Portal:Current events/2025 September 8

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Israeli–Palestinian conflict
    • Gaza war
      • 2025 Gaza City offensive
        • Four Israeli soldiers are killed by Hamas on the outskirts of Gaza City in the Gaza Strip. (The Times of Israel)
    • Palestinian political violence
      • 2025 Ramot Junction shooting
        • Six people are killed and seven others are wounded in a mass shooting targeting Israelis by Palestinian assailants in Jerusalem. The two perpetrators are killed following a shootout with a soldier and a civilian. (BBC News) (CNN)
  • Israel–Hezbollah conflict
    • Five people are killed and five others injured during at least eight Israeli airstrikes between Beqaa Valley and Hermel, in Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• War in the Sahel
  • Mali war
    • Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) imposes a nationwide blockade on fuel and other goods imported from neighboring countries while besieging Malian government-held cities and towns. An unknown number of fuel trucks from Senegal and the Ivory Coast violating JNIM's blockade have been attacked and burned by militants. (AP)
    • The Malian army conducts airstrikes in the Kayes Region against JNIM, reporting operations in Diema and Nioro du Sahel that included freeing hostages. (Reuters)
• Kivu conflict
  • Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
    • According to a local leader, 102 people are killed when Allied Democratic Forces rebels attack a funeral in Ntoyo, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Anadolu Agency) (Euronews)
• 2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests
  • Police open fire on protesters demonstrating against a government ban on social media in Kathmandu, Nepal, killing at least 19 people and wounding over a hundred more. A curfew is declared around all government buildings, including the Rastrapati Bhawan and Federal Parliament. (CBC News) (BBC News) (Sky News)
  • Ramesh Lekhak resigns as Minister of Home Affairs in response to the police killings of protesters. (Firstpost)
  • Nepal's Ministry of Information and Communications lifts its ban on major social media platforms following the protests. (AFP via France 24)

Business and economy

• Succession of Rupert Murdoch
  • The children of News Corp founder and former chairperson Rupert Murdoch reach a settlement over the corporation's control, transferring all shares held by the original family trust to a new entity which gives Lachlan sole voting control, while Prudence, Elisabeth, and James exit with a reported US$3.3 billion settlement. (AFP via France 24)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Atlacomulco bus crash
  • A train collides with a double-decker bus at a level crossing in Atlacomulco, Mexico, killing at least ten people and injuring 41 others. (Yahoo! News Canada)

International relations

• Israel–Spain relations
  • Spain announces an indefinite ban on ships transporting fuel and planes carrying weaponry to Israel from all of its ports and airspace in response to the Gaza genocide. (Politico)
  • Spain recalls its ambassador to Israel after the Israeli government accused Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez of being "antisemitic" and barred two Spanish officials from entering Israel, with Spanish foreign minister José Manuel Albares calling it "slanderous accusations" against the country. (Barron's)
• Belarus–Czech Republic relations
  • The Czech Republic expels a Belarusian diplomat accused of espionage after cooperating with Romanian and Hungarian intelligence services to dismantle a Belarusian spy network in Europe. (Reuters)
• 2025 Georgia Hyundai plant immigration raid
  • The South Korean foreign ministry charters a plane to repatriate more than 300 South Koreans who were detained during an ICE raid at a Hyundai plant in Ellabell, Georgia, United States, last Thursday. (NPR)

Law and crime

• Immigration policy of the second Trump administration
  • Deportation in the second Trump administration
    • The United States Department of Homeland Security launches "Operation Midway Blitz", an Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdown on undocumented immigrants in Illinois with serious criminal records, while state officials say they received no formal notice of the operation. (Reuters)
• E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump, Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations, Personal and business legal affairs of Donald Trump
  • The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejects President Donald Trump's bid on the grounds of presidential immunity to overturn the civil ruling of Carroll I (2019), upholding that Trump must pay $83,300,000 to sexual abuse victim E. Jean Carroll for defamation. (The New York Times) (Reuters)
  • The US House Oversight Committee releases a "birthday book" compiled for Jeffrey Epstein in 2003, which includes a note allegedly signed by President Donald Trump; the White House denies its authenticity. The book is part of a larger set of documents. (BBC)
• Frédéric Péchier case
  • French doctor Frédéric Péchier is tried for allegedly intentionally poisoning 30 people, including twelve fatally, at two clinics in Besançon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. (BBC News)
• Phillips family disappearances
  • Tom Phillips, a man who kidnapped his three children during a dispute with their mother and brought them to a remote countryside in 2021, is fatally shot by a police officer after shooting and critically injuring another officer in the head following a robbery at an agricultural supplies store in Waikato, New Zealand. All the three children are rescued. (The New Zealand Herald)
• 2025 Balçova police station shooting
  • Two police officers are killed and three other people are injured in a mass shooting at a police station in İzmir, Turkey. The 16-year-old perpetrator is arrested. (WTOP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Ivorian presidential election
  • Ivory Coast's Constitutional Council bars former president Laurent Gbagbo and former Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam from running in the upcoming presidential election, while approving five candidacies including President Alassane Ouattara and Gbagbo's wife Simone. (Reuters)
• 2025 Norwegian parliamentary election
  • Norwegians vote to elect all 169 members of the Storting using party-list proportional representation in 19 multi-member constituencies. (Reuters)
  • The left-wing red–green coalition, led by the Labour Party, wins a majority with 87 seats, while the right-wing populist Progress Party becomes the second biggest party with 48 seats and the centre-right Conservative Party has its worst performance in 20 years, with 24 seats. (The Guardian)
• 2025 Norwegian Sámi parliamentary election
  • The Norwegian Sámi people vote to elect all 39 members of the Sámi Parliament of Norway using party-list proportional representation in seven multi-member constituencies. (NRK)
• 2024–2025 French political crisis
  • The French Bayrou government collapses after losing a vote of confidence in the National Assembly by 364 votes to 194. (BBC News)
• The Philippine Senate elects Tito Sotto as Senate president, replacing Chiz Escudero after 15 senators voted for a leadership change that also realigned majority and minority blocs. (Bloomberg News) (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
• Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto reshuffles his cabinet, appointing four new ministers and one deputy minister and establishing a new department, the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah. The removal of finance minister Sri Mulyani causes a sharp drop in the country's main stock market index as well as the rupiah. (Tempo) (Reuters)
• Ugandan police detain the deputy spokesperson of the opposition party National Unity Platform (NUP) outside a court in Kampala where he was attending a bail hearing for party members held on charges the NUP describes as politically motivated. (Reuters)