Portal:Current events/2025 December 2

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza hostage crisis
    • Hamas returns the remains of an unidentified person, possibly a hostage, to Israeli authorities to be examined by forensics experts. (PBS)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • 2025 Bannu ambush
    • A government administrator, two of his guards and a passerby are killed in an ambush against a vehicle in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)

Arts and culture

• The Winter Egg, one of the few Fabergé eggs remaining in private hands, sells at Christie's in London, England, United Kingdom, for £22.9 million (US$30.2 million), setting a new auction record for a work by the House of Fabergé. (CNN)

International relations

• Indonesia–Netherlands relations
  • Indonesia and the Netherlands agree to repatriate two elderly Dutch nationals convicted of drug trafficking, including one on death row, on humanitarian grounds, following a request from Dutch king Willem-Alexander. (Reuters)
• United States–Venezuela relations, Deportation in the second Trump administration
  • Venezuela approves the United States's request to resume deportation flights, reversing a brief suspension imposed following U.S. president Donald Trump's declaration that Venezuelan airspace was "closed". (AFP via Al Arabiya)

Law and crime

• 2025 Samaritan's Purse Cessna 208 hijacking
  • A Cessna 208 Caravan operated by Samaritan's Purse to distribute humanitarian aid to Maiwut County is hijacked in Juba by a gunman who tried to divert the plane to Chad, but is apprehended after landing to refuel in Wau, South Sudan. (AP)
• Colombian authorities detain 17 children and nine adults belonging to the fundamentalist Jewish cult Lev Tahor, citing concerns about the safety of the children in the group. Five of the children had American and Guatemalan passports, and all 26 members were flown to New York to await investigations into their welfare. (AP)
• Former European Union foreign and security policy chief Federica Mogherini and two others are arrested in Belgium amid a fraud investigation. (The Guardian)
• Tunisian police arrest former human rights minister Ayachi Hammami to enforce a five-year prison sentence for a state-security conspiracy conviction issued amid recent appellate court rulings that imposed long jail terms on opposition figures. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état, 2025 Guinea-Bissau general election
  • The Bissau-Guinean electoral commission announces that it is unable to release election results after armed men destroyed nearly all election tally sheets during the coup. (AFP via France 24)
• 2025 Saint Lucian general election
  • Incumbent Saint Lucian prime minister Philip J. Pierre wins a second term in office while his party, the Saint Lucia Labour Party, wins 14 of the 15 seats in Parliament against the opposition United Workers Party. (AP)
• 2026 Haitian general election
  • The Transitional Presidential Council of Haiti announces that presidential and legislative elections will be held in August 2026. (AFP via France 24)
• The Bulgarian parliament withdraws its draft 2026 budget, originally prepared for the adoption of the euro, following nationwide protests against proposed tax increases. (Reuters)
• Nigerian president Bola Tinubu appoints retired army general Christopher Gwabin Musa as defence minister, following Mohammed Badaru Abubakar's resignation amid a nationwide security emergency. (AFP via The Africa Report)