Portal:Current events/2025 November 7
November 7, 2025 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Terrorism in Indonesia
- Jakarta School bombing
- Ninety-six people are injured, some critically, in a bombing at a mosque inside a school in Jakarta, Indonesia. A 17-year-old male is identified as the perpetrator and later recovered at a hospital, right-wing terrorism is suspected. (Reuters) (BBC News)
- Jakarta School bombing
Business and economy
- Serbia's parliament passes a law to expedite construction of Trump Tower Belgrade on the former Yugoslav defence ministry site in Savski Venac, Belgrade, despite protests from opponents who want the damaged buildings preserved. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Pacific typhoon season
- The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi's impact on the Philippines rises to at least 188, with at least 135 others missing. (BBC News)
- Typhoon Kalmaegi makes landfall in central Vietnam, killing at least five people in Daklak and Gia Lai and leaving three others missing in Quảng Ngãi. (AP via ABC News)
- 2025 Rio Bonito do Iguaçu tornado
- A tornado, rated F3 on the Fujita scale, strikes Rio Bonito do Iguaçu, Brazil, killing at least six people and injuring 432 others. (O Globo) (Paraná)
- Five people are killed and two others are injured when a Kamov Ka-226 passenger helicopter crashes in Achi-Su, Dagestan, Russia. (ASN)
Health and environment
- 2020–2025 H5N1 outbreak
- 2025 Canadian ostrich culling controversy
- Canada's food inspection agency confirms that a marksman has culled all 300–330 ostriches at a farm in Edgewood, British Columbia, under a bird flu containment order, following a Supreme Court decision allowing the cull to proceed. (BBC News)
- 2025 Canadian ostrich culling controversy
International relations
- Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda relations
- 2025 Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda peace agreement
- The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda state that they have agreed on a Regional Economic Integration Framework in Washington, D.C., United States, to expand economic cooperation and subject to conditions including the withdrawal of Rwandan forces from eastern Congo and operations against the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda. (Reuters)
- 2025 Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda peace agreement
- Australia–Nauru relations, Nauru Regional Processing Centre
- China–Japan relations, Discharge of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
- Japan reports that seafood exports to China have resumed for the first time since China imposed a ban in August 2023 over treated wastewater releases from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. However, China maintains restrictions on products from Fukushima and surrounding prefectures. (AP)
- Hungary–United States relations
- The United States grants Hungary a one-year exemption from sanctions on Russian oil and gas, with Hungary agreeing to purchase U.S. liquefied natural gas. (Reuters)
- Indonesia–United Kingdom relations, Capital punishment in Indonesia
- Indonesia repatriates British nationals Lindsay Sandiford, sentenced to death for smuggling cocaine into Bali in 2013, and Shahab Shahabadi, who was serving a life sentence for drug offences, following a bilateral agreement on humanitarian grounds. Both are transferred to the United Kingdom to serve the remainder of their sentences under UK law. (Reuters)
- Russia–European Union relations, Government and intergovernmental reactions to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- The European Union ends the issuance of multiple-entry Schengen visas to Russian citizens, citing security concerns linked to the Russo-Ukrainian war, alleged sabotage, and visa misuse, while allowing exceptions for dissidents, journalists, human rights defenders, and close family members of EU citizens. (AP)
Law and crime
- 2025 Tanzanian election protests
- Prosecutors in Tanzania charge 98 people with treason over their alleged participation in violent protests against the re-election of President Samia Suluhu Hassan last week. (Reuters)
- Poland's Sejm removes former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro's immunity, clearing the way for prosecutors to charge him with 26 offences, including abuse of power and misuse of public funds from the Justice Fund. (Reuters)
- Police in Spain arrest 13 alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in a coordinated operation in five cities. (AP)