Portal:Current events/2025 November 9

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Boko Haram insurgency
  • Battle of Lake Chad
    • Around 200 fighters are killed in clashes between Boko Haram and ISWAP near Lake Chad in Nigeria. (AFP via Al-Ahram)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Twenty Pakistani Taliban insurgents are killed in raids on hideouts in North Waziristan District and Darra Adam Khel, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (MSN)

Business and economy

• China–United States relations
  • China–United States trade war
    • China's commerce ministry suspends a ban on the export of gallium, germanium, antimony, and other materials used in the semiconductor industry, to the United States. (CNBC)
• 2025 BBC editorial bias allegations
  • Tim Davie, Director-General of the BBC, and Deborah Turness, CEO of BBC News, resign over the controversy. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • At least two people are killed as Typhoon Fung-wong makes landfall over Luzon, Philippines. Over 900,000 people are evacuated and rescue operations for victims of the previous Typhoon Kalmaegi are suspended. (BBC News) (Reuters)
• At least seven people are killed, thirteen are rescued, and 280 others are reported missing when a boat carrying hundreds of Rohingya refugees sinks near Langkawi, Malaysia. (Reuters)

International relations

• Belgium–United Kingdom relations
  • The United Kingdom announces it is deploying its military to Belgium to help protect its airports amid a series of drone incursions over the country's airspace. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Ecuadorian security crisis
  • Four inmates are killed and 30 others are injured during a prison riot in Machala, El Oro, Ecuador. (AP)
  • Following the riot, 27 inmates at the Machala prison are found dead by asphyxiation, with investigations ongoing to determine the circumstances of the deaths. (AFP via Al Arabiya)
• Maldives–Sri Lanka relations
  • Sri Lankan public security minister Ananda Wijepala says that police and navy officers have been sent to the Maldives to cooperate with local authorities after the Maldivian military seized a Sri Lankan ship with over 300 kilograms of heroin on Friday. (Xinhua News) (Hiru News)

Politics and elections

• Israel confirms that it received the remains of soldier Hadar Goldin, who was killed in Gaza two hours after the ceasefire that ended the 2014 Gaza War between Palestinian militants and Israel. (AP)

Sports

• 2025 League of Legends World Championship
  • In League of Legends esports, T1 of the League of Legends Champions Korea become the first team to win three consecutive world titles after defeating fellow South Korean representatives KT Rolster, 3–2, in the final in Chengdu, China. T1's Gumayusi is named the most valuable player. (AFP via France 24)