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2025 November 03

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 Mw 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)

2025 November 02

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)

2025 November 01

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)

2025 October 31

Business and economy

• The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore founds a company, SAFCo, to meet Singapore’s goal of utilizing sustainable aviation fuel in flights. (CNA)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 21 people are killed and at least 18 bodies are recovered in landslides in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. (AP)

International relations

• The United Nations Security Council approves a United States-backed resolution supporting Morocco’s autonomy proposal and claim to the disputed Western Sahara, despite opposition from Algeria. (AP)

Law and crime

• 2025 Kartalkaya hotel fire
  • A court in Turkey sentences the owner of Kartalkaya hotel to life in prison after finding him guilty of severe negligence in the fire at his hotel in January, which killed 78 people, including 34 children. (AP)
• 2025 Tanzanian election protests
  • The United Nations says ten deaths have occured due to protests in Tanzania following the general election. (AP)
• Capital punishment in India
  • A court in Andhra Pradesh, India, sentences five people to death for the November 2015 assassination of the mayor of Chittoor and her husband. (The Times of India)
• Police in Guyana arrest opposition leader Azruddin Mohamed following an indictment by a federal grand jury in Florida, United States, and an extradition request by American authorities, who accuse him of several financial crimes. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Moldovan parliamentary election
  • Moldova’s parliament appoints Alexandru Munteanu as prime minister following the victory of President Maia Sandu’s Party of Action and Solidarity in the September election. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2025 Korean Series
  • In baseball, the LG Twins defeat the Hanwha Eagles in five games to win their fourth Korean Series title. (Yonhap)

2025 October 30

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Sudanese civil war
  • Siege of El Fasher, War crimes during the Sudanese civil war
    • Al-Fashir massacre
      • Massacres occur in Al-Fashir, North Darfur, Sudan, as Rapid Support Forces overwhelm the city and kill civilians for several days, targeting Zaghawa people. (DW)
• 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
  • Following peace talks in Istanbul, Turkey, the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan agree to an extended ceasefire, while Pakistan continues to allege that Afghanistan is sheltering militant groups like the Tehreek-e-Taliban. (DW)
• Israeli–Lebanese conflict
  • Israeli troops enter the southern Lebanese city of Blida and storm the municipal hall, killing an employee while sleeping. In response, Lebanese president Joseph Aoun orders the military to confront any Israeli incursions. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• The Sagrada Família church in Barcelona, Spain, becomes the world’s tallest church at 162.91 m (534.5 ft) after a part of its central tower was added during construction, surpassing the previously-tallest Ulm Minster in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. (DW)

International relations

• China–United States relations
  • United States president Donald Trump meets Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Gyeongju, agreeing to lower tariffs on China in return for lower rare earth trade curbs. (CNA)

Law and crime

• Immigration to the United States
  • The United States government announces it will lower the number of refugees admitted to the country from 125,000 to 7,500 starting in 2026, while also prioritizing white South Africans. (DW)

Politics and elections

• The Latvian Saeima votes 56–32 to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention treaty, which combats violence against women and domestic violence. (Reuters)
• In the United Kingdom, King Charles III begins the formal process of revoking Prince Andrew’s royal title due to his dealings with deceased convicted sex offender and human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. (DW) (The New York Times)

Sports

• 2025 Japan Series
  • In baseball, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks defeats the Hanshin Tigers in five games to win its 12th Japan Series championship. (Mainichi in Japanese)

2025 October 29

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Armed conflict for control of the favelas
  • Operation Containment
    • The death toll from yesterday’s police operation in Rio de Janeiro rises to at least 132 people. (Reuters)
• 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
  • Four people are killed in an American airstrike on a boat in the Pacific Ocean. (ABC News)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Six Pakistani soldiers and seven gunmen are killed in a shootout at the border with Afghanistan. (Al Arabiya)
• Spillover of the Mali War
  • The JNIM carries out its first attack in Nigeria, killing a soldier and seizing ammunition and cash in Kwara State. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • South Korea–United States relations
    • South Korea announces it has finalized a trade deal with the United States in which the U.S. agrees to 15% of tariffs on imported South Korean goods and South Korea will invest in American businesses and shipbuilding projects. (The New York Times)

Disasters and accidents

• At least nine people are killed and five others are missing due to floods in central Vietnam, including in major cities such as Đà Nẵng and Hội An. (Reuters)
• Three people are killed after a Mil Mi-17, crashes near Cusco, Peru. (Aviation Safety Network)
• The roof of the girls’ dormitory at a pesantren collapses due to heavy rain and strong winds in Situbondo, East Java, Indonesia, killing a student and injuring 19 others. (Tempo)

International relations

• Afghanistan–Pakistan relations
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • Peace talks held in Istanbul, Turkey, between Afghanistan and Pakistan collapse and achieve no clear agreement. (Reuters)
• International recognition of Kosovo, Kosovo–Syria relations, Serbia–Syria relations
  • Syria officially recognizes Kosovo as an independent and sovereign state. (Anadolu Agency)

Law and crime

• Pelicot rape case
  • The French Senate approves amendments to the country’s rape law to include a consent-based definition, clarifying that consent must be freely given and cannot be implied by silence or lack of resistance. (Reuters)
• Philippine president Bongbong Marcos signs a law institutionalizing a ban on the country’s offshore gaming operators and declaring their operations illegal. (Philippine News Agency)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Alberta teachers’ strike
  • In the Canadian province of Alberta, premier Danielle Smith says legislation has been passed to end the strike, invoking the notwithstanding clause to prevent court challenges of the legislation’s constitutionality. (CBC) (Global News)
• 2025 Dutch general election
  • In the Netherlands, a snap election is held following the collapse of the Schoof cabinet in June. (The Guardian)
  • Centrist liberal party Democrats 66, led by Rob Jetten, takes a surprise lead according to the main exit poll, just two years after the party ranked sixth in the previous vote. (Euronews)
  • Frans Timmermans, the leader of the GroenLinks–PvdA alliance, steps down following a poor performance during the election. (Politico)
• 2025 Tanzanian general election
  • Tanzanians vote to elect a president, members of the National Assembly, and ward councillors. Incumbent president Samia Suluhu Hassan runs unopposed after the High Court barred main opposition leaders from participating in the elections. (The Washington Post)
• 2025 Tanzanian election protests
  • Protests and riots erupts in Dar es Salaam over electoral reforms and demands for free political activity, with demonstrators setting fire to vehicles and damaging public infrastructure. Tanzanian police use tear gas to break up the protests and impose a curfew. Internet connectivity is disrupted shortly after. (AP) (The Guardian) (Reuters)

2025 October 28

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Hamas announces that it is postponing the return of the body of a dead hostage, citing multiple violations of the ceasefire by Israel. (Reuters)
  • Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
    • Three Al-Qassam Brigades militants are killed by Israeli troops in a shooting–airstrike attack in Kfar Qud, near Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. (L’Orient Today) (Reuters)
  • Hamas fires at and launches an anti-tank missile at Israeli troops in Rafah, Gaza, killing an Israeli soldier. (The Jerusalem Post) (BBC)
  • At least 104 people are killed, including 46 children, and 50 others are injured in multiple Israeli retaliatory airstrikes across Gaza City. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
• Armed conflict for control of the favelas
  • Operation Containment
    • Sixty-four people, including four police officers, are killed in large-scale raids on Comando Vermelho spots in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, making it the deadliest police operation in the city’s history. At least 81 suspected gang members are arrested in the operation. (CNN) (DW)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Al-Fashir massacre
    • Over 460 people are killed in an attack on a hospital by the Rapid Support Forces in Al-Fashir, North Darfur, Sudan. (AP)

Business and economy

• AI boom, Workplace impact of artificial intelligence
  • Multinational technology and e-commerce company Amazon announces it will lay off 14,000 corporate positions as it invests more in building AI and cloud computing infrastructure. (DW) (CNBC)
• Economy of the Philippines
  • The Philippine peso falls to a record low of ₱59.2 per U.S. dollar, which the country’s central bank attributes to currency depreciation influenced by recent interest rate cuts and foreign investment outflows. (Bloomberg)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Westmoreland parish, southwest Jamaica, as a Category 5 hurricane with 185 mph sustained winds. (CNN) (NHC)
• Mombasa Air Safari Flight 203
  • A Mombasa Air Safari-operated Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft carrying foreign tourists from Hungary and Germany crashes near Kwale, Kenya, killing all 11 people on board. (AP)
• Eighteen people are killed when a wooden vessel carrying dozens of irregular refugees capsizes off the coast of Surman, Libya. (TRT World)

Health and environment

• 2020–2025 H5N1 outbreak
  • The German government culls 500,000 birds, including chickens, geese, and turkeys, as the federal animal health institute reports over 100 outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza, including 30 outbreaks among poultry battery farms across the country. (DW)

International relations

• China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) sign an upgraded free trade agreement, which will broaden collaboration on infrastructure, digital and green transition, trade facilitation and people-to-people exchanges between the two sides, on the sidelines of the 47th ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (CNA)

Law and crime

• Assassination of Shinzo Abe
  • The trial of Tetsuya Yamagami, the alleged killer of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, opens in Nara. It is expected to end by mid-December. (AP)
• Crime in London
  • One person is killed and two others, including a 14-year-old, are injured in a mass stabbing in London, England. A 22-year-old Afghan national is arrested. (Sky News)
• Fijian deputy prime minister Biman Prasad says that he intends to resign after being charged with corruption. He is the second deputy PM in Sitiveni Rabuka’s government to be charged since last week. (RNZ)
• Nigeria’s Senate passes the Endangered Species Conservation and Protection Bill, introducing fines of up to ₦12 million (US$8,250) and prison sentences of up to 10 years for wildlife smuggling and strengthening enforcement against illegal trade in ivory, pangolin scales, and other endangered species. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Conscription in Russia
  • The Russian State Duma approves a bill to change military conscription to a year-round process, passing it to the Federation Council for approval. (AP)

Sports

• 2025 Turkish referee betting scandal, Gambling in Turkey
  • The Turkish Football Federation takes disciplinary action against 152 referees who were found to have actively placed bets on football matches. At least 371 of the 571 active referees are found to have a betting account. (ESPN) (NTV in Turkish)

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