire in Rajasthan, India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces compensation payments of ₹200,000 (US$2,200) to the deceased's families and ₹50,000 ($569) to those injured. (AP) (DW) (The Hindu)

International relations

• France–Iran relations
  • The Iranian government detains and imprisons two unnamed French nationals for alleged espionage on behalf of French and Israeli intelligence agencies. (DW) (TRT World)

Law and crime

• 2025 Castel d'Azzano explosion
  • Three carabinieri are killed and 25 other people are injured in an intentional explosion during the attempted eviction of a farmhouse in Castel d'Azzano, Province of Verona, Veneto, Italy. A woman and her two brothers, all in their 60s, are arrested. (AP) (Rai News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Malagasy protests, 2025 Malagasy coup d'état
  • Malagasy president Andry Rajoelina issues a decree dissolving the National Assembly one day after fleeing to an unknown location, alleging fear for his life following a military coup. (AP)
  • The National Assembly refuses to comply with Rajoelina's decree and votes to impeach him, as the military says that they have now seized power. (Reuters)
  • The Malagasy military formally announces it is "taking power" with a military council after the ousting of President Rajoelina. (Le Monde)
• 2025 Nauruan parliamentary election
  • Incumbent Nauruan president David Adeang is unanimously re-elected by the parliament following Saturday's election. (RNZ)
• Federal police fire tear gas and water cannon at over 80,000 demonstrators in Brussels, Belgium, protesting against Prime Minister Bart De Wever's proposed austerity laws which would cut pensions, unemployment benefits, and healthcare systems in an attempt to lower national debt. (AP)
• President of Peru José Jerí appoints Ernesto Álvarez Miranda as the new Prime Minister. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Microsoft ends support for Windows 10 a decade after its release, despite 41% of Windows users still running this version of the operating system. (Microsoft) (CNET)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • Pakistan claims that it killed at least 15 Taliban members in an airstrike in Spin Boldak, Afghanistan. The Taliban claims that twelve civilians are killed and over 100 are injured. Both countries also claim that they killed several soldiers during a shootout. (BBC News)
    • Pakistan carries out two airstrikes against Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. The target and the result are unknown. After the attack, both countries agree to a 48-hour ceasefire. (BBC News)
• Gaza war
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Hamas returns two more hostages' bodies to the Red Cross, with 19 still in Gaza despite the Gaza peace plan's deadline last Monday. Donald Trump also states Israel may resume fighting if he believes Hamas does not uphold their part of the agreement. (AP)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Kupiansk offensive, Humanitarian impacts of the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Ukrainian authorities order mass evacuations across 40 settlements and towns in northeastern Kharkiv Oblast, citing the worsening situation around the city of Kupiansk. (Reuters)
• Papua conflict
  • Fourteen people are killed by Indonesian soldiers during a six-hours battle with Free Papua Movement separatists in Intan Jaya Regency, Central Papua. The army claims that all of those killed were militants, while the group claims that nine civilians and three militants are among the dead. (AP)
• Ecuadorian conflict
  • Explosive devices detonate on two bridges in Ecuador. No casualties are reported. (Reuters)
• Haitian conflict
  • Doctors Without Borders announce that they are permanently closing their offices in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, due to safety concerns. (AP)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Six Pakistani soldiers and nine Pakistani Taliban gunmen are killed in a shootout in Orakzai District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Reuters)
• United States–Venezuela relations, 2025 US Caribbean naval deployment, United States involvement in regime change in Latin America
  • The United States reportedly greenlights covert operations in Venezuela targeting president Nicolás Maduro. (The New York Times)

Disasters and accidents

• Ten people are killed and 21 others are injured, including four critically, in an explosion on a crude palm oil tanker docked at a shipyard on Batam Island, Indonesia. (AP) (Marine Insight)

International relations

• Cambodia–South Korea relations, Scam centers in Cambodia
  • South Korea issues a blanket travel ban on its citizens to parts of Cambodia known for its scam centers, alleging that over 200,000 foreign nationals are working in these centers, including 1,200 South Koreans. (DW) (South China Morning Post)
• Russo-Ukrainian war, Russia–United Kingdom relations, International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian war
  • The United Kingdom imposes new sanctions on Russian major energy companies Lukoil and Rosneft. (RBC-Ukraine)

Law and crime

• International Criminal Court investigation in the Philippines
  • Judges at the International Criminal Court dismiss Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor in the case against former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, due to links between Khan and some victims of Duterte's alleged crimes, whom Khan represented prior to Duterte's arrest. (AP)
• Nord Stream pipelines sabotage, Italy–Ukraine relations, Germany–Italy relations
  • Italy's Supreme Court of Cassation blocks the extradition of a Ukrainian national suspected of causing explosions which damaged the Nord Stream pipelines in 2022 to Germany, where he is wanted. (DW)
• Iraqi politician Safaa Al Mashhadani, a candidate for the upcoming parliamentary elections, is assassinated by a bomb attached to his vehicle in Al-Tarmia District. The perpetrators are unknown. (Gulf News)

Politics and elections

• Abortion in Costa Rica, Women's rights in Costa Rica
  • President Rodrigo Chaves Robles restricts abortion in Costa Rica only to cases where the life of the mother is at risk. (AP)
• Euthanasia in Uruguay
  • Uruguay becomes the first country in Latin America to decriminalise euthanasia via legislation after the law is passed by the Senate. (AP)
• Guatemalan president Bernardo Arévalo accepts the resignation of three top security officials following a jailbreak where 20 members of the Barrio 18 gang escaped from prison. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza peace plan
    • At least three Palestinians are killed in Gaza by Israeli troops, bringing the total to at least 23 people killed by Israel since the start of the ceasefire. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
  • Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
    • An 11-year-old boy is fatally shot by Israeli soldiers near Hebron. (The Times of Israel) (BBC News)
• Red Sea crisis
  • Israeli attacks on Yemen
    • Houthi sources confirm the death of general and chief of staff Muhammad Abd al-Karim al-Ghamari from an Israeli airstrike in August. (Reuters)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Dnieper campaign
    • Russian forces say they have crossed the Dnieper river and have entered the city of Kherson for the first time since 2022, and captured Karantynnyy Island and Maly Vilkhovy Island in the city’s southwest. (ISW)
• Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • The Afghan government reports that a market and a civilian house were hit in yesterday's Pakistani airstrikes in Kabul. Hospital sources reports that five people were killed and several wounded. (AP)
• Syrian civil war
  • Four Syrian soldiers are killed and nine others are wounded when a bomb explodes on a Ministry of Defence bus in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria. (AP)
• War on drugs, 2025 US Caribbean naval deployment
  • 2025 United States strikes on Venezuelan boats
    • The United States Navy strikes another alleged drug smuggling boat. Survivors have been reported from the attacked boat. (NBC News)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • At least eight people are killed in an attack on a security patrol in Zamfara State, Nigeria. (ABC News)
• Libyan crisis
  • Heavy armed clashes break out in Zawiya, Tripolitania, Libya, after the attempted assassination of Reserve Force commander Suleiman Al-Fitouri. (Xinhua News Agency)

Business and economy

• Swiss multinational food and drink corporation Nestlé announces it will cut 16,000 jobs over the next two years to combat rising commodity costs and business expenses. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 15 people are killed and eight others are injured when a truck overturns in Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Dawn)

Law and crime

• 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
  • Trial of Sheikh Hasina
    • The prosecution of the International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh formally announces that it seeks the death penalty against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan over alleged crimes against humanity committed during last year's protests. Hasina has been in exile in India since her ousting, and Khan is also believed to be in India. (AP)
• Death and state funeral of Raila Odinga
  • Four people are killed when police open fire to crowd control tens of thousands of people mourning opposition leader and former prime minister Raila Odinga, as his body arrives at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya. (DW) (Reuters)
• 2025 Peruvian protests
  • One person is killed and 100 people are wounded during clashes in Lima, Peru, as protestors demands the resignation of President José Jerí. (AP)
• Former United States National Security Advisor John Bolton is indicted in a federal court over mishandling of national security documents. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Malagasy protests, 2025 Malagasy coup d'état
  • After former Malagasy president Andry Rajoelina flees the country after losing support of the Armed Forces, CAPSAT commander Michael Randrianirina forms the transitional goverment and is confirmed as the interim president. (DW)
  • The African Union condemns the coup and suspends Madagascar's membership. (Al Jazeera)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • Pakistan carries out a series of airstrikes in Barmal District and Urgun District, Paktia Province, Afghanistan, killing ten people and wounding eight others, ending the 48–hour ceasefire which started two days ago. (Kabul Now)
    • The International Federation of Journalists confirm that a media worker was among those killed during the Pakistani airstrikes in Kabul, Afghanistan, two days ago. Journalist Abdul Ghafoor Abed was also shot dead while covering the shootouts at the border. (IFJ)
    • The casualty toll from the Pakistani airstrikes in Spin Boldak, Afghanistan, two days ago, increases to 40 people killed and 170 injured. (Tolo News)
• Gaza war
  • Gaza peace plan
    • Hamas returns one more detainee's body to the Red Cross. (France 24)
    • Israelis fire at a vehicle carrying a displaced family in Gaza City, killing eleven Palestinians, including seven children. The IDF claims it crossed the ceasefire demarcation line. (EFE) (New York Times) (BBC News)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • At least 14 people are killed, including six attackers, and 13 others are injured in a suicide car bomb followed by gunfire at a military compound in Mir Ali, North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami claims responsibility for the attack. (Xinhua News Agency)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Rahova gas explosion
  • Three people are killed and 14 others are injured in an explosion caused by a suspected gas leak at an apartment building in Bucharest, Romania. (Reuters)
• Typhoon Halong (2025)
  • Alaska governor Mike Dunleavy requests federal disaster assistance, as flooding in remote villages forces over 2,000 to potentially face a prolonged evacuation longer than 18 months, caused by the remnants of Halong. (AP)
• At least 17 people are killed and others are injured when a bus loses control, hits rocks and overturns on a highway in Pernambuco, Brazil. (CTV News) (The Times of India)
• Three people are killed and eight others injured during an explosion at an explosives plant in Sterlitamak, Bashkortostan, Russia. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping
  • The Ministry of National Defense of China announces that Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of China He Weidong, Director of the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission Miao Hua and seven other generals were expelled from the party and the military following charges of corruption against them. (South China Morning Post)
• Hijab and burka controversies in Europe
  • The Portuguese parliament approves a ban on face veils for "gender or religious" reasons and making it punishable by up to €2,000. The bill, promoted by right-wing party Chega, is passed to President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa for review. (AP)
• Killing of Salwan Momika
  • A 24-year-old man from Syria, living in Sweden at the time, is identified as the main perpetrator who assassinated anti-Islam activist Salwan Momika. (The Jerusalem Post)
• Nord Stream pipelines sabotage
  • The Polish judiciary refuses extradition of a Ukrainian to Germany who is suspected of blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline, citing lack of evidence, arguing that it happened in international waters, on Russian-owned property, and amidst the Russian aggression against his state. (DW)
• WikiConference North America
  • A man brandishes a firearm and threatens to kill himself on stage at the 2025 "Wiki World’s Fair" event in New York City. A Wikipedia contributor disarms the man, who was later taken into custody. (The New York Times) (Newsweek)

Politics and elections

• Mongolian prime minister Gombojavyn Zandanshatar is ousted by the State Great Khural after four months in power. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza War
  • Gaza peace plan
    • The bodies of two deceased hostages were returned to Israel via the custody of the Red Cross from Hamas, the two hostages' names were Sgt. Maj. Muhammad Al-Atrash and Inbar Haiman. (The Times of Israel) (The Times of Israel)
• A Cameroonian-flagged tanker carrying liquefied petroleum gas is struck and set on fire by a projectile in the Gulf of Aden east of Aden, Yemen. At least one mariner is reported missing. (AP via The Canadian Press and MSN) (CBS News)

Disasters and accidents

• Eight people are killed and eight others are injured when a vehicle plunges into a gorge in Chandshali Ghat, Nandurbar district, Maharashtra, India. (The Times of India)

Law and crime

• Two men are killed and two other men are injured from an early morning shooting at a Sunoco gas station in the Slavic Village neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. (WJW-TV)

Politics and elections

• Protests against Donald Trump, October 2025 No Kings protests
  • A series of No Kings protests against the Trump administration are held across the United States. Additionally, protests are also held worldwide across several US embassies. (CBS News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • A ceasefire between Afghanistan and Pakistan, mediated by Qatar and Turkey during peace talks in Doha, comes in to effect. (Al Jazeera)
• Gaza war
  • Gaza peace plan
    • Palestinian militants are accused by Israel of attacking Israeli forces at ceasefire boundaries, killing two soldiers. (The New York Times) (The Jerusalem Post)
    • At least 44 Palestinians are killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, with severe attacks carried out in Khan Yunis and Rafah. The Israel Defense Forces and Hamas accuse each other of breaching the ceasefire. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News)
  • Mahmoud Talal Abdullah, a Palestinian detainee from the refugee camp in Jenin, occupied West Bank, dies in Israeli custody at the Shamir Medical Center in Be'er Ya'akov. (Wafa) (The New Arab)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • Five people are killed and two others are missing as Tropical Storm Fengshen makes landfall in the Philippines, causing a landslide in Mindanao and heavy flooding in Luzon. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Colombia–United States relations
  • U.S. president Donald Trump says that the United States will stop payments and subsidies in aid to Colombia, citing "alleged drug trafficking endorsed by its government." (AP)

Law and crime

• 2025 Louvre robbery
  • Thieves steal part of the French Crown Jewels from the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, before fleeing on motorbikes. Police have been unable to locate them. The stolen Crown of Empress Eugénie is later recovered, although it was damaged. (BBC News)
• Capital punishment in Iran, Iran–Israel relations
  • The Iranian government executes a person convicted of allegedly spying for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad in Qom. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Bolivian general election
  • Centrist candidate Rodrigo Paz Pereira of the Christian Democratic Party defeats independent right-wing candidate and former president Jorge Quiroga to win the presidential election, ending 20 years of Movimiento al Socialismo rule. (AP) (Reuters) (The Guardian)
• 2025 Kuomintang chairmanship election, Cross-strait relations
  • The Taiwanese opposition party Kuomintang elects Cheng Li-wun as the new party chairwoman, who is known for her advocacy of closer ties and peace with China. (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 Northern Cypriot presidential election
  • Citizens of the breakaway territory of Northern Cyprus vote between incumbent Ersin Tatar and Tufan Erhürman to serve as President. (Famagusta-Gazette)
  • Erhürman wins the election with 62.76% of the vote, against Tatar, who received 35.81% of the vote. (AP)
• Citizens of North Macedonia vote to elect new mayors and cabinets for the country's 80 municipalities. (Sloboden Pecat)
• Thousands of Haredi Jews gather around the Israeli consulate in New York City, United States, to protest against the potential conscription of yeshiva students to the Israel Defence Forces, which has been exempt since 1977. (AP)

Sports

• 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup
  • In association football, Morocco wins its first U-20 World Cup after defeating Argentina 2–0 in the final. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza peace plan
    • Hamas returns the body of dead Israeli hostage Tai Haimi to Israel. (The Times of Israel)
• Russo-Ukranian war
  • War crimes in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
      • Russian soldiers kill five people and injure another in a mass shooting at a house in Zvanivka, Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (RBC-Ukraine)

Business and economy

• Pizzeria chain Pizza Hut enters administration in the United Kingdom with at least 68 venues expected to close and 1,210 employees at risk of redundancy. (The Independent)
• Cambodian prime minister Hun Manet formally inaugurates Techo International Airport, replacing the 70-year-old Phnom Penh International Airport as the main aviation hub for the country. (AP) (Airport World)

Disasters and accidents

• Emirates SkyCargo Flight 9788
  • Two airport ground crew are killed when an Emirates cargo plane crash-lands and strikes a service vehicle at Hong Kong International Airport, before falling into the sea. (RTHK)
• At least one person is killed and four others are critically injured when a tornado hits the Ermont commune in Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France. (Euronews in French) (Metro)

Law and crime

• 2025 Louvre robbery
  • The damaged 19th-century Crown of Empress Eugénie is recovered on a street near the Louvre in Paris, France, following its burglary yesterday. (Le Figaro in French) (Town and Country)
• Corruption in Armenia
  • Police arrest Gyumri mayor Vardan Ghukasyan on bribery charges amid an anti-corruption investigation in Armenia, prompting protests outside his office and the detention of at least 23 demonstrators. (Reuters)
• Murder of Kim Ha-neul
  • A court in Daejeon, South Korea, sentences a teacher to life in prison for the murder of a eight-year-old student whom she stabbed at school in a murder-suicide attempt in February 2025. (The Korea Herald)
• The Tatmadaw conducts a raid on the KK Park scam center in Myawaddy Township, Myanmar, near the border with Thailand, and detains over 2,000 people and seizes over 30 Starlink terminals. (AP) (AFP via France 24)
• Vilnius International Airport in Lithuania temporarily ceases operations, suspends all air traffic, and closes the country's airspace and borders after the government reports sightings of weather balloons used to smuggle cigarettes from Belarus. (DW) (The New Voice of Ukraine)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Malagasy coup d'état
  • Malagasy president Michael Randrianirina appoints Herintsalama Rajaonarivelo as prime minister. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• A severe outage of Amazon Web Services occurs in the United States, impacting many apps and websites. (NPR)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian conflict
  • Three Druze civilians are shot dead by unidentified gunmen on motorcycles in a suspected sectarian attack in Kafr Maris, Idlib Governorate, Syria. (AP)
• Gaza war
  • Gaza peace plan
    • Two deceased Israeli hostages, Arie "Zalman" Zalmanowicz and Tamir Adar, were handed over to Israel by the Islamic extremist organization, Hamas. (The Times of Isreal)

Arts and culture

• XIX International Chopin Piano Competition
  • American Eric Lu wins the 2025 International Chopin Piano Competition at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, Poland. (Chopin Competition) (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 42 people are killed and 52 others are injured when a tanker truck transporting gasoline crashes and explodes in Bida, Nigeria. (BBC News) (AP)
• At least 14 people are killed and dozens of others are injured when an overcrowded train full of merchants crashes into a stationary train near Dire Dawa in Oromia Region, Ethiopia. (Africanews)

Law and crime

• Attempted assassination of Robert Fico
  • A Slovak court sentences 72-year-old Juraj Cintula, the perpetrator in the attempted assassination of prime minister Robert Fico in 2024, to 21 years in prison. Cintula continues to deny the accusations, saying he aimed away from vital organs. (AP) (BBC News)
• Irish anti-immigration protests
  • Rioting takes place in Dublin, Ireland, with several thousand anti-immigration protesters attempting to storm a hotel housing asylum seekers in the city after the alleged rape of a 10-year-old Irish girl by an asylum seeker. A police vehicle is set on fire during the unrest. (BBC News)
• Poland–Ukraine relations, Romania–Ukraine relations, Russia–Ukraine relations
  • A Ukrainian citizen is detained in Poland and two others are arrested in Romania for allegedly working for Russian intelligence agencies and preparing acts of sabotage on Ukrainian shipping routes. (AP)
• A Colombian court overturns a bribery conviction against former president Álvaro Uribe, who had been sentenced to 12 years of house arrest in August 2025. The court is still considering further appeals on a fraud charge. (Reuters) (DW)

Politics and elections

• Peruvian political crisis (2016–present)
  • Peruvian president José Jerí declares a 30-day state of emergency in Lima in an attempt to curb rising crime. (Reuters)
• Sanae Takaichi is elected as Japan's first female prime minister by the House of Representatives after her party, the Liberal Democratic Party, agreed to form a coalition government with the Japan Innovation Party. (The Japan Times) (NPR)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
    • According to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society forty-five people, including former prisoners and a child, are arrested during a series of Israeli raids in Nablus, Ramallah, Qalqilya and Tulkarem, in the occupied West Bank. They further say that homes are vandalized and the arrested are assaulted. (Al Jazeera)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Kyiv strikes
    • Six people are killed and several others are injured in Russian strikes on power plants in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Euronews)
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • One person is killed and six others are injured in Russian drone strikes on a kindergarten in Kholodnohirskyi District, Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. (The Kyiv Independent)
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Three soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces are killed in an operation in Stavropol, Stavropol Krai, Russia. (RBC-Ukraine)
• War on drugs, 2025 United States military strikes against alleged drug traffickers
  • Five people are killed during two separate United States airstrikes against two boats in the Pacific Ocean, the first such attacks in the area. The attacks since September 2025, previously limited only to the Caribbean Sea, have killed a total of 37 people. (Al Jazeera)
• Terrorism in Serbia
  • A man opens fire outside the Serbian Parliament in Belgrade and sets fire to a tent, critically injuring a person, before being arrested. The incident is classified as a terrorist attack. (Ansa)

Arts and culture

• 2025 Louvre robbery
  • The Louvre Museum in Paris, France, reopens with increased activity several days after jewelry from the Galerie d'Apollon was stolen in a heist. The Galerie d'Apollon, however, remains closed. (DW)
• Imprisoned journalists Andrzej Poczobut of Belarus and Mzia Amaglobeli of Georgia are awarded the 2025 Sakharov Prize. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Plastmass Factory explosion
  • At least 12 people are killed, 19 others are injured and 10 are reported missing following an explosion at a munitions factory in Kopeysk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. (BBC News)
• Four people are killed when a Robinson R66 helicopter crashes near Ekalaka, Montana, United States. (WIFR-LD) (HuffPost)
• Forty-six people are killed and others are injured in a collision between two buses and other vehicles on the Kampala–Gulu Highway in Uganda. (Al Jazeera)
• Forty people are killed, including infants, and thirty others are rescued when a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Mahdia, Mahdia Governorate, Tunisia. (Africanews)

Law and crime

• The Fijian High Court sentences former prime minister Frank Bainimarama to a 12-month suspended prison term after being found guilty of making an unwarranted demand to a public official under the Crimes Act this month. (RNZ)
• An opposition politician of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya party is shot and killed by an unidentified gunman in Weligama, Sri Lanka, amid an increase of shootings in the country, which have left 51 people killed and 56 injured since the beginning of the year. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Argentine foreign minister Gerardo Werthein submits his resignation to President Javier Milei. (Reuters)
• Greece's parliament approves a law prohibiting demonstrations around the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens, designating the area for ceremonial use only. (Reuters)
• Thai deputy finance minister Vorapak Tanyawong resigns following his alleged involvement in a transnational scam operation. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Boko Haram insurgency
  • At least 50 insurgents are killed as the Nigerian Army repel drone-backed attacks on military positions in Borno and Yobe States. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Four people, including an elderly woman, are killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes in eastern and southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Syrian conflict
  • A ceasefire is agreed between the Syrian Armed Forces and Firqat al-Ghuraba, after the latter's camp was sieged yesterday in Harem. (France24)

Arts and culture

• Billboard magazine revises the rules for its Hot 100 record chart and implements a maximum time spent on the list if a song drops below a certain rank, intended to shorten the age to be considered "contemporary". (NPR)

International relations

• 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico, Canada–United States trade relations
  • U.S. president Donald Trump announces all trade negotiations with Canada are "terminated" following an advertisement featuring former U.S. president Ronald Reagan released by the government of Ontario. (CBC)
• Israel–United States relations, Proposed Israeli annexation of the West Bank, International law and the Arab–Israeli conflict
  • The United States rules out Israel's plan to annex the West Bank following a Knesset vote, while several other countries also affirm their standings against the plan, calling it a violation of international law. (Gulf News)
• Nearly 700 foreigners have fled Myanmar and crossed into Thailand following the Tatmadaw's raid on the KK Park scam center on Monday. Thailand detains 677 people, including 618 men and 59 women, after they cross the border into Tak Province, Thailand. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2025 National Basketball Association illegal gambling prosecution
  • More than 30 people are arrested by United States law enforcement as part of an investigation into illegal gambling linked to the American mafia, including former professional basketball player Damon Jones, Miami Heat player Terry Rozier, and Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups. (Reuters)
• Deportation in the second Trump administration
  • A review conducted by National Public Radio reveals that there have been at least 20 deaths in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody this year, making it the deadliest year since record-keeping began in 2004. (NPR)
• English Channel illegal migrant crossings
  • The United Kingdom Foreign Office issues sanctions against gangs from the Balkans for facilitating migrant smuggling across the English Channel into the UK. (DW)
• Killing of Iryna Zarutska
  • A grand jury indicts Decarlos Brown Jr., the perpetrator of the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte Area Transit System train in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, of first-degree murder and causing death on a public transport system, making him eligible for the death penalty. (NBC News) (Newsweek)
• A court in Belfast, Northern Ireland, finds a British soldier not guilty over killings on Bloody Sunday in 1972 in Derry. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2026 Brazilian general election
  • At a meeting with Indonesian counterpart Prabowo Subianto, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announces his bid for a fourth non-consecutive term in next year's election. (AP)
• 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election
  • Hundreds of thousands of people gather in Budapest, Hungary, in rival rallies for incumbent prime minister Viktor Orbán and his main opposition rival Péter Magyar. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War on drugs
  • 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
    • Six people are killed in a U.S. missile strike on a suspected drug-running boat in the Caribbean Sea. (AP)
    • The United States deploys the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier battle group to Latin America for counter-drug cartel operations. (Reuters)
• Gaza war, Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
    • An 18-year-old Palestinian man is killed after being shot and critically injured yesterday during an Israeli attack in the Askar Camp in Nablus, occupied Palestine. (Al Jazeera)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Three people are killed in a roadside bombing on a police vehicle in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in Hangu District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (The Canadian Press)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Three people are killed and two others injured during two Israeli airstrikes against two vehicles in Toul and Nabatieh, Lebanon. Senior Hezbollah commander Abbas Karki is among the fatalities. (AA)

Arts and culture

• The Booker Prize Foundation announces the creation of the Children's Booker Prize, with the first £50,000 (US$66,500) winner to be announced in early 2027. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
  • At least four people are killed in Haiti and the Dominican Republic by Tropical Storm Melissa. (The New York Times) (AP)
• Twenty-five people are killed and several others are injured in a fire on a bus in Kurnool, India. (AP)
• Fourteen people are killed, two others are rescued, and two are reported missing when a rubber boat sinks off the coast of Bodrum, Muğla, Turkey. (DPA International)
• Four people are killed and over 21,000 others are affected during heavy rains in Sri Lanka. (Xinhua News Agency)

International relations

• Colombia–United States relations
  • The United States imposes sanctions on Colombian president Gustavo Petro, his wife Verónica Alcocer, his son Nicolás, and Interior Minister Armando Benedetti, accusing them of involvement in the global drug trade amid worsening relations between both countries. (AP)

Law and crime

• 2025 Ovruch train attack
  • A man detonates a grenade on a train in Ovruch, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine, killing three women and a border guard, and wounding 12 other people. The perpetrator, who also died in the explosion, was a fugitive from Kharkiv. (Reuters) (News.az)
• 2025 Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan protests
  • Pakistan bans the Tehreek-e-Labbaik party after deadly clashes between party members and Pakistani police during a protest march led by the party over the past two weeks. (Reuters)
• Azerbaijan–Russia relations, Media freedom in Azerbaijan
  • A court in Azerbaijan orders a senior Russian journalist of state media agency Sputnik be released from prison and placed under house arrest for three months. The decision comes after a meeting between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Tajikistan amid deteriorating relations between the two countries. (Reuters)
• Murders of Albert Alfonso and Paul Longworth
  • A court in London, United Kingdom, sentences a Colombian man to life in prison for the murder and dismemberment of two men in London in July 2024. The man also pleaded guilty to three counts of possession of child pornography. (AP)
• Pork barrel scam
  • The Philippines' anti-graft court acquits former Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile, his former chief of staff Gigi Reyes, and businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles of their remaining graft charges, citing failure to prove their guilt. The three had been charged over their alleged misuse of the Priority Development Assistance Fund. (Philippine Daily Inquirer) (ABS-CBN News)
• A manhunt is launched for Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, whose sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl sparked anti-immigration protests in Epping, Essex, England, after he was accidentally released from prison. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Irish presidential election
  • Citizens of the Republic of Ireland vote for the next President to succeed Michael D. Higgins, who is term-limited. The candidates are independent candidate Catherine Connolly and Fine Gael candidate Heather Humphreys. (BBC)
• The Croatian parliament votes to reintroduce compulsory military service, which had been shifted to a volunteer system in 2008. The new conscription will require two months of basic training, allowing conscientious objectors to opt for civilian service. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Kyiv strikes, Attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Four people are killed and 20 others are injured in overnight Russian missile and drone strikes on residential areas in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Reuters) (AP)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Five soldiers and 25 gunmen are killed in a shootout between Kurram and North Waziristan, in Pakistan, at the border with Afghanistan. (Al Jazeera)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Two people are killed during two Israeli airstrikes against a car and a motorcycle in Harouf and Qlayleh, Lebanon, bringing the death toll from the attacks since the past 48 hours to nine. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane warnings are issued in Jamaica, as forecasts indicate Hurricane Melissa will likely reach Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, while rainfall estimates exceed 30 in (76 cm) across the country and in Haiti. (CNN)
  • Over 145,000 people are evacuated by Guantánamo Province officials ahead of Hurricane Melissa's potential impacts in eastern Cuba. (NBC)

International relations

• Afghanistan–Pakistan relations
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • Pakistani defence minister Khawaja Asif says that if peace talks with the Taliban fail, Pakistan will declare an open war on Afghanistan, as Pakistan accuses the Taliban of sheltering Pakistani militants, which Kabul denies. (Reuters)
• Canada–United States trade relations
  • 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
    • U.S. president Donald Trump announces that he will raise U.S. tariffs on Canada by 10% in retaliation for an anti-tariff advertisement sponsored by the Ontario government. (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Irish presidential election
  • Independent candidate Catherine Connolly is declared winner of yesterday's election of the President of Ireland, after Fine Gael candidate Heather Humphreys concedes the election during the initial tallying of the votes. (Reuters) (The Guardian)
• 2025 Ivorian presidential election
  • Ivorians vote to elect their president, as incumbent Alassane Ouattara seeks a fourth term. (Reuters)
  • Ouattara is re-elected with 89.7% of the vote. (Reuters)
• The United Nations Convention against Cybercrime, also known as the Hanoi Convention, is signed in Hanoi, Vietnam, marking the first time a UN treaty signing ceremony took place in Vietnam and the first time a multilateral treaty is named after a Vietnamese location. (The Diplomat) (UNODC)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • 2025 Sumy offensive
    • One person is killed and 13 others are injured, including two seriously, in a Russian drone strike on a minibus in Mykolaivka, Sumy Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (Kyiv Post)
  • Two people are killed, including an elderly woman, and another is injured in a Ukrainian drone strike on an apartment building in Russian-controlled Donetsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (MSN)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Siege of El Fasher
    • The Rapid Support Forces say that they have captured El Fasher, the last stronghold of the Sudanese Armed Forces in North Darfur. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Three people are killed in two Israeli airstrikes in An-Naqoura and Baalbek, Lebanon. Separately, an Israeli drone drops a grenade near UNIFIL forces in Kfar Kila, without casualties. (Al Jazeera)
• A man plants an explosive near propane gas cylinders at a gas station in Georgetown, Guyana, killing a child and wounding four other people. The attacks is described as a terrorist incident, while the perpetrators are unknown. (AP)

Arts and culture

• Patriarch Daniel consecrates the newly-constructed National Cathedral in Bucharest, Romania, as the country's largest cathedral with the capacity for 5,000 worshippers and the patriarchal seat of the Romanian Orthodox Church. (DW) (Romania Insider)

Disasters and accidents

• Fourteen people are killed when a fire engulfs dwellings in Bukavu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Africanews)
• Thirteen people are killed and five others are injured when a bus crashes in Kano State, Nigeria. (The Punch)
• At least 13 people are killed and 29 others are injured when a bus collides with a car and plunges off of a bridge into a stream in Puerto Iguazú, Misiones, Argentina. (News.Az) (Xinhua)
• In separate incidents, an MH-60R Seahawk helicopter and an F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet of the United States Navy, both operating off of the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier, crash in the South China Sea. All crew of both craft are rescued. (CNN)

International relations

• Enlargement of ASEAN
  • Accession of Timor-Leste to ASEAN, 2025 ASEAN Summits
    • Timor-Leste becomes the eleventh member state of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. (Antara)
• Trinidad and Tobago–Venezuela relations, United States–Venezuela relations
  • Venezuelan vice president Delcy Rodríguez issues a statement accusing Trinidad and Tobago and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency of military provocations as both countries carry out joint military exercises in the Caribbean Sea. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2025 Cameroonian presidential election
  • Cameroonian opposition presidential candidate Issa Tchiroma says that police have detained more than 30 politicians and activists linked to his campaign or who endorsed his candidacy against incumbent Paul Biya during last week's election. (Reuters)
  • Four protestors are killed and several policemen are injured during clashes in Douala, as pro-opposition protestors rejects Biya's re-election. (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 Louvre robbery
  • Two suspects are arrested in connection to the robbery at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, last week. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
  • 2025 PKK–Turkey peace process
    • The Kurdistan Workers' Party announces that it is withdrawing its fighters from Turkey and moving them to Iraq as part of ongoing peace talks with the Turkish government. (AP)
• 2025 Argentine legislative election
  • Argentines vote in the midterms to elect a half of the Chamber of Deputies and a third of the Senate. (The New York Times)
  • The ruling La Libertad Avanza party of President Javier Milei wins the election with over 40% of the votes. (AP)
• 2026 Colombian presidential election
  • The Historic Pact party nominates Senator Iván Cepeda as its candidate for president in next year's election. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War in the Sahel
  • Mali War
    • Mali's government closes all schools and universities across the country amid a fuel blockade by al-Qaeda-aligned JNIM insurgents. (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
  • Fourteen people are killed and one survives after three American airstrikes against four boats in the Pacific Ocean. (CBS News)
• Gaza war
  • Eight Palestinians are killed and 13 injured in the Gaza Strip during Israeli airstrikes, despite the agreed ceasefire. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• LGBTQ rights in the United Kingdom
  • King Charles III dedicates a memorial to LGBTQ members of the Armed Forces at the National Memorial Arboretum in Lichfield, Staffordshire, United Kingdom, on the 25-year anniversary of the end to the country's ban on gay servicemen. (AP)

Business and economy

• Taxation in Malta
  • Malta introduces tax cuts exempting parents of two or more children from income tax on up to €18,500 (US$21,574) of earnings from 2026, rising to €30,000 ($34,985) by 2028, as part of efforts to address its low fertility rate. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Melissa reaches Category 5 intensity on its approach to Jamaica. (NBC) (Washington Post) (Fox Weather)

International relations

• Montenegro–Turkey relations
  • Montenegro suspends its visa-free arrangement for Turkish citizens after the stabbing of a local man allegedly by Turkish nationals led to unrest in Podgorica. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• A court in Mali sentences former prime minister Moussa Mara to two years in prison on charges of undermining state security and inciting public disorder. Mara will serve one year without parole and one year as a suspended sentence. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Cameroonian presidential election
  • The Supreme Court of Cameroon announces the reelection of incumbent president Paul Biya. (AP)
• 2025 Czech parliamentary election
  • Czech president Petr Pavel asks former prime minister Andrej Babiš to form a new government after his party ANO won the most seats in the parliamentary elections earlier this month. (AP)
• Tunisia suspends the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights from operating for a month, citing the need to conduct a financial audit on the organization's foreign funds. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Hamas announces that it is postponing the return of the body of a dead hostage, citing multiple violations of the ceasefire by Israel. (Reuters)
  • Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
    • Three Al-Qassam Brigades militants are killed by Israeli troops in a shooting–airstrike attack in Kfar Qud, near Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. (L'Orient Today) (Reuters)
  • Hamas fires at and launches an anti-tank missile at Israeli troops in Rafah, Gaza, killing an Israeli soldier. (The Jerusalem Post) (BBC)
  • At least 104 people are killed, including 46 children, and 50 others are injured in multiple Israeli retaliatory airstrikes across Gaza City. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
• Armed conflict for control of the favelas
  • Operation Containment
    • Sixty-four people, including four police officers, are killed in large-scale raids on Comando Vermelho spots in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, making it the deadliest police operation in the city's history. At least 81 suspected gang members are arrested in the operation. (CNN) (DW)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Al-Fashir massacre
    • Over 460 people are killed in an attack on a hospital by the Rapid Support Forces in Al-Fashir, North Darfur, Sudan. (AP)

Business and economy

• AI boom, Workplace impact of artificial intelligence
  • Multinational technology and e-commerce company Amazon announces it will lay off 14,000 corporate positions as it invests more in building AI and cloud computing infrastructure. (DW) (CNBC)
• Economy of the Philippines
  • The Philippine peso falls to a record low of ₱59.2 per U.S. dollar, which the country's central bank attributes to currency depreciation influenced by recent interest rate cuts and foreign investment outflows. (Bloomberg)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Westmoreland parish, southwest Jamaica, as a Category 5 hurricane with 185 mph sustained winds. (CNN) (NHC)
• Mombasa Air Safari Flight 203
  • A Mombasa Air Safari-operated Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft carrying foreign tourists from Hungary and Germany crashes near Kwale, Kenya, killing all 11 people on board. (AP)
• Eighteen people are killed when a wooden vessel carrying dozens of irregular refugees capsizes off the coast of Surman, Libya. (TRT World)

Health and environment

• 2020–2025 H5N1 outbreak
  • The German government culls 500,000 birds, including chickens, geese, and turkeys, as the federal animal health institute reports over 100 outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza, including 30 outbreaks among poultry battery farms across the country. (DW)

International relations

• China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) sign an upgraded free trade agreement, which will broaden collaboration on infrastructure, digital and green transition, trade facilitation and people-to-people exchanges between the two sides, on the sidelines of the 47th ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (CNA)

Law and crime

• Assassination of Shinzo Abe
  • The trial of Tetsuya Yamagami, the alleged killer of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, opens in Nara. It is expected to end by mid-December. (AP)
• Crime in London
  • One person is killed and two others, including a 14-year-old, are injured in a mass stabbing in London, England. A 22-year-old Afghan national is arrested. (Sky News)
• Fijian deputy prime minister Biman Prasad says that he intends to resign after being charged with corruption. He is the second deputy PM in Sitiveni Rabuka's government to be charged since last week. (RNZ)
• Nigeria's Senate passes the Endangered Species Conservation and Protection Bill, introducing fines of up to ₦12 million (US$8,250) and prison sentences of up to 10 years for wildlife smuggling and strengthening enforcement against illegal trade in ivory, pangolin scales, and other endangered species. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Conscription in Russia
  • The Russian State Duma approves a bill to change military conscription to a year-round process, passing it to the Federation Council for approval. (AP)

Sports

• 2025 Turkish referee betting scandal, Gambling in Turkey
  • The Turkish Football Federation takes disciplinary action against 152 referees who were found to have actively placed bets on football matches. At least 371 of the 571 active referees are found to have a betting account. (ESPN) (NTV in Turkish)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Armed conflict for control of the favelas
  • Operation Containment
    • The death toll from yesterday's police operation in Rio de Janeiro rises to at least 132 people. (Reuters)
• 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
  • Four people are killed in an American airstrike on a boat in the Pacific Ocean. (ABC News)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Six Pakistani soldiers and seven gunmen are killed in a shootout at the border with Afghanistan. (Al Arabiya)
• Spillover of the Mali War
  • The JNIM carries out its first attack in Nigeria, killing a soldier and seizing ammunition and cash in Kwara State. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • South Korea–United States relations
    • South Korea announces it has finalized a trade deal with the United States in which the U.S. agrees to 15% of tariffs on imported South Korean goods and South Korea will invest in American businesses and shipbuilding projects. (The New York Times)

Disasters and accidents

• At least nine people are killed and five others are missing due to floods in central Vietnam, including in major cities such as Đà Nẵng and Hội An. (Reuters)
• The roof of the girls’ dormitory at a pesantren collapses due to heavy rain and strong winds in Situbondo, East Java, Indonesia, killing a student and injuring 19 others. (Tempo)

International relations

• Afghanistan–Pakistan relations
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • Peace talks held in Istanbul, Turkey, between Afghanistan and Pakistan collapse and achieve no clear agreement. (Reuters)
• International recognition of Kosovo, Kosovo–Syria relations, Serbia–Syria relations
  • Syria officially recognizes Kosovo as an independent and sovereign state. (Sana)

Law and crime

• Pelicot rape case
  • The French Senate approves amendments to the country's rape law to include a consent-based definition, clarifying that consent must be freely given and cannot be implied by silence or lack of resistance. (Reuters)
• Philippine president Bongbong Marcos signs a law institutionalizing a ban on the country's offshore gaming operators and declaring their operations illegal. (Philippine News Agency)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Alberta teachers' strike
  • In the Canadian province of Alberta, premier Danielle Smith says legislation has been passed to end the strike, invoking the notwithstanding clause to prevent court challenges of the legislation's constitutionality. (CBC) (Global News)
• 2025 Dutch general election
  • In the Netherlands, a snap election is held following the collapse of the Schoof cabinet in June. (The Guardian)
  • Centrist liberal party Democrats 66, led by Rob Jetten, takes a surprise lead according to the main exit poll, just two years after the party ranked sixth in the previous vote. (Euronews)
  • Frans Timmermans, the leader of the GroenLinks–PvdA alliance, steps down following a poor performance during the election. (Politico)
• 2025 Tanzanian general election
  • Tanzanians vote to elect a president, members of the National Assembly, and ward councillors. Incumbent president Samia Suluhu Hassan runs unopposed after the High Court barred main opposition leaders from participating in the elections. (The Washington Post)
• 2025 Tanzanian election protests
  • Protests and riots erupts in Dar es Salaam over electoral reforms and demands for free political activity, with demonstrators setting fire to vehicles and damaging public infrastructure. Tanzanian police use tear gas to break up the protests and impose a curfew. Internet connectivity is disrupted shortly after. (AP) (The Guardian) (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Sudanese civil war
  • Siege of El Fasher, War crimes during the Sudanese civil war
    • Al-Fashir massacre
      • Massacres occur in Al-Fashir, North Darfur, Sudan, as Rapid Support Forces overwhelm the city and kill civilians for several days, targeting Zaghawa people. (DW)
• 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
  • Following peace talks in Istanbul, Turkey, the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan agree to an extended ceasefire, while Pakistan continues to allege that Afghanistan is sheltering militant groups like the Tehreek-e-Taliban. (DW)
• Israeli–Lebanese conflict
  • Israeli troops enter the southern Lebanese city of Blida and storm the municipal hall, killing an employee while sleeping. In response, Lebanese president Joseph Aoun orders the military to confront any Israeli incursions. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• The Sagrada Família church in Barcelona, Spain, becomes the world's tallest church at 162.91 m (534.5 ft) after a part of its central tower was added during construction, surpassing the previously-tallest Ulm Minster in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. (DW)

International relations

• China–United States relations
  • United States president Donald Trump meets Chinese president Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Gyeongju, agreeing to lower tariffs on China in return for lower rare earth trade curbs. (CNA)

Law and crime

• Immigration to the United States
  • The United States government announces it will lower the number of refugees admitted to the country from 125,000 to 7,500 starting in 2026, while also prioritizing white South Africans. (DW)

Politics and elections

• The Latvian Saeima votes 56–32 to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention treaty, which combats violence against women and domestic violence. (Reuters)
• In the United Kingdom, King Charles III begins the formal process of revoking Prince Andrew's royal title due to his dealings with deceased convicted sex offender and human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. (DW) (The New York Times)

Sports

• 2025 Japan Series
  • In baseball, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks defeats the Hanshin Tigers in five games to win its 12th Japan Series championship. (Mainichi in Japanese)

Business and economy

• The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore founds a company, SAFCo, to meet Singapore's goal of utilizing sustainable aviation fuel in flights. (CNA)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 21 people are killed and at least 18 bodies are recovered in landslides in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. (AP)

International relations

• The United Nations Security Council approves a United States-backed resolution supporting Morocco's autonomy proposal and claim to the disputed Western Sahara, despite opposition from Algeria. (AP)

Law and crime

• 2025 Kartalkaya hotel fire
  • A court in Turkey sentences the owner of Kartalkaya hotel to life in prison after finding him guilty of severe negligence in the fire at his hotel in January, which killed 78 people, including 34 children. (AP)
• 2025 Tanzanian election protests
  • The United Nations says ten deaths have occured due to protests in Tanzania following the general election. (AP)
• Capital punishment in India
  • A court in Andhra Pradesh, India, sentences five people to death for the November 2015 assassination of the mayor of Chittoor and her husband. (The Times of India)
• Police in Guyana arrest opposition leader Azruddin Mohamed following an indictment by a federal grand jury in Florida, United States, and an extradition request by American authorities, who accuse him of several financial crimes. (AP)

Sports

• 2025 Korean Series
  • In baseball, the LG Twins defeat the Hanwha Eagles in five games to win their fourth Korean Series title. (Yonhap)