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2025 September 22

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza City offensive
    • At least 37 Palestinians are killed from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, including 30 in Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Hamas releases a video giving a sign of life for hostage Alon Ohel, who was kidnapped during the October 7 attacks. (The Times of Israel) (YNet)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Zaporizhzhia strikes, Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russian forces strike Zaporizhzhia with at least ten glide bombs, killing three people and injuring two others. The overnight attack damages at least 15 apartment buildings and ten private homes in residential areas of the city. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • A bomb explodes at a Pakistani Taliban compound in the Tirah Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during a raid, killing at least 24 people, including ten civilians and fourteen militants. (AP) (DW)
• Islamist insurgency in Niger
  • An airstrike near a market in Injar, Tillabéri Region, Niger, kills at least 30 people. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• Disciplinary actions for commentary on the assassination of Charlie Kirk
  • Suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live!
    • ABC parent company Disney announces that American late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! will begin airing again on Tuesday after it was “indefinitely suspended” last week following pressure from the Trump administration after host Jimmy Kimmel commented on slain right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk and his fanbase. (NPR)

Business and economy

• Stocks in Kenvue Inc. fall by 5% after the second Trump administration issues statements citing acetaminophen under their brand name Tylenol as a cause of autism. (Fortune)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 European heatwaves
  • Nature Medicine publishes a report that Europe had over 62,700 heat-related deaths in 2024, with women and elderly people representing the largest part of the death toll. (MSN)
• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • Typhoon Ragasa makes landfall in Luzon, Philippines, killing at least three people and leaving six others missing, and triggering alerts and evacuation orders in nearby Hong Kong and southern China. (CNN) (News.az)
• Twenty-five miners are trapped about 80 metres (260 ft) underground after a gold mine collapses in Segovia, Antioquia, Colombia, with authorities confirming contact, stable health conditions, and ongoing rescue operations. (AFP via CTV News)

Health and environment

• 2020–2025 H5N1 outbreak
  • Poland reports an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza on poultry farms in Susz, Warmian–Masurian Voivodeship, where around 4,000 birds have died. (Reuters)
• Causes of autism
  • U.S. president Donald Trump and health sectretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announce the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will advise doctors against recommending acetaminophen to pregnant women, alleging a link between the drug and autism. (CNN)
  • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves leucovorin for the treatment of cerebral folate deficiency, citing evidence that it can improve autistic features. (Reuters)

International relations

• International recognition of Palestine
  • Andorra, France, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, and San Marino formally recognize the State of Palestine as a sovereign state with full rights. (Reuters) (CNN)
• Israel–Singapore relations
  • Singapore announces targeted sanctions on leaders of Israeli settler groups, citing concerns over settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian territories. (Reuters)
• Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger (the Alliance of Sahel States) announce their withdrawal from the International Criminal Court, citing its ineffectiveness. (AFP via France 24)

Law and crime

• Ecuadorian conflict
  • Fourteen people are killed, including a guard, 14 others are injured and inmates escape during clashes between rival gangs at a jail in Machala, El Oro Province, Ecuador. (BBC News)
  • About 1,000 protestors attack and destroy most of a police station along with vehicles and the houses of officers in Otavalo, Imbabura Province, Ecuador. Two people are injured. (AP)
• International Criminal Court investigation in the Philippines
  • The International Criminal Court (ICC) charges former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte with crimes against humanity for his alleged involvement in the killing of at least 76 people during his term as president and Davao City mayor. He was arrested in March under an ICC arrest warrant and is currently held in a detention facility in the Netherlands. (NPR) (BBC News)
• Executive orders in the second Trump presidency
  • U.S. president Donald Trump signs an executive order formally designating Antifa as a terrorist organization. (Reuters)
• Copenhagen Airport in Denmark and Oslo Airport in Norway are both closed and all flights are diverted after multiple “large drones” are sighted near the airports. It is unclear where the drones originated from or who is operating them. (BBC News) (Times Now)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Guinean constitutional referendum
  • Provisional results show that over 90% of voters in Guinea approve a constitutional change that permits members of the ruling junta to seek the presidency and extend term limits, amid opposition boycotts and criticism that the process consolidates military power. (AP)
• 2025 Moldovan parliamentary election
  • Moldovan police conduct 250 raids and detain 74 people as part of an investigation into an alleged Russia-supported plan to provoke unrest before the parliamentary election, with officials stating that suspects received training in Serbia while Russia denies involvement. (AP)
• Human rights in Egypt
  • Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi grants a presidential pardon to activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah after he was detained in 2015 and re-arrested in 2019 for participating in unauthorized protests. Abd el-Fattah was expected to be released in September 2024 after his 5-year sentence ended but was continuously detained until now. (DW) (Reuters)
• Costa Rican president Rodrigo Chaves Robles survives a congressional vote to lift his immunity, falling short of the required majority, after prosecutors accused him of abuse of power in a corruption case. (AFP/BSS)

Sports

• 2025 Ballon d’Or
  • In association football, French player Ousmane Dembélé and Spanish player Aitana Bonmatí are awarded their first Ballon d’Or and third consecutive Ballon d’Or Féminin, respectively. (The Daily Jagran)
• 2025 CFL season
  • Canadian Football League (CFL) commissioner Stewart Johnston announces significant changes to the rules and playing field of the CFL, to take effect in starting in the 2026 and 2027 season, respectively. (TSN)
• In ski mountaineering, Polish climber Andrzej Bargiel becomes the first person to complete a continuous ski descent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. (CBS News)

2025 September 21

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza City offensive
    • At least 68 Palestinians are killed by Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, with 37 killed in Gaza City. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Five people are killed and two others are injured in an Israeli drone strike on a vehicle in Bint Jbeil, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Afghanistan–United States relations
  • Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid says that Afghanistan will not cede control of Bagram Air Base to the United States following threats by US president Donald Trump, who warns of consequences if the Taliban does not release control of the base. (AP)
• International recognition of Palestine
  • Australia, Canada, Portugal, and the United Kingdom formally recognise the State of Palestine as a sovereign state, with Canada becoming the first G7 country to do so. (BBC News) (Reuters)

Law and crime

• LGBTQ rights in Pakistan
  • The bodies of three transgender women who were shot and killed are discovered in a local graveyard near Karachi, Pakistan. (DW)
• Nigerian police arrest six suspects after an ambush in Benue State kills eleven officers. (Reuters) (The Street Journal)

Politics and elections

• September 2025 Philippine protests, Flood control projects controversy in the Philippines
  • Trillion Peso March
    • Mass demonstrations are held across the Philippines to protest corruption in government flood control infrastructure projects. (AP) (Bloomberg News) (The Manila Times)
• 2025 Guinean constitutional referendum
  • Guineans vote on whether to replace their constitution, established in 2020, with a new one. (Reuters)
• Welfare in Peru, Peruvian political crisis
  • Thousands of people led by the “Generation Z” collective protest in Lima, Peru, against President Dina Boluarte and a controversial new law requiring young people to join a private pension fund. (TRT World) (Peoples Dispatch)

Science and technology

• Solar eclipse of September 21, 2025
  • A partial solar eclipse with an eclipse magnitude of 0.855 is visible in Antarctica and the South Pacific Ocean. New Zealand is mostly clouded out, preventing many sightings. (EclipseWise) (Space.com)

Sports

• In women’s basketball, Las Vegas Aces player A’ja Wilson wins a historic fourth WNBA MVP award and the first ever consecutive win in the league’s history after winning the award last season. (Las Vegas Sun) (Bleacher Report)

2025 September 20

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • 2025 Gaza City offensive
      • At least 91 Palestinians are killed by Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, including 76 people in Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • At least three people are killed and more than 30 people are injured in a Russian drone and missile attack on critical infrastructure and residential buildings across Ukraine. (BBC News) (Reuters)
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Four people are killed and one person is injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on oil refineries in Novokuybyshevsk, Samara Oblast and Saratov, Saratov Oblast, Russia. (BBC News) (The Kyiv Independent)
• Druze insurgency in Southern Syria
  • Pro-government Bedouin tribes issue a 10 day ultimatum to Druze insurgents to release hostages held in the Suwayda Governorate under the threat of a resumption of hostilities. (SOHR)
• Haitian conflict
  • At least eight children are killed and six others are injured after explosive drones strike the birthday party of a suspected gang leader in Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, with human rights groups accusing police of carrying out the attack that also leaves several adults dead. (AP)

Arts and culture

• Intervision 2025 is held in Moscow, Russia, and is won by Đức Phúc from Vietnam. (CNN) (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• At least seven people, including five children, are killed and several others are injured when the roof of a private academy collapsed in Punjab province, Pakistan. (Xinhua)
• Two people are killed, including television host Débora Estrella, when a Cessna 150 crashes in García Nuevo León, Mexico. (NDTV)
• Two Polish Special Forces soldiers die in the United States during night parachute training, according to the Polish Armed Forces General Command. The GROM Military Unit reports that they were paratroopers from the CICHOCIEMNI group. (TVP Info in Polish)

Law and crime

• 2025 Nashua shooting
  • One person is killed and eight others are injured, including six non-gunshot victims, in a shooting at the Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States. The suspect is arrested. (WMUR-TV)
• Collins Aerospace cyberattack
  • A cyberattack on a service provider causes flight disruptions at multiple European airports. (DW)

Politics and elections

• 2024–2025 French political crisis
  • Between 500,000, according to French authorities, and one million people, according to the unions, manifest or participate in labour strikes across France, to protest against austerity politics planned by President Emmanuel Macron, and to pressure him to finally choose a prime minister representative of the 2024 French legislative election results. (France 24)
• Ecuador’s electoral council approves President Daniel Noboa’s request for a referendum on constitutional changes, including ending the ban on foreign military bases and eliminating state funding for political parties, while the Constitutional Court reviews challenges to his proposal for a constituent assembly. (AP)

2025 September 19

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza City offensive
    • At least 43 Palestinians are killed from Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, including 26 people in Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Siege of El Fasher
    • The Rapid Support Forces attacks a mosque at an internal displacement camp with a drone strike near El Fasher, North Darfur, killing 75 people. (DW)
• Insurgency in Manipur
  • Two Assam Rifles personnel are killed and five Assam Rifles personnel are injured in an ambush by People’s Liberation Army of Manipur militants in Bishnupur, Manipur. (NDTV)
• Insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria
  • At least 11 police officers are killed in an ambush by armed assailants in Benue State, Nigeria. (The Street Journal)

Arts and culture

• Canada bans the Irish band Kneecap from entering the country, citing statements and alleged links to designated terrorist groups. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Three workers are killed in an explosion at a silo operated by waste management company Ecopartenope near Caserta, Italy. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 in the United States
  • The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices unanimously votes to abandon its recommendation for the COVID-19 vaccine and now recommends that Americans get the vaccine based on their personal choice. In a separate vote, the committee votes for the CDC to communicate clear risks about COVID-19 vaccines. (ABC News)

International relations

• Estonia–Russia relations, Russia–NATO relations, Violations of non-combatant airspaces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Estonia summons Russia’s chargé d’affaires after three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets enter its airspace near Vaindloo unauthorized, prompting a NATO response from Italian Air Force F-35s. (AP)
• International sanctions against Iran, Snapback mechanism of sanctions against Iran
  • The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) convenes to vote on a draft resolution concerning the snapback of sanctions on Iran. Nine UNSC countries voted against lifting Iran sanctions, four in favor. (AP)
• France–Mali relations
  • France suspends its joint counterterrorism agreements with the Mali government over the arrest of a French citizen. According to Mali officials, the French citizen was taken into custody for their alleged involvement in a purported coup plot. Also in response to the arrest, two Mali diplomats are expelled from an embassy in Paris by French authorities. (Al Jazeera)
• Ireland–United Kingdom relations
  • Ireland and the United Kingdom agree to replace the Northern Ireland Legacy Act with new laws that will establish investigative bodies to address killings during The Troubles. (UPI)
• Morocco becomes the 60th UN member state to ratify the High Seas Treaty, allowing it to enter into force in January 2026. (AP)

Law and crime

• Aftermath of World War II
  • World War II bomb disposal in Europe
    • Around 10,000 people are ordered to evacuate after authorities discover two pieces of World War II-era unexploded ordnance in Berlin, Germany, one in the Spree River near Mitte and another in Spandau. (DW)
• Detention of Barbie and Peter Reynolds
  • British couple Peter and Barbie Reynolds are freed in Afghanistan after being detained by the Taliban for 8 months. (Reuters)
• Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan, previously jailed for reporting on the early COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, is sentenced to an additional four years in prison on charges of picking quarrels and provoking trouble. (Reuters)
• Palestinian authorities arrest Hicham Harb, a suspect in the 1982 Chez Jo Goldenberg restaurant attack in Paris that killed six people, after France issued an Interpol notice. (AFP via France 24)

2025 September 18

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • At least 50 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, including 40 killed in Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
    • A Jordanian truck driver bringing aid to the Gaza Strip kills two Israeli military personnel before being fatally shot by security personnel at the Allenby Bridge. (Reuters)
    • The United States casts its sixth veto over a draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, the lifting of Israeli restrictions on aid, and the release of all hostages. (Reuters)
  • Red Sea crisis
    • A Houthi drone attack damages a hotel in Eilat, Israel. (Jerusalem Post) (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • Two security personnel are killed and twenty-three others are injured when a suicide car bomb targets a security convoy in Turbat, Balochistan, Pakistan. Meanwhile, six people are killed in a separate car bombing in Chaman. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• At least ten people are killed and 25 others are injured when a fire breaks out in a high-rise office building in Lagos, Nigeria. (BBC News)
• Three people, including musician Brett James, are killed when James’s Cirrus SR22T aircraft crashes near Macon County Airport in North Carolina, United States. (ASN) (FOX17)
• A 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes Kamchatka, Russia, but there were no reports of damage. Tsunami warnings are issued for the region. (Reuters) (TVP Info)

International relations

• Poland–Ukraine relations, 2025 Russian drone incursion into Poland
  • Ukraine announces it will train Polish troops and engineers in counter-drone operations following recent Russian drone incursions into Polish airspace. (Al Jazeera)
• Syria–United States relations
  • Syrian foreign minister Asaad al-Shaibani visits Washington, D.C. to attend meetings with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and to meet with Israeli delegations and U.S. secretary of state Marco Rubio, marking the first time a Syrian official has visited the United States in 25 years. (AP)

Law and crime

• Egypt’s interior ministry reports that a 3,000-year-old gold bracelet belonging to the pharaoh Amenemope, missing from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, was stolen, melted and sold, with several suspects arrested. (BBC News)
• Iraq receives 47 French nationals previously detained in northeast Syria on suspicion of Islamic State membership for prosecution on terrorism charges. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Albanian parliamentary election
  • Albanian prime minister Edi Rama begins an unprecedented fourth term following the Socialist Party’s victory in the last election. (Reuters)
• Censorship in the Maldives
  • Maldivian president Mohamed Muizzu ratifies the Media and Broadcasting Regulation Law, which allows fines, license suspensions, and closures of media outlets found in violation of its provisions. (AP)
• Bulgarian prime minister Rosen Zhelyazkov’s government survives their fifth vote of no-confidence this year over alleged failures to reform the justice and security sectors, with 133 lawmakers opposing and 101 supporting the motion. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• In the United States, automaker Toyota recalls over 590,000 vehicles due to a software failure for its dashboard that hides vehicle speed, braking status, and tire pressure warnings. Meanwhile, Hyundai recalls over 568,000 Palisades due to seatbelt buckle failures. (AP) (Yahoo! Autos)

2025 September 17

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • 2025 Gaza City offensive
      • More than 83 Palestinians are killed in Israeli strikes and attacks across Gaza, including at least 61 of them in Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
      • Israeli troops and tanks advance into the Sheikh Radwan district of Gaza City as the ground offensive continues. (BBC News)
• Somali Civil War
  • American airstrikes in Somalia
    • USAFRICOM claims that the airstrike conducted on September 12 in Badhan in the Sanaag region of Puntland, which targeted a traditional elder accused of being an Al-Shabaab member, was executed in coordination with the Somali federal government. (Hiiraan Online) (AFRICOM)
• 2025 Cambodian–Thai border crisis
  • At least 28 people are injured as Cambodian protesters clash with Thai security forces in a disputed border area between Banteay Meanchey, Cambodia, and Sa Kaeo, Thailand, raising tensions despite a ceasefire agreement. (AP)
• Islamist insurgency in Niger
  • Gunmen on motorbikes kill 22 people in Takoubatt, Tillabéri Region, Niger, most of whom were attending a baptism ceremony. (BBC News) (Report)

Arts and culture

• Firings related to comments on the assassination of Charlie Kirk
  • American late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! is suspended indefinitely by its broadcast network ABC, following comments by its host regarding Charlie Kirk’s killing, which sparked criticism and threats from the Federal Communications Commission. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Five UN police officers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in a MINUSCA convoy are killed when their armored personnel carrier crashes and rolls into a river while crossing a bridge near Bangui, Central African Republic. (AP)
• Four soldiers are killed when a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk crashes near Summit Lake in Thurston County, Washington, United States. (KIRO-TV)

Health and environment

• 2025 European heatwaves
  • The Copernicus Climate Change Service reports that at least 53 percent of Europe experienced droughts in August, the highest level recorded since records began in 2012. (AFP via France 24)

International relations

• Australia–Papua New Guinea relations
  • Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese and Papua New Guinean prime minister James Marape sign a communiqué in Port Moresby confirming agreement on a mutual defence treaty after earlier plans to sign the treaty failed. (Reuters)
• Israel–European Union relations
  • The European Union outlines a set of sanctions against Israeli settlers and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and urges the 27 member states to issue these sanctions to freeze European assets and ban inter-EU travel. (AP)
• Pakistan–Saudi Arabia relations
  • Pakistani prime minister Shehbaz Sharif and Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman sign a Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement in Riyadh. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Mass shootings in the United States
  • 2025 North Codorus Township shooting
    • Three police officers are killed and two are critically injured in a mass shooting when a gunman opens fire during a search warrant at a farm in North Codorus Township, Pennsylvania, United States. The perpetrator is also killed. (WCAU-TV)
• 2025 Indonesian protests
  • Indonesia’s Constitutional Court rules that parliament followed proper procedure in passing amendments to the military law, rejecting a petition that sought to annul the amendments. (Reuters)
• Greece suspends the extradition of Moldovan businessman and politician Vladimir Plahotniuc, who is wanted in Moldova over a 2014 bank fraud case. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Conflict in the Niger Delta
  • Nigerian president Bola Tinubu lifts the state of emergency in Rivers State and reinstates Governor Siminalayi Fubara and state lawmakers after six months of federal control imposed during a political crisis and oil pipeline vandalism. (AP)
• Flood control projects controversy in the Philippines
  • Philippine house speaker Martin Romualdez resigns over his alleged involvement in the flood control controversy, with former deputy speaker Bojie Dy elected as the next speaker of the House of Representatives. (Bloomberg) (DZRH)

2025 September 16

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • 2025 Gaza City offensive
      • The Israeli military formally launches a ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza City as 75 people are killed by Israeli airstrikes, most in Gaza City, with thousands of others evacuating. (Reuters)
  • Gaza genocide
    • An independent United Nations commission of inquiry publishes a report that “finds that Israel is responsible for the commission of genocide in Gaza,” listing four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law carried out by Israel against the Palestinian people during the war. (UN News) (BBC News)
• Kivu conflict
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict, M23 campaign
    • M23 rebels hold a military parade of newly-trained recruits in eastern Congolese towns captured by the rebels in an offensive months prior. (AP)
• Red Sea crisis
  • Israeli attacks on Yemen
    • The Israel Air Force bombs at least ten Houthi targets near Hudaydah Port in Al Hudaydah, Yemen. The sites targeted by the airstrikes reportedly include a command center and locations used to smuggle weapons from Iran. (The Jerusalem Post)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The Trump administration approves its first weapons aid packages for Ukraine. This is the first use of a new mechanism to supply Ukraine with weapons from U.S. stocks using funds from NATO countries. (Reuters)
• War in the Sahel
  • Mali War
    • Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) fighters ambush and burn at least 100 fuel trucks arriving in Mali from Senegal and the Ivory Coast. The attacks are part of a nationwide blockade on fuel and other goods enforced by JNIM as it besieges Malian government-held cities and towns. (AP via Ottumwa Courier)
• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
  • The Naxalites declare an indefinite unilateral ceasefire and state their openness to peace talks with the Indian government amid ongoing military operations against their insurgency. (AFP via UCA News)

Business and economy

• Economy of Uganda
  • Uganda announces that it will borrow US$358 million from the African Development Fund, the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa, and Standard Chartered to fund a power grid link with South Sudan, a road to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and expanded clean water access. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 15 people are killed and 16 others are missing when a cloudburst causes landslides and flooding across Uttarakhand, India. (The Indian Express)

Health and environment

• Climate of Spain
  • The Spanish State Meteorological Agency announces that 2025 was Spain’s hottest summer since records began in 1961, averaging a temperature of 24.2 °C (75.6 °F), and surpassing 2022’s record of 24.1 °C (75.4 °F). The record-high temperatures caused three heatwaves over the summer, including the 16-day heatwave in August which sparked wildfires. (DW)

International relations

• China–Philippines relations, Territorial disputes in the South China Sea
  • Scarborough Shoal standoff
    • China’s coast guard reports that a Datu Cabaylo-class multi-mission offshore vessel of the Philippine fisheries bureau rammed a Chinese coast guard vessel near the disputed Scarborough Shoal, while the Philippines say Chinese ships used water cannons that damaged the Filipino vessel and injured a crew member. (AP) (Reuters)
• Yemeni civil war
  • 2025 Houthi raids on UN buildings in Sanaa
    • The United Nations relocates its resident coordinator’s office for Yemen from Houthi-controlled Sanaa to Yemeni government-controlled Aden after the detention of UN staff by the Houthis, while maintaining operations across the country. (Reuters)
• Australia–Papua New Guinea relations
  • Australia announces that it will fund the construction of a new ministerial wing for Papua New Guinea’s Parliament House in Port Moresby as the country marks its 50th anniversary of independence. (AP)
• Hungary–United States relations
  • The United States restores Hungary’s full participation in the Visa Waiver Program after the Orbán government implements measures requested to address security concerns. (Reuters)
• Mercosur signs a free trade agreement with Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland. (AP)

Law and crime

• 2020 Beirut explosion
  • Bulgarian police arrest the owner of the ship that brought explosive material to Beirut, Lebanon, which caused an explosion in August 2020 that killed more than 200 people. (Reuters)
• 2024 Mannheim stabbing
  • The Stuttgart Higher Regional Court sentences Afghan national Sulaiman Ataee to life in prison for the May 2024 mass stabbing in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, which killed one person and injured five. (AP)
• Colombian conflict, Kidnappings in Colombia
  • Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace sentences seven former FARC leaders, including ex-commander Timoleón Jiménez, to up to eight years of reparations work for their role in kidnappings. (AFP via France 24)
• Controversies surrounding Jair Bolsonaro
  • A Brazilian regional federal court orders former president Jair Bolsonaro and the federal government to each pay R$1 million (US$185,528.76) in damages for racist remarks he made in 2021 while in office. (The Guardian)
• Flood control projects controversy in the Philippines
  • The Philippine Court of Appeals orders the freezing of 135 bank accounts and 27 insurance policies linked to individuals and companies under investigation for alleged corruption in flood control projects, following a request by the Department of Public Works and Highways and the Anti–Money Laundering Council. (Reuters)
• Killing of Brian Thompson
  • In the United States, a New York judge dismisses the two terrorism charges brought against Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but allows a second-degree murder charge to stand. (BBC News)
• Modern immigration to the United Kingdom
  • The High Court of Justice issues an interim injunction blocking the deportation of an Eritrean asylum seeker to France under a returns agreement, pending a hearing on his trafficking claim. (Al Jazeera)
• Murder of Agnes Wanjiru
  • Kenya’s Magistrates’ Court issues an arrest warrant and seeks the extradition of a British citizen over the 2012 murder of Kenyan woman Agnes Wanjiru near a British army training camp in Nanyuki, Laikipia County. (Reuters)
• Nord Stream pipelines sabotage
  • An Italian appellate court approves the extradition to Germany of a Ukrainian national allegedly involved in the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions. The suspect’s lawyer says that he plans to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court of Cassation. (AP)
• Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse
  • Serbian prosecutors indict former construction minister Goran Vesić and 12 others on public safety charges over the Novi Sad railway station roof collapse that killed 16 people. (Reuters)
• Romanian prosecutors indict former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu and 21 others on charges of attempting to undermine national security by planning violent protests after the cancellation of the 2024 election over alleged Russian interference. (Financial Times)
• Senegalese authorities intercept 112 Gambian migrants aboard a pirogue off the coast of Dakar on the suspicion of irregular migration as they attempt to reach Europe. (Reuters)
• The Seoul Central District Court issues an arrest warrant for former People Power Party floor leader Kweon Seong-dong on charges of receiving illegal political funds from the Unification Church during the 2022 South Korean presidential election campaign. (The Korea Herald)
• The high court in Gauteng, South Africa, rejects an appeal by the family of former Zambian president Edgar Lungu, upholding its ruling that Lungu’s remains must be returned to Zambia for burial. (AP)
• U.S. president Donald Trump files a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the newspaper The New York Times after the paper published articles and a book alleging that part of The Trump Organization’s wealth was acquired through fraud. (NPR)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Malawian general election
  • Malawians vote to elect a president, the 229 members of the National Assembly, and 509 local government councillors. (AP)
• Internet in Afghanistan
  • Afghan supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada orders a complete ban on Wi-Fi internet in the northern Balkh Province to “prevent immorality”. (The Independent)
• Matteo Rossi and Lorenzo Bugli are elected the new captains regent of San Marino for the following semester. (San Marino RTV)

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