Portal:Current events/November 2025

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • The remains of three bodies Hamas gave to Israel overnight are found to have been of known hostages, leaving eight bodies of deceased hostages still remaining in Gaza. (Reuters)
  • Sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinians during the Gaza war
    • Israel Defense Forces Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who served as Military Advocate General, resigns after leaking a surveillance video to the media showing the gang rape of a Palestinian prisoner at Sde Teiman detention camp in August last year. (BBC)
• 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
  • The Pakistani government partially reopens the Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan to allow Afghan refugees to flee home, while all remaining restrictions on cross-border movement stay banned, following an agreement to maintain a ceasefire. (AP)
• 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
  • Three people are killed in an American airstrike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea. (Al Jazeera)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • The United States threatens to carry out attacks in Nigeria due to continuous attacks against Christians by Boko Haram and ISWAP. (Al Jazeera)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Four people are killed and three injured in an Israeli airstrike on a vehicle in Kfar Reman, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Sudanese civil war
  • At least 12 people are killed and several others are seriously injured in attacks by the Rapid Support Forces on two displaced civilian shelters in South Kordofan, Sudan. (Azerbaijan)

Arts and culture

• The Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, Egypt, officially opens to the public following long delays. (AP)
• Pope Leo XIV of the Catholic Church declares Saint John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church, one of 38, and a co-patron of Catholic education. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Hermosillo convenience store fire
  • At least 23 people are killed and eleven others are injured in a fire and explosion at a Waldo's store in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. (CNN)
• A landslide triggered by heavy rain kills at least 21 people and leaves 30 others missing in Rift Valley Province, Kenya. (AP)
• A crowd crush at a Hindu temple in Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh, India, kills nine people. (Reuters)
• Five people are killed and two others are injured in an avalanche on the Vertainspitze mountain in the Ortler Alps in South Tyrol, Italy. (Euronews)

Law and crime

• 2025 Cambridgeshire train stabbing
  • Eleven people are injured, including nine in life-threatening conditions, in a mass stabbing attack on a London North Eastern Railway passenger train in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England. Two suspects are arrested. (Sky News)
• Mexican drug war
  • Carlos Manzo, mayor of Uruapan, Michoacán, is assassinated during Day of the Dead festivities. (The Guardian)
• Smoking in the Maldives
  • In the Maldives, people born since 2007 are permanently banned from buying or using tobacco, making it the first country in the world to impose a lifelong smoking ban from a certain age. (NOS)
• Two people are killed and six others are injured, including two suspects, in a shootout in Vorizia, Crete, Greece. Police say that it was caused by a long-standing feud between two local families. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Tanzanian general election
  • Incumbent Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party is declared the winner of the general election with 97% of the vote, amidst protests by the opposition. (Reuters)
• Alexandru Munteanu is appointed the new Prime Minister of Moldova, succeeding Dorin Recean. (Politico)

Sports

• 2025 Major League Baseball season
  • 2025 World Series
    • In baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Toronto Blue Jays 5–4 in Game 7 to win the World Series. (ESPN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Al Jazeera reports that Hamas has agreed to retreat via Red Cross corridors from Gaza areas that are under Israeli control per the peace plan. (Haaretz)

Arts and culture

• The Netherlands agrees to repatriate an Eighteenth Dynasty statue from the reign of Pharaoh Thutmose III to Egypt after investigators determine it was illegally taken from the country and later found at an art fair. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• The death toll from flooding in Vietnam increases to 35, with five people still missing. (MSN)
• At least 15 people are killed and two others are injured after a passenger vehicle collides head-on with a truck in Jodhpur, India. (Dawn)
• Four girls drown in an irrigation canal in Srirangapatna taluk, India. (The Hindu)
• Two people are killed after a light aircraft crashes in Fátima, Tocantins, Brazil. (Aviation Safety Network)

International relations

• Canada–Philippines relations
  • Canada and the Philippines sign a visiting forces agreement allowing military personnel to train in each other's territories. (Reuters)
• Nigeria–United States relations, Boko Haram insurgency
  • The Nigerian government says that it welcomes assistance from the United States to combat Islamic terrorism, but adds that its sovereignty must be respected, in response to U.S. president Donald Trump threatening military action to protect Christians from persecution. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2024–present Serbian anti-corruption protests
  • Serbian police arrest 37 protesters near the parliament house in Belgrade after clashes between pro-government supporters and protesters demanding justice for victims of the Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2025 North Macedonian local elections
  • North Macedonians vote in the second round of the local elections for councillors and mayors of 80 municipalities and Skopje, with the ruling conservative party VMRO-DPMNE expected to win by a landslide. (AP)

Sports

• 2025 NASCAR Cup Series
  • In stock car racing, Hendrick Motorsports' Kyle Larson wins his second NASCAR Cup Series championship on an overtime finish over Joe Gibbs Racing's Denny Hamlin. (USA Today)
• 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup
  • In cricket, the Indian women's team defeats South Africa by 52 runs to win the 13th edition of the Women's Cricket World Cup. (ESPNcricinfo)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza war
    • Gaza war hostage crisis
      • The Israel Defence Forces return the remains of 45 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Hamas returning the remains of three hostages yesterday. (The Washington Times)
  • Israeli settler violence
    • Two Palestinian teenagers are killed in separate attacks by Israeli settlers in Hebron and Beit Furik respectively, in the occupied West Bank. (Jordan News)
• Sudanese civil war, Famine in Sudan
  • The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification review committee reports that famine is detected in two Sudanese regions, Darfur and South Kordofan, amid increased fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, which blocks humanitarian access. (NPR)
  • At least 40 people are killed and dozens of others are injured in a drone attack by the Rapid Support Forces on a funeral in North Kordofan. (AA)

Business and economy

• 2025 BBC editorial bias allegations
  • The Daily Telegraph publishes an internal memo leaked by Michael Prescott alleging media bias in the BBC. (The Daily Telegraph) (The i Paper)

Arts and culture

• The 2025 Miguel de Cervantes Prize is awarded to Mexican writer Gonzalo Celorio. (Euronews)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Balkh earthquake
  • A M_w 6.3 earthquake strikes near Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh, Afghanistan, killing at least 20 people, injuring hundreds others, and damaging the historic Blue Mosque. (Reuters) (DW)
• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • At least two people are killed and tens of thousands are displaced as Typhoon Kalmaegi makes landfall in Central Visayas, Philippines. (AP via ABC News)
• 2025 Nepal snowstorm disaster
  • Seven people are killed and eight injured when an avalanche strikes a base camp on a mountain in Nepal. (The Free Press Journal) (CTV News)
• 2025 Shap derailment
  • A landslide causes a West Coast Main Line passenger train to derail near Shap, Cumbria, United Kingdom, injuring four people. (Sky News) (Avanti West Coast)
• At least 20 people are killed and several others are injured when a truck collides with a bus in Ranga Reddy district, Telangana, India. (India TV)
• At least 19 people are killed and 40 people are injured when a speeding dump truck collides with 17 vehicles in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. (India Today)
• At least 15 people, mostly children, are missing and presumed dead after floods and landslides strike Highland Papua, Indonesia, following heavy rainfall. (Reuters)
• A part of the Torre dei Conti tower collapses in Rome, Italy, killing a worker and critically injuring another. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• Demographics of Papua New Guinea
  • The results of the 2024 census in Papua New Guinea show that the country has surpassed the line of 10 million inhabitants, significantly below the 2023 UN estimate of 11.8 million. (RNZ)

International relations

• 10th Summit of the Americas
  • The Dominican Republic postpones the Summit of the Americas until next year, citing regional tensions following U.S. military operations near Venezuela and storm damage in several participating countries. (AFP via FMT)
• Mexico–Peru relations
  • Peru announces it has severed diplomatic relations with Mexico, citing Mexico's decision to grant asylum to former Peruvian prime minister Betssy Chávez, as well as alleged interference in Peru's internal political affairs following President Pedro Castillo's 2022 self-coup. (DW)

Law and crime

• Mexican drug war
  • Mexican security forces kill 13 suspected gunmen and arrest four others in Guasave, Sinaloa, during an armed confrontation that also leads to the rescue of nine kidnapped individuals. (Reuters) (Infobae)
• Piracy off the coast of Somalia
  • A commercial tanker is attacked by suspected Somali pirates off the coast of Mogadishu, Somalia. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Spanish floods
  • Carlos Mazón resigns as President of the Valencian government following sustained criticism of his government's response to the floods in the region last year. (The Guardian) (elDiario.es)
• 2025 Guinean presidential election
  • Incumbent Guinean president Mamady Doumbouya submits his candidacy for the election. The election is being held under a new constitution. (BBC News)
• 2025 Tanzanian general election
  • Incumbent Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan is sworn in for a second term in office after winning a disputed election last Wednesday, which sparked deadly protests across the country. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Eastern front of the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • One person is killed and eight others are injured in a Russian strike on Synelnykove, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. (RBC-Ukraine)
• Gaza war
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Hamas returns the body of Israeli American Itay Chen to Israel, the last hostage with U.S. citizenship. (Times of Israel)
• 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers, War on drugs
  • Two people are killed in an American airstrike against a boat in the Pacific Ocean. (NBC News)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • Nineteen armed bandits, two soldiers and a vigilante are killed in a shootout in Shanono, Kano State, Nigeria. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
  • The casualty toll from Hurricane Melissa in Haiti increases to 43 deaths, with 13 others still missing. Nearly 12,000 homes are flooded and at least 200 have been destroyed. (AP)
• 2025 Chhattisgarh train collision
  • At least eight people are killed and about a dozen others are injured when a passenger train crashes into a cargo train near Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India. (AP)
• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi's impact on Visayas and Mindanao, Philippines, rises to 66, with search and rescue operations ongoing. (BBC News)
  • Six people are killed when a Philippine Air Force Bell Huey helicopter crashes while conducting damage assessment for Typhoon Kalmaegi in Loreto, Agusan del Sur, Philippines. (Philippine Daily Inquirer) (Reuters)
• UPS Airlines Flight 2976
  • 14 people are killed, including the three crew members and 11 on the ground, and fifteen others are injured when UPS Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-11 aircraft crashes near Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Kentucky, United States shortly after takeoff. (CNN)
• Tuzla retirement home fire
  • Eleven people are killed and about 30 others are injured in a fire at a retirement home in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Gaza war
  • Sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinians during the Gaza war
    • Israeli major general Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi is arrested and imprisoned a day after resigning, after leaking a surveillance video in August 2024 showing the gang rape of a Palestinian prisoner in the Sde Teiman detention camp. (Al Jazeera) (NPR)
• Violence against women in Mexico
  • President of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum is groped in front of the National Palace, Mexico City. The man is arrested on the spot. (Informador in Spanish) (Reuters)
• The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirms former Republika Srpska president Milorad Dodik's six-year ban from political office, rejecting Dodik's appeals and ruling that the ban did not violate the constitution. (Reuters)
• A Moroccan court sentences a man to five years in prison and fines him US$107,300 for human trafficking after he recruited jobseekers online who were later transported to Myanmar and forced to work in scam centers, marking the country's first conviction involving the recruitment of victims for foreign scam compounds. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 United States elections
  • Off-year elections are held in the United States, including one special election to a vacancy in the federal House of Representatives, two elections for the governors of Virginia and New Jersey, the next mayor of New York City, and various local elections. (NPR)
  • Abigail Spanberger is elected as the governor of Virginia to become the state's first female governor. (The Guardian)
  • Zohran Mamdani is elected as the 111th mayor of New York City to become the city's first Muslim and South Asian American mayor. (Al Jazeera) (France 24)
• 2025 United States federal government shutdown
  • The U.S. federal government shutdown becomes the longest shutdown in American history following a failed 14th vote by the U.S. Senate, surpassing the 2018–2019 shutdown that occurred during President Donald Trump's first term. (CBS News)
• Mexican drug war
  • Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum announces a security plan for the state of Michoacán following the assassination of the mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manzo, who was shot and killed on Saturday. The plan includes the dispatch of the National Guard, more federal personnel, and the creation of a special unit at the state's prosecution office. (AP)
• Western Sahara conflict
  • Morocco declares October 31, starting next year, to be a national holiday in celebration of Friday's UN resolution backing Morocco's plan of autonomy for Western Sahara in a 50-year dispute between the country and the Algeria-backed Polisario Front. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• The United Methodist Church ratifies a constitutional amendment restructuring the denomination, enabling each region of the church worldwide to have equal autonomy. Other amendments involve expanding membership allowances to account for gender and ability, and condemning white supremacy and colonialism. (UMNews) (The Tennessean)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi's impact on Visayas and Mindanao, Philippines, rises to at least 114, with search and rescue operations ongoing. (AP via CBC News) (Reuters)

Health and environment

• 2025 United States listeriosis outbreak
  • An outbreak of listeriosis linked to recalled pasta products in 18 U.S. states kills at least six people and causes 25 hospitalizations. (NPR) (Health)

Law and crime

• 2019 Bolivian political crisis
  • Bolivia's Supreme Court overturns the 10-year prison sentence of former president Jeanine Áñez, ruling that she should have been tried by a special judicial body responsible for cases involving officials and ordering her release. (AFP via France 24)
• 2025 Island of Oléron car ramming
  • Five people are injured, two critically, in a vehicle-ramming attack on the French island of Oléron. The perpetrator attempts to set the car on fire, before being arrested by the gendarmerie. (The Guardian)
• Human rights in Malaysia
  • A Malaysian high court rules that police and the government are responsible for the enforced disappearances of activist Amri Che Mat and pastor Raymond Koh in 2016 and 2017, respectively, ordering investigations to be reopened and awarding damages exceeding RM 33 million (US$8 million) to their families. The decision marks the first judicial finding of state involvement in enforced disappearances in Malaysia. (AP)
• A court in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, sentences a 44-year-old palliative care nurse to life imprisonment for murdering 10 patients and attempting to murder 27 others with lethal injections at a hospital in Würselen between December 2023 and May 2024. (AFP via CBS News)
• Japanese defense minister Shinjiro Koizumi says that troops were sent to Akita Prefecture after a series of more than 50 bear attacks since April, which resulted in 12 deaths and over 100 injuries. Governor Kenta Suzuki requested aid, saying that local authorities lack manpower to handle the situation. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Japanese-born Tomio Okamura of the Freedom and Direct Democracy party is elected president of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic, marking the first major appointment under prime minister-designate Andrej Babiš's new coalition government. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2025–26 NHL season
  • In ice hockey, Washington Capitals forward Alexander Ovechkin becomes the first player in National Hockey League history to score 900 goals. (NHL.com)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Sudanese civil war
  • Darfur campaign
    • The Rapid Support Forces state that they accept a humanitarian ceasefire proposed by international mediators after capturing El Fasher in Darfur, while the Sudanese army signals plans to continue the conflict. (AFP via Courthouse News Service)
• 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers, War on drugs
  • Three people are killed in a United States airstrike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi's impact on the Philippines rises to at least 142, with 127 others missing. The storm has left the country's territory and made landfall in central Vietnam. (Al Jazeera)
  • Philippine president Bongbong Marcos declares a national state of calamity in relation to the devastation caused by Typhoon Kalmaegi and in anticipation of the upcoming tropical cyclone Fung-wong. (ABS-CBN News)
• At least three people are killed, two others are missing and two are presumed dead when a large structure being prepared for demolition at a power plant collapses in Ulsan, South Korea. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• 2020–2025 H5N1 outbreak
  • 2025 Canadian ostrich culling controversy
    • Canada's Supreme Court rejects an appeal by Universal Ostrich Farm, allowing the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to carry out a full cull of nearly 400 ostriches in Edgewood, British Columbia, under bird flu containment rules aligned with WHO guidelines. (AA)

International relations

• International sanctions against Syria
  • The United Nations Security Council votes to lift sanctions on Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa and interior minister Anas Khattab through a United States-drafted resolution. (Reuters)
• Israel–Kazakhstan relations
  • Kazakhstan formally joins the Abraham Accords, with the aim to enhance bilateral cooperation with Israel. (AP)
• Mexico–Peru relations
  • Peru's Congress declares Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum a persona non grata after Peru cut diplomatic ties with Mexico for granting asylum to former prime minister Betssy Chávez, who faces conspiracy charges related to former president Pedro Castillo's attempt to dissolve Congress. (Reuters)
• Khaled El-Enany is elected director-general of UNESCO by the General Conference held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, succeeding Audrey Azoulay. (UNESCO)

Law and crime

• 2019 Bolivian political crisis
  • Former Bolivian president Jeanine Áñez is freed from prison after the Supreme Court annulled her sentence the previous day. (AP)
• Crime in Germany
  • The Hesse State Police announce an investigation in Hanau after swastikas made of human blood are found painted on dozens of buildings and cars. (AP via ABC News)
• International Criminal Court investigation in Uganda
  • The International Criminal Court confirms 39 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against fugitive Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony in absentia, including murder, rape, sexual slavery, forced pregnancy, and the use of child soldiers. The court rules that he can stand trial once arrested, upholding the 2005 arrest warrant. (Reuters)
• Murder of Agnes Wanjiru
  • A former British soldier, Robert James Purkiss, is arrested on a Kenyan extradition warrant related to Agnes Wanjiru's 2012 murder near a UK military training facility in Nanyuki, Laikipia County. (Al Jazeera)
• War crimes in the Russo-Ukrainian war
  • A court in Russian-occupied Donetsk sentences two Colombians to 13 years in prison for fighting with Ukraine's armed forces, after they were detained while traveling home through Venezuela and transferred into Russian custody. (AFP via Kyiv Post)
  • A court in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, finds a Russian soldier guilty of killing a surrendered Ukrainian soldier in January 2024 and sentences him to life imprisonment, marking the first conviction of a Russian soldier for killing a captured Ukrainian since the war began. (CNN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Terrorism in Indonesia
  • Jakarta School bombing
    • Ninety-six people are injured, some critically, in a bombing at a mosque inside a school in Jakarta, Indonesia. A 17-year-old male is identified as the perpetrator and later recovered at a hospital, right-wing terrorism is suspected. (Reuters) (BBC News)

Business and economy

• Serbia's parliament passes a law to expedite construction of Trump Tower Belgrade on the former Yugoslav defence ministry site in Savski Venac, Belgrade, despite protests from opponents who want the damaged buildings preserved. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi's impact on the Philippines rises to at least 188, with at least 135 others missing. (BBC News)
  • Typhoon Kalmaegi makes landfall in central Vietnam, killing at least five people in Daklak and Gia Lai and leaving three others missing in Quảng Ngãi. (AP via ABC News)
• 2025 Rio Bonito do Iguaçu tornado
  • A tornado, rated F3 on the Fujita scale, strikes Rio Bonito do Iguaçu, Brazil, killing at least six people and injuring 432 others. (O Globo) (Paraná)
• Five people are killed and two others are injured when a Kamov Ka-226 passenger helicopter crashes in Achi-Su, Dagestan, Russia. (ASN)

Health and environment

• 2020–2025 H5N1 outbreak
  • 2025 Canadian ostrich culling controversy
    • Canada's food inspection agency confirms that a marksman has culled all 300–330 ostriches at a farm in Edgewood, British Columbia, under a bird flu containment order, following a Supreme Court decision allowing the cull to proceed. (BBC News)

International relations

• Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda relations
  • 2025 Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda peace agreement
    • The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda state that they have agreed on a Regional Economic Integration Framework in Washington, D.C., United States, to expand economic cooperation and subject to conditions including the withdrawal of Rwandan forces from eastern Congo and operations against the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda. (Reuters)
• Australia–Nauru relations, Nauru Regional Processing Centre
  • Australia begins to deport hundreds of non-citizens to Nauru, as part of a bilateral agreement between both countries, in which Australia will pay Nauru A$2.5 billion (US$1.6 billion) over 30 years in exchange for Nauru issuing visas to these individuals deported from Australia. (RNZ)
• China–Japan relations, Discharge of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
  • Japan reports that seafood exports to China have resumed for the first time since China imposed a ban in August 2023 over treated wastewater releases from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. However, China maintains restrictions on products from Fukushima and surrounding prefectures. (AP)
• Hungary–United States relations
  • The United States grants Hungary a one-year exemption from sanctions on Russian oil and gas, with Hungary agreeing to purchase U.S. liquefied natural gas. (Reuters)
• Indonesia–United Kingdom relations, Capital punishment in Indonesia
  • Indonesia repatriates British nationals Lindsay Sandiford, sentenced to death for smuggling cocaine into Bali in 2013, and Shahab Shahabadi, who was serving a life sentence for drug offences, following a bilateral agreement on humanitarian grounds. Both are transferred to the United Kingdom to serve the remainder of their sentences under UK law. (Reuters)
• Russia–European Union relations, Government and intergovernmental reactions to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • The European Union ends the issuance of multiple-entry Schengen visas to Russian citizens, citing security concerns linked to the Russo-Ukrainian war, alleged sabotage, and visa misuse, while allowing exceptions for dissidents, journalists, human rights defenders, and close family members of EU citizens. (AP)

Law and crime

• 2025 Tanzanian election protests
  • Prosecutors in Tanzania charge 98 people with treason over their alleged participation in violent protests against the re-election of President Samia Suluhu Hassan last week. (Reuters)
• Poland's Sejm removes former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro's immunity, clearing the way for prosecutors to charge him with 26 offences, including abuse of power and misuse of public funds from the Justice Fund. (Reuters)
• Police in Spain arrest 13 alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in a coordinated operation in five cities. (AP)

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)

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)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2025 Delhi car explosion
  • Thirteen people are killed and over 20 others are injured in a suspected car bombing near the Red Fort in New Delhi, India. (Al Jazeera)
• Colombian conflict
  • The Colombian military conducts airstrikes in the Amazon region following failed peace talks, killing 19 FARC splinter group fighters. (AFP via CTV News)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Cadet College Wana attack
    • At least three people are killed during an attack by the Pakistani Taliban on a cadet college in South Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• 2025 Booker Prize
  • British–Hungarian writer David Szalay wins the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel Flesh. (AFP via Bangkok Post)

Business and economy

• A court declares Brazilian telecommunications company Oi bankrupt, the largest bankruptcy in the country's history. (O Estado de S. Paulo in Brazilian Portuguese) (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Two people are killed when a Beechcraft King Air plane carrying Hurricane Melissa relief supplies for Jamaica crashes into a pond in Coral Springs, Florida, United States. (CNN) (The Palm Beach Post)
• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from Typhoon Fung-wong's impact on Luzon, Philippines, rises to 25, with more than 1.4 million others displaced. (AP)
• The death toll from a Rohingya boat sinking near Langkawi, Malaysia, rises to 21 as authorities in Malaysia and Thailand continue their search and rescue operations, with 13 survivors having been rescued and detained for immigration investigations. (Reuters)
• Four people are killed, including three officials from the national registry, when a passenger Cessna 206 plane crashes in a jungle in Colombia. (Todo Noticias in Spanish)

Health and environment

• 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference
  • In Belém, Pará, Brazil, the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference begins. (G1) (CNN Brasil)
• The Pan American Health Organization rescinds Canada's measles elimination status after more than a year of continuous transmission and over 5,000 confirmed cases across most provinces, declaring that the Americas region as a whole no longer meets elimination criteria. (Reuters)

International relations

• Cambodia–Thailand relations
  • 2025 Cambodian–Thai border crisis
    • Thailand suspends the implementation of a peace agreement with Cambodia after a land mine explosion injures two Thai soldiers in Sisaket province. (AFP via CNA)

Law and crime

• 2020 United States presidential election
  • Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election, Trump fake electors plot
    • United States president Donald Trump grants pardons to 77 people, including political allies who are accused of electoral fraud-related charges from the 2020 presidential election, including several who have pled guilty. (NPR)
• 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
  • Former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol, former defense minister Kim Yong-hyun, and former Defense Counterintelligence Command leader Yeo In-hyung are indicted on additional charges related to Yoon's attempt to invoke martial law last December alleging that they ordered surveillance drones to be sent into North Korea to stoke tensions and justify their plans. (DW) (The Chosun Ilbo)
• Corruption in Nigeria
  • Nigeria's anti-graft agency issues an arrest warrant for former petroleum minister Timipre Sylva on charges of conspiracy and fraud of US$14.85 million allocated by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board for a refinery project. (Reuters)
• Ecuadorian security crisis
  • Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa transfers 300 high-risk inmates, including former vice president Jorge Glas, to the El Encuentro maximum-security prison in Santa Elena as part of a security strategy targeting gang activity inside overcrowded prisons. (Reuters)
• A court of appeals in Paris, France, releases former president Nicolas Sarkozy from prison under judicial supervision conditions, less than three weeks after he began to serve a five-year sentence for criminal conspiracy over his 2007 election campaign funds. (AP)
• Lebanon grants a US$900,000 bail to Hannibal Gaddafi, the son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, ending his nearly 10-year detention in a case involving the 1978 disappearance of Shia Muslim cleric Musa al-Sadr, for which Gaddafi was accused of withholding information but never tried. (AFP via Arab News)
• A Thai court orders the extradition of convicted kingpin She Zhijiang to China to face charges related to operating cybercrime and illegal gambling networks across Asia. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Egyptian parliamentary election
  • Egyptians begin voting to elect 568 of the 596 members of the House of Representatives. (Reuters)
• 2025 United States federal government shutdown
  • The United States Senate votes 60–40 to a bill to end the 41-day government shutdown and extend funding for the U.S. government until January 30, 2026, sending the bill to the House of Representatives for a vote. (NPR) (Reuters)
• Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto posthumously grants the title of National Hero to former president Suharto, despite criticism by activists and civil society due to his New Order military dictatorship. (CNN Indonesia) (Reuters)
• Pakistan's Senate approves a constitutional amendment that expands Army Chief Asim Munir's powers by creating the position of Chief of Defence Forces with command over all military branches, while also limiting the Supreme Court's authority. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Pokrovsk offensive
    • Hundreds of Russian troops enter the city of Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast with heavy street-to-street fighting underway. (Reuters)
• 2025 Islamabad suicide bombing
  • Twelve people are killed and 27 injured in a suicide bombing outside a court in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
• Israeli settler violence
  • Israeli settlers set fire to dozens of vehicles and other property in Beit Lid and Deir Sharaf in the West Bank and attack Israeli soldiers who were dispatched to the area, injuring four Palestinians, while four Israelis are arrested. (DW)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Turkish Air Force Lockheed C-130 crash
  • Twenty people are killed when a Turkish Air Force C-130 Hercules cargo plane crashes near the Azerbaijan–Georgia border. (Euronews) (AP)
• Electricity sector in the Dominican Republic
  • The Dominican Republic experiences a rare countrywide blackout, which officials blame on a failure in the power transmission grid. (AP)
• Twenty people are injured when three Sarmiento trains derail in Liniers, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Todos Noticias in Spanish)

International relations

• Colombia–United States relations, 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
  • Colombian president Gustavo Petro orders public forces to halt intelligence sharing with the United States Intelligence Community until the U.S. ceases its military strikes on vessels in the Caribbean Sea. (Reuters)
• Japan–Russia relations, International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Russia indefinitely bans 30 Japanese nationals, including a foreign ministry official, from entering the country in response to Japan's sanctions on Russian entities over the war in Ukraine. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2006 Noida serial murders
  • The Supreme Court of India acquits Surendra Koli of all remaining charges in the series of child murders and rapes which occurred between 2005 and 2006 in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and ordering his immediate release. Koli was originally sentenced to death and was serving a life sentence for the remaining cases. (The Hindu)
• 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
  • A high court in Seoul, South Korea, issues an arrest warrant for former National Intelligence Service director Cho Tae-yong for allegedly tampering with evidence regarding former president Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration of martial law, among other charges. (Reuters)
• 2025 Turkish football betting scandal
  • A court in Istanbul, Turkey, issues arrest warrants for eight suspects involved in an investigation into alleged illegal sports betting by Turkish Football Federation referees, club presidents, and players. (DW)
• Anti-war protests in Russia
  • A court in Saint Petersburg, Russia, extends street musician Diana Loginova's detention for 13 days for allegedly violating public order during an October performance that included anti-war songs, marking her third consecutive sentence since mid-October. (AP)
• Corruption in Ukraine
  • The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine starts investigating a large-scale corruption scheme in the country’s energy sector, involving the state nuclear power operator Energoatom. (EuroNews)
• A Gabonese court sentences former first lady Sylvia Bongo Ondimba and her son, Noureddin Bongo Valentin, to 20 years in prison each for receiving and embezzling public funds, among other charges. Both were tried in absentia as they live in exile. (AFP via Barron's)
• The Southwark Crown Court in London, United Kingdom, sentences Chinese fraudster Qian Zhimin to 11 years and eight months in prison for running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded over 128,000 investors and laundered the proceeds into Bitcoin, resulting in the recovery of about ₿61,000 in the country's largest cryptocurrency seizure. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Iraqi parliamentary election
  • Iraqis vote to elect the 329 members of the Council of Representatives, who will elect the country's president and approve the president's appointment of a prime minister. (AFP via Barron's)
• 2025 Irish presidential election
  • Catherine Connolly is sworn in as the 10th president of Ireland. (BBC News)
• Gun law in New Zealand
  • New Zealand announces the transfer of gun licensing responsibilities from the police to an independent Firearms Safety Authority reporting directly to the government. (AP)
• Thousands of people protest in Belgrade, Serbia, against the proposed re-development of the former Yugoslav People's Army General Staff Building, which was delisted as a cultural asset last year. (DW)

Science and technology

• The Sun emits a X5.1-class solar flare from sunspot AR4274, the most intense since October 2024. (Space)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Cambodia–Thailand relations
  • 2025 Cambodian–Thai border crisis, Cambodian–Thai border dispute
    • Cambodian prime minister Hun Manet accuses Thailand of shooting and killing a Cambodian villager near the border, two days after a Thai soldier was injured by a land mine in the area, increasing tensions and threatening the ceasefire that put an end to the conflict in July. (AP)

Business and economy

• The United States Mint strikes its last penny for circulation, though it will remain legal tender. There are still an estimated 300 billion pennies in circulation according to the Treasury Department. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Six people are killed in a stampede during a military recruitment event in Accra, Ghana. (AP)
• At least 37 people are killed and 20 others are injured when a bus collides with a truck and crashes down a ravine in Arequipa, Peru. (DW) (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Canada–Russia relations, International sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • During a G7 meeting on the Russo-Ukrainian war, Canadian foreign minister Anita Anand announces new sanctions targeting Russian entities involved in cyberattacks, drone production, energy infrastructure, and the transport of oil via the shadow fleet. (AFP via Al Arabiya)

Law and crime

• Corruption in Ukraine
  • Operation Midas
    • Ukrainian justice minister German Galushchenko and energy minister Svitlana Hrynchuk resign following a National Anti-Corruption Bureau investigation into an alleged kickback scheme involving Ukraine's nuclear power plant operator Energoatom. The alleged head of the corruption group, Tymur Mindych, has fled Ukraine. (The Guardian)
• Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302
  • A U.S. federal jury orders Boeing to pay $28.45 million in damages to the family of Shikha Garg, a victim of the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX crash, marking the first civil trial verdict related to the two fatal MAX accidents. (AFP via Black Hills Pioneer)
• Crime in Germany
  • An 18-year-old is sentenced to eight years and nine months in prison for a shooting at a bar in Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, that killed one person and injured two others in 2024. (Deutsche Presse-Agentur)
• Two police officers are injured and 29 people are arrested when a riot breaks out at a immigration detention site in Sintiki, Serres, Greece. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Iraqi parliamentary election
  • Preliminary results show prime minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani's Reconstruction and Development Coalition leading the polls. (Reuters)
• 2025 United States federal government shutdown
  • A bill passes through Congress and is signed by president Donald Trump, ending the longest government shutdown in American history at 43 days. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza war
    • Gaza war hostage crisis
      • Hamas hands over the remains of one more Israeli hostage to the Israeli military. (Xinhua)
  • Israeli settler violence, Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
    • Israeli settlers set fire to the Hajja Hamida mosque in Deir Istiya in the West Bank and deface the mosque's exterior wall in defiance of an Israeli government rebuke of settler violence. (DW)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingo and drones strike Oryol in Oryol Oblast, Russia, damaging several cars and apartments, while several drones are shot down by air defense. (The Kyiv Independent)
    • The Ukrainian intelligence directorate claims to have derailed a train carrying North Korean weapons to Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railway, near Sosnovka in Khabarovsk Krai, using explosives. (United24)
• Haitian conflict
  • Seven gang members are killed during a Haitian police operation in Croix-des-Bouquets, Ouest, where officers also destroy a helicopter that made an emergency landing to prevent its capture. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Eight people are killed and 15 others are injured after two trucks collide head-on in Pune, Maharashtra, India. (NDTV)
• Four people are killed after two migrant vessels carrying nearly 100 passengers capsize off the coast of Al-Khums, Murqub District, Libya. (Reuters)
• Three people are killed and 20 others are reported missing after landslides hit Java, Indonesia. (AP)
• A truck crashes into pedestrians at an outdoor market in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, killing two people and injuring 18 others. (AP)
• During a training flight, a Sukhoi Su-30SM crashes in Prionezhsky District, Republic of Karelia, Russia. The two crew members are killed. (Aviation Safety Network)

Health and environment

• The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reports about 300,000 confirmed and suspected cholera cases in the continent, mostly in Angola and Burundi, and more than 7,000 deaths in 2025, marking Africa's largest outbreak in 25 years and a more than 30% increase from the previous year. (Reuters)

International relations

• 2025 Islamabad suicide bombing, 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
  • Pakistani interior minister Mohsin Naqvi says that Afghan nationals carried out Tuesday's suicide bombing in Islamabad, which killed 12 people and injured many others, adding that the attack was planned and directed from Afghanistan, increasing tensions between the countries. (AP)
• Latin America–United States relations, Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • The United States announces new trade agreements with Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador, and Guatemala that lower tariffs on selected goods and expand market access for U.S. products. (AFP via Buenos Aires Times)
• Syria–United Kingdom relations
  • Syrian foreign minister reopens the country's embassy in London, United Kingdom, after it was closed in 2013 following the start of the Syrian civil war. (AP)

Law and crime

• Human trafficking in Spain
  • Spanish police dismantle an alleged international network accused of trafficking minors from the Canary Islands to France, arresting eleven suspects in operations in Lanzarote, Las Palmas, and Madrid. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Aftermath of the July Revolution
  • Bangladeshi chief adviser Muhammad Yunus announces a national referendum on the July Charter, which recognizes the 2024 uprising that ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina. (Reuters)
• The state of Victoria enacts Australia's first treaty with Indigenous peoples, establishing a permanent First Peoples' Assembly and a truth-telling commission as part of a formal state–Indigenous governance framework. (Reuters)
• Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan appoints MP Mwigulu Nchemba as prime minister, who is confirmed by parliament. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• In the United States, Blue Origin launches NASA's ESCAPADE spacecraft mission to study Mars' magnetosphere. It is the second launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn launch vehicle, and the first successful landing of the vehicle's reusable first stage. (The New York Times)

Sports

• The governing board of Major League Soccer (MLS), the top men's association football league in Canada and the U.S., votes to change its season from its current calendar-year schedule to a summer-to-spring schedule spanning two calendar years, aligning MLS with most international leagues. The first season under the new calendar will be 2027–28, with an abbreviated transitional season from February to May 2027. (ESPN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • 2025 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks
    • At least 17 people are killed in an attack on a hospital by the Allied Democratic Forces in Lubero, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP via CTV News)
• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Kyiv strikes, Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Six people are killed and 35 others are injured in a missile and drone attack by Russian forces on Kyiv, Ukraine. (AP)
• Sudanese civil war
  • El Fasher massacre
    • The United Nations Human Rights Council establishes an independent fact-finding mission to investigate reported mass killings and other alleged war crimes by the Rapid Support Forces and their allied groups in El Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan. (Reuters)
• Colombian conflict
  • Nine guerrilla fighters are killed by a Colombian military airstrike in the Arauca Department. (AFP via BSS)
• Syrian conflict
  • A woman is injured in a rocket attack by unknown assailants on a house in Mezzeh, Damascus Governorate, Syria. (Al Jazeera)
• War on drugs, 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
  • The United States defense department announces Operation Southern Spear to target alleged narco-terrorists in Central and South America and the Caribbean under the US Southern Command's jurisdiction. (DW) (Axios)
  • Four people are killed in an American airstrike against a boat in the Caribbean Sea. The attack is announced today, but was carried out four days ago. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• Saab AB signs a contract worth €3.1 billion (US$3.62 billion) with the Colombian government to provide 17 Gripen fighter jets to the Colombian Aerospace Force over the next five years. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Tuzla retirement home fire
  • Bosnian authorities report that a short circuit from an overburdened power cable in a resident's room caused the deadly fire at a Tuzla retirement home. The investigation continues to examine possible negligence. (AP)
• 2025 Nowgam explosion
  • Nine people are killed and 29 others are injured after seized explosives detonate inside of a police station in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. (NDTV)
• At least 101 people are killed and others are presumed trapped in a landslide at a gold mine near Kolwezi, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (blue News)
• Five Chinese nationals are killed after a minibus loses control and crashes in Bali, Indonesia. (The Indian Express)
• Three people are killed and three others are injured when a bus crashes into a bus stop in Östermalm, Stockholm, Sweden. (DW)

Health and environment

• The World Health Organization deploys a team of technical officers and aid to monitor and support an outbreak of viral hemorrhagic fever that has killed six people in southern Ethiopia. (CIDRAP)

International relations

• France–Mali relations
  • Mali suspends French television channels TF1 and La Chaîne Info from airing in the country, citing unverified claims and falsehoods in a broadcast on the ongoing fuel blockades by the Islamist militant group Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin. (AP)

Law and crime

• Mass shootings in the United States
  • 2025 Saint Helena Island shooting
    • A 27-year-old man is arrested and charged with four counts of murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime for a mass shooting that killed four people and injured 15 others at a bar in October in Saint Helena Island, South Carolina, United States. (CBS News)
• 2025 Islamabad suicide bombing
  • Four militants linked to the Pakistani Taliban who allegedly planned the suicide bombing in Islamabad three days ago are arrested in Pakistan. (DW)
• Dresden left-wing extremism trial
  • The United States declares four Antifa groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, including the Germany-based Antifa Ost, who was involved in the attempted murder of three neo-Nazi individuals in Saxony and Thuringia. The U.S. government is also pursuing action against three other antifa groups in Italy and Greece, including the Informal Anarchist Federation. (DW)
• Mariana dam disaster
  • British High Court judge Finola O'Farrell rules Australian mining corporation BHP liable for the 2015 Samarco dam collapse in Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, considered the biggest environmental disaster in the country. (The Guardian) (G1)
• Former rebel leader Roger Lumbala starts a hunger strike to protest his ongoing trial over atrocities committed during the second war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, arguing that the French court which judges him does not have legitimacy to try him. (AP)
• The Borgarting Court of Appeal nullifies the Norwegian government's approval of three offshore oil and gas development projects due to insufficient assessment of combustion-related climate impacts, but allows production to continue for six months as authorities address the deficiencies. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Central African general election
  • The Constitutional Court rules that incumbent president Faustin-Archange Touadéra may run for another term, after opposition parties submitted that he did not meet the criteria to seek another term in office. (AP)
• 2025 Tanzanian election protests
  • Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan creates an inquiry commission to investigate the killings that occurred during recent election-related protests and orders the release of some detained participants, while also announcing plans to begin constitutional reform within her administration's first 100 days. (AP)

Sports

• French speed skater Timothy Loubineaud breaks the world record at the ISU World Cup by more than a second in the 5000 metres with a time of 6:00.23. (Olympics) (NOS)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War on drugs, 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
  • Three people are killed in an American airstrike against a boat in the Pacific Ocean. (CBS News)
• Kivu conflict
  • The Democratic Republic of the Congo and the M23 rebels sign a framework agreement in Doha, Qatar, for a peace treaty to end the conflict in Kivu. (Reuters)
• Syrian conflict
  • Four people are killed, including the mayor of Wady Al-Mawla, and another is severely injured in a mass shooting by unidentified gunmen at a coffeehouse in Talkalakh, Homs Governorate, Syria. (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights) (SANA)
  • Three people are injured, including two critically, in a drive-by shooting by unidentified gunmen in Abu Jarin, Aleppo Governorate, Syria. (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)

Arts and culture

• Canada–Holy See relations
  • The Holy See transfers 62 indigenous artifacts to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops for repatriation to the communities of origin after their removal for a 1925 missionary exhibition in Rome, Italy. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025–26 European windstorm season
  • Storm Claudia makes landfall in Western Europe, killing at least three people and injuring dozens of others in southern Portugal. (Sky News Australia)
• At least 32 informal miners are killed when a makeshift bridge collapses at a flooded cobalt mine in Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Authorities state that unauthorized miners entered the area despite a ban due to landslide risks. (AFP via Daily Sabah)
• A landslide triggered by heavy rain kills at least 11 people and leaves 12 others missing in Central Java, Indonesia. (Reuters)
• Nine people are killed and others are injured in an explosion at a firecracker manufacturing unit in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan. (Dawn)

Law and crime

• 2025 Mexican protests
  • At least 120 people are injured, including 100 police officers, and 20 others are arrested in clashes with police during protests across Mexico after the assassination of Uruapan mayor Carlos Manzo earlier this month. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Modern immigration to the United Kingdom
  • British home secretary Shabana Mahmood announces plans to reduce the length of refugee status, extend the required period before applying for long-term residency, and end automatic state benefits for asylum seekers as part of a broad reform of its asylum system. (AFP via CBS News)
• Benin's National Assembly, by a 99–19 vote, approves a constitutional amendment that extends presidential and parliamentary term limits from five to seven years and establishes a new senate, pending review by the Constitutional Court. The reform would take effect after the April presidential election. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2025 Delhi car explosion
  • The National Investigation Agency of India states that the recent car explosion in Delhi was a suicide attack and report the arrest of a suspect accused of helping acquire and prepare the vehicle used in the blast. (AFP via CNA)

Disasters and accidents

• At least twelve people are killed and ten others are injured when a bus crashes in Tungurahua Province, Ecuador. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• War on drugs in Ecuador
  • Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa announces that Spanish police have captured Los Lobos leader Wilmer Chavarría, who faked his own death and changed his identity, in Málaga, Andalusia. (BBC News)
• A broken railway line in the area of Życzyn, Garwolin County, in east central Poland is under police investigation as a possible act of sabotage. Two Ukrainian citizens have been identified as the suspects. (TVP World)(BBC)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Chilean general election
  • 2025 Chilean presidential election
    • Chileans vote to elect their president, who will succeed the term-limited incumbent Gabriel Boric. (CNN)
    • Preliminary results indicate a second round between Jeannette Jara and José Antonio Kast on 13 December. (El País in Spanish)
  • Also up for election are the whole Chamber of Deputies and half of the Senate. (Radio ADN in Spanish)
• 2025 Ecuadorian referendum
  • Ecuadorians vote on a constitutional referendum, on foreign military bases, on public financing of political parties and the number of assembly members, and on a popular consultation about the convocation of an constituent assembly. All 4 were rejected. (El País in Spanish)

• Nuclear program of Iran
  • Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi says that Iran is no longer enriching uranium due, in part, to the damage at nuclear facilities following the Iran–Israel war and the US strikes on nuclear sites in Iran. (AP)

Sports

• 2025 ATP Tour
  • 2025 ATP Finals
    • In tennis, Jannik Sinner defeats his rival Carlos Alcaraz in the final, 7–6^(7–4), 7–5, to successfully defend his singles title at the 2025 ATP Finals. (AFP via Cebu Daily News)
• 2025 CFL season
  • 112th Grey Cup
    • In Canadian football, the Saskatchewan Roughriders defeat the Montreal Alouettes 25–17 to win their fifth Grey Cup. (TSN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • German support for Israel in the Gaza war, Germany–Israel relations
    • Germany expects to lift its restrictions on military equipment exports to Israel from November 24, which were banned in August due to the siege of Gaza City. (AP)
  • Gaza peace plan
    • The United Nations Security Council votes in favor of a US-drafted resolution endorsing the peace plan, including the establishment of the International Stabilization Force (ISF) and Board of Peace. (BBC News)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • A Russian missile strike on a residential area in Balakliia, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, kills three people and injures 10 others. (Reuters)
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian war, France–Ukraine relations
    • Ukraine signs an agreement with France to receive up to 100 Rafale fighter jets, along with anti-aircraft warfare, munitions, and drones. Both governments say the proposed use of frozen Russian assets will partly finance it. (CNN)
• Yemeni civil war
  • In Lahij, Yemen, suspected Houthi gunmen carries out an ambush against a convoy carrying the governor of Taiz and a military commander, killing five of their bodyguards. Both the governor and the commander are unharmed, while two gunmen are also killed. (Xinhua)
• Druze insurgency in Southern Syria
  • An investigative committee in Syria detains members of the country's military and security forces in an investigation into sectarian violence in Sweida in July involving the Druze. (AP)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Thirty-eight Pakistani Taliban militants are killed by the army in a series of raids since yesterday in Dera Ismail Khan, North Waziristan, Bannu and Bajaur, in Pakistan. (AP)
• Nigerian bandit conflict, Kidnapping in Nigeria
  • Gunmen kidnap 25 female students from and kill the vice principal of a secondary school in Maga, Kebbi State, Nigeria. (DW) (BBC News)

Arts and culture

• The Cambridge University Press and Assessment announces parasocial as its word of the year. (CNN)

Business and economy

• Spanish transport minister Óscar Puente announces the AV350 project, which will upgrade the Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line to a maximum operating speed of 350 km/h (220 mph) and make it one of the world's fastest trains. Puente says work is scheduled to begin next year and is expected to take three years. (Reuters)
• At the Dubai Airshow, UAE flagship airline Emirates announces a deal to buy 65 Boeing 777-9 aircraft worth US$38 billion, with deliveries starting in 2027. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Medina bus crash
  • A bus carrying Indian Umrah pilgrims collides with a tank truck near Medina, Saudi Arabia, killing 45 people. (Hindustan Times)
• The toll from yesterday's bus crash in Simiatug, Tungurahua Province, Ecuador, increases to 21 people killed and 40 others injured. (Reuters)
• Six people are killed and 19 others are injured when a landslide triggered by heavy rain strikes a bus carrying 32 passengers in Khánh Vĩnh district, Khánh Hòa province, Vietnam. (Reuters)
• Five tourists are killed in a blizzard in Torres del Paine National Park in Chilean Patagonia, where military and police rescue four others and continue search and rescue operations. (AFP via France 24)
• Airjet Angola Flight MBC-100
  • An Embraer ERJ-145 operating as AirJet Angola Flight 100 carrying 29 members of a Ministry of Mines delegation crashes while attempting to land at Kolwezi Airport in Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. No casualties are reported. (ASN) (Israel Hayom)

Health and environment

• Polio eradication, Health in Pakistan
  • Polio in Pakistan
    • Pakistan launches an initiative to vaccinate 34.5 million children against measles and rubella and 23.3 million against polio. (AP)
• Health in Ethiopia
  • Ethiopia confirms three deaths from a Marburg virus disease declared on Friday in West Omo Zone. (Euronews)
• At least 71 schools in Australia and New Zealand close as authorities investigate recalled children's play sand products from Kmart and Target after testing detected asbestos in some samples. (Reuters)

International relations

• Nicaragua–United States relations, Immigration policy of the second Trump administration
  • The United States imposes visa restrictions and revokes some existing visas for Nicaraguans, including owners of transportation and travel companies, who it says facilitate illegal immigration to the U.S. under Nicaragua's migration policies. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Bangladesh, Trial of Sheikh Hasina
  • A domestic tribunal in Bangladesh sentences former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan to death in absentia over crimes against humanity committed during the quota reform protests in 2024. (AP) (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Chilean presidential election
  • Due to no candidates receiving 50% of the vote in the presidential election, a runoff occurs between left-wing candidate Jeannette Jara of the Unity for Chile coalition and right-wing candidate José Antonio Kast of the Change for Chile coalition, with the vote set for December 14. (DW)
• 2025 Iraqi parliamentary election
  • The Independent High Electoral Commission releases the seat distribution from Iraq's recent election as prime minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani's Coordination Framework alliance declares that it will form the majority bloc and will nominate the next prime minister. (Reuters)
• Flood control projects controversy in the Philippines
  • Philippine executive secretary Lucas Bersamin and budget secretary Amenah Pangandaman resign over their alleged involvement in flood control corruption. Finance secretary Ralph Recto replaces Bersamin as the executive secretary. (Gulf News)
• Opposition to Vladimir Putin in Russia
  • Russia's Rosfinmonitoring adds former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov and London Business School dean Sergei Guriev to its list of extremists and terrorists. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
  • 2021 Cabo Delgado offensive
    • The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) accuses French energy and petroleum company TotalEnergies of committing war crimes through a joint task force deployed to protect natural gas sites in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. The ECCHR alleges that the joint task force illegally imprisoned, beat, tortured, and killed over 220 civilians. (DW)
• Palestinian political violence
  • 2025 Gush Etzion Junction attack
    • At least three people are killed, including both perpetrators, and three others are injured, including a woman mistakenly shot by soldiers, in a vehicle-ramming attack and stabbing attack in Gush Etzion Junction, West Bank. (The Times of Israel) (CNN)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • A 17-year-old girl is killed, and nine other people are injured in overnight Russian missile strikes on Berestyn, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. (RBC-Ukraine)
• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • 2025 Sidon airstrike
      • Thirteen people are killed and several others are wounded in an Israeli airstrike in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon District, Lebanon. (MENA via The New Arab)
  • Israel–Hezbollah conflict
    • Two people are killed in two separate Israeli airstrikes on vehicles in Bint Jbeil and Marjayoun, Lebanon. (L'Orient Today)

Arts and culture

• Austrian painter Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer sells for US$236.4 million (€203.2 million) at a Sotheby's auction in New York City, breaking the record for the most expensive modern art piece. (AP) (The Guardian)

Business and economy

• The United Kingdom announces it will ban above-face-value ticket resale for concerts, shows, and sports events, citing rampant price gouging on ticket sale sites. (DW) (CNBC)

International relations

• Saudi Arabia–United States relations
  • Saudi Arabia and the United States ratify a joint declaration on civil nuclear energy, and the U.S. approves a defense sale that includes future deliveries of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. (AFP via NDTV)
  • U.S. president Donald Trump announces the designation of Saudi Arabia as a major non-NATO ally. (AFP via The Economic Times)

Law and crime

• Gaza Strip under Hamas, Blockade of the Gaza Strip
  • Hamas arrests a staff member of local water provider, Abdul Salam Yassin Company, supplying water to nearly half of the Gaza Strip, causing the company to suspend its operations. (Reuters)
• Trial for the 2022–2023 Brazilian coup plot
  • Brazil's Supreme Federal Court sentences three army officers and a federal police officer to 21–24 years in prison after finding them guilty of participating in a plot to kill then-president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and other officials to prevent the 2023 transfer of power. The court rules that the group helped plan the broader coup attempt linked to former president Jair Bolsonaro, who was previously convicted in the same case. (AFP via Barron's)
• War on drugs, Spain–United States relations
  • The Spanish National Police Corps, in coordination with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, dismantle a Jalisco New Generation Cartel logistics office in Spain, arresting 20 people, including two members of the Italian Camorra organization. (El País)
• An Argentine court orders the seizure of 20 properties owned by former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her family in connection with her fraud conviction involving public works contracts. (Reuters)
• Poland annuls former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro's diplomatic passport at the request of prosecutors, who seek his arrest on charges that include leading an organized criminal group and misusing public funds. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Danish local elections
  • Denmark holds local elections, with the ruling Social Democrats suffering large losses, including the mayoralty of Copenhagen, which they had held since 1903. (Politico EU)
• 2025 Texas redistricting
  • A United States district court bars Texas from using a newly drawn congressional map in next year's midterm elections, ruling that it is likely an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. (CNN)
• Terrorism in the United States
  • Texas governor Greg Abbott declares the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as terrorist organizations and bans them from owning land in Texas, United States. (CBS News)
• The Polish Sejm elects Włodzimierz Czarzasty as Marshal, replacing Szymon Hołownia, who becomes Deputy Marshal. (Sejm in Polish)

Science and technology

• A major outage of Cloudflare causes global disruptions to numerous apps and websites. Cloudflare says the outage occurred after a configuration file designed to handle threat traffic malfunctioned and triggered a crash in its software handling traffic for its wider services. (BBC News)

Sports

• 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification
  • In association football, Curaçao qualifies for the 2026 FIFA World Cup after winning Group B of the third round of CONCACAF qualifiers for the World Cup. In its first World Cup appearance, Curaçao becomes the smallest nation by both population and area to qualify for the tournament. (Azerbaijan)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • At least 28 Palestinians are killed and 77 more are injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City and Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip after Israel accused Hamas of firing at Israeli troops. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
  • Israel–Hezbollah conflict
    • One person is killed in an Israeli airstrike attack against a vehicle in Bint Jbeil, Lebanon. Several students are also wounded on a bus passing in the area. (Al Jazeera)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • 2025 Ternopil apartment strike
      • Dozens of people are killed in a series of Russian missile and drone strikes across Ukraine, including 31 people killed and more than 100 others injured in a ballistic missile strike on a nine-story residential building in Ternopil. Many more remain missing with search and rescue operations underway. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera) (The Kyiv Independent)
• Rojava conflict
  • Two Syrian soldiers are killed in a shootout with Syrian Democratic Forces militants in Raqqa. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Twenty-three Pakistani Taliban militants are killed in two army raids in Kurram District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
• Islamist insurgency in Niger
  • At least 10 Niger Armed Forces soldiers are killed in an attack by Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin in Garbougna, Tillabéri Region, Niger. (MSN)
• Religious violence in Nigeria
  • Gunmen target a church in Eruku, Kwara state, Nigeria, killing two people and kidnapping the pastor and some worshippers. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• 2025 National Book Awards
  • At the 76th National Book Awards, Rabih Alameddine wins the Fiction prize for his novel The True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), while Omar El Akkad wins the Nonfiction prize for his book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This about the Gaza war. (NPR)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Ōita fire
  • One person is killed and another injured in a large-scale fire in Ōita, Japan. At least 170 homes are damaged and another 260 households remain without electricity. (NPR)
• Sixty-four people are missing when a barge capsizes on the Sankuru River in Kasaï Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)

Health and environment

• Cambodian conservation groups release two captive-bred greater adjutants into the Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary for the first time, fitting them with GPS trackers as part of efforts to restore the species' wild population. (Reuters)
• A suspected outbreak of tuberculosis kills ten inmates at a prison in Guayaquil, Ecuador. (Reuters)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Iran, Foreign relations of the Marshall Islands
  • Iran releases a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker and its 21 crew after seizing it without explanation last Friday in the Strait of Hormuz. (AP)
• Russia–United Kingdom relations
  • Russian Navy spy ship Yantar uses lasers to disrupt Royal Air Force aircraft monitoring the vessel in the North Sea for the first time. The ship was being followed by a Royal Navy frigate with Poseidon P-8 planes deployed to track its movements. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Epstein Files Transparency Act
  • United States president Donald Trump enacts a bill ordering the release of more information about Jeffrey Epstein's case, a day after Congress passed the bill. (Al Jazeera)
• Human trafficking in Myanmar, Trafficking of Chinese nationals to scam centers abroad
  • The Tatmadaw conducts a raid on the scam center compound in Shwe Kokko, Myawaddy District, Myanmar, and detains 346 foreigners and confiscates nearly 10,000 mobile devices. (AP)
• Koldo Case
  • Spain's Supreme Court orders the provisional release of former Socialist Party official Santos Cerdán, who is under investigation for alleged involvement in a criminal organization, bribery, and influence peddling in public works contracting, stating that the risk of evidence tampering has been reduced. The court requires him to surrender his passport. (Reuters)
• Nord Stream pipelines sabotage
  • Italy's Supreme Court of Cassation approves a Ukrainian national's extradition to Germany, where he faces charges related to alleged involvement in the Nord Stream pipelines explosions in 2022. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Operation Midas
  • Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada dismisses energy minister Svitlana Hrynchuk and justice minister German Galushchenko after an anti-corruption investigation into alleged misconduct at the state nuclear agency implicated them, among other officials. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Ford Motor Co. issues a recall of over 200,000 Bronco and Bronco Sport vehicles due to a possible dashboard failure. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Five Palestinians are killed in two Israeli attacks in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
  • Israeli forces and tanks move 300 m (980 ft) beyond the Yellow Line in Gaza City, violating the ceasefire. (Al Jazeera)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Two police officers are killed and four more injured after a bomb explodes near their armoured personnel carrier in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Pakistan Today)

Arts and culture

• Frida Kahlo's 1940 self-portrait El sueño (La cama) sells for US$54.66 million at Sotheby's in New York City, United States, setting a auction record for the most expensive painting by a woman, surpassing the previous high set by Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed. (AFP via France 24)

Business and economy

• American telecommunications company Verizon announces it will lay off over 13,000 employees, nearly 20% of its management workforce, in a restructuring. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Two trains collide near České Budějovice, Czech Republic, injuring at least 57 people, including five seriously. (Euronews) (AP)
• Sixteen people are killed and 24 are injured when a tourist bus plunges off a bridge into a river in Santuk district, Kampong Thom province, Cambodia. (Xinhua)
• The toll from the floods and landslides in Vietnam since the last four days increases to 41 people killed and nine missing. (Al Jazeera)
• The toll from the landslides in Cilacap Regency, Indonesia, seven days ago, increases to 18 people killed and 34 others missing. (AP)

Health and environment

• 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Brazil–Germany relations
  • At COP30, Brazilian environment minister Marina Silva announces that Germany has committed to donate €1 billion (US$1.15 billion) towards Brazil's rainforest blended-finance mechanism over the next decade. (DW)
  • The conference is temporarily suspended after a fire breaks out at the venue. (BBC News)
• At least 170 mountain climbers are evacuated when Mount Semeru on Java, Indonesia, suddenly erupts. (AP)

International relations

• Belarus–Lithuania relations, Belarus–European Union border crisis
  • Lithuania reopens its Medininkai and Šalčininkai border checkpoints with Belarus after closing them over security concerns involving weather balloons used for smuggling. (TVP World)

Law and crime

• 2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests
  • Clashes erupt across Nepal between supporters of ousted prime minister K. P. Sharma Oli and supporters of interim prime minister Sushila Karki. A curfew is imposed in various districts. (NDTV)
• Human trafficking in the Philippines
  • A Philippine regional trial court sentences former de facto Bamban mayor Alice Guo to life imprisonment after finding her guilty of human trafficking for a scam center in her town. (Bloomberg) (BBC News)
• Insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria
  • A Nigerian court sentences Biafran separatist Nnamdi Kanu to life imprisonment on seven terrorism charges over his leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra militant group. (AP)
• Bulgarian law enforcement arrests 35 people linked to a transnational network accused of trafficking cultural goods, with authorities reporting large seizures of artifacts, antique firearms, vehicles, and safes during coordinated raids with Europol and Eurojust. (Reuters)
• Spain's Supreme Court sentences Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz to two years of disqualification and a fine for revealing secrets about a tax fraud case involving Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso's partner. (RTVE)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Tongan general election
  • Tongans vote to elect 26 of the 30 members of the Legislative Assembly. Members of the country's nobility elect nine representatives, while the rest of the voting population elect 17 MPs. (RNZ)
• Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva appoints Attorney General Jorge Messias to the Supreme Federal Court to fill the seat that retired justice Luís Roberto Barroso vacated, pending Senate confirmation. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Kupiansk offensive
    • Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov announces that Russian forces have captured the city of Kupiansk, the administrative centre of Kupiansk Raion, Kharkiv Oblast. The Ukrainian military denies the statement. (Reuters)
  • Peace negotiations in the Russo-Ukrainian war, United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The United States outlines a new 28-point peace proposal to end the war in Ukraine, including a casus foederis guarantee for Ukraine and the cession of Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia. (Axios)
    • U.S. president Donald Trump gives Ukraine a deadline of November 27 to accept the peace proposal, or the U.S. will end all weapons shipments and military intelligence support. Russian president Vladimir Putin confirms he has formally received the proposal from the U.S. (BBC News)
  • Zaporizhzhia strikes
    • Five people are killed and three others are injured in a Russian glide bomb strike on a high-rise apartment block in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. (Euronews)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
    • Two Palestinian teenagers, aged 16 and 18, are killed by Israeli soldiers during a raid in East Jerusalem, in the West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
• Kidnapping in Nigeria, Religious violence in Nigeria
  • 2025 Niger State school kidnapping
    • One person is shot, and 315 people, including 12 teachers and 303 schoolchildren, are abducted in an attack on a Catholic school in Agwara, Niger State, Nigeria. (BBC News)

Arts and culture

• Miss Universe 2025
  • Fátima Bosch of Mexico is crowned Miss Universe in Nonthaburi, Thailand, becoming the fourth Mexican woman to win the title. (ABS-CBN News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Bangladesh earthquake
  • A M_w 5.5 earthquake strikes central Bangladesh, killing ten people and wounding over 350 more. (AA) (Jamuna Television)
• 2025 HAL Tejas Dubai Airshow crash
  • An Indian Air Force HAL Tejas crashes at the Dubai Airshow in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, killing the pilot. (AP)
• At least 18 people are killed and 21 others injured in an explosion at a glue factory in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan. (AP) (Al Jazeera)

Health and environment

• Jamaica declares a leptospirosis outbreak after Hurricane Melissa, with health minister Christopher Tufton reporting nine confirmed cases, 28 suspected cases, and six suspected deaths linked to flood-related exposure to contaminated water. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Flood control projects scandal in the Philippines
  • The Philippine Sandiganbayan issues arrest warrants for former representative Zaldy Co and 17 others, including government engineers and construction executives, over alleged irregularities in a ₱289 million (US$5.87 million) flood control project in Oriental Mindoro. (AP)
• Peruvian political crisis
  • 2022 Peruvian self-coup attempt
    • A Peruvian Supreme Court judge orders the arrest and five-month preventive detention of former prime minister Betssy Chávez, who is under asylum at the Mexican embassy and is being prosecuted for alleged seditious conspiracy in connection with former president Pedro Castillo's attempt to dissolve Congress. (Reuters)
• High Court judge Bobbie Cheema-Grubb sentences former Welsh MEP Nathan Gill to 10 and a half years in prison after he pleaded guilty to accepting bribes from ex-Ukrainian lawmaker Oleh Voloshyn to promote pro-Russian positions in the European Parliament. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Twenty-four Palestinians are killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, including five in a vehicle in Gaza City and four children in the Nuseirat refugee camp. (Al Jazeera)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • A person is killed in an Israeli airstrike on a car in Zawtar al-Sharqiyah, Lebanon, while several more attacks are carried out across Kafr Rumman. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 European drone sightings
  • The Dutch defence ministry says the military opened fire at drones over Volkel Air Base, but that no wreckage was recovered. (AP)
• Five people are killed and 34 injured after a vehicle carrying passengers from Maiduguri through Kano en route to Lagos, Nigeria, collides head-on with a truck in Niger State. (Premium Times)

International relations

• Belarus–Ukraine relations, Belarus–United States relations
  • Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko pardons 31 Ukrainian citizens convicted of criminal offences in Belarusian territory in accordance with agreements reached between Lukashenko and United States president Donald Trump. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2022–2023 Brazilian coup plot, Arrest of Jair Bolsonaro
  • Days before the start of his 27-year sentence, former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is taken into preemptive custody due to a ruling by Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes that Bolsonaro violated his house arrest by damaging his ankle monitor. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Kyrgyz parliamentary election
  • Kyrgyz law enforcement conducts arrests, searches, and interrogations of journalists and opposition figures, including former first lady Raisa Atambayeva and several former legislators allied with former president Almazbek Atambayev, in an investigation into alleged calls for mass unrest ahead of the November 30 snap election. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • November 2025 Israeli attack in Beirut
    • Israel carries out an airstrike on a building in Beirut, Lebanon, killing five Hezbollah militants and injuring 28 others. Hezbollah military chief Haytham Ali Tabatabai is confirmed among the fatalities. (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites
  • Sectarian violence erupts in the Homs area of Syria, targeting the Alawite population. (SOHR) (The Independent) (The National)

Arts and culture

• International Paderewski Piano Competition
  • South Korean pianist Roh Hyunjin wins the 13th International Piano Competition held at the Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz, Kuyavia–Pomerania, Poland. (Portal Kujawski)

Disasters and accidents

• The death toll from the floods in central Vietnam a week ago increases to 90 people. (AP)

Health and environment

• The long-dormant Hayli Gubbi volcano erupts in the Afar Region of Ethiopia for the first time in nearly 12,000 years, sending ash plumes across the Red Sea towards Oman and Yemen, and causing flight disruptions across the Arabian Peninsula and South Asia. (AP)

International relations

• 2026 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Australia–Turkey relations
  • Australia and Turkey confirm an agreement for Turkey to host the 2026 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31) in Antalya, with Australia leading the conference's negotiation process and the Asia–Pacific Group convening a pre-COP31 meeting focused on climate-related vulnerabilities. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Slender Man stabbing
  • Police detain stabbing convict Morgan Geyser in Posen, Illinois, United States, after he removed his monitoring device and fled a supervised group home in Wisconsin. Geyser is returned to Wisconsin custody. (BBC News) (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Guinea-Bissau general election
  • Bissau-Guineans vote for a president, with incumbent Umaro Sissoco Embaló seeking a second term. (AP)
• 2025 Republika Srpska presidential election
  • Citizens of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, vote for a president to replace Milorad Dodik, who was removed by the court in June. Preliminary results show that Dodik's ally, Siniša Karan of SNSD, will defeat Branko Blanuša of SDS with 50.89% of the votes. (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 Slovenian assisted dying referendum
  • Slovenians reject a referendum on a law that proposed legalising assisted dying for some terminally ill adults with 53.44% voting against. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2025 in sumo
  • Ukrainian sekiwake Aonishiki Arata defeats Mongolian yokozuna Hōshōryū Tomokatsu in the playoff to become the first Ukrainian wrestler to win the Honbasho. (AFP via France 24)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza peace plan
    • The United States and the Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation announce it will permanently wind down operations, after closing its distribution sites six weeks ago. (AP)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • 2025 Federal Constabulary headquarters attack
    • A Jamaat-ul-Ahrar suicide bomber blows himself up outside the Federal Constabulary headquarters in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, killing three people and wounding two others. Two more armed attackers attempt to enter the camp and open fire, wounding nine other people, before being killed in a shootout. (Dawn)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israeli forces kill a Palestinian militant that killed two Kfir Brigade soldiers during a vehicle-ramming attack in May 2024 and arrest several others in Nablus, West Bank. (The Jerusalem Post)
• Moro conflict
  • Seven militants, including a field commander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), are killed in an encounter in Cotabato, Philippines, involving MILF factions caught in a clan feud. (PNA via Manila Bulletin)
• Western DR Congo clashes
  • At least 14 people are killed in conflict between rival ethnic militias in Kwamouth, Mai-Ndombe Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)
• Yemeni civil war
  • At least seven people are killed, including two attackers, and two others are injured in a mass shooting when unidentified gunmen opened fire on the governor of Taiz's motorcade on a road linking the southwestern city to the rest of Yemen. (MSN)

Disasters and accidents

• Seven people are killed and more than 30 others are injured after two private buses collided head-on in Tenkasi district, Tamil Nadu, India. (The Independent) (The Hindu)
• Five people are killed and 13 others are injured after a bus carrying pilgrims overturns and plunges into a gorge in Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India. (The Indian Express)
• Two climbers are killed after falling from a ridge on Aoraki / Mount Cook in New Zealand during a guided ascent. (Reuters)

International relations

• Myanmar–United States relations
  • The United States announces the end of temporary protected status for approximately 4,000 Myanmar nationals in January 2026, with the Department of Homeland Security citing changes in Myanmar's political and security climate, particularly the upcoming election, for the policy change. (Reuters)
• United States–Venezuela relations, War on drugs
  • The United States formally declares Cartel of the Suns, an umbrella designation for Venezuelan Armed Forces officials allegedly involved in the drug trade, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. (AP via KUOW)

Law and crime

• Arrest of Jair Bolsonaro
  • A panel of Brazil's Supreme Federal Court upholds an order to keep former president Jair Bolsonaro in police custody after he allegedly tampered with his ankle monitor while appealing a 27-year prison sentence for plotting a coup. (Reuters)
• Capital punishment in Sri Lanka
  • A court in Embilipitiya, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka, sentences ten people, including three women, to death for the murder of a man in October 2011. Sri Lanka has an unofficial moratorium in place, with the last execution taking place in 1976. (OnLanka) (Mirror Sri Lanka)
• Prosecution of James Comey, Prosecution of Letitia James
  • Judge Cameron McGowan Currie rules that the appointment of Lindsey Halligan as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was illegal, dismissing the indictments against James Comey and Letitia James without prejudice. (NBC News)
• One person is killed and ten others are injured when a man rammed a stolen car into pedestrians in Tokyo, Japan. The perpetrator is arrested by police at the scene. (The Independent) (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Egyptian parliamentary election
  • Egyptians vote in the second round to elect parliament members after the National Elections Authority annulled votes in 19 of the 70 constituencies due to various violations. (AP)
• India–Israel relations
  • The Israeli government approves a plan jointly-coordinated with the Indian government to admit 5,800 members of the India-based Bnei Menashe ethnic group to Israel under Aliyah laws and will settle them to the Galilee region. (DW)
• Pauline Hanson's burqa incidents
  • The Australian Senate censures and suspends Queensland senator Pauline Hanson for a week after she wore a burqa in the chamber to push for a burqa ban in Australia. (AFP via CBS News)
• Unions in Belgium begin a three-day general strike across the country to protest Prime Minister Bart de Wever's government of "social dismantling" through budget cuts in their savings program. (DW)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo–Ukrainian war
  • Kyiv strikes, Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Seven people in Kyiv, Ukraine, and three more in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, are killed as both countries launch airstrikes at each other. Several more people are wounded in both countries. (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian)
• Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
  • Afghanistan says nine children and a woman were killed when a civilian home was hit by a Pakistani airstrike in Khost, Afghanistan. (Al Jazeera)
• War in Darfur
  • Médecins Sans Frontières withdraws its staff from a hospital in central Darfur, Sudan, after a stretcher bearer is shot dead and several others are injured, stating that it will not resume operations unless the Rapid Support Forces guarantee the safety of its personnel and patients. (Reuters)
• Moro conflict
  • Seven people in a village located in Cotabato, Philippines are fatally shot during a firefight between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Moro National Liberation Front that left 48 families temporarily displaced. (Inquirer)

Arts and culture

• Polygamy in Christianity
  • Pope Leo XIV approves a decree affirming the Catholic Church's rejection of polygamous and polyamorous marriages. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Insurance in Australia
  • The Australian Federal Court fines United Super, the Cbus pension fund's trustee, A$23.5 million (US$15.2 million) for systemic failures that caused extensive delays in processing death and disability insurance claims affecting over 7,000 members. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• A Let L-410UVP operating as Nari Air Flight 114 and chartered by Samaritan's Purse crashes in Unity State, South Sudan, killing all three crew members while en route from Juba with two tonnes of food aid for flood-displaced communities. (Reuters)
• The Hayli Gubbi volcano in the Afar Region of Ethiopia erupts, sending ash plumes across Oman and Yemen, and prompts flight cancellations in northern India. (DW) (AP)

Health and environment

• Food security in Nigeria, Islamic extremism in Northern Nigeria
  • The World Food Programme reports that escalating instability in northern Nigeria is increasing acute food insecurity to record levels, with nearly 35 million people projected to face hunger in 2026 as the agency exhausts its funding by December. (Reuters)

International relations

• Moldova–Russia relations, Violations of non-combatant airspace during the Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Moldova reports that six Russian drones entered its airspace, including one that came down on a residential roof near Florești and another that crossed into Moldova before continuing toward Romania. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Arrest of Jair Bolsonaro
  • Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro starts his 27-year sentence for leading a coup plot. (AP)
• Counter-terrorism in Singapore
  • Singapore orders Meta and TikTok to block local access to the social media accounts of an Australian man whose posts advocate replacing Singapore's secular system with an Islamic state and seek to cause communal tensions and influence elections. (Reuters)
• Killing of Lisa from Abcoude
  • A court in Amsterdam, Netherlands, begins the trial of an illegal migrant from Nigeria who murdered a 17-year-old girl in Duivendrecht. (NOS in Dutch)
• LGBTQ rights in the European Union, Same-sex union legislation
  • The European Court of Justice rules for all European Union member states to recognize same-sex marriage and not discriminate against same-sex couples. The ruling does not force individual countries to legalize same-sex marriages. (DW)
• Two wanted gunmen, identified as "extremist" brothers, are killed and three security forces are wounded in a shootout in Ar-Ramtha, Jordan. (Sada News)

Politics and elections

• 2026 Ugandan general election
  • Ugandan opposition party National Unity Platform says security forces have detained more than 300 supporters and officials since presidential candidate Bobi Wine began campaigning, while police report several arrests linked to clashes at Wine's rallies. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Chinese space program
  • The Shenzhou 22 spacecraft enters orbit after China conducts its first emergency space launch to restore a safe return option for the three astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station following damage to the Shenzhou 20 return capsule earlier in November. The uncrewed spacecraft, launched on a Long March 2F rocket, carries replacement parts and supplies and aims to return the current crew to Earth in 2026. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israeli occupation of the West Bank
    • The Israeli military announces the start of a military operation in the northern Samaria area in the West Bank. (DW)
• A drone strike is carried out at the Khor Mor gas field in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, causing major power cuts across the northern Kurdistan Region. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• Holy See–Lebanon relations, Holy See–Turkey relations
  • Visit by Pope Leo XIV to Turkey and Lebanon
    • Pope Leo XIV begins his first papal trip, first to İznik and Nicaea in Turkey, then to Bkerké, the Monastery of Saint Maron, and the Port of Beirut in Lebanon. The trip will include an ecumenical commemoration of the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea and a mass in honor of the victims of the 2020 Beirut explosion. (AP) (Vatican News)

Business and economy

• Economy of Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Economic impact of the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • The International Monetary Fund announces a staff-level agreement with Ukraine on a proposed Extended Fund Facility worth more than US$8 billion, outlining fiscal and monetary policies intended to support macroeconomic stability, debt sustainability, and external financing amid the ongoing war with Russia. (AFP via CTV News)

Disasters and accidents

• Wang Fuk Court fire
  • A fire at a housing estate in Tai Po, Hong Kong, leaves at least 94 people dead, dozens injured, and 279 more missing. Police arrest three men for suspected manslaughter in the fire. (AFP via The Business Times) (Reuters) (AP)
• Cyclone Senyar, 2025 Thailand–Malaysia floods
  • The death toll from the floods in southern Thailand increases to 33 people. (Reuters)
• Eleven people are killed when a UV Express van collides with a truck in Camalig, Albay, Philippines. (Manila Bulletin)
• Five people are killed in an explosion at a weapons depot in Idlib Governorate, Syria. (AFP via Arab News)
• A Swiss tourist is killed and another person is critically injured in a bull shark attack off the coast of Crowdy Bay National Park, New South Wales, Australia. (BBC News)

International relations

• Cyprus–Lebanon relations
  • Cyprus and Lebanon sign a long-delayed maritime boundary agreement. (AP via ABC News)
• Dominican Republic–United States relations, War on drugs, 2025 United States naval deployment in the Caribbean
  • The Dominican Republic permits the United States to use the Las Américas International Airport in Punta Caucedo, Santo Domingo, and the San Isidro Air Base to support Operation Southern Spear targeting alleged drug traffickers linked by the U.S. to Venezuelan authorities. (AFP via France 24)
• Foreign relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Foreign relations of Hungary
  • Bosnian defence minister Zukan Helez denies approval for Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó to land his military aircraft in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, citing Hungary's support for former Srpska president Milorad Dodik, whom Helez accuses of undermining Bosnia and Herzegovina's sovereignty. (Reuters)
• South Africa–United States relations, 2026 G20 Doral summit, South African farm attacks
  • U.S. president Donald Trump announces that South Africa will not be invited to the 2026 G20 summit in Doral, Florida, and that U.S. payments and subsidies to the country will cease, citing South Africa's refusal to transfer G20 hosting responsibilities to a U.S. embassy representative at the 2025 Johannesburg summit and criticizing its treatment of Afrikaners, among other reasons. (AP via Arab News)

Law and crime

• 2025 deployment of federal forces in the United States
  • 2025 Washington, D.C. National Guard shooting
    • Two members of the U.S. National Guard are shot and critically wounded in Washington, D.C.. The perpetrator, who is also wounded, is arrested. (AFP via France 24)
• Women in Italy
  • Women's rights in Italy
    • The Italian parliament approves a bill to punish femicide with life imprisonment. (AP)
• Corruption in Peru
  • A Peruvian court sentences former president Martín Vizcarra to 14 years in prison for accepting bribes from construction companies while serving as governor of Moquegua between 2011 and 2014. (AFP via TRT Afrika)
• Murders of Yuna and Minu Jo
  • Justice Geoffrey Venning of New Zealand's High Court sentences 45-year-old mother Hakyung Lee to life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years after convicting Lee of murdering her two children in 2018. (DW)
• Myanmar protests
  • The Tatmadaw grants amnesty to over 3,000 political prisoners, drops charges of over 5,500 others, and grants conditional release to 724 prisoners ahead of the general election in December. (AP)
• Georgia's Tbilisi Appeal Court sentences opposition leader Nika Melia to an additional 18 months in prison for contempt of court after he threw water at a judge during a hearing, adding to the eight-month term he has been serving since May for refusing to appear at a parliamentary inquiry. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état, 2025 Guinea-Bissau general election
  • Bissau-Guinean president Umaro Sissoco Embaló is detained following a coup d'état one day before provisional election results were expected to be released. (BBC News) (Jeune Afrique in French)
• Kidnapping in Nigeria, Religious violence in Nigeria
  • Nigerian president Bola Tinubu declares a nationwide security emergency and orders the recruitment of 20,000 additional police officers and the deployment of specialised units in response to recent killings and kidnappings. (AFP via TRT World)

Sports

• Chess World Cup 2025
  • Uzbek chess grandmaster Javokhir Sindarov wins the 2025 World Cup in Goa, India, at the age of 19, becoming the youngest player to win the event. (FIDE)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Crimea attacks
    • 2022 Crimean Bridge explosion
      • A Russian court sentences eight people to life imprisonment for terrorism after a truck bomb attack on the Crimean Bridge in Crimea killed five people in October 2022. (MSN)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israeli occupation of the West Bank
    • The Israeli military and police say they are reviewing a raid in Jenin, West Bank, in which forces fatally shot two Palestinians who had exited a surrounded building after a prolonged surrender procedure. (AFP via Le Monde)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Three policemen are killed in a shooting attack by unknown militants with assault rifles on a roadside checkpoint in Hangu District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP via ABC News)
• Three Chinese citizens are killed in a drone–shooting attack at a gold mine in Shamsiddin Shohin District, Tajikistan. (Radio Free Europe)

Business and economy

• Green economy policies in Canada, Anti-environmentalism
  • Canadian prime minister Mark Carney and Alberta premier Danielle Smith sign an agreement removing planned federal emissions caps and eases clean-energy rules in exchange for strengthened provincial carbon pricing and support for carbon-capture projects, while also committing to enable a privately financed oil pipeline to British Columbia. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
  • Cyclone Ditwah
    • More than 40 people are killed, and 21 others are missing after landslides caused by heavy rains hit Sri Lanka, mainly between Badulla and Nuwara Eliya. (AP)
  • Cyclone Senyar
    • The death toll from flooding in Songkhla province, Thailand, rises to 104. (Thai Post)
    • Flooding on Sumatra, Indonesia, kills 49 people, leaves 67 others missing, and submerges over 2,000 buildings, with many of the worst-affected areas still unreachable a day after Cyclone Seynar's landfall. (The Independent)
• Nineteen people are killed after heavy winds cause a riverboat to capsize on Lake Mai-Ndombe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
• Eleven people are killed and two more are injured in Kunming, China, when a train hits a group of railway maintenance workers. (Al Jazeera)

Health and environment

• The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs estimates that Jakarta, Indonesia, has surpassed Tokyo, Japan, as the largest city in the world. (The Guardian)

International relations

• Australia–Iran relations
  • 2024 Iranian operations inside Australia
    • Australia adds Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to its list of terrorist organisations as a state sponsor due to its role in orchestrating and executing terrorist attacks in Australia last year. (ABC News Australia)
• Moldova–Russia relations
  • The Moldovan parliament votes to close a Russian cultural center, citing security concerns and recent Russian drone incursions. (Reuters)
• Poland–Russia relations
  • Russia orders Poland to close its consulate in Irkutsk in response to Poland's closure of the Russian consulate in Gdańsk following a railway explosion earlier this month that Poland attributes to Russian involvement. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2025 deployment of federal forces in the United States
  • 2025 Washington, D.C., National Guard shooting
    • One of two U.S. National Guard troops who were shot in Washington, D.C., a day earlier dies. (BBC News)
• 2022 Peruvian self-coup attempt
  • The Peruvian Supreme Court sentences former president Pedro Castillo to 11 and a half years in prison for criminal conspiracy when he tried to dissolve Congress and attempted a self-coup in 2022. (AP)
• Koldo Case
  • The Spanish Supreme Court orders former transport minister and former deputy leader of the ruling PSOE José Luis Ábalos and ex-adviser Koldo García into pre-trial detention without bail on charges linked to alleged kickbacks in public procurement, while also naming former lawmaker Santos Cerdán as a suspect. (AFP via Gulf Times)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état
  • The Bissau-Guinean military installs General Horta Inta-A Na Man as interim leader for one year, while President Umaro Sissoco Embaló is flown to Senegal, with opposition candidate Fernando Dias da Costa alleging the coup was orchestrated to block the release of the election results he claims to have won. (AFP via Vanguard)
• 2025 Vincentian general election
  • NDP leader Godwin Friday is projected to become the next prime minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, ending 24 years of ULP government under the premiership of Ralph Gonsalves. (WIC News)
• Conscription in France
  • French president Emmanuel Macron announces the revival of voluntary military service for 18 and 19-year-olds to begin in 2026. (DW)
• Human rights in Tunisia
  • Tunisia releases opposition lawyer and journalist Sonia Dahmani after serving half of her prison sentence for remarks deemed to be lèse-majesté. (Reuters)
• Alejandro Gertz Manero resigns as Attorney General of Mexico, citing an invitation from President Claudia Sheinbaum to serve as ambassador to an unspecified country. His departure comes amid scrutiny over his role in overseeing multiple prominent investigations, the most recent being the Miss Universe 2025 controversy involving its co-owner, Rubén Rocha, who has been accused of cooperating in drug, fuel, and weapons trafficking in Mexico. (Bloomberg) (MVS in Spanish)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian conflict, Israeli invasion of Syria
  • The Israeli military launches a raid in Beit Jinn, Syria, targeting unknown gunmen and carrying out airstrikes, killing 13 Syrians, including two children, and wounding 25 others. Six Israeli soldiers are also wounded in a shootout with local residents. Israel says it was targeting Jaama Islamiya. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News) (The Jerusalem Post)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
  • Cyclone Senyar
    • The toll from the floods in Indonesia increases to 174 people killed and 80 more missing, mainly in North Sumatra. (Al Jazeera)
    • The death toll from the floods in Thailand increases to 145 people, mainly in Songkhla province. (Al Jazeera)
  • Cyclone Ditwah
    • The toll from the landslides caused by heavy rains in Sri Lanka, mainly between Badulla and Nuwara Eliya, increases to 56 people killed and 600 houses damaged. (Al Jazeera)
• Two tankers sanctioned as being a part of the alleged Russian shadow fleet are hit by explosions while transiting the Bosporus, with at least one of the vessels catching on fire. Turkey says search and rescue operations are underway to evacuate the crew members. (Reuters)

International relations

• Honduras–United States relations
  • United States president Donald Trump announces that he will pardon former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who is serving a U.S. prison sentence for drug-trafficking offenses. (AFP via France 24)

Law and crime

• Corruption in Ukraine
  • Operation Midas
    • Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak resigns after agents from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office raid his apartment. (BBC News) (The Kyiv Independent)
• Russia formally outlaws Human Rights Watch as an undesirable organization. (AP)

Science and technology

• 2025 Airbus A320 software update
  • Airbus launches an emergency software update on A320 aircraft worldwide to prevent potential corruption to guidance systems caused by intense solar radiation, affecting 6,000 planes, causing major travel disruptions worldwide. (BBC News)
• A team of scientists announces the detection of electric discharges in the atmosphere of Mars for the first time by NASA's Perseverance rover, detected near the Jezero crater region, as a phenomenon described as "mini lightning", though not confirmed to be the same as actual lightning. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • Two Palestinian children are killed in an Israeli drone attack as they were gathering firewood in the town of Bani Suheila in the Gaza Strip. (Sky News) (Al Jazeera)
• Afghan conflict
  • Two Chinese citizens are shot and killed in an ambush by unidentified gunmen in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. (Times of Islamabad)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
  • Cyclone Ditwah
    • The toll from the landslides caused by heavy rains in Sri Lanka increases to 132 people killed, 191 missing, 44,000 more displaced, and 15,000 houses destroyed. (Hindustan Times) (Al Jazeera)
  • Cyclone Senyar
    • The death toll from the floods in Indonesia increases to 303 people. Two more people are confirmed killed in Malaysia. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Mass shootings in the United States
  • 2025 Stockton shooting
    • Four people are killed and ten others injured in a mass shooting during a family gathering at a banquet hall in Stockton, California, United States. (ABC News)
• Human rights in Tunisia
  • Tunisian police detain National Salvation Front member Chaima Issa in Tunis to enforce a 20-year prison sentence after an appellate court recently issued prison terms of up to 45 years against several opposition leaders on charges of plotting to overthrow the president. (Reuters)
• Seven people are killed and five others are injured when armed attackers open fire inside a bar in Tula de Allende, Hidalgo, Mexico. (AFP via Times of India)
• The offices of the Italian newspaper La Stampa in Turin are stormed by pro-Palestinian protesters. (RAI)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état
  • Guinea-Bissau's military junta installs a 28-member provisional government after seizing power, while ousted president Umaro Sissoco Embaló travels to Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, where he intends to stay. (AFP via France 24)
• Human rights in Nicaragua
  • Nicaragua releases about 40 political prisoners, who are transferred to house arrest and required to report to authorities. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2025 AFL Women's season
  • 2025 AFL Women's Grand Final
    • In women's Australian rules football, the North Melbourne Tasmanian Kangaroos defeats the Brisbane Lions in the grand final by 40 points to win their second premiership in a row. North Melbourne's half-back Eilish Sheerin is voted best-on-ground. (ABC News Australia)
• 2025 Copa Libertadores
  • 2025 Copa Libertadores final
    • In association football, Flamengo defeats fellow Brazilians Palmeiras 1–0 to win their fourth Copa Libertadores title, becoming the most successful Brazilian club in the continental competition. (BBC Sport)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza War
  • Palestinian tunnel warfare in the Gaza Strip
    • The Israeli military claims to have killed more than 40 Hamas militants over the past week who attempted to exit a tunnel in eastern Rafah. (AFP via Barron's)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Kyiv strikes
    • One person is killed and 19 others are injured overnight after a Russian strike on Kyiv, Ukraine. (ABC News)
• Republican insurgency in Afghanistan
  • The Afghanistan Freedom Front claims that its fighters killed three Taliban soldiers and wounded two more in a rocket attack in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. (Afghanistan International)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
  • Cyclone Ditwah
    • The toll from the floods and landslides caused by heavy rains in Sri Lanka increases to 334 people killed and about 400 more missing. (Al Jazeera)
  • Cyclone Senyar
    • The toll from the floods in Indonesia increases to 442 people killed and 402 more missing. (Al Jazeera)
• Eleven people are killed after two buses collide near Sivaganga, Tamil Nadu, India. (The Week)
• Five people are killed in a house fire in Neuves-Maisons, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Philippine anti-corruption protests, Flood control projects scandal in the Philippines
  • Trillion Peso March
    • Massive protests denouncing corruption over the ongoing flood control scandal are held across the Philippines. (DW) (The Philippine Star)
• 2025 Honduran general election
  • Hondurans vote for their president to succeed term-limited incumbent Xiomara Castro. (AP)
• November 2025 Swiss referendums
  • Swiss voters reject two ballot measures to conscript women into a national service program and to establish an inheritance tax on high earners. (AP)
• 2025 Kyrgyz parliamentary election
  • Kyrgyz vote for the members of the Supreme Council. (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 Transnistrian parliamentary election
  • Transnistrians vote for the members of the Supreme Council of the unrecognized republic of Transnistria. (Odessa-Journal)
• Thousands of supporters of Spain's conservative and Christian democratic opposition People's Party gather in Madrid and calls for prime minister Pedro Sánchez to resign amid a corruption scandal involving ruling PSOE. (AP)