Portal:Current events/2025 November 6

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Sudanese civil war
  • Darfur campaign
    • The Rapid Support Forces state that they accept a humanitarian ceasefire proposed by international mediators after capturing El Fasher in Darfur, while the Sudanese army signals plans to continue the conflict. (AFP via Courthouse News Service)
• 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers, War on drugs
  • Three people are killed in a United States airstrike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi's impact on the Philippines rises to at least 142, with 127 others missing. The storm has left the country's territory and made landfall in central Vietnam. (Al Jazeera)
  • Philippine president Bongbong Marcos declares a national state of calamity in relation to the devastation caused by Typhoon Kalmaegi and in anticipation of the upcoming tropical cyclone Fung-wong. (ABS-CBN News)
• At least three people are killed, two others are missing and two are presumed dead when a large structure being prepared for demolition at a power plant collapses in Ulsan, South Korea. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• 2020–2025 H5N1 outbreak
  • 2025 Canadian ostrich culling controversy
    • Canada's Supreme Court rejects an appeal by Universal Ostrich Farm, allowing the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to carry out a full cull of nearly 400 ostriches in Edgewood, British Columbia, under bird flu containment rules aligned with WHO guidelines. (AA)

International relations

• International sanctions against Syria
  • The United Nations Security Council votes to lift sanctions on Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa and interior minister Anas Khattab through a United States-drafted resolution. (Reuters)
• Israel–Kazakhstan relations
  • Kazakhstan formally joins the Abraham Accords, with the aim to enhance bilateral cooperation with Israel. (AP)
• Mexico–Peru relations
  • Peru's Congress declares Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum a persona non grata after Peru cut diplomatic ties with Mexico for granting asylum to former prime minister Betssy Chávez, who faces conspiracy charges related to former president Pedro Castillo's attempt to dissolve Congress. (Reuters)
• Khaled El-Enany is elected director-general of UNESCO by the General Conference held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, succeeding Audrey Azoulay. (UNESCO)

Law and crime

• 2019 Bolivian political crisis
  • Former Bolivian president Jeanine Áñez is freed from prison after the Supreme Court annulled her sentence the previous day. (AP)
• Crime in Germany
  • The Hesse State Police announce an investigation in Hanau after swastikas made of human blood are found painted on dozens of buildings and cars. (AP via ABC News)
• International Criminal Court investigation in Uganda
  • The International Criminal Court confirms 39 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against fugitive Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony in absentia, including murder, rape, sexual slavery, forced pregnancy, and the use of child soldiers. The court rules that he can stand trial once arrested, upholding the 2005 arrest warrant. (Reuters)
• Murder of Agnes Wanjiru
  • A former British soldier, Robert James Purkiss, is arrested on a Kenyan extradition warrant related to Agnes Wanjiru's 2012 murder near a UK military training facility in Nanyuki, Laikipia County. (Al Jazeera)
• War crimes in the Russo-Ukrainian war
  • A court in Russian-occupied Donetsk sentences two Colombians to 13 years in prison for fighting with Ukraine's armed forces, after they were detained while traveling home through Venezuela and transferred into Russian custody. (AFP via Kyiv Post)
  • A court in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, finds a Russian soldier guilty of killing a surrendered Ukrainian soldier in January 2024 and sentences him to life imprisonment, marking the first conviction of a Russian soldier for killing a captured Ukrainian since the war began. (CNN)