Portal:Current events/2025 October 5

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • 2025 Gaza City offensive
      • At least 24 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Lviv strikes, Attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • At least five people are killed in Lviv, Ukraine, during an overnight Russian attack involving 53 ballistic and cruise missiles and 496 drones. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Over 550 people are trapped by a blizzard on the eastern slope of Mount Everest in Tibet. (Reuters)
• More than 60 people are killed in landslides in India and Nepal after days of heavy rain. (MSN)
• At least nine people are killed and five others are critically injured in a fire inside of an intensive care unit at a hospital in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. (MSN)
• American mining company Freeport-McMoRan confirms that all seven workers missing after a mudflow at the Grasberg mine in Central Papua, Indonesia, have died as recovery teams find the remaining bodies and investigations continue. (Reuters)
• At least three Croatian mountaineers are killed in an avalanche on Tosc Mountain in northwestern Slovenia. (AP)

International relations

• Eswatini–United States relations, Deportation in the second Trump administration
  • Eswatini announces that it will receive eleven more third country nationals deported from the United States. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2025 deployment of federal forces in the United States
  • Operation Midway Blitz
    • U.S. president Donald Trump authorizes the deployment of 300 National Guard personnel to Chicago, Illinois. (BBC News)
• 2025 Ecuador protests
  • Ecuador enforces a state of emergency in ten provinces amid ongoing Indigenous-led protests against the government's removal of a fuel subsidy that increased diesel prices. (AP)
• Five people are killed and six others are injured in a mass shooting at a local establishment in Commodore, Linstead, Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica. (CVM Television)
• A court in Mexico formally indicts footballer Omar Bravo with the aggravated child sexual abuse of a teenage girl following his arrest in Zapopan, Jalisco, yesterday afternoon. (TV Azteca) (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2024–2025 French political crisis
  • Lecornu government
    • French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu announces his first batch of minister appointments, including former finance minister Bruno Le Maire as armed forces minister, while facing a potential no-confidence vote in parliament. (AP)
• 2025 Indonesian protests
  • Indonesia lifts its temporary suspension of TikTok's operating license after the platform provided government-requested data on live streaming activity during the recent protests. (AFP via The Manila Times)
• 2025 Syrian parliamentary election
  • Syrians vote to elect 121 of the 210 members of the People's Assembly in the first election held since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. Elections are postponed in the Al-Hasakah, Raqqa, and Suwayda governorates due to security reasons. (CNN)

Sports

• 2025 Formula One World Championship
  • 2025 Singapore Grand Prix
    • In auto racing, McLaren win their second consecutive Formula One World Constructors' Championship after their drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri place third and fourth, respectively, at the Singapore Grand Prix. (AFP via France 24)