Portal:Current events/2025 November 25

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo–Ukrainian war
  • Kyiv strikes, Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Seven people in Kyiv, Ukraine, and three more in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, are killed as both countries launch airstrikes at each other. Several more people are wounded in both countries. (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian)
• Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
  • Afghanistan says nine children and a woman were killed when a civilian home was hit by a Pakistani airstrike in Khost, Afghanistan. (Al Jazeera)
• War in Darfur
  • Médecins Sans Frontières withdraws its staff from a hospital in central Darfur, Sudan, after a stretcher bearer is shot dead and several others are injured, stating that it will not resume operations unless the Rapid Support Forces guarantee the safety of its personnel and patients. (Reuters)
• Moro conflict
  • Seven people in a village located in Cotabato, Philippines are fatally shot during a firefight between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Moro National Liberation Front that left 48 families temporarily displaced. (Inquirer)

Arts and culture

• Polygamy in Christianity
  • Pope Leo XIV approves a decree affirming the Catholic Church's rejection of polygamous and polyamorous marriages. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Insurance in Australia
  • The Australian Federal Court fines United Super, the Cbus pension fund's trustee, A$23.5 million (US$15.2 million) for systemic failures that caused extensive delays in processing death and disability insurance claims affecting over 7,000 members. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• A Let L-410UVP operating as Nari Air Flight 114 and chartered by Samaritan's Purse crashes in Unity State, South Sudan, killing all three crew members while en route from Juba with two tonnes of food aid for flood-displaced communities. (Reuters)
• The Hayli Gubbi volcano in the Afar Region of Ethiopia erupts, sending ash plumes across Oman and Yemen, and prompts flight cancellations in northern India. (DW) (AP)

Health and environment

• Food security in Nigeria, Islamic extremism in Northern Nigeria
  • The World Food Programme reports that escalating instability in northern Nigeria is increasing acute food insecurity to record levels, with nearly 35 million people projected to face hunger in 2026 as the agency exhausts its funding by December. (Reuters)

International relations

• Moldova–Russia relations, Violations of non-combatant airspace during the Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Moldova reports that six Russian drones entered its airspace, including one that came down on a residential roof near Florești and another that crossed into Moldova before continuing toward Romania. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Arrest of Jair Bolsonaro
  • Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro starts his 27-year sentence for leading a coup plot. (AP)
• Counter-terrorism in Singapore
  • Singapore orders Meta and TikTok to block local access to the social media accounts of an Australian man whose posts advocate replacing Singapore's secular system with an Islamic state and seek to cause communal tensions and influence elections. (Reuters)
• Killing of Lisa from Abcoude
  • A court in Amsterdam, Netherlands, begins the trial of an illegal migrant from Nigeria who murdered a 17-year-old girl in Duivendrecht. (NOS in Dutch)
• LGBTQ rights in the European Union, Same-sex union legislation
  • The European Court of Justice rules for all European Union member states to recognize same-sex marriage and not discriminate against same-sex couples. The ruling does not force individual countries to legalize same-sex marriages. (DW)
• Two wanted gunmen, identified as "extremist" brothers, are killed and three security forces are wounded in a shootout in Ar-Ramtha, Jordan. (Sada News)

Politics and elections

• 2026 Ugandan general election
  • Ugandan opposition party National Unity Platform says security forces have detained more than 300 supporters and officials since presidential candidate Bobi Wine began campaigning, while police report several arrests linked to clashes at Wine's rallies. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Chinese space program
  • The Shenzhou 22 spacecraft enters orbit after China conducts its first emergency space launch to restore a safe return option for the three astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station following damage to the Shenzhou 20 return capsule earlier in November. The uncrewed spacecraft, launched on a Long March 2F rocket, carries replacement parts and supplies and aims to return the current crew to Earth in 2026. (Reuters)