Portal:Current events/2025 November 16

November 16, 2025 (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

2025 Delhi car explosion
- The National Investigation Agency of India states that the recent car explosion in Delhi was a suicide attack and report the arrest of a suspect accused of helping acquire and prepare the vehicle used in the blast. (AFP via CNA)

Disasters and accidents

At least twelve people are killed and ten others are injured when a bus crashes in Tungurahua Province, Ecuador. (Reuters)

Law and crime

War on drugs in Ecuador
- Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa announces that Spanish police have captured Los Lobos leader Wilmer Chavarría, who faked his own death and changed his identity, in Málaga, Andalusia. (BBC News)
A broken railway line in the area of Życzyn, Garwolin County, in east central Poland is under police investigation as a possible act of sabotage. Two Ukrainian citizens have been identified as the suspects. (TVP World)(BBC)

Politics and elections

2025 Chilean general election
- 2025 Chilean presidential election
  - Chileans vote to elect their president, who will succeed the term-limited incumbent Gabriel Boric. (CNN)
  - Preliminary results indicate a second round between Jeannette Jara and José Antonio Kast on 13 December. (El País in Spanish)
- Also up for election are the whole Chamber of Deputies and half of the Senate. (Radio ADN in Spanish)
2025 Ecuadorian referendum
- Ecuadorians vote on a constitutional referendum, on foreign military bases, on public financing of political parties and the number of assembly members, and on a popular consultation about the convocation of an constituent assembly. All 4 were rejected. (El País in Spanish)

Nuclear program of Iran
- Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi says that Iran is no longer enriching uranium due, in part, to the damage at nuclear facilities following the Iran–Israel war and the US strikes on nuclear sites in Iran. (AP)

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