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2025 October 27

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War in the Sahel
  • Mali War
    • Mali’s government closes all schools and universities across the country amid a fuel blockade by al-Qaeda-aligned JNIM insurgents. (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
  • Fourteen people are killed and one survives after three American airstrikes against four boats in the Pacific Ocean. (CBS News)
• Gaza war
  • Eight Palestinians are killed and 13 injured in the Gaza Strip during Israeli airstrikes, despite the agreed ceasefire. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• LGBTQ rights in the United Kingdom
  • King Charles III dedicates a memorial to LGBTQ members of the Armed Forces at the National Memorial Arboretum in Lichfield, Staffordshire, United Kingdom, on the 25-year anniversary of the end to the country’s ban on gay servicemen. (AP)

Business and economy

• Taxation in Malta
  • Malta introduces tax cuts exempting parents of two or more children from income tax on up to €18,500 (US$21,574) of earnings from 2026, rising to €30,000 ($34,985) by 2028, as part of efforts to address its low fertility rate. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Melissa reaches Category 5 intensity on its approach to Jamaica. (NBC) (Washington Post) (Fox Weather)

International relations

• Montenegro–Turkey relations
  • Montenegro suspends its visa-free arrangement for Turkish citizens after the stabbing of a local man allegedly by Turkish nationals led to unrest in Podgorica. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• A court in Mali sentences former prime minister Moussa Mara to two years in prison on charges of undermining state security and inciting public disorder. Mara will serve one year without parole and one year as a suspended sentence. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Cameroonian presidential election
  • The Supreme Court of Cameroon announces the reelection of incumbent president Paul Biya. (AP)
• 2025 Czech parliamentary election
  • Czech president Petr Pavel asks former prime minister Andrej Babiš to form a new government after his party ANO won the most seats in the parliamentary elections earlier this month. (AP)
• Tunisia suspends the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights from operating for a month, citing the need to conduct a financial audit on the organization’s foreign funds. (Reuters)

2025 October 26

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • 2025 Sumy offensive
    • One person is killed and 13 others are injured, including two seriously, in a Russian drone strike on a minibus in Mykolaivka, Sumy Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (Kyiv Post)
  • Two people are killed, including an elderly woman, and another is injured in a Ukrainian drone strike on an apartment building in Russian-controlled Donetsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (MSN)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Siege of El Fasher
    • The Rapid Support Forces say that they have captured El Fasher, the last stronghold of the Sudanese Armed Forces in North Darfur. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Three people are killed in two Israeli airstrikes in An-Naqoura and Baalbek, Lebanon. Separately, an Israeli drone drops a grenade near UNIFIL forces in Kfar Kila, without casualties. (Al Jazeera)
• A man plants an explosive near propane gas cylinders at a gas station in Georgetown, Guyana, killing a child and wounding four other people. The attacks is described as a terrorist incident, while the perpetrators are unknown. (AP)

Arts and culture

• Patriarch Daniel consecrates the newly-constructed National Cathedral in Bucharest, Romania, as the country’s largest cathedral with the capacity for 5,000 worshippers and the patriarchal seat of the Romanian Orthodox Church. (DW) (Romania Insider)

Disasters and accidents

• Fourteen people are killed when a fire engulfs dwellings in Bukavu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Africanews)
• Thirteen people are killed and five others are injured when a bus crashes in Kano State, Nigeria. (The Punch)
• At least 13 people are killed and 29 others are injured when a bus collides with a car and plunges off of a bridge into a stream in Puerto Iguazú, Misiones, Argentina. (News.Az) (Xinhua)
• In separate incidents, an MH-60R Seahawk helicopter and an F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet of the United States Navy, both operating off of the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier, crash in the South China Sea. All crew of both craft are rescued. (CNN)

International relations

• Enlargement of ASEAN
  • Accession of Timor-Leste to ASEAN, 2025 ASEAN Summits
    • Timor-Leste becomes the eleventh member state of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. (Antara)
• Trinidad and Tobago–Venezuela relations, United States–Venezuela relations
  • Venezuelan vice president Delcy Rodríguez issues a statement accusing Trinidad and Tobago and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency of military provocations as both countries carry out joint military exercises in the Caribbean Sea. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2025 Cameroonian presidential election
  • Cameroonian opposition presidential candidate Issa Tchiroma says that police have detained more than 30 politicians and activists linked to his campaign or who endorsed his candidacy against incumbent Paul Biya during last week’s election. (Reuters)
  • Four protestors are killed and several policemen are injured during clashes in Douala, as pro-opposition protestors rejects Biya’s re-election. (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 Louvre robbery
  • Two suspects are arrested in connection to the robbery at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, last week. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• Kurdistan Workers’ Party insurgency
  • 2025 PKK–Turkey peace process
    • The Kurdistan Workers’ Party announces that it is withdrawing its fighters from Turkey and moving them to Iraq as part of ongoing peace talks with the Turkish government. (AP)
• 2025 Argentine legislative election
  • Argentines vote in the midterms to elect a half of the Chamber of Deputies and a third of the Senate. (The New York Times)
  • The ruling La Libertad Avanza party of President Javier Milei wins the election with over 40% of the votes. (AP)
• 2026 Colombian presidential election
  • The Historic Pact party nominates Senator Iván Cepeda as its candidate for president in next year’s election. (Reuters)

2025 October 25

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Kyiv strikes, Attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Four people are killed and 20 others are injured in overnight Russian missile and drone strikes on residential areas in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Reuters) (AP)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Five soldiers and 25 gunmen are killed in a shootout between Kurram and North Waziristan, in Pakistan, at the border with Afghanistan. (Al Jazeera)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Two people are killed during two Israeli airstrikes against a car and a motorcycle in Harouf and Qlayleh, Lebanon, bringing the death toll from the attacks since the past 48 hours to nine. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane warnings are issued in Jamaica, as forecasts indicate Hurricane Melissa will likely reach Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, while rainfall estimates exceed 30 in (76 cm) across the country and in Haiti. (CNN)
  • Over 145,000 people are evacuated by Guantánamo Province officials ahead of Hurricane Melissa’s potential impacts in eastern Cuba. (NBC)

International relations

• Afghanistan–Pakistan relations
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • Pakistani defence minister Khawaja Asif says that if peace talks with the Taliban fail, Pakistan will declare an open war on Afghanistan, as Pakistan accuses the Taliban of sheltering Pakistani militants, which Kabul denies. (Reuters)
• Canada–United States trade relations
  • 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
    • U.S. president Donald Trump announces that he will raise U.S. tariffs on Canada by 10% in retaliation for an anti-tariff advertisement sponsored by the Ontario government. (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Irish presidential election
  • Independent candidate Catherine Connolly is declared winner of yesterday’s election of the President of Ireland, after Fine Gael candidate Heather Humphreys concedes the election during the initial tallying of the votes. (Reuters) (The Guardian)
• 2025 Ivorian presidential election
  • Ivorians vote to elect their president, as incumbent Alassane Ouattara seeks a fourth term. (Reuters)
  • Ouattara is re-elected with 89.7% of the vote. (Reuters)
• The United Nations Convention against Cybercrime, also known as the Hanoi Convention, is signed in Hanoi, Vietnam, marking the first time a UN treaty signing ceremony took place in Vietnam and the first time a multilateral treaty is named after a Vietnamese location. (The Diplomat) (UNODC)

2025 October 24

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War on drugs
  • 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
    • Six people are killed in a U.S. missile strike on a suspected drug-running boat in the Caribbean Sea. (AP)
    • The United States deploys the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier battle group to Latin America for counter-drug cartel operations. (Reuters)
• Gaza war, Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
    • An 18-year-old Palestinian man is killed after being shot and critically injured yesterday during an Israeli attack in the Askar Camp in Nablus, occupied Palestine. (Al Jazeera)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Three people are killed in a roadside bombing on a police vehicle in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in Hangu District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (The Canadian Press)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Three people are killed and two others injured during two Israeli airstrikes against two vehicles in Toul and Nabatieh, Lebanon. Senior Hezbollah commander Abbas Karki is among the fatalities. (AA)

Arts and culture

• The Booker Prize Foundation announces the creation of the Children’s Booker Prize, with the first £50,000 (US$66,500) winner to be announced in early 2027. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
  • At least four people are killed in Haiti and the Dominican Republic by Tropical Storm Melissa. (The New York Times) (AP)
• Twenty-five people are killed and several others are injured in a fire on a bus in Kurnool, India. (AP)
• Fourteen people are killed, two others are rescued, and two are reported missing when a rubber boat sinks off the coast of Bodrum, Muğla, Turkey. (DPA International)
• Four people are killed and over 21,000 others are affected during heavy rains in Sri Lanka. (Xinhua News Agency)

International relations

• Colombia–United States relations
  • The United States imposes sanctions on Colombian president Gustavo Petro, his wife Verónica Alcocer, his son Nicolás, and Interior Minister Armando Benedetti, accusing them of involvement in the global drug trade amid worsening relations between both countries. (AP)

Law and crime

• 2025 Ovruch train attack
  • A man detonates a grenade on a train in Ovruch, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine, killing three women and a border guard, and wounding 12 other people. The perpetrator, who also died in the explosion, was a fugitive from Kharkiv. (Reuters) (News.az)
• 2025 Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan protests
  • Pakistan bans the Tehreek-e-Labbaik party after deadly clashes between party members and Pakistani police during a protest march led by the party over the past two weeks. (Reuters)
• Azerbaijan–Russia relations, Media freedom in Azerbaijan
  • A court in Azerbaijan orders a senior Russian journalist of state media agency Sputnik be released from prison and placed under house arrest for three months. The decision comes after a meeting between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Tajikistan amid deteriorating relations between the two countries. (Reuters)
• Murders of Albert Alfonso and Paul Longworth
  • A court in London, United Kingdom, sentences a Colombian man to life in prison for the murder and dismemberment of two men in London in July 2024. The man also pleaded guilty to three counts of possession of child pornography. (AP)
• Pork barrel scam
  • The Philippines’ anti-graft court acquits former Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile, his former chief of staff Gigi Reyes, and businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles of their remaining graft charges, citing failure to prove their guilt. The three had been charged over their alleged misuse of the Priority Development Assistance Fund. (Philippine Daily Inquirer) (ABS-CBN News)
• A manhunt is launched for Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, whose sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl sparked anti-immigration protests in Epping, Essex, England, after he was accidentally released from prison. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Irish presidential election
  • Citizens of the Republic of Ireland vote for the next President to succeed Michael D. Higgins, who is term-limited. The candidates are independent candidate Catherine Connolly and Fine Gael candidate Heather Humphreys. (BBC)
• The Croatian parliament votes to reintroduce compulsory military service, which had been shifted to a volunteer system in 2008. The new conscription will require two months of basic training, allowing conscientious objectors to opt for civilian service. (AP)

2025 October 23

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Boko Haram insurgency
  • At least 50 insurgents are killed as the Nigerian Army repel drone-backed attacks on military positions in Borno and Yobe States. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Four people, including an elderly woman, are killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes in eastern and southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Syrian conflict
  • A ceasefire is agreed between the Syrian Armed Forces and Firqat al-Ghuraba, after the latter’s camp was sieged yesterday in Harem. (France24)

Arts and culture

• Billboard magazine revises the rules for its Hot 100 record chart and implements a maximum time spent on the list if a song drops below a certain rank, intended to shorten the age to be considered “contemporary”. (NPR)

International relations

• 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico, Canada–United States trade relations
  • U.S. president Donald Trump announces all trade negotiations with Canada are “terminated” following an advertisement featuring former U.S. president Ronald Reagan released by the government of Ontario. (CBC)
• Israel–United States relations, Proposed Israeli annexation of the West Bank, International law and the Arab–Israeli conflict
  • The United States rules out Israel’s plan to annex the West Bank following a Knesset vote, while several other countries also affirm their standings against the plan, calling it a violation of international law. (Gulf News)
• Nearly 700 foreigners have fled Myanmar and crossed into Thailand following the Tatmadaw’s raid on the KK Park scam center on Monday. Thailand detains 677 people, including 618 men and 59 women, after they cross the border into Tak Province, Thailand. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2025 National Basketball Association illegal gambling prosecution
  • More than 30 people are arrested by United States law enforcement as part of an investigation into illegal gambling linked to the American mafia, including former professional basketball player Damon Jones, Miami Heat player Terry Rozier, and Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups. (Reuters)
• Deportation in the second Trump administration
  • A review conducted by National Public Radio reveals that there have been at least 20 deaths in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody this year, making it the deadliest year since record-keeping began in 2004. (NPR)
• English Channel illegal migrant crossings
  • The United Kingdom Foreign Office issues sanctions against gangs from the Balkans for facilitating migrant smuggling across the English Channel into the UK. (DW)
• Killing of Iryna Zarutska
  • A grand jury indicts Decarlos Brown Jr., the perpetrator of the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte Area Transit System train in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, of first-degree murder and causing death on a public transport system, making him eligible for the death penalty. (NBC News) (Newsweek)
• A court in Belfast, Northern Ireland, finds a British soldier not guilty over killings on Bloody Sunday in 1972 in Derry. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2026 Brazilian general election
  • At a meeting with Indonesian counterpart Prabowo Subianto, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announces his bid for a fourth non-consecutive term in next year’s election. (AP)
• 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election
  • Hundreds of thousands of people gather in Budapest, Hungary, in rival rallies for incumbent prime minister Viktor Orbán and his main opposition rival Péter Magyar. (AP)

2025 October 22

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
    • According to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society forty-five people, including former prisoners and a child, are arrested during a series of Israeli raids in Nablus, Ramallah, Qalqilya and Tulkarem, in the occupied West Bank. They further say that homes are vandalized and the arrested are assaulted. (Al Jazeera)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Kyiv strikes
    • Six people are killed and several others are injured in Russian strikes on power plants in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Euronews)
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • One person is killed and six others are injured in Russian drone strikes on a kindergarten in Kholodnohirskyi District, Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. (The Kyiv Independent)
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Three soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces are killed in an operation in Stavropol, Stavropol Krai, Russia. (RBC-Ukraine)
• War on drugs, 2025 United States military strikes against alleged drug traffickers
  • Five people are killed during two separate United States airstrikes against two boats in the Pacific Ocean, the first such attacks in the area. The attacks since September 2025, previously limited only to the Caribbean Sea, have killed a total of 37 people. (Al Jazeera)
• Terrorism in Serbia
  • A man opens fire outside the Serbian Parliament in Belgrade and sets fire to a tent, critically injuring a person, before being arrested. The incident is classified as a terrorist attack. (Ansa)

Arts and culture

• 2025 Louvre robbery
  • The Louvre Museum in Paris, France, reopens with increased activity several days after jewelry from the Galerie d’Apollon was stolen in a heist. The Galerie d’Apollon, however, remains closed. (DW)
• Imprisoned journalists Andrzej Poczobut of Belarus and Mzia Amaglobeli of Georgia are awarded the 2025 Sakharov Prize. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Plastmass Factory explosion
  • At least 12 people are killed, 19 others are injured and 10 are reported missing following an explosion at a munitions factory in Kopeysk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. (BBC News)
• Four people are killed when a Robinson R66 helicopter crashes near Ekalaka, Montana, United States. (WIFR-LD) (HuffPost)
• Forty-six people are killed and others are injured in a collision between two buses and other vehicles on the Kampala–Gulu Highway in Uganda. (Al Jazeera)
• Forty people are killed, including infants, and thirty others are rescued when a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Mahdia, Mahdia Governorate, Tunisia. (Africanews)

Law and crime

• The Fijian High Court sentences former prime minister Frank Bainimarama to a 12-month suspended prison term after being found guilty of making an unwarranted demand to a public official under the Crimes Act this month. (RNZ)
• An opposition politician of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya party is shot and killed by an unidentified gunman in Weligama, Sri Lanka, amid an increase of shootings in the country, which have left 51 people killed and 56 injured since the beginning of the year. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Argentine foreign minister Gerardo Werthein submits his resignation to President Javier Milei. (Reuters)
• Greece’s parliament approves a law prohibiting demonstrations around the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens, designating the area for ceremonial use only. (Reuters)
• Thai deputy finance minister Vorapak Tanyawong resigns following his alleged involvement in a transnational scam operation. (Reuters)

2025 October 21

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian conflict
  • Three Druze civilians are shot dead by unidentified gunmen on motorcycles in a suspected sectarian attack in Kafr Maris, Idlib Governorate, Syria. (AP)
• Gaza war
  • Gaza peace plan
    • Two deceased Israeli hostages, Arie “Zalman” Zalmanowicz and Tamir Adar, are handed over to Israel by Hamas. (The Times of Israel)

Arts and culture

• XIX International Chopin Piano Competition
  • American Eric Lu wins the 2025 International Chopin Piano Competition at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, Poland. (Chopin Competition) (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Shinile train collision
  • At least 14 people are killed and dozens of others are injured when an overcrowded train full of merchants crashes into a stationary train near Dire Dawa in Oromia Region, Ethiopia. (Africanews)
• At least 42 people are killed and 52 others are injured when a tanker truck transporting gasoline crashes and explodes in Bida, Nigeria. (BBC News) (AP)

Law and crime

• Attempted assassination of Robert Fico
  • A Slovak court sentences 72-year-old Juraj Cintula, the perpetrator in the attempted assassination of prime minister Robert Fico in 2024, to 21 years in prison. Cintula continues to deny the accusations, saying he aimed away from vital organs. (AP) (BBC News)
• Irish anti-immigration protests
  • Rioting takes place in Dublin, Ireland, with several thousand anti-immigration protesters attempting to storm a hotel housing asylum seekers in the city after the alleged rape of a 10-year-old Irish girl by an asylum seeker. A police vehicle is set on fire during the unrest. (BBC News)
• Poland–Ukraine relations, Romania–Ukraine relations, Russia–Ukraine relations
  • A Ukrainian citizen is detained in Poland and two others are arrested in Romania for allegedly working for Russian intelligence agencies and preparing acts of sabotage on Ukrainian shipping routes. (AP)
• A Colombian court overturns a bribery conviction against former president Álvaro Uribe, who had been sentenced to 12 years of house arrest in August 2025. The court is still considering further appeals on a fraud charge. (Reuters) (DW)

Politics and elections

• Peruvian political crisis (2016–present)
  • Peruvian president José Jerí declares a 30-day state of emergency in Lima in an attempt to curb rising crime. (Reuters)
• Sanae Takaichi is elected as Japan’s first female prime minister by the House of Representatives after her party, the Liberal Democratic Party, agreed to form a coalition government with the Japan Innovation Party. (The Japan Times) (NPR)

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