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2025 October 01

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Terrorism in Germany
  • Three men are arrested in Germany for targeting Jewish institutions and preparing a terrorist attack on behalf of Hamas. The arrests were made in Berlin on Wednesday, a week before the anniversary of Hamas attack on Israel.(Reuters)
• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza City offensive
    • At least 61 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip and Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
• Haitian conflict (2020–present)
  • The United Nations Security Council approves of a larger combined international military and police task force to dislodge gangs from Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince. (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Cebu earthquake
  • Cebu governor Pam Baricuatro declares a state of calamity and suspends classes throughout the province due to the Mw 6.9 earthquake yesterday. (BBC News)
  • The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines reports that power has been restored shortly after midnight in five islands in the central Philippines, including Cebu. (AFP via Bangkok Post)
• Two workers are killed when the ceiling of an under-renovation serail in Damascus, Syria, collapses. (AP)
• Twenty-six people are killed in a boat accident on the Niger River in Ibaji, Kogi State, Nigeria. The cause of the accident is unknown. (AP)
• At least 36 people are killed and over two hundred others are injured when an under construction church collapses in Areti, Amhara Region, Ethiopia. (AP) (TRT World)

Law and crime

• The annual Oktoberfest is temporarily shut down in Munich, Germany, until 17:30 local time due to an explosion at a house earlier in the morning which killed two people, including the perpetrator. The police ultimately finds no link between the Oktoberfest and the explosion, which is caused by a domestic dispute. (DW) (AP)
• The Italian Carabinieri Art Squad seizes 21 paintings by Salvador Dalí suspected of being forged pieces at an exhibition at the Palazzo Tarasconi in Parma. (AP) (The Irish Independent)

Politics and elections

• 2025 United States federal government shutdown
  • A shutdown occurs in the United States after a funding bill fails to be passed, the first government shutdown since January 2019. (CTV News)
• The 2025 Right Livelihood Award is awarded to a student organization in the Pacific Islands fighting climate change, activist organization Justice for Myanmar, Taiwanese activist Audrey Tang, and the Sudanese Emergency Response Rooms for their work in combating injustice in their respective regions. (AP)
• Thousands of people march in Athens as part of a general strike across Greece to protest against proposed changes in labor laws that could change the 8-hour work day to 13 hours, or a 48-hour workweek. (AP) (The Guardian)

2025 September 30

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip, 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
      • At least 59 Palestinians are killed by Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, including 20 who were seeking aid. (Al Jazeera)
  • Palestinian political violence
    • A Palestinian man rams into Israeli pedestrians near Al-Khader in the West Bank, injuring two children, before being shot. (The Times of Israel) (Haaretz)
• Pakistan in the war on terror
  • Insurgency in Balochistan
    • September 2025 Quetta bombing
      • Eight civilians and two policemen are killed and over 30 other people are injured in a suicide car bombing followed by gunfire outside the Frontier Corps’ headquarters in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. Four attackers are killed. (Al Jazeera)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • An overnight Russian drone strike kills four people, all members of the same family, in Chernechchyna, Okhtyrka Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (BBC News)

Arts and culture

• Two-year-old Aryatara Shakya is installed in Kathmandu as Nepal’s new Kumari, succeeding Trishna Shakya who held the role since 2017. (AP) (Euronews)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Cebu earthquake
  • A Mw 6.9 earthquake hits the central Philippines with structural damage and power interruptions reported, particularly in Cebu where at least 69 people are reported dead. (The Guardian) (Reuters via The Straits Times)
• Nine people are killed when an under-construction coal preparation plant collapses in Chennai, India. (NDTV)

International relations

• 2025 Danish drone incidents, Denmark–Ukraine relations
  • Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy deploys a military mission to Denmark to share its expertise in countering Russian drones, as European countries plan a joint “drone wall” project to strengthen airspace defense. (AP)
• France–South Africa relations
  • South African ambassador to France and former sport, arts and culture minister Nathi Mthethwa is found dead outside his hotel in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. The ambassador had previously been reported missing by his wife. (Reuters)
• Haitian crisis
  • The United Nations Security Council approves a resolution to transform the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) in Haiti into a larger Gang Suppression Force (GSF) of up to 5,500 police and military personnel to combat gang violence. (The Guardian) (UN News)

Law and crime

• 2025 Moroccan Gen Z protests
  • Large-scale youth-led demonstrations in Morocco continue for a third day, despite police arrests and tight security. (Reuters)
• Capital punishment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sentences former president Joseph Kabila to death in absentia for treason. (AP)
• Chinese intelligence activity abroad, China–Germany relations
  • The Higher Regional Court of Dresden convicts a Chinese–German man of espionage for China while working for AfD politician Maximilian Krah, giving him a sentence of over five years. A co-defendant accused of supplying cargo and passenger information from her job at Leipzig Airport is given a suspended sentence of one and a half years. (AP)
• Nord Stream pipelines sabotage
  • Polish authorities arrest a Ukrainian diver in Pruszków, Masovian Voivodeship, on a German warrant, suspecting his involvement in the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions in the Baltic Sea. (AP)
• Mexico’s National Autonomous University cancels or shifts classes online in over half its departments after the killing of a student and threats against female professors, prompting authorities to strengthen security and provide support measures. (The Independent)
• A Thai appeals court upholds a two-year prison sentence against opposition representative Chonthicha Jaengraew for defaming the monarchy in a 2021 speech, while granting her bail pending a Supreme Court appeal. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Gabonese parliamentary election
  • Gabon’s ruling party, the Democratic Union of Builders of President Brice Oligui Nguema, wins 55 of 145 seats in the first round of legislative elections, with a second round scheduled for constituencies without a majority winner. (AP)

Science and technology

• Human rights in Afghanistan
  • Telecommunications are almost entirely down in Afghanistan following a internet cut by the Taliban government, with mobile phone services down to 1% of normal connectivity levels. (The Guardian)

2025 September 29

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Gaza war hostage crisis, Israeli–Palestinian peace process
      • The United States releases a 20-point ceasefire proposal to end the Gaza war, to which Israel agrees. The proposal includes the immediate end of military operations inside the Gaza Strip and the release of all living hostages within 72 hours. (Reuters)
    • 2025 Gaza City offensive
      • At least 39 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
  • Red Sea crisis
    • A Houthi anti-ship missile attack on Dutch-flagged cargo ship Minervagracht injures two people and forces the crew to abandon the ship. (AP)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Ukraine allegedly shoots down a Russian Air Force Mil Mi-8 on combat search and rescue duties with an FPV drone in Nadaeyvka, Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, killing several people and injuring several others. (ASN)
• Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
  • Unidentified gunmen kill at least twelve forest security guards in Oke-Ode, Kwara State, Nigeria. (AP)

Business and economy

• German economic crisis, Workplace impact of artificial intelligence
  • German airline Lufthansa announces they will cut 4,000 administrative positions by 2030 and replace them with artificial intelligence and digitization processes. (DW)
• American video game company Electronic Arts (EA) agrees to be acquired by a group of private investors, including Silver Lake, the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia and Affinity Partners, in a deal valued at $55 billion. The transaction, which will take EA private, constitutes the largest leveraged buyout on record. (Bloomberg News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
  • At least one person is killed as Tropical Storm Imelda makes landfall in the Bahamas and Cuba. (AP)
• Eight people are killed and 14 others are injured after a bus overturns in Samalut, Minya Governorate, Egypt. (MSN)
• Three students are killed, 38 more are missing and 77 injured after the collapse of a pesantren in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia. (Al Jazeera)
• Namibia deploys 540 soldiers to contain wildfires that have burned more than 770,000 ha (7,700 km2), about a third of Etosha National Park, along with surrounding land. (CNN)

International relations

• Brazil–United States relations, South Africa–United States relations, Human trafficking in Brazil, Human trafficking in South Africa
  • The United States places Brazil and South Africa on the Tier 2 watchlist of its Trafficking in Persons Report, citing insufficient progress in combating human trafficking. (Reuters)
• China–South Korea relations
  • South Korea begins a pilot program allowing visa-free entry for Chinese tourist groups of three or more for stays of up to 15 days. (Reuters)
• Colombia–United States relations
  • Colombian foreign minister Rosa Villavicencio renounces her United States visa in response to the U.S. State Department’s cancellation of President Gustavo Petro’s visa. (The Independent)
• Hungary–Ukraine relations, Telecommunications in Hungary
  • Hungary blocks access to 12 Ukrainian news websites to reciprocate Ukraine’s earlier ban on several Hungarian-language portals. (Reuters)
• Russian president Vladimir Putin signs a law denouncing and leaving the European Convention against Torture, after the country left the Council of Europe in 2022. (Reuters) (Mezha)

Law and crime

• 2025 Moroccan Gen Z protests
  • Moroccan police detain dozens of people on the third consecutive day of Gen Z-led protests across the country against government corruption in prioritizing public image over healthcare and education crises. (DW)
• Capital punishment in China, China–Myanmar relations
  • The intermediate people’s court in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China, sentences 11 people, including three from a powerful family in Kokang, Myanmar, to death for murder, running an illegal gambling and scamming crime syndicate. The court also sentences 12 other people to prison sentences between five and 24 years. (AP)
• Capital punishment in Iran
  • Iran executes a man convicted of being a spy for Israeli spy agency Mossad working on sensitive telecommunications projects and providing information on routes for importing electronic devices.(BBC)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Malagasy protests
  • Madagascar president Andry Rajoelina dismisses Prime Minister Christian Ntsay and his cabinet following protests over electricity and water shortages that left dozens dead and injured, while announcing an interim government until a replacement is appointed. (AP)
• 2025 Seychellois general election
  • Seychelles will hold a second-round presidential election after neither of the leading candidates, incumbent president Wavel Ramkalawan and opposition leader Patrick Herminie, obtains 50% of the vote. (BBC News)
• Flood control projects controversy in the Philippines
  • Ako Bicol representative Zaldy Co resigns from the Philippine House of Representatives after being implicated in alleged corruption involving flood control projects. (ABS-CBN News)
• Human rights in Afghanistan, Internet in Afghanistan
  • The Taliban imposes a nationwide internet blackout in Afghanistan to “prevent immorality”, cutting fiber-optic services and reducing connectivity to about 14% of normal levels, according to monitoring group NetBlocks. (AP)

2025 September 28

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza City offensive
    • At least 41 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • Russian forces launch more than 600 drones and dozens of cruise missiles at Ukraine, killing at least four people and injuring 70 others. (BBC News)
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A Ukrainian missile strikes a power station in Belgorod causing a massive power outage in the Russian city. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• Super Bowl halftime shows
  • Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny is announced as the headliner for Super Bowl LX to be held on February 8, 2026, at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, United States. (NPR)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • At least thirteen people are killed and dozens others are missing as Typhoon Bualoi makes landfall in Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh provinces, Vietnam. (DW)
• Twelve people are killed and 42 injured in three separate road accidents in Panjgur, Pishin and Lasbela, Pakistan. (Dawn)
• Four people are killed and another six people affected after a fire in a building in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States. (MSN)

Law and crime

• Mass shootings in the United States
  • Grand Blanc Township church attack
    • Four people are killed and eight others are injured in a mass shooting and arson attack on a Mormon church in Grand Blanc, Michigan, United States. The perpetrator is killed in a shootout with police. (CNN) (BNO News)
  • Two people are killed and five others are injured in a mass shooting at a casino on the Kickapoo reservation near Eagle Pass, Texas, United States. The suspect initially fled the scene before being taken into custody. (WOAI-TV) (KSAT-TV)
• 2025 Danish drone incidents
  • The government of Denmark bans all civilian drones after several UAVs were seen above military sites last week and caused several airports to temporarily close in fear of an attack. (DW)
• Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping
  • Former Chinese agriculture minister Tang Renjian is sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting bribes worth more than ¥268 million (US$37.6 million) between 2007 and 2024. (Reuters)
• A civilian is killed and twelve soldiers are injured during clashes between security forces and Indigenous protesters in Cayambe, Pichincha, Ecuador, over the government’s decision to end a diesel fuel subsidy. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Moldovan parliamentary election
  • Moldovans vote to elect the 101 seats of the parliament. (AP)
  • The pro-EU Party of Action and Solidarity of Moldovan president Maia Sandu wins with 50.2% of the vote, while the left-wing pro-Russian Patriotic Electoral Bloc wins 24.2% and the Alternative alliance wins 8%. Voter turnout is reportedly over 52.2%, higher than previous elections. (BBC News)

Science and technology

• The 625-meter-high Huajiang Canyon Bridge, the world’s highest bridge, is opened to the public in Guizhou, China. (South China Morning Post) (The Star)

Sports

• 2025 Asia Cup
  • In cricket, India defeat their rival Pakistan by five wickets in the final to win their second consecutive Asia Cup title and ninth overall. During the awarding ceremony, the Indian team refused to accept their trophy from Asian Cricket Council chairperson and Pakistani interior minister Mohsin Naqvi due to the political turmoil between both nations. (AP)
• 2025 FIVB Men’s Volleyball World Championship
  • In volleyball, Italy defeat Bulgaria 3–1 to win their second consecutive World Championship and fifth overall. (GMA Integrated News) (Rappler)
• 2025 Polish speedway season
  • In motorcycle speedway, KS Toruń defeats Orlen Oil Motor Lublin in the Ekstraliga final, winning their fifth Team Speedway Polish Championship. (Ekstraliga)
• 2025 Ryder Cup
  • In golf, Team Europe retains the Ryder Cup after scoring 15–13 over the United States. (The Independent)

2025 September 27

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza City offensive
    • At least 91 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 Cambodian–Thai border crisis
  • Cambodian and Thai forces reportedly exchange fire across their countries’ shared border despite a ceasefire agreement in place since August. (Nation Thailand)
• 2025 deployment of federal forces in the United States
  • U.S. president Donald Trump orders the deployment of troops to Portland, Oregon, saying he has directed defense secretary Pete Hegseth to secure the “war-ravaged” city. (BBC News)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • The Pakistan Armed Forces kill 17 Taliban militants and recover weapons and ammunition in an overnight operation in Lakki Marwat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (The Express Tribune)

Business and economy

• Economy of Iraq, Economy of Kurdistan Region
  • Iraq resumes oil exports from the Kurdistan Region through Turkey’s Ceyhan port, ending a suspension imposed in early 2023 due to an International Chamber of Commerce arbitration ruling against independent Kurdish exports. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Karur crowd crush
  • At least 39 people are killed, including ten children, and 83 others are injured in a crowd crush at actor-politician Vijay’s rally in Velusamypuram, Tamil Nadu, India. (The Hindu) (Hindustan Times)
• Eight people are killed after a bus collides head-on with a vehicle carrying oil in Panjgur, Balochistan, Pakistan. (The Express Tribune)
• At least four people are killed when torrential rain causes flash flooding across Arizona, United States. (The Times of India)

International relations

• International sanctions against Iran, Nuclear program of Iran
  • The United Nations reimposes economic and military sanctions on Iran after France, Germany, and the United Kingdom trigger the snapback mechanism under Security Council Resolution 2231 and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, citing Iran’s nuclear escalation and lack of cooperation with the IAEA. (BBC News) (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Mass shootings in the United States
  • 2025 Southport shooting
    • At least three people are killed and eight others are injured in a mass shooting when a gunman on a boat opens fire at a restaurant at the Southport Yacht Basin in Southport, North Carolina, United States. (BNO News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Gabonese parliamentary election
  • Gabonese citizens vote to elect members of the National Assembly alongside municipal elections. A second round will be held on 11 October for constituencies where no candidate has a majority. (AP)
• 2025 Seychellois general election
  • Seychellois vote to elect a president and members of the National Assembly. A second round will be held after no presidential candidate received a majority of the vote, with United Seychelles candidate Patrick Herminie receiving 48.8% of the vote over the incumbent Wavel Ramkalawan’s 46.4%. (AP)

Sports

• 2025 AFL Grand Final
  • In Australian rules football, the Brisbane Lions defeat the Geelong Cats to win the 2025 Australian Football League by 47 points, winning their second consecutive premiership and fifth overall. (The Age) (AFL)
• 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup
  • England defeats Canada in the final of the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup. (BBC News)
• In flag football, the Italian men’s and British women’s national teams win their respective IFAF European Flag Football Championship titles in Paris, France. (EuroFlag) (IFAF)

2025 September 26

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza City offensive
    • At least 60 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
    • Médecins Sans Frontières suspends its activities in Gaza City citing security concerns due to the Israeli offensive. (MSF)

Business and economy

• Economy of Botswana
  • Botswana president Duma Boko announces the launch of a immigrant investor program aimed at raising funds to diversify the economy amid a recession in the global diamond market. (Reuters)
• German economic crisis, Workplace impact of artificial intelligence
  • German automotive supplier Bosch announces it will lay off 5,000 employees by 2030, including 3,800 in Germany. (DW)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • Ten people are confirmed killed as Typhoon Bualoi makes landfall in Visayas and southern Luzon in the Philippines since yesterday. (Philippine Daily Inquirer) (Reuters)
• At least 100 people are feared dead following the collapse of a gold mining pit in Zamfara State, Nigeria. (Reuters)
• At least 14 people are killed when a minibus collides with two trucks in the southern Peruvian Andes, Peru. (AP)
• Eleven people are killed and 33 are injured when a building collapses following a fire in Nile Delta, Egypt. (AP)
• At least eleven people are killed and three others are injured after a truck crashes in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Dawn)
• Six people are killed and six others are injured when a roof collapses at a steel plant in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. (NDTV)
• A fire at a South Korean government data center in Daejeon disrupts more than 600 e-government systems after an explosion in a lithium-ion battery triggered the blaze. (The Independent)

International relations

• Colombia–United States relations
  • The United States revokes Colombian president Gustavo Petro’s visa following his participation in a pro-Palestinian demonstration in New York and his remarks urging U.S. soldiers to disobey President Donald Trump’s orders. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 1991 Austin yogurt shop murders
  • Deceased serial killer Robert Eugene Brashers is identified as the prime suspect in the quadruple homicide at an I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt! shop in Austin, Texas, United States. (CBS News)
• 2025 Danish drone incidents
  • Air Base Karup in Central Denmark Region, Denmark, is closed due to a drone sighting above the military base. Danish authorities describe the incident as part of an ongoing “hybrid attack”. (BBC News)
• 2025 Department of Justice counterinvestigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election
  • Former United States FBI director James Comey is indicted by a federal grand jury on two charges in a prosecution led by Lindsey Halligan, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. (BBC News)
• Corruption in Lebanon
  • Lebanese authorities release former central bank governor Riad Salameh after he posts bail of US$14 million and LL 5 billion ($55,866) while facing ongoing charges of alleged financial crimes. (Reuters)
• Human rights in Vietnam
  • Vietnamese activist Trịnh Bá Phương, already serving a 10-year sentence for anti-state propaganda, is sentenced to an additional 11 years after being convicted of writing statements against the Communist Party while in prison. (AP)
• LGBTQ rights in Slovakia
  • Slovakia passes a constitutional amendment stating there are only two genders. Only married couples have the right to adopt, which de facto prevents same-sex couples from adopting, while also banning surrogacy. (Politico)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Moldovan parliamentary election
  • Moldova’s electoral commission removes the Greater Moldova and Heart of Moldova parties from the ballot ahead of Sunday’s election, citing alleged illegal financing and foreign funding. (Reuters)

Sports

• The members of the International Paralympic Committee vote not to maintain sanctions against the Russian and Belarusian [be] National Paralympic Committees. (IPC)

2025 September 25

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
      • The Italian and Spanish navies deploy frigates to assist and protect the Global Sumud Flotilla on its way to attempt to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip after it was allegedly attacked by Israeli drones off the coast of Greece. (AP) (Reuters)
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • At least 57 Palestinians, including 10 children and three women, are killed by Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip. (AP) (Al Jazeera)
    • Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
      • Two Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants are shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during the siege of a house in Tammun in the occupied West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
  • Red Sea crisis
    • September 2025 Israeli attacks in Yemen
      • In response to a drone attack the previous day that injured 50 Israeli civilians, the Israeli Air Force bombs Houthi targets in the Yemeni capital city of Sanaa. (Al Monitor)
      • The Houthis launch a ballistic missile at central Israel, which is intercepted. (The Times of Israel) (YNet)

Arts and culture

• Tattooing in South Korea
  • South Korea’s National Assembly passes a law legalizing tattoo artistry by licensed non-medical professionals for the first time since a 1992 court ruling restricted the practice to doctors. (BBC News)

Business and economy

• China–United States relations, China–United States trade war
  • China lists six American companies on its Unreliable Entities List, including several in the underwater drone and satellite sectors. (AP)
• Ethiopia–Russia relations
  • Ethiopia and Russia sign an agreement on the construction of a nuclear power plant for Ethiopian Electric Power by Rosatom. (AA)

Disasters and accidents

• Six people are killed after a bus collides with a truck head-on in Sundergarh, Odisha, India. (The Hans India)
• Decomposed bodies of five suspected migrants are discovered in the Great Sand Sea south of Tobruk, Libya. (AP)

International relations

• Foreign relations of the Netherlands, Foreign relations of Uganda
  • The Netherlands and Uganda sign an agreement to establish a pilot transit hub in Uganda for rejected asylum seekers from nearby countries who cannot be directly returned from the Netherlands. (Reuters)
• France–Iran relations
  • France withdraws its case at the International Court of Justice accusing Iran of denying consular protection to two French citizens detained at Evin Prison in Tehran for more than three years. (Reuters)
• France–Mali relations, French military withdrawal from West Africa
  • The Malian junta declares an end to joint counterterrorism operations with the French military and expels five French embassy workers from the country, declaring them personae non gratae. (AP)
• Israel–Slovenia relations, International Criminal Court arrest warrants for Israeli leaders
  • The Slovenian government formally bans Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu from entering the country, linking the ban to the International Criminal Court arrest warrant out for Netanyahu. (AP)
• Moldova–Poland relations
  • Poland bars Moldovan politician Irina Vlah from entering its territory for five years for allegedly assisting Russian interference in Moldova’s upcoming parliamentary election. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2025 Malagasy protests
  • Unrest erupts in Antananarivo, Madagascar, following power and water cuts in the capital city. Security forces impose an evening curfew. (AP)
• Alleged Libyan financing in the 2007 French presidential election
  • Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is sentenced to 5 years in prison for criminal association, becoming the first former French president to be sentenced to prison. His former interior ministers Brice Hortefeux and Claude Guéant are sentenced to two years and six years of house arrest under electronic tagging respectively, due to a French law allowing prison sentences equal or inferior to 2 years to be converted in another sentences, and to Guéant’s health issues. (BBC News) (France 24)
• Ecuadorian security crisis
  • At least 17 people are killed in a prison riot in Esmeraldas, Ecuador. (Reuters)
• Flood control projects controversy in the Philippines
  • The Philippine Department of Justice and the National Bureau of Investigation file criminal graft and malversation charges against Senator Chiz Escudero, former senator Nancy Binay, and former house speaker Martin Romualdez in connection with investigations into alleged corruption in flood control projects. (The Philippine Star)
• Two teenagers are killed and three others are injured and hospitalized in a school shooting in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil. (AFP via France 24) (AP)

Politics and elections

• Lithuania’s parliament votes 80–42 to approve a coalition government led by the Social Democratic Party, installing Inga Ruginienė as the new prime minister. (AFP via The Straits Times)

Sports

• Brazilian professional skateboarder Sandro Dias breaks the records for the highest drop in ever and fastest speed reached (103 km/h) on a standard skateboard after skating down the Administrative Center of the Rio Grande do Sul state in Porto Alegre, Brazil, at 70 meters-high. (Red Bull) (Transworld Skateboarding) (AFP/CBS Newspath via WKRC-TV)

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