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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)