Portal:Current events/2025 December 11

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • 2025 Sumy offensive, Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Two people are killed and two others injured by a Russian guided bomb strike on a shop in Velyka Pysarivka, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (Ukrainska Pravda)
• 2025 Cambodia‒Thailand conflict
  • The death toll during the clashes between the Thai Army and the Cambodian Army at the border increases to eight Thai soldiers, eleven Cambodian civilians and four Thai civilians. (Al Jazeera)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • Eleven bandits are killed and several more injured in an ambush by the Nigerian Army in Sabon Birni, Sokoto State, Nigeria. The bandits allegedly planned an attack on a nearby village. (The Guardian)

Business and economy

• Greek economic minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis is elected the new president of the Eurogroup, succeeding Paschal Donohoe. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Two people are killed and two others are trapped when an under-construction library collapses in Gwangju, South Korea. (Reuters)
• One person is killed and several others are injured when a boat carrying migrants overturns on the Sava river near Slavonski Brod, Croatia. (AP)

Law and crime

• Hijab and burqa controversies in Europe
  • Austria passes a law banning hijabs and burqas being worn in schools by girls aged under 14. (BBC News)
• Brazilian police arrest former Peruvian foreign minister Augusto Blacker Miller in Rio de Janeiro, where he is located after evading authorities following an Albanian court conviction for fraud and an active Interpol notice. (Reuters)
• A military court in Pakistan sentences former Inter-Services Intelligence director general Faiz Hameed to 14 years in prison on charges related to engaging in political activities and violations of the Official Secrets Act. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Bulgarian budget protests
  • The Zhelyazkov Government resigns after weeks of massive protests against economic policies and alleged corruption. (The Guardian)
• 2025 Falkland Islands general election
  • Falklanders vote to elect eight members of the Legislative Assembly. (Falkland Islands TV)
• 2025 Portuguese general strike
  • The General Confederation of the Portuguese Workers and the General Union of Workers, which together represent nearly 1 million workers in Portugal, launch a general strike across the country to protest against the government's planned changes to labour laws. (AP)

Sports

• Match fixing in tennis
  • The International Tennis Integrity Agency fines French player Quentin Folliot US$70,000 and suspends him from play for 20 years for alleged match-fixing. He is the sixth player to be fined in a wider investigation involving other French and Italian players. (AP)