Portal:Current events/2025 November 2

November 2, 2025 (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Gaza war
- Al Jazeera reports that Hamas has agreed to retreat via Red Cross corridors from Gaza areas that are under Israeli control per the peace plan. (Haaretz)

Arts and culture

The Netherlands agrees to repatriate an Eighteenth Dynasty statue from the reign of Pharaoh Thutmose III to Egypt after investigators determine it was illegally taken from the country and later found at an art fair. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

The death toll from flooding in Vietnam increases to 35, with five people still missing. (MSN)
At least 15 people are killed and two others are injured after a passenger vehicle collides head-on with a truck in Jodhpur, India. (Dawn)
Four girls drown in an irrigation canal in Srirangapatna taluk, India. (The Hindu)
Two people are killed after a light aircraft crashes in Fátima, Tocantins, Brazil. (Aviation Safety Network)

International relations

Canada–Philippines relations
- Canada and the Philippines sign a visiting forces agreement allowing military personnel to train in each other's territories. (Reuters)
Nigeria–United States relations, Boko Haram insurgency
- The Nigerian government says that it welcomes assistance from the United States to combat Islamic terrorism, but adds that its sovereignty must be respected, in response to U.S. president Donald Trump threatening military action to protect Christians from persecution. (Reuters)

Law and crime

Politics and elections

2025 North Macedonian local elections
- North Macedonians vote in the second round of the local elections for councillors and mayors of 80 municipalities and Skopje, with the ruling conservative party VMRO-DPMNE expected to win by a landslide. (AP)

Sports