Portal:Current events/2025 November 8

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • Afghanistan's Taliban government states that peace talks with Pakistan in Istanbul, Turkey, have failed, while the ceasefire holds. (AFP via France 24)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war, Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • Russia launches over 450 bomber drones and 45 missiles on critical infrastructure and residential areas across Ukraine, killing at least seven people and injuring 12 others in Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia, as well as damaging energy plants in the oblasts of Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Poltava. (BBC News) (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Embargo of Russian oil during the Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Bulgaria's parliament approves legal amendments giving a state-appointed manager expanded authority over Lukoil's refinery in Burgas, including operational control and the power to sell shares, to prevent a shutdown when U.S. sanctions on the refinery's Russian owner take effect. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Six people are killed and four others are injured, including one critically, in a fire at a perfume warehouse in Dilovası, Kocaeli Province, Turkey. (BBC News)
• Three people are killed and 15 others are injured by storm surges amid rough seas off the coast of Tenerife, Spain. (AP) (Reuters)

International relations

• 2025 G20 Johannesburg summit, South Africa–United States relations
  • The United States announces that it will send no delegates to the 2025 G20 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, citing accusations of persecution of the Afrikaner minority. (AP)
• Bolivia–United States relations
  • Bolivia and the United States announce that they will restore diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level after 17 years. (AFP via New Straits Times)

Law and crime

• Police in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, arrest a man suspected of participating in the 1994 assassination of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, and take him to a maximum security prison in central Mexico. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Bolivian general election
  • Rodrigo Paz is sworn in as the new president of Bolivia, succeeding Luis Arce. (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 Guinean presidential election
  • Guinea's supreme court publishes a provisional list of nine presidential candidates for the upcoming election, including junta leader Mamady Doumbouya, while excluding former prime minister Lansana Kouyaté on procedural grounds. (AP)
• 2025 Tanzanian election protests
  • Tanzanian authorities charge hundreds of people with treason over protests linked to the disputed elections, including opposition officials such as Chadema secretary-general John Mnyika, while additional arrest warrants are issued for others, including Kawe MP Josephat Gwajima. (AP)
• 2026 Djiboutian presidential election
  • Incumbent Djiboutian president Ismaïl Omar Guelleh accepts his party's nomination to seek a sixth term in next year's election after parliament lifted the constitutional age limit for presidential candidates. (AFP via Le Monde)
• Kenya–Uganda relations
  • Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni confirms that two Kenyan activists were detained after attending an opposition rally and accuses them of working with rival political groups; both men are released to Kenyan authorities following diplomatic discussions. (AP)

Sports

• 2025 WTA Tour
  • 2025 WTA Finals
    • In tennis, Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan becomes the first Asian player to win a WTA Finals title after defeating Aryna Sabalenka, 6–3, 7–6^(7–0) to win the singles title at the 2025 WTA Finals. By winning the title undefeated, Rybakina wins US$5.235 million in prize money, breaking the previous year's record for the largest prize money earned by a female tennis player at a single event. (BBC Sports)