Portal:Current events/2025 November 19

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • At least 28 Palestinians are killed and 77 more are injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City and Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip after Israel accused Hamas of firing at Israeli troops. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
  • Israel–Hezbollah conflict
    • One person is killed in an Israeli airstrike attack against a vehicle in Bint Jbeil, Lebanon. Several students are also wounded on a bus passing in the area. (Al Jazeera)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • 2025 Ternopil apartment strike
      • Dozens of people are killed in a series of Russian missile and drone strikes across Ukraine, including 31 people killed and more than 100 others injured in a ballistic missile strike on a nine-story residential building in Ternopil. Many more remain missing with search and rescue operations underway. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera) (The Kyiv Independent)
• Rojava conflict
  • Two Syrian soldiers are killed in a shootout with Syrian Democratic Forces militants in Raqqa. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Twenty-three Pakistani Taliban militants are killed in two army raids in Kurram District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
• Islamist insurgency in Niger
  • At least 10 Niger Armed Forces soldiers are killed in an attack by Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin in Garbougna, Tillabéri Region, Niger. (MSN)
• Religious violence in Nigeria
  • Gunmen target a church in Eruku, Kwara state, Nigeria, killing two people and kidnapping the pastor and some worshippers. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• 2025 National Book Awards
  • At the 76th National Book Awards, Rabih Alameddine wins the Fiction prize for his novel The True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), while Omar El Akkad wins the Nonfiction prize for his book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This about the Gaza war. (NPR)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Ōita fire
  • One person is killed and another injured in a large-scale fire in Ōita, Japan. At least 170 homes are damaged and another 260 households remain without electricity. (NPR)
• Sixty-four people are missing when a barge capsizes on the Sankuru River in Kasaï Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)

Health and environment

• Cambodian conservation groups release two captive-bred greater adjutants into the Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary for the first time, fitting them with GPS trackers as part of efforts to restore the species' wild population. (Reuters)
• A suspected outbreak of tuberculosis kills ten inmates at a prison in Guayaquil, Ecuador. (Reuters)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Iran, Foreign relations of the Marshall Islands
  • Iran releases a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker and its 21 crew after seizing it without explanation last Friday in the Strait of Hormuz. (AP)
• Russia–United Kingdom relations
  • Russian Navy spy ship Yantar uses lasers to disrupt Royal Air Force aircraft monitoring the vessel in the North Sea for the first time. The ship was being followed by a Royal Navy frigate with Poseidon P-8 planes deployed to track its movements. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Epstein Files Transparency Act
  • United States president Donald Trump enacts a bill ordering the release of more information about Jeffrey Epstein's case, a day after Congress passed the bill. (Al Jazeera)
• Human trafficking in Myanmar, Trafficking of Chinese nationals to scam centers abroad
  • The Tatmadaw conducts a raid on the scam center compound in Shwe Kokko, Myawaddy District, Myanmar, and detains 346 foreigners and confiscates nearly 10,000 mobile devices. (AP)
• Koldo Case
  • Spain's Supreme Court orders the provisional release of former Socialist Party official Santos Cerdán, who is under investigation for alleged involvement in a criminal organization, bribery, and influence peddling in public works contracting, stating that the risk of evidence tampering has been reduced. The court requires him to surrender his passport. (Reuters)
• Nord Stream pipelines sabotage
  • Italy's Supreme Court of Cassation approves a Ukrainian national's extradition to Germany, where he faces charges related to alleged involvement in the Nord Stream pipelines explosions in 2022. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Operation Midas
  • Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada dismisses energy minister Svitlana Hrynchuk and justice minister German Galushchenko after an anti-corruption investigation into alleged misconduct at the state nuclear agency implicated them, among other officials. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Ford Motor Co. issues a recall of over 200,000 Bronco and Bronco Sport vehicles due to a possible dashboard failure. (AP)