Portal:Current events/2025 October 29

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Armed conflict for control of the favelas
  • Operation Containment
    • The death toll from yesterday's police operation in Rio de Janeiro rises to at least 132 people. (Reuters)
• 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
  • Four people are killed in an American airstrike on a boat in the Pacific Ocean. (ABC News)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Six Pakistani soldiers and seven gunmen are killed in a shootout at the border with Afghanistan. (Al Arabiya)
• Spillover of the Mali War
  • The JNIM carries out its first attack in Nigeria, killing a soldier and seizing ammunition and cash in Kwara State. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • South Korea–United States relations
    • South Korea announces it has finalized a trade deal with the United States in which the U.S. agrees to 15% of tariffs on imported South Korean goods and South Korea will invest in American businesses and shipbuilding projects. (The New York Times)

Disasters and accidents

• At least nine people are killed and five others are missing due to floods in central Vietnam, including in major cities such as Đà Nẵng and Hội An. (Reuters)
• The roof of the girls’ dormitory at a pesantren collapses due to heavy rain and strong winds in Situbondo, East Java, Indonesia, killing a student and injuring 19 others. (Tempo)

International relations

• Afghanistan–Pakistan relations
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • Peace talks held in Istanbul, Turkey, between Afghanistan and Pakistan collapse and achieve no clear agreement. (Reuters)
• International recognition of Kosovo, Kosovo–Syria relations, Serbia–Syria relations
  • Syria officially recognizes Kosovo as an independent and sovereign state. (Anadolu Agency)

Law and crime

• Pelicot rape case
  • The French Senate approves amendments to the country's rape law to include a consent-based definition, clarifying that consent must be freely given and cannot be implied by silence or lack of resistance. (Reuters)
• Philippine president Bongbong Marcos signs a law institutionalizing a ban on the country's offshore gaming operators and declaring their operations illegal. (Philippine News Agency)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Alberta teachers' strike
  • In the Canadian province of Alberta, premier Danielle Smith says legislation has been passed to end the strike, invoking the notwithstanding clause to prevent court challenges of the legislation's constitutionality. (CBC) (Global News)
• 2025 Dutch general election
  • In the Netherlands, a snap election is held following the collapse of the Schoof cabinet in June. (The Guardian)
  • Centrist liberal party Democrats 66, led by Rob Jetten, takes a surprise lead according to the main exit poll, just two years after the party ranked sixth in the previous vote. (Euronews)
  • Frans Timmermans, the leader of the GroenLinks–PvdA alliance, steps down following a poor performance during the election. (Politico)
• 2025 Tanzanian general election
  • Tanzanians vote to elect a president, members of the National Assembly, and ward councillors. Incumbent president Samia Suluhu Hassan runs unopposed after the High Court barred main opposition leaders from participating in the elections. (The Washington Post)
• 2025 Tanzanian election protests
  • Protests and riots erupts in Dar es Salaam over electoral reforms and demands for free political activity, with demonstrators setting fire to vehicles and damaging public infrastructure. Tanzanian police use tear gas to break up the protests and impose a curfew. Internet connectivity is disrupted shortly after. (AP) (The Guardian) (Reuters)