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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)

2025 September 15

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War on drugs
  • 2025 US Caribbean naval deployment
    • United States president Donald Trump claims that the U.S. military carried out a strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug cartel vessel in international waters, killing three people, making it the second such strike carried out against a suspected drug boat in September. (Reuters)
• War in the Sahel
  • Boko Haram insurgency
    • Nigerian troops kill at least eleven ISWAP fighters in two operations in the Adamawa and Borno states. (Reuters)
• Haitian conflict
  • Armed gangs attack an armored vehicle in Kenscoff, Haiti, killing the driver and injuring two police officers on board. (AP)

Business and economy

• Mexico–United States relations
  • The U.S. Department of Transportation orders Mexican flag carrier Aeroméxico and U.S. major carrier Delta Air Lines to end their joint venture by January 1, 2026, citing anti-competitive effects on Mexico–U.S. routes. (Reuters)
• Australian bank ANZ agrees to pay AU$240 million (US$160 million) in penalties, the largest ever imposed by the Securities and Investments Commission, for misconduct including irregularities in a government bond deal and failures affecting its customers. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Sudanese refugee crisis
  • At least 50 people are killed after a boat carrying Sudanese refugees catches fire off the coast of Libya, with 24 survivors receiving medical assistance. (Reuters)
• Four people are killed and nine others injured after a bus collides with a truck in Uttar Pradesh, India. (The Times of India)

International relations

• Israel–United Kingdom relations
  • United Kingdom and the Gaza war
    • The British defence ministry bans Israelis from attending the Royal College of Defence Studies over Israel’s decision to fully invade Gaza City. (Reuters)
• South Korea–United States relations
  • 2025 Georgia Hyundai plant immigration raid
    • South Korea announces it will launch a formal investigation into human rights abuses by U.S. federal personnel during the raid at a Hyundai factory in Georgia earlier this month. (DW)
• Colombia–United States relations, Colombian conflict
  • The United States adds Colombia to its list of countries failing to meet international counter-narcotics obligations for the first time since 1997, citing increased cocaine production. (AFP via France 24)

Law and crime

• Flood control projects controversy in the Philippines
  • Philippine president Bongbong Marcos appoints former Supreme Court associate justice Andres Reyes Jr. as the chairperson of the newly established Independent Commission for Infrastructure to investigate corruption in flood control projects. (Rappler)
• Violations of non-combatant airspaces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Poland detains a Belarusian woman and a Ukrainian man after a drone flew over the Presidential Palace in Warsaw and was neutralized by the State Protection Service. (AP)
• India’s Supreme Court clears the Vantara wildlife rescue centre, run by the Reliance Foundation, of allegations of illegal animal acquisition and mistreatment after a court-appointed investigation found no such violations. (Reuters)
• Recorder of London Mark Lucraft sentences English couple Constance Marten and Mark Gordon to 14 years in prison each for the manslaughter of their newborn daughter. (CBS News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 deployment of federal forces in the United States
  • U.S. president Donald Trump orders the deployment of the Army National Guard to Memphis, Tennessee, to “combat crimes”. (The Independent)
• 2025 Tanzanian general election
  • Tanzania’s electoral commission disqualifies ACT-Wazalendo candidate Luhaga Mpina from the upcoming presidential election for a second time, reversing its earlier approval on September 13. (Reuters)
• Belarusian opposition politician Mikola Statkevich, released last week as part of a prisoner deal, is returned to a penal colony in Hlybokaye, Vitebsk region, after refusing deportation to Lithuania. (Reuters)
• Chad’s National Assembly approves constitutional amendments extending presidential terms from five to seven years and removing term limits, with a final Senate vote scheduled for October 13. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2025 World Athletics Championships
  • 2025 World Athletics Championships – Men’s pole vault
    • Swedish–American pole vaulter Armand Duplantis breaks his own world record of 6.29 meters set in 2025 by jumping 6.30 meters, winning him the gold medal at the World Athletics Championships. (International Olympic Committee)
• 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup
  • In rugby union, France’s Axelle Berthoumieu receives a 12-match suspension for biting Ireland’s Aoife Wafer during their Women’s Rugby World Cup quarterfinal, while teammate Manaé Feleu is banned for three matches for a dangerous tackle. (CNN)

2025 September 14

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, 2025 Gaza City offensive
    • At least 53 Palestinians are killed by Israeli attacks, including 35 in Gaza City where the Israeli army has been concentrating its assault. (Al Jazeera)
• Colombian conflict
  • A police officer is killed and four others are injured in an attack on a police station in Cauca, Colombia, by FARC dissidents, prompting military deployment to restore order. (The Times of India)
• Islamist insurgency in Niger
  • The Nigerien government reports that at least fourteen soldiers were killed in ambushes by unknown militants in the Tillabéri Region last week. (AP)

Arts and culture

• 77th Primetime Emmy Awards
  • At the 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards in the United States, The Studio becomes the most-nominated first-year comedy series in the awards’ history at 23 nominations, tying The Bear’s nominations from last year. (Variety)
  • For the first time in the awards’ history, every nominee for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series has at least one woman on the writing team. (Variety)
  • The Studio wins Outstanding Comedy Series and The Pitt wins Outstanding Drama Series, while Adolescence wins Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series. (The Hollywood Reporter)
  • English actor Owen Cooper wins the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for his role in Adolescence, becoming the youngest male recipient of an Emmy Award. (Daily Tribune)
  • Tramell Tillman becomes the first Black man to win the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his work in Severance. (Variety)
  • The Bob Hope Humanitarian Award is awarded to married actors Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen in recognition of “a lifetime of philanthropy”, marking the first time the award is presented to a couple. (Television Academy)

Health and environment

• 2025 Kasaï Province Ebola outbreak
  • The World Health Organization begins Ebola vaccinations for exposed individuals and health workers in Kasaï Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Turkish protests
  • Over 50,000 people march in Ankara, Turkey, to protest against and call for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to resign following the government’s judicial coup against the country’s opposition party, Republican People’s Party, and its leader Özgür Özel. (DW)
• Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune appoints Sifi Ghrieb as prime minister following Nadir Larbaoui’s dismissal in August. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2025 Vuelta a España
  • Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard wins the annual Vuelta a España road cycling race in Spain. (Le Monde)
  • The final stage of the race is suspended following pro-Palestinian protests against the Israel–Premier Tech team on Paseo del Prado in Madrid. (CNN)
• EuroBasket 2025
  • In basketball, Germany defeats Turkey 88–83 in the EuroBasket 2025 final, with Dennis Schröder selected as the MVP. In the third-place match, Greece beats Finland. (FIBA)

2025 September 13

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia–NATO relations, Romania–Russia relations
  • Violations of non-combatant airspaces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A Russian drone breaches Romanian airspace, prompting NATO forces to scramble fighter jets. Lublin Airport in eastern Poland is also closed again for the second time this week due to the threat of Russian drones. (Reuters)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • At least 62 people are killed and dozens of others are injured in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes
    • Nineteen soldiers and 45 Pakistani Taliban militants are killed at two hideouts near the Durand Line in Bajaur District and South Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, during clashes in the past two days. (Reuters) (The Canadian Press)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 61 people, mostly Sudanese refugees, are missing after a boat carrying 74 passengers capsized off Tobruk, Cyrenaica, Libya. (AFP via Barron’s)
• At least 19 people are killed after a bus carrying wedding guests plunged into a river in Zamfara State, Nigeria. (MSN)
• At least 15 people are killed in a multi-vehicle collision along Federal Highway 180 between Campeche and Mérida in southeast Mexico. (Reuters)
• Four people are killed and one is injured after a passenger de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver crashes near Makepeace Lake in Manitoba, Canada. (CBC)
• One person is killed and 25 others are injured, including three critically, in an explosion due to a gas leak at a bar in Madrid, Spain. (DW)

Law and crime

• 2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests
  • The government of Nepal lifts the curfew in Bhaktapur, Kathmandu, and Lalitpur, imposed on September 9, citing restored calm after Sushila Karki’s appointment as interim prime minister. (AP)
• Ecuadorian security crisis
  • Seven people are killed in a shooting by criminal gangs at a pool hall in Santo Domingo, Ecuador, less than a month after a similar attack at a different pool hall in the city which also killed seven people. (CBS News) (AP)
• The German customs bureau arrests two men and seizes over 400 kg (880 lb) of cocaine at the port in Hamburg. (DW)

Politics and elections

• 2025 British anti-immigration protests
  • More than 100,000 people protest against illegal immigration in central London, England, in a rally led by right-wing activist Tommy Robinson. Thousands of anti-racism protesters and left-wing groups also hold counter-protests. (BBC News)
• 2025 Tanzanian general election
  • Tanzania’s electoral commission accepts the nomination of ACT-Wazalendo candidate Luhaga Mpina for the upcoming presidential election after the High Court overturned Mpina’s earlier disqualification. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2025 Speedway Grand Prix
  • In motorcycle speedway, Bartosz Zmarzlik become a record-equalling six-time motorcycle Speedway Grand Prix World champion. (FIM Speedway)
• Canelo Álvarez vs. Terence Crawford
  • In boxing, Terence Crawford defeats Canelo Álvarez by unanimous decision, becoming the undisputed super middleweight champion and the second ever three-weight undisputed boxing champion. (ESPN)
• The 2025 World Athletics Championships start in Tokyo, Japan. (ESPN)

2025 September 12

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Palestinian political violence
    • A Palestinian assailant stabs two Israeli civilians in Tzova, Jerusalem District. (The Times of Israel)
• 2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests
  • Nepali police announce that nine prisoners have been killed and 12,500 others are at large after a series of jailbreaks across Nepal amid the ongoing protests. (Al Jazeera)
• Haitian conflict
  • At least 42 people are killed by armed gangs, including the Viv Ansamn, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP)
• Myanmar civil war
  • At least 18 people, mostly students, are killed in a Tatmadaw airstrike on two schools in Kyauktaw Township in Rakhine State, Myanmar, an area controlled by the Arakan Army. (AP)
• Turkey–Islamic State conflict
  • Turkish police arrest 161 people suspected of being members of the Islamic State (IS) over the last week and seize unlicensed weapons and IS documents in raids in 38 provinces, including Istanbul and Ankara. (AP)

Business and economy

• Norges Bank removes French mining company Eramet from Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, citing risks of human rights abuses and environmental damage linked to a nickel mining project in Halmahera, Indonesia. (AFP via New Straits Times)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 23 people are killed while five others are reported missing following days of flash floods and landslides in Bali and East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. (Al Jazeera
• 2025 Hassan district truck accident
  • At least nine people are killed and 23 others are injured, including several critically and the driver, when a truck rams into people celebrating the Ganesh Chaturthi Hindu festival in Hassan district, Karnataka, India. (News18) (The Times of India)
• A ski lift accident on Mount Elbrus in Russia kills two people and injures nine others. (AP)

International relations

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Eightieth session of the United Nations General Assembly
  • In a 142–10 vote with 12 abstentions, the UN General Assembly adopts the New York Declaration, calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza war, the release of hostages, the disarmament of Hamas, and renewed momentum toward a two-state solution. (The Guardian)
• Kosovo–United States relations, North Kosovo crisis
  • The United States suspends its planned negotiations with Kosovo, citing caretaker government actions that it says have increased tensions and instability in the region. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Killing of Charlie Kirk
  • A 22-year-old is arrested as a suspect in the killing of American political commentator Charlie Kirk two days ago. (CNN)
• Costa Rican police arrest four suspects in the killing of exiled Nicaraguan former military officer Roberto Samcam near San José in June. (Reuters)
• The South African high court reopens an inquest into the 1977 death in police custody of anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko to determine possible crimes committed. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Indian vice presidential election
  • C. P. Radhakrishnan is sworn in as the 15th vice president of India. (NDTV)
• 2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests
  • The House of Representatives is dissolved and Sushila Karki is appointed interim prime minister of Nepal, making her the first woman to head Nepal’s government. (AP) (India Today)

Sports

• 2026 Winter Olympics, Bobsleigh at the Winter Olympics, Skeleton at the Winter Olympics
  • The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation votes to ban Russian athletes from competing, including under neutral status, at next year’s Winter Olympic Games in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. (AP)

2025 September 11

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli attacks on Yemen, Red Sea crisis
  • September 2025 Israeli attacks in Yemen
    • The casualty toll from yesterday’s Israeli airstrikes in Sanaa and Al Jawf Governorate, Yemen, increases to 46 people killed and 165 others injured. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Punjab, Pakistan floods
  • At least nine people are killed when a lifeboat carrying flood evacuees capsizes near Multan, Punjab, Pakistan, while 15 others are safely rescued. (Reuters)
• At least 107 people are killed and 146 remain missing after a whaleboat catches fire on the Congo River near Lukolela, Équateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, with over 200 survivors rescued. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• 2025 Kasaï Province Ebola outbreak
  • An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo doubles in cases as the virus spreads to more districts in Kasai province. (AP)
• Renewable energy in Brazil
  • Clean energy think tank Ember reports that wind and solar power generated over one-third of Brazil’s electricity for the first time in August. (AP)

International relations

• Belarus–United States relations
  • Belarus releases 52 political prisoners, including 14 foreign nationals, following negotiations with the United States. (AP)
  • Following the release of political prisoners, the U.S. lifts its sanctions on Belarusian flag carrier Belavia. (BelTA)
• Belarus–Poland relations
  • Poland indefinitely closes its border with Belarus and deploys 40,000 troops to it, citing security concerns over Russian–Belarusian military exercises near the region, the first ones since 2022. (Mezha) (Reuters)
• Foreign relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Foreign relations of Slovenia
  • Slovenia bars Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik from entering the country after he refuses to acknowledge his removal as the president of Republika Srpska by the Bosnian court and electoral authority. (AP)
• Saudi Arabia–Syria relations
  • Saudi Arabia announces it will supply Syria with 1.65 million barrels of crude oil to support the country’s rebuilding efforts following the regime change. (AP)
• September 2025 Russian drone incursion into Poland, Poland–Russia relations
  • PANSA imposes a three-month flight ban over the eastern Polish airspace following the incursion. (Newsweek)
• United Kingdom–United States relations
  • The United Kingdom dismisses its ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson after newly released emails reveal a closer relationship with American child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein than previously acknowledged. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• 2022 Brazilian coup plot
  • AP 2668
    • The Brazilian Supreme Federal Court convicts former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a coup in 2022 after he lost the election to Lula and imposes a 27-year prison sentence. (The New York Times) (NPR) (Agência Brasil)
• 2025 Nasir clashes
  • A court in South Sudan charges Vice President Riek Machar with murder, treason, and crimes against humanity in an alleged link to a Nuer White Army attack in March. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Georgian local elections
  • The Georgian State Security Service arrests MP Levan Khabeishvili, a leader of the opposition United National Movement, days after he called for a “peaceful revolution” ahead of upcoming elections. (Reuters)
• Flood control projects controversy in the Philippines
  • Philippine president Bongbong Marcos creates an independent commission with broad investigative powers to examine alleged corruption in flood control and other infrastructure projects. (Reuters)
• Politics of Albania, Corruption in Albania, Cyberocracy
  • Albania appoints an AI bot named “Diella” as Minister of Public Procurement, in an effort to increase transparency and reduce corruption in state contracts. This marks the first time a ministerial role has been given to an AI system. (Tribune)

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