Portal:Current events/2025 November 1

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • The remains of three bodies Hamas gave to Israel overnight are found to have been of known hostages, leaving eight bodies of deceased hostages still remaining in Gaza. (Reuters)
  • Sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinians during the Gaza war
    • Israel Defense Forces Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who served as Military Advocate General, resigns after leaking a surveillance video to the media showing the gang rape of a Palestinian prisoner at Sde Teiman detention camp in August last year. (BBC)
• 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
  • The Pakistani government partially reopens the Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan to allow Afghan refugees to flee home, while all remaining restrictions on cross-border movement stay banned, following an agreement to maintain a ceasefire. (AP)
• 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
  • Three people are killed in an American airstrike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea. (Al Jazeera)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • The United States threatens to carry out attacks in Nigeria due to continuous attacks against Christians by Boko Haram and ISWAP. (Al Jazeera)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Four people are killed and three injured in an Israeli airstrike on a vehicle in Kfar Reman, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Sudanese civil war
  • At least 12 people are killed and several others are seriously injured in attacks by the Rapid Support Forces on two displaced civilian shelters in South Kordofan, Sudan. (Azerbaijan)

Arts and culture

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

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Hermosillo convenience store fire
  • At least 23 people are killed and eleven others are injured in a fire and explosion at a Waldo's store in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. (CNN)
• A landslide triggered by heavy rain kills at least 21 people and leaves 30 others missing in Rift Valley Province, Kenya. (AP)
• A crowd crush at a Hindu temple in Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh, India, kills nine people. (Reuters)
• Five people are killed and two others are injured in an avalanche on the Vertainspitze mountain in the Ortler Alps in South Tyrol, Italy. (Euronews)

Law and crime

• 2025 Cambridgeshire train stabbing
  • Eleven people are injured, including nine in life-threatening conditions, in a mass stabbing attack on a London North Eastern Railway passenger train in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England. Two suspects are arrested. (Sky News)
• Mexican drug war
  • Carlos Manzo, mayor of Uruapan, Michoacán, is assassinated during Day of the Dead festivities. (The Guardian)
• Smoking in the Maldives
  • In the Maldives, people born since 2007 are permanently banned from buying or using tobacco, making it the first country in the world to impose a lifelong smoking ban from a certain age. (NOS)
• Two people are killed and six others are injured, including two suspects, in a shootout in Vorizia, Crete, Greece. Police say that it was caused by a long-standing feud between two local families. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Tanzanian general election
  • Incumbent Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party is declared the winner of the general election with 97% of the vote, amidst protests by the opposition. (Reuters)
• Alexandru Munteanu is appointed the new Prime Minister of Moldova, succeeding Dorin Recean. (Politico)

Sports

• 2025 Major League Baseball season
  • 2025 World Series
    • In baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Toronto Blue Jays 5–4 in Game 7 to win the World Series. (ESPN)