Portal:Current events

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Four Palestinians are killed in two Israeli attacks in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• Two trains collide near the city of České Budějovice, Czech Republic, injuring five people seriously and leaving dozens more with minor injuries. (Euronews)

Law and crime

• Human trafficking in the Philippines
  • A Philippine regional trial court sentences former de facto Bamban mayor Alice Guo to life imprisonment after finding her guilty of human trafficking for organizing a scam center in her town. (Bloomberg), (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Tongan general election
  • Tongans vote to elect 26 of the 30 members of the Legislative Assembly. Members of the country's nobility elect nine representatives, while the rest of the voting population elect 17 MPs. (RNZ)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Dozens of people are killed in a series of Russian missile and drone strikes across Ukraine, including 26 people killed and more than 100 others injured in a ballistic missile strike on a nine-story residential building in Ternopil. Many more remain missing with search and rescue operations underway. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip
    • At least 28 Palestinians are killed and 77 more are injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City and Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • One person is killed in an Israeli airstrike attack against a vehicle in Bint Jbeil, Lebanon. Several students are also wounded on a bus passing in the area. (Al Jazeera)
• Religious violence in Nigeria
  • Gunmen target a church in Eruku, Kwara state, Nigeria, killing two people and kidnapping the pastor and some worshippers. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Sixty-four people are missing following a barge capsizing on the Sankuru River in Kasaï Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)
• One person is killed and another injured in a large-scale fire in Ōita, Japan. 170 homes are damaged and another 260 households remain without electricity. (NPR)

Health and environment

• Cambodian conservation groups release two captive-bred greater adjutants into the Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary for the first time, fitting them with GPS trackers as part of efforts to restore the species' wild population. (Reuters)
• A suspected outbreak of tuberculosis kills ten inmates at a prison in Guayaquil, Ecuador. (Reuters)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Iran, Foreign relations of the Marshall Islands
  • Iran releases a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker and its 21 crew after seizing it without explanation last Friday in the Strait of Hormuz. (AP)
• Russia–United Kingdom relations
  • Russian Navy spy ship Yantar uses lasers to disrupt Royal Air Force aircraft monitoring the vessel in the North Sea for the first time. The ship was being followed by a Royal Navy frigate with Poseidon P-8 planes deployed to track its movements. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Epstein Files Transparency Act
  • United States president Donald Trump enacts a bill ordering the release of more information about Jeffrey Epstein's case, a day after Congress passed the bill. (Al Jazeera)
• Human trafficking in Myanmar, Trafficking of Chinese nationals to scam centers abroad
  • The Tatmadaw conducts a raid on the scam center compound in Shwe Kokko, Myawaddy District, Myanmar, and detains 346 foreigners and confiscates nearly 10,000 mobile devices. (AP)
• Koldo Case
  • Spain's Supreme Court orders the provisional release of former Socialist Party official Santos Cerdán, who is under investigation for alleged involvement in a criminal organization, bribery, and influence peddling in public works contracting, stating that the risk of evidence tampering has been reduced. The court requires him to surrender his passport. (Reuters)
• Nord Stream pipelines sabotage
  • Italy's Supreme Court of Cassation approves a Ukrainian national's extradition to Germany, where he faces charges related to alleged involvement in the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Operation Midas
  • Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada dismisses energy minister Svitlana Hrynchuk and justice minister German Galushchenko after an anti-corruption investigation into alleged misconduct at the state nuclear agency implicated them, among other officials. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Ford Motor Co. issues a recall of over 200,000 Bronco and Bronco Sport vehicles due to a possible dashboard failure. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
  • 2021 Cabo Delgado offensive
    • The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) accuses French energy and petroleum company TotalEnergies of committing war crimes through a joint task force deployed to protect natural gas sites in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. The ECCHR alleges that the joint task force illegally imprisoned, beat, tortured, and killed over 220 civilians. (DW)
• Palestinian political violence
  • 2025 Gush Etzion attack
    • At least three people are killed, including both perpetrators, and three others are injured, including a woman mistakenly shot by soldiers, in a vehicle-ramming attack and stabbing attack in Gush Etzion Junction, West Bank. (The Times of Israel) (CNN)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • A 17-year-old girl is killed, and nine other people are injured in overnight Russian missile strikes on Berestyn, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. (RBC-Ukraine)
• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • 2025 Sidon airstrike
      • Thirteen people are killed and several others are wounded in an Israeli airstrike in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon District, Lebanon. (MENA via The New Arab)
  • Israel–Hezbollah conflict
    • Two people are killed in two separate Israeli airstrikes on vehicles in Bint Jbeil and Marjayoun, Lebanon. (L'Orient Today)

Business and economy

• The United Kingdom announces it will ban above-face-value ticket resale for concerts, shows, and sports events, citing rampant price gouging on ticket sale sites. (DW) (CNBC)

International relations

• Saudi Arabia–United States relations
  • Saudi Arabia and the United States ratify a joint declaration on civil nuclear energy, and the U.S. approves a defense sale that includes future deliveries of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. (AFP via NDTV)
  • U.S. president Donald Trump announces the designation of Saudi Arabia as a major non-NATO ally. (AFP via The Economic Times)

Law and crime

• Gaza Strip under Hamas, Blockade of the Gaza Strip
  • Hamas arrests a staff member of local water provider, Abdul Salam Yassin Company, supplying water to nearly half of the Gaza Strip, causing the company to suspend its operations. (Reuters)
• Trial for the 2022–2023 Brazilian coup plot
  • Brazil's Supreme Federal Court sentences three army officers and a federal police officer to 21–24 years in prison after finding them guilty of participating in a plot to kill then-president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and other officials to prevent the 2023 transfer of power. The court rules that the group helped plan the broader coup attempt linked to former president Jair Bolsonaro, who was previously convicted in the same case. (AFP via Barron's)
• An Argentine court orders the seizure of 20 properties owned by former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her family in connection with her fraud conviction involving public works contracts. (Reuters)
• Poland annuls former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro's diplomatic passport at the request of prosecutors, who seek his arrest on charges that include leading an organized criminal group and misusing public funds. (Reuters)
• War on drugs, crime in Spain
  • The Spanish National Police Corps, in coordination with the US Drug Enforcement Administration, dismantle a Jalisco New Generation Cartel logistics office in Spain, arresting 20 people including two members of the Italian Camorra organization. (El País)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Texas redistricting
  • A United States district court bars Texas from using a newly drawn congressional map in next year's midterm elections, ruling that it is likely an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. (CNN)
• Terrorism in the United States
  • Texas governor Greg Abbott declares the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as terrorist organizations and bans them from owning land in Texas, United States. (CBS News)
• The Polish Sejm elects Włodzimierz Czarzasty as Marshal, replacing Szymon Hołownia, who becomes Deputy Marshal. (Sejm in Polish)

Science and technology

• A major outage of Cloudflare causes global disruptions to numerous apps and websites. Cloudflare says the outage occurred after a configuration file designed to handle threat traffic malfunctioned and triggered a crash in its software handling traffic for its wider services. (BBC News)

Sports

• 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification
  • In association football, Curaçao qualifies for the 2026 FIFA World Cup after winning Group B of the third round of CONCACAF qualifiers for the World Cup. In its first World Cup appearance, Curaçao becomes the smallest nation by both population and area to qualify for the tournament. (Azerbaijan)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Thirty-eight Pakistani Taliban militants are killed by the army in a series of raids since yesterday in Dera Ismail Khan, North Waziristan, Bannu and Bajaur, in Pakistan. (AP)
• Gaza war
  • German support for Israel in the Gaza war, Germany–Israel relations
    • Germany expects to lift its restrictions on military equipment exports to Israel from November 24, which were banned in August due to the siege of Gaza City. (AP)
  • Gaza peace plan
    • The United Nations Security Council votes in favor of a US-drafted resolution endorsing the peace plan, including the establishment of the International Stabilization Force (ISF) and Board of Peace. (BBC News)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • A Russian missile strike on a residential area in Balakliia, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, kills three people and injures 10 others. (Reuters)
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian war, France–Ukraine relations
    • Ukraine signs an agreement with France to receive up to 100 Rafale fighter jets, along with anti-aircraft warfare, munitions, and drones. Both governments say the proposed use of frozen Russian assets will partly finance it. (CNN)
• Druze insurgency in Southern Syria
  • An investigative committee in Syria detains members of the country's military and security forces in an investigation into sectarian violence in Sweida in July involving the Druze. (AP)
• Nigerian bandit conflict, Kidnapping in Nigeria
  • Gunmen kidnap 25 female students from and kill the vice principal of a secondary school in Maga, Kebbi State, Nigeria. (DW) (BBC News)

Business and economy

• Spanish transport minister Óscar Puente announces the AV350 project, which will upgrade the Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line to a maximum operating speed of 350 km/h (220 mph) and make it one of the world's fastest trains. Puente says work is scheduled to begin next year and is expected to take three years. (Reuters)
• At the Dubai Airshow, UAE flagship airline Emirates announces a deal to buy 65 Boeing 777-9 aircraft worth US$38 billion, with deliveries starting in 2027. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Medina bus crash
  • A bus carrying Indian Umrah pilgrims collides with a tank truck near Medina, Saudi Arabia, killing 45 people. (Hindustan Times)
• The toll from yesterday's bus crash in Simiatug, Tungurahua Province, Ecuador, increases to 21 people killed and 40 others injured. (Reuters)
• Six people are killed and 19 others are injured when a landslide triggered by heavy rain strikes a bus carrying 32 passengers in Khánh Vĩnh district, Khánh Hòa province, Vietnam. (Reuters)
• Five tourists are killed in a blizzard in Torres del Paine National Park in Chilean Patagonia, where military and police rescue four others and continue search and rescue operations. (AFP via France 24)
• An Embraer ERJ-145 operating as AirJet Angola Flight 100 carrying 29 members of a Ministry of Mines [fr] delegation crashes while attempting to land at Kolwezi Airport in Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. No casualties are reported. (ASN) (Israel Hayom)

Health and environment

• Polio eradication, Health in Pakistan
  • Polio in Pakistan
    • Pakistan launches an initiative to vaccinate 34.5 million children against measles and rubella and 23.3 million against polio. (AP)
• Health in Ethiopia
  • Ethiopia confirms three deaths from a Marburg virus disease declared on Friday in West Omo Zone. (Euronews)
• At least 71 schools in Australia and New Zealand close as authorities investigate recalled children's play sand products from Kmart and Target after testing detected asbestos in some samples. (Reuters)

International relations

• Nicaragua–United States relations, Immigration policy of the second Trump administration
  • The United States imposes visa restrictions and revokes some existing visas for Nicaraguans, including owners of transportation and travel companies, who it says facilitate illegal immigration to the U.S. under Nicaragua's migration policies. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Bangladesh, Trial of Sheikh Hasina
  • A domestic tribunal in Bangladesh sentences former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan to death in absentia over crimes against humanity committed during the quota reform protests in 2024. (AP) (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Chilean presidential election
  • Due to no candidates receiving 50% of the vote in the presidential election, a runoff occurs between left-wing candidate Jeannette Jara of the Unity for Chile coalition and right-wing candidate José Antonio Kast of the Change for Chile coalition, with the vote set for December 14. (DW)
• 2025 Iraqi parliamentary election
  • The Independent High Electoral Commission releases the seat distribution from Iraq's recent election as prime minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani's Coordination Framework alliance declares that it will form the majority bloc and will nominate the next prime minister. (Reuters)
• Flood control projects controversy in the Philippines
  • Philippine executive secretary Lucas Bersamin and budget secretary Amenah Pangandaman resign over their alleged involvement in flood control corruption. Finance secretary Ralph Recto replaces Bersamin as the executive secretary. (Gulf News)
• Opposition to Vladimir Putin in Russia
  • Russia's Rosfinmonitoring adds former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov and London Business School dean Sergei Guriev to its list of extremists and terrorists. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2025 Delhi car explosion
  • The National Investigation Agency of India states that the recent car explosion in Delhi was a suicide attack and report the arrest of a suspect accused of helping acquire and prepare the vehicle used in the blast. (AFP via CNA)

Disasters and accidents

• At least twelve people are killed and ten others are injured when a bus crashes in Tungurahua Province, Ecuador. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• War on drugs in Ecuador
  • Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa announces that Spanish police have captured Los Lobos leader Wilmer Chavarría, who faked his own death and changed his identity, in Málaga, Andalusia. (BBC News)
• Broken railway line in the area of Życzyn, Garwolin County, in east central Poland under police investigation could be an act of possible sabotage. Two Ukrainian citizens have been identified as the suspects. (TVP World)(BBC)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Chilean general election
  • 2025 Chilean presidential election
    • Chileans vote to elect their president, who will succeed the term-limited incumbent Gabriel Boric. (CNN)
    • Preliminary results indicate a second round between Jeannette Jara and José Antonio Kast on 13 December. (El País in Spanish)
  • Also for election is the whole Chamber of Deputies and half of the Senate. (Radio ADN in Spanish)
• 2025 Ecuadorian referendum [es; fr]
  • Ecuadorians vote on a constitutional referendum, on foreign military bases, on public financing of political parties and the number of assemblymembers, and on a popular consultation about the convocation of an constituent assembly. All 4 were rejected. (El País in Spanish)

• Nuclear program of Iran
  • Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi says that Iran is no longer enriching uranium due, in part, to the damage at nuclear facilities following the Iran–Israel war and the US strikes on nuclear sites in Iran. (AP)

Sports

• 2025 ATP Tour
  • 2025 ATP Finals
    • In tennis, Jannik Sinner defeats his rival Carlos Alcaraz in the final, 7–6^(7–4), 7–5, to successfully defend his singles title at the 2025 ATP Finals. (AFP via Cebu Daily News)
• 2025 CFL season
  • 112th Grey Cup
    • In Canadian football, the Saskatchewan Roughriders defeat the Montreal Alouettes 25–17 to win their fifth Grey Cup. (TSN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War on drugs, 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
  • Three people are killed in an American airstrike against a boat in the Pacific Ocean. (CBS News)
• Kivu conflict
  • The Democratic Republic of the Congo and the M23 rebels sign a framework agreement in Doha, Qatar, for a peace treaty to end the conflict in Kivu. (Reuters)
• Syrian conflict
  • Four people are killed, including the mayor of Wady Al-Mawla, and another is severely injured in a mass shooting by unidentified gunmen at a coffeehouse in Talkalakh, Homs Governorate, Syria. (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights) (SANA)
  • Three people are injured, including two critically, in a drive-by shooting by unidentified gunmen in Abu Jarin, Aleppo Governorate, Syria. (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)

Arts and culture

• Canada–Holy See relations
  • The Holy See transfers 62 indigenous artifacts to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops for repatriation to the communities of origin after their removal for a 1925 missionary exhibition in Rome, Italy. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025–26 European windstorm season
  • Storm Claudia makes landfall in Western Europe, killing at least three people and injuring dozens of others in southern Portugal. (Sky News Australia)
• At least 32 informal miners are killed when a makeshift bridge collapses at a flooded cobalt mine in Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Authorities state that unauthorized miners entered the area despite a ban due to landslide risks. (AFP via Daily Sabah)
• A landslide triggered by heavy rain kills at least 11 people and leaves 12 others missing in Central Java, Indonesia. (Reuters)
• Nine people are killed and others are injured in an explosion at a firecracker manufacturing unit in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan. (Dawn)

Law and crime

• 2025 Mexican protests
  • At least 120 people are injured, including 100 police officers, and 20 others are arrested in clashes with police during protests across Mexico after the assassination of Uruapan mayor Carlos Manzo earlier this month. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Modern immigration to the United Kingdom
  • British home secretary Shabana Mahmood announces plans to reduce the length of refugee status, extend the required period before applying for long-term residency, and end automatic state benefits for asylum seekers as part of a broad reform of its asylum system. (AFP via CBS News)
• Benin's National Assembly, by a 99–19 vote, approves a constitutional amendment that extends presidential and parliamentary term limits from five to seven years and establishes a new senate, pending review by the Constitutional Court. The reform would take effect after the April presidential election. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • 2025 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks
    • At least 17 people are killed in an attack on a hospital by the Allied Democratic Forces in Lubero, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP via CTV News)
• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Kyiv strikes, Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Six people are killed and 35 others are injured in a missile and drone attack by Russian forces on Kyiv, Ukraine. (AP)
• Sudanese civil war
  • El Fasher massacre
    • The United Nations Human Rights Council establishes an independent fact-finding mission to investigate reported mass killings and other alleged war crimes by the Rapid Support Forces and their allied groups in El Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan. (Reuters)
• Colombian conflict
  • Nine guerrilla fighters are killed by a Colombian military airstrike in the Arauca Department. (AFP via BSS)
• Syrian conflict
  • A woman is injured in a rocket attack by unknown assailants on a house in Mezzeh, Damascus Governorate, Syria. (Al Jazeera)
• War on drugs, 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
  • The United States defense department announces Operation Southern Spear to target alleged narco-terrorists in Central and South America and the Caribbean under the US Southern Command's jurisdiction. (DW) (Axios)
  • Four people are killed in an American airstrike against a boat in the Caribbean Sea. The attack is announced today, but was carried out four days ago. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• Saab AB signs a contract worth €3.1 billion (US$3.62 billion) with the Colombian government to provide 17 Gripen fighter jets to the Colombian Aerospace Force over the next five years. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Tuzla retirement home fire
  • Bosnian authorities report that a short circuit from an overburdened power cable in a resident's room caused the deadly fire at a Tuzla retirement home. The investigation continues to examine possible negligence. (AP)
• 2025 Nowgam explosion
  • Nine people are killed and 29 others are injured after seized explosives detonate inside of a police station in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. (NDTV)
• At least 101 people are killed and others are presumed trapped in a landslide at a gold mine near Kolwezi, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (blue News)
• Five Chinese nationals are killed after a minibus loses control and crashes in Bali, Indonesia. (The Indian Express)
• Three people are killed and three others are injured when a bus crashes into a bus stop in Östermalm, Stockholm, Sweden. (DW)

Health and environment

• The World Health Organization deploys a team of technical officers and aid to monitor and support an outbreak of viral hemorrhagic fever that has killed six people in southern Ethiopia. (CIDRAP)

International relations

• France–Mali relations
  • Mali suspends French television channels TF1 and La Chaîne Info from airing in the country, citing unverified claims and falsehoods in a broadcast on the ongoing fuel blockades by the Islamist militant group Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin. (AP)

Law and crime

• Mass shootings in the United States
  • 2025 Saint Helena Island shooting
    • A 27-year-old man is arrested and charged with four counts of murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime for a mass shooting that killed four people and injured 15 others at a bar in October in Saint Helena Island, South Carolina, United States. (CBS News)
• 2025 Islamabad suicide bombing
  • Four militants linked to the Pakistani Taliban who allegedly planned the suicide bombing in Islamabad three days ago are arrested in Pakistan. (DW)
• Dresden left-wing extremism trial
  • The United States declares four Antifa groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, including the Germany-based Antifa Ost, who was involved in the attempted murder of three neo-Nazi individuals in Saxony and Thuringia. The U.S. government is also pursuing action against three other antifa groups in Italy and Greece, including the Informal Anarchist Federation. (DW)
• Mariana dam disaster
  • British High Court judge Finola O'Farrell rules Australian mining corporation BHP liable for the 2015 Samarco dam collapse in Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, considered the biggest environmental disaster in the country. (The Guardian) (G1)
• Former rebel leader Roger Lumbala starts a hunger strike to protest his ongoing trial over atrocities committed during the second war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, arguing that the French court which judges him does not have legitimacy to try him. (AP)
• The Borgarting Court of Appeal nullifies the Norwegian government's approval of three offshore oil and gas development projects due to insufficient assessment of combustion-related climate impacts, but allows production to continue for six months as authorities address the deficiencies. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Central African general election
  • The Constitutional Court [fr] rules that incumbent president Faustin-Archange Touadéra may run for another term, after opposition parties submitted that he did not meet the criteria to seek another term in office. (AP)
• 2025 Tanzanian election protests
  • Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan creates an inquiry commission to investigate the killings that occurred during recent election-related protests and orders the release of some detained participants, while also announcing plans to begin constitutional reform within her administration's first 100 days. (AP)

Sports

• French speed skater Timothy Loubineaud breaks the world record at the ISU World Cup by more than a second in the 5000 metres with a time of 6:00.23. (Olympics) (NOS)