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2025 October 20

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza peace plan
    • Hamas returns the body of dead Israeli hostage Tai Haimi to Israel. (The Times of Israel)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • War crimes in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
      • Russian soldiers kill five people and injure another in a mass shooting at a house in Zvanivka, Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (RBC-Ukraine)

Business and economy

• Pizzeria chain Pizza Hut enters administration in the United Kingdom with at least 68 venues expected to close and 1,210 employees at risk of redundancy. (The Independent)
• Cambodian prime minister Hun Manet formally inaugurates Techo International Airport, replacing the 70-year-old Phnom Penh International Airport as the main aviation hub for the country. (AP) (Airport World)

Disasters and accidents

• Emirates SkyCargo Flight 9788
  • Two airport ground crew are killed when an Emirates cargo plane crash-lands and strikes a service vehicle at Hong Kong International Airport, before falling into the sea. (RTHK)
• At least one person is killed and four others are critically injured when a tornado hits the Ermont commune in Val-d’Oise, Île-de-France, France. (Euronews in French) (Metro)

Law and crime

• 2025 Louvre robbery
  • The damaged 19th-century Crown of Empress Eugénie is recovered on a street near the Louvre in Paris, France, following its burglary yesterday. (Le Figaro in French) (Town and Country)
• Corruption in Armenia
  • Police arrest Gyumri mayor Vardan Ghukasyan on bribery charges amid an anti-corruption investigation in Armenia, prompting protests outside his office and the detention of at least 23 demonstrators. (Reuters)
• Murder of Kim Ha-neul
  • A court in Daejeon, South Korea, sentences a teacher to life in prison for the murder of a eight-year-old student whom she stabbed at school in a murder-suicide attempt in February 2025. (The Korea Herald)
• The Tatmadaw conducts a raid on the KK Park scam center in Myawaddy Township, Myanmar, near the border with Thailand, and detains over 2,000 people and seizes over 30 Starlink terminals. (AP) (AFP via France 24)
• Vilnius International Airport in Lithuania temporarily ceases operations, suspends all air traffic, and closes the country’s airspace and borders after the government reports sightings of weather balloons used to smuggle cigarettes from Belarus. (DW) (The New Voice of Ukraine)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Malagasy coup d’état
  • Malagasy president Michael Randrianirina appoints Herintsalama Rajaonarivelo as prime minister. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• A severe outage of Amazon Web Services occurs in the United States, impacting many apps and websites. (NPR)

2025 October 19

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • A ceasefire between Afghanistan and Pakistan, mediated by Qatar and Turkey during peace talks in Doha, comes in to effect. (Al Jazeera)
• Gaza war
  • Gaza peace plan
    • Palestinian militants are accused by Israel of attacking Israeli forces at ceasefire boundaries, killing two soldiers. (The New York Times) (The Jerusalem Post)
    • At least 44 Palestinians are killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, with severe attacks carried out in Khan Yunis and Rafah. The Israel Defense Forces and Hamas accuse each other of breaching the ceasefire. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News)
  • Mahmoud Talal Abdullah, a Palestinian detainee from the refugee camp in Jenin, occupied West Bank, dies in Israeli custody at the Shamir Medical Center in Be’er Ya’akov. (Wafa) (The New Arab)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • Five people are killed and two others are missing as Tropical Storm Fengshen makes landfall in the Philippines, causing a landslide in Mindanao and heavy flooding in Luzon. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Colombia–United States relations
  • U.S. president Donald Trump says that the United States will stop payments and subsidies in aid to Colombia, citing “alleged drug trafficking endorsed by its government.” (AP)

Law and crime

• 2025 Louvre robbery
  • Thieves steal part of the French Crown Jewels from the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, before fleeing on motorbikes. Police have been unable to locate them. The stolen Crown of Empress Eugénie is later recovered, although it was damaged. (BBC News)
• Capital punishment in Iran, Iran–Israel relations
  • The Iranian government executes a person convicted of allegedly spying for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad in Qom. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Bolivian general election
  • Centrist candidate Rodrigo Paz Pereira of the Christian Democratic Party defeats independent right-wing candidate and former president Jorge Quiroga to win the presidential election, ending 20 years of Movimiento al Socialismo rule. (AP) (Reuters) (The Guardian)
• 2025 Kuomintang chairmanship election, Cross-strait relations
  • The Taiwanese opposition party Kuomintang elects Cheng Li-wun as the new party chairwoman, who is known for her advocacy of closer ties and peace with China. (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 Northern Cypriot presidential election
  • Citizens of the breakaway territory of Northern Cyprus vote between incumbent Ersin Tatar and Tufan Erhürman to serve as President. (Famagusta-Gazette)
  • Erhürman wins the election with 62.76% of the vote, against Tatar, who received 35.81% of the vote. (AP)
• 2025 North Macedonian local elections
  • Citizens of North Macedonia vote to elect new mayors and cabinets for the country’s 80 municipalities. (Sloboden Pecat)
• Thousands of Haredi Jews gather around the Israeli consulate in New York City, United States, to protest against the potential conscription of yeshiva students to the Israel Defence Forces, which has been exempt since 1977. (AP)

Sports

• 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup
  • In association football, Morocco wins its first U-20 World Cup after defeating Argentina 2–0 in the final. (Reuters)

2025 October 18

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza War
  • Gaza peace plan
    • The bodies of two deceased hostages were returned to Israel via the custody of the Red Cross from Hamas, the two hostages’ names were Sgt. Maj. Muhammad Al-Atrash and Inbar Haiman. (The Times of Israel) (The Times of Israel)
• A Cameroonian-flagged tanker carrying liquefied petroleum gas is struck and set on fire by a projectile in the Gulf of Aden east of Aden, Yemen. At least one mariner is reported missing. (AP via The Canadian Press and MSN) (CBS News)

Disasters and accidents

• Eight people are killed and eight others are injured when a vehicle plunges into a gorge in Chandshali Ghat, Nandurbar district, Maharashtra, India. (The Times of India)

Law and crime

• Two men are killed and two other men are injured from an early morning shooting at a Sunoco gas station in the Slavic Village neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. (WJW-TV)

Politics and elections

• Protests against Donald Trump, October 2025 No Kings protests
  • A series of No Kings protests against the Trump administration are held across the United States. Additionally, protests are also held worldwide across several US embassies. (CBS News)

2025 October 17

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • Pakistan carries out a series of airstrikes in Barmal District and Urgun District, Paktia Province, Afghanistan, killing ten people and wounding eight others, ending the 48–hour ceasefire which started two days ago. (Kabul Now)
    • The International Federation of Journalists confirm that a media worker was among those killed during the Pakistani airstrikes in Kabul, Afghanistan, two days ago. Journalist Abdul Ghafoor Abed was also shot dead while covering the shootouts at the border. (IFJ)
    • The casualty toll from the Pakistani airstrikes in Spin Boldak, Afghanistan, two days ago, increases to 40 people killed and 170 injured. (Tolo News)
• Gaza war
  • Gaza peace plan
    • Hamas returns one more hostage’s body to the Red Cross. (France 24)
    • Israelis fire at a vehicle carrying a displaced family in Gaza City, killing eleven Palestinians, including seven children. The IDF claims it crossed the ceasefire demarcation line. (EFE) (New York Times) (BBC News)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • At least 14 people are killed, including six attackers, and 13 others are injured in a suicide car bomb followed by gunfire at a military compound in Mir Ali, North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami claims responsibility for the attack. (Xinhua News Agency)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Rahova gas explosion
  • Three people are killed and 14 others are injured in an explosion caused by a suspected gas leak at an apartment building in Bucharest, Romania. (Reuters)
• Typhoon Halong (2025)
  • Alaska governor Mike Dunleavy requests federal disaster assistance, as flooding in remote villages forces over 2,000 to potentially face a prolonged evacuation longer than 18 months, caused by the remnants of Halong. (AP)
• At least 17 people are killed and others are injured when a bus loses control, hits rocks and overturns on a highway in Pernambuco, Brazil. (CTV News) (The Times of India)
• Three people are killed and eight others injured during an explosion at an explosives plant in Sterlitamak, Bashkortostan, Russia. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping
  • The Ministry of National Defense of China announces that Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of China He Weidong, Director of the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission Miao Hua and seven other generals were expelled from the party and the military following charges of corruption against them. (South China Morning Post)
• Hijab and burka controversies in Europe
  • The Portuguese parliament approves a ban on face veils for “gender or religious” reasons and making it punishable by up to €2,000. The bill, promoted by right-wing party Chega, is passed to President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa for review. (AP)
• Killing of Salwan Momika
  • A 24-year-old man from Syria, living in Sweden at the time, is identified as the main perpetrator who assassinated anti-Islam activist Salwan Momika. (The Jerusalem Post)
• Nord Stream pipelines sabotage
  • The Polish judiciary refuses extradition of a Ukrainian to Germany who is suspected of blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline, citing lack of evidence, arguing that it happened in international waters, on Russian-owned property, and amidst the Russian aggression against his state. (DW)
• WikiConference North America
  • A man brandishes a firearm and threatens to kill himself on stage at the 2025 “Wiki World’s Fair” event in New York City. A Wikipedia contributor disarms the man, who was later taken into custody. (The New York Times) (Newsweek)

Politics and elections

• Mongolian prime minister Gombojavyn Zandanshatar is ousted by the State Great Khural after four months in power. (AP)

2025 October 16

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza peace plan
    • At least three Palestinians are killed in Gaza by Israeli troops, bringing the total to at least 23 people killed by Israel since the start of the ceasefire. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
  • Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
    • An 11-year-old boy is fatally shot by Israeli soldiers near Hebron. (The Times of Israel) (BBC News)
• Red Sea crisis
  • Israeli attacks on Yemen
    • Houthi sources confirm the death of general and chief of staff Muhammad Abd al-Karim al-Ghamari from an Israeli airstrike in August. (Reuters)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Dnieper campaign
    • Russian forces say they have crossed the Dnieper river and have entered the city of Kherson for the first time since 2022, and captured Karantynnyy Island and Maly Vilkhovy Island in the city’s southwest. (ISW)
• Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • The Afghan government reports that a market and a civilian house were hit in yesterday’s Pakistani airstrikes in Kabul. Hospital sources reports that five people were killed and several wounded. (AP)
• Syrian civil war
  • Four Syrian soldiers are killed and nine others are wounded when a bomb explodes on a Ministry of Defence bus in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria. (AP)
• War on drugs, 2025 US Caribbean naval deployment
  • 2025 United States strikes on Venezuelan boats
    • The United States Navy strikes another alleged drug smuggling boat. Survivors have been reported from the attacked boat. (NBC News)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • At least eight people are killed in an attack on a security patrol in Zamfara State, Nigeria. (ABC News)
• Libyan crisis
  • Heavy armed clashes break out in Zawiya, Tripolitania, Libya, after the attempted assassination of Reserve Force commander Suleiman Al-Fitouri. (Xinhua News Agency)

Business and economy

• Swiss multinational food and drink corporation Nestlé announces it will cut 16,000 jobs over the next two years to combat rising commodity costs and business expenses. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 15 people are killed and eight others are injured when a truck overturns in Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Dawn)

Law and crime

• 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
  • Trial of Sheikh Hasina
    • The prosecution of the International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh formally announces that it seeks the death penalty against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan over alleged crimes against humanity committed during last year’s protests. Hasina has been in exile in India since her ousting, and Khan is also believed to be in India. (AP)
• Death and state funeral of Raila Odinga
  • Four people are killed when police open fire to crowd control tens of thousands of people mourning opposition leader and former prime minister Raila Odinga, as his body arrives at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya. (DW) (Reuters)
• 2025 Peruvian protests
  • One person is killed and 100 people are wounded during clashes in Lima, Peru, as protestors demands the resignation of President José Jerí. (AP)
• Former United States National Security Advisor John Bolton is indicted in a federal court over mishandling of national security documents. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Malagasy protests, 2025 Malagasy coup d’état
  • After former Malagasy president Andry Rajoelina flees the country after losing support of the Armed Forces, CAPSAT commander Michael Randrianirina forms the transitional government and is confirmed as the interim president. (DW)
  • The African Union condemns the coup and suspends Madagascar’s membership. (Al Jazeera)

2025 October 15

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • Pakistan claims that it killed at least 15 Taliban members in an airstrike in Spin Boldak, Afghanistan. The Taliban claims that twelve civilians are killed and over 100 are injured. Both countries also claim that they killed several soldiers during a shootout. (BBC News)
    • Pakistan carries out two airstrikes against Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. The target and the result are unknown. After the attack, both countries agree to a 48-hour ceasefire. (BBC News)
• Gaza war
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Hamas returns two more hostages’ bodies to the Red Cross, with 19 still in Gaza despite the Gaza peace plan’s deadline last Monday. Donald Trump also states Israel may resume fighting if he believes Hamas does not uphold their part of the agreement. (AP)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Kupiansk offensive, Humanitarian impacts of the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Ukrainian authorities order mass evacuations across 40 settlements and towns in northeastern Kharkiv Oblast, citing the worsening situation around the city of Kupiansk. (Reuters)
• Papua conflict
  • Fourteen people are killed by Indonesian soldiers during a six-hours battle with Free Papua Movement separatists in Intan Jaya Regency, Central Papua. The army claims that all of those killed were militants, while the group claims that nine civilians and three militants are among the dead. (AP)
• Ecuadorian conflict
  • Explosive devices detonate on two bridges in Ecuador. No casualties are reported. (Reuters)
• Haitian conflict
  • Doctors Without Borders announce that they are permanently closing their offices in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, due to safety concerns. (AP)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Six Pakistani soldiers and nine Pakistani Taliban gunmen are killed in a shootout in Orakzai District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Reuters)
• United States–Venezuela relations, 2025 US Caribbean naval deployment, United States involvement in regime change in Latin America
  • The United States reportedly greenlights covert operations in Venezuela targeting president Nicolás Maduro. (The New York Times)

Disasters and accidents

• Ten people are killed and 21 others are injured, including four critically, in an explosion on a crude palm oil tanker docked at a shipyard on Batam Island, Indonesia. (AP) (Marine Insight)

International relations

• Cambodia–South Korea relations, Scam centers in Cambodia
  • South Korea issues a blanket travel ban on its citizens to parts of Cambodia known for its scam centers, alleging that over 200,000 foreign nationals are working in these centers, including 1,200 South Koreans. (DW) (South China Morning Post)
• Russo-Ukrainian war, Russia–United Kingdom relations, International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian war
  • The United Kingdom imposes new sanctions on Russian major energy companies Lukoil and Rosneft. (RBC-Ukraine)

Law and crime

• International Criminal Court investigation in the Philippines
  • Judges at the International Criminal Court dismiss Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor in the case against former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, due to links between Khan and some victims of Duterte’s alleged crimes, whom Khan represented prior to Duterte’s arrest. (AP)
• Nord Stream pipelines sabotage, Italy–Ukraine relations, Germany–Italy relations
  • Italy’s Supreme Court of Cassation blocks the extradition of a Ukrainian national suspected of causing explosions which damaged the Nord Stream pipelines in 2022 to Germany, where he is wanted. (DW)
• Iraqi politician Safaa Al Mashhadani, a candidate for the upcoming parliamentary elections, is assassinated by a bomb attached to his vehicle in Al-Tarmia District. The perpetrators are unknown. (Gulf News)

Politics and elections

• Abortion in Costa Rica, Women’s rights in Costa Rica
  • President Rodrigo Chaves Robles restricts abortion in Costa Rica only to cases where the life of the mother is at risk. (AP)
• Euthanasia in Uruguay
  • Uruguay becomes the first country in Latin America to decriminalise euthanasia via legislation after the law is passed by the Senate. (AP)
• Guatemalan president Bernardo Arévalo accepts the resignation of three top security officials following a jailbreak where 20 members of the Barrio 18 gang escaped from prison. (AP)

2025 October 14

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Hamas hands the remains of three more dead hostages over to the Red Cross following the release of four bodies on Monday. Twenty-one bodies of hostages remain in Gaza. A fourth body was found not to be a hostage. (BBC News) (The Times)
    • Israeli forensic teams identify the four dead hostages returned on Monday as three Israelis and a Nepalese citizen, all of whom were kidnapped during the October 7 attacks. (The New York Times) (BBC News)
    • In response to the limited release of bodies on Monday, Israel notifies the United Nations it will not open the Rafah crossing and only allow 300 aid trucks to enter the Gaza Strip daily, instead of the 600 agreed to in the ceasefire agreement. (Reuters) (The Times of Israel)
  • Israeli troops kill nine Palestinians in Gaza, saying those killed violated the IDF’s withdrawal line as established by the peace agreement. (Al Jazeera) (The Times) (Reuters)
• War on drugs, 2025 US Caribbean naval deployment
  • 2025 United States strikes on Venezuelan boats
    • The United States Navy carries out an airstrike on an alleged drug boat near the coast of Venezuela. U.S. president Donald Trump announces that at least six people were killed by the attack. (AP)
• Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
  • At least 13 people are killed and others are injured in attacks by suspected herders on two villages in Plateau State, Nigeria. (Xinhua News Agency)
• Ecuadorian conflict
  • At least one person is killed and several others are injured in a car bomb explosion near a shopping mall in Guayaquil, Ecuador. (BNO News)
• M23 campaign
  • The Congolese government and the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels sign an agreement in Doha, Qatar, to formally establish an oversight body to work towards a permanent ceasefire, which will include representatives from the two groups and the other members of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region. (Reuters) (AP)

Business and economy

• China–United States trade war, China–South Korea relations
  • The Chinese commerce ministry issues sanctions on and bans Chinese companies from dealing with five subsidiaries of South Korean shipbuilding company Hanwha Ocean, which has shipyards and investments in the United States and maintains contracts with the U.S. Navy. (AP) (The Wall Street Journal)
• The European Union fines luxury brands Gucci, Chloé, and Loewe over €157 million (US$182.5 million) for violating EU competition laws through price fixing. (DW) (The Fashion Law)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Dhaka garment factory fire
  • At least 16 people are killed and several injured in a fire at a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Reuters)
• October 2025 Mexico floods and landslides
  • The death toll from the past week’s torrential rain-related flooding across five states in eastern Mexico, especially in Hidalgo and Veracruz, increases to 64, with 257 others still missing. At least 100,000 homes, 59 medical facilities, and 308 schools across the region are damaged by water and oil from the Gulf of Mexico. (NPR) (Milenio in Spanish)
• Twenty people are killed and 16 others are injured when a bus catches fire in Rajasthan, India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces compensation payments of ₹200,000 (US$2,200) to the deceased’s families and ₹50,000 ($569) to those injured. (AP) (DW) (The Hindu)

International relations

• France–Iran relations
  • The Iranian government detains and imprisons two unnamed French nationals for alleged espionage on behalf of French and Israeli intelligence agencies. (DW) (TRT World)

Law and crime

• 2025 Castel d’Azzano explosion
  • Three carabinieri are killed and 25 other people are injured in an intentional explosion during the attempted eviction of a farmhouse in Castel d’Azzano, Province of Verona, Veneto, Italy. A woman and her two brothers, all in their 60s, are arrested. (AP) (Rai News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Malagasy protests, 2025 Malagasy coup d’état
  • Malagasy president Andry Rajoelina issues a decree dissolving the National Assembly one day after fleeing to an unknown location, alleging fear for his life following a military coup. (AP)
  • The National Assembly refuses to comply with Rajoelina’s decree and votes to impeach him, as the military says that they have now seized power. (Reuters)
  • The Malagasy military formally announces it is “taking power” with a military council after the ousting of President Rajoelina. (Le Monde)
• 2025 Nauruan parliamentary election
  • Incumbent Nauruan president David Adeang is unanimously re-elected by the parliament following Saturday’s election. (RNZ)
• Federal police fire tear gas and water cannon at over 80,000 demonstrators in Brussels, Belgium, protesting against Prime Minister Bart De Wever’s proposed austerity laws which would cut pensions, unemployment benefits, and healthcare systems in an attempt to lower national debt. (AP)
• President of Peru José Jerí appoints Ernesto Álvarez Miranda as the new Prime Minister. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Microsoft ends support for Windows 10 a decade after its release, despite 41% of Windows users still running this version of the operating system. (Microsoft) (CNET)

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