Portal:Current events

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Dnipro strikes
    • Four people are killed and at least 40 others are injured in a Russian Iskander missile strike on Dnipro, Ukraine. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2025 Cameroonian presidential election, 2025 Cameroonian protests
  • Anicet Ekane, a 74-year-old opposition politician, leader of the MANIDEM [fr] party, dies in custody after being arrested a month ago during a crackdown in Cameroon. (AP)
• Wang Fuk Court fire
  • Hong Kong police arrest 13 people on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with the fire, while officials report that some scaffolding netting at the site failed to meet required fire-resistance standards. (AFP via New Strait Times)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza War
  • Palestinian tunnel warfare in the Gaza Strip
    • The Israeli military claims to have killed more than 40 Hamas militants over the past week who attempted to exit a tunnel in eastern Rafah. (AFP via Barron's)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Kyiv strikes
    • One person is killed and 19 others are injured overnight after a Russian strike on Kyiv, Ukraine. (ABC News)
• Republican insurgency in Afghanistan
  • The Afghanistan Freedom Front claims that its fighters killed three Taliban soldiers and wounded two more in a rocket attack in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. (Afghanistan International)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
  • Cyclone Ditwah
    • The toll from the floods and landslides caused by heavy rains in Sri Lanka increases to 334 people killed and about 400 more missing. (Al Jazeera)
  • Cyclone Senyar
    • The toll from the floods in Indonesia increases to 442 people killed and 402 more missing. (Al Jazeera)
• Eleven people are killed after two buses collide near Sivaganga, Tamil Nadu, India. (The Week)
• Five people are killed in a house fire in Neuves-Maisons, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Philippine anti-corruption protests, Flood control projects scandal in the Philippines
  • Trillion Peso March
    • Massive protests denouncing corruption over the ongoing flood control scandal are held across the Philippines. (DW) (The Philippine Star)
• 2025 Honduran general election
  • Hondurans vote for their president to succeed term-limited incumbent Xiomara Castro. (AP)
• 2025 Swiss referendums
  • Swiss voters reject two ballot measures to conscript women into a national service program and to establish an inheritance tax on high earners. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • Two Palestinian children are killed in an Israeli drone attack as they were gathering firewood in the town of Bani Suheila in the Gaza Strip. (Sky News) (Al Jazeera)
• Afghan conflict
  • Two Chinese citizens are shot and killed in an ambush by unidentified gunmen in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. (Times of Islamabad)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
  • Cyclone Ditwah
    • The toll from the landslides caused by heavy rains in Sri Lanka increases to 132 people killed, 191 missing, 44,000 more displaced, and 15,000 houses destroyed. (Hindustan Times) (Al Jazeera)
  • Cyclone Senyar
    • The death toll from the floods in Indonesia increases to 303 people. Two more people are confirmed killed in Malaysia. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Mass shootings in the United States
  • 2025 Stockton shooting
    • Four people are killed and ten others injured in a mass shooting during a family gathering at a banquet hall in Stockton, California, United States. (ABC News)
• Human rights in Tunisia
  • Tunisian police detain National Salvation Front member Chaima Issa in Tunis to enforce a 20-year prison sentence after an appellate court recently issued prison terms of up to 45 years against several opposition leaders on charges of plotting to overthrow the president. (Reuters)
• Seven people are killed and five others are injured when armed attackers open fire inside a bar in Tula de Allende, Hidalgo, Mexico. (AFP via Times of India)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état
  • Guinea-Bissau's military junta installs a 28-member provisional government after seizing power, while ousted president Umaro Sissoco Embaló travels to Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, where he intends to stay. (AFP via France 24)
• Human rights in Nicaragua
  • Nicaragua releases about 40 political prisoners, who are transferred to house arrest and required to report to authorities. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2025 AFL Women's season
  • 2025 AFL Women's Grand Final
    • In women's Australian rules football, the North Melbourne Tasmanian Kangaroos defeats the Brisbane Lions in the grand final by 40 points to win their second premiership in a row. North Melbourne's half-back Eilish Sheerin is voted best-on-ground. (ABC News Australia)
• 2025 Copa Libertadores
  • 2025 Copa Libertadores final
    • In association football, Flamengo defeats fellow Brazilians Palmeiras 1–0 to win their fourth Copa Libertadores title, becoming the most successful Brazilian club in the continental competition. (BBC Sport)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian conflict, Israeli invasion of Syria
  • The Israeli military launches a raid in Beit Jinn, Syria, targeting unknown gunmen and carrying out airstrikes, killing 13 Syrians, including two children, and wounding 25 others. Six Israeli soldiers are also wounded in a shootout with local residents. Israel says it was targeting Jaama Islamiya. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News) (The Jerusalem Post)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
  • Cyclone Senyar
    • The toll from the floods in Indonesia increases to 174 people killed and 80 more missing, mainly in North Sumatra. (Al Jazeera)
    • The death toll from the floods in Thailand increases to 145 people, mainly in Songkhla province. (Al Jazeera)
  • Cyclone Ditwah
    • The toll from the landslides caused by heavy rains in Sri Lanka, mainly between Badulla and Nuwara Eliya, increases to 56 people killed and 600 houses damaged. (Al Jazeera)
• Two tankers sanctioned as being a part of the alleged Russian shadow fleet are hit by explosions while transiting the Bosporus, with at least one of the vessels catching on fire. Turkey says search and rescue operations are underway to evacuate the crew members. (Reuters)

International relations

• Honduras–United States relations
  • United States president Donald Trump announces that he will pardon former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who is serving a U.S. prison sentence for drug-trafficking offenses. (AFP via France 24)

Law and crime

• Corruption in Ukraine
  • Operation Midas
    • Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak resigns after agents from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office raid his apartment. (BBC News) (The Kyiv Independent)
• Russia formally outlaws Human Rights Watch as an undesirable organization. (AP)

Science and technology

• 2025 Airbus A320 software update
  • Airbus launches an emergency software update on A320 aircraft worldwide to prevent potential corruption to guidance systems caused by intense solar radiation, affecting 6,000 planes, causing major travel disruptions worldwide. (BBC News)
• A team of scientists announces the detection of electric discharges in the atmosphere of Mars for the first time by NASA's Perseverance rover, detected near the Jezero crater region, as a phenomenon described as "mini lightning", though not confirmed to be the same as actual lightning. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Crimea attacks
    • 2022 Crimean Bridge explosion
      • A Russian court sentences eight people to life imprisonment for terrorism after a truck bomb attack on the Crimean Bridge in Crimea killed five people in October 2022. (MSN)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israeli occupation of the West Bank
    • The Israeli military and police say they are reviewing a raid in Jenin, West Bank, in which forces fatally shot two Palestinians who had exited a surrounded building after a prolonged surrender procedure. (AFP via Le Monde)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Three policemen are killed in a shooting attack by unknown militants with assault rifles on a roadside checkpoint in Hangu District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP via ABC News)
• Three Chinese citizens are killed in a drone–shooting attack at a gold mine in Shamsiddin Shohin District, Tajikistan. (Radio Free Europe)

Business and economy

• Green economy policies in Canada, Anti-environmentalism
  • Canadian prime minister Mark Carney and Alberta premier Danielle Smith sign an agreement removing planned federal emissions caps and eases clean-energy rules in exchange for strengthened provincial carbon pricing and support for carbon-capture projects, while also committing to enable a privately financed oil pipeline to British Columbia. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
  • Cyclone Ditwah
    • More than 40 people are killed, and 21 others are missing after landslides caused by heavy rains hit Sri Lanka, mainly between Badulla and Nuwara Eliya. (AP)
  • Cyclone Senyar
    • The death toll from flooding in Songkhla province, Thailand, rises to 104. (Thai Post)
    • Flooding on Sumatra, Indonesia, kills 49 people, leaves 67 others missing, and submerges over 2,000 buildings, with many of the worst-affected areas still unreachable a day after Cyclone Seynar's landfall. (The Independent)
• Nineteen people are killed after heavy winds cause a riverboat to capsize on Lake Mai-Ndombe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
• Eleven people are killed and two more are injured in Kunming, China, when a train hits a group of railway maintenance workers. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Australia–Iran relations
  • 2024 Iranian operations inside Australia
    • Australia adds Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to its list of terrorist organisations as a state sponsor due to its role in orchestrating and executing terrorist attacks in Australia last year. (ABC News Australia)
• Moldova–Russia relations
  • The Moldovan parliament votes to close a Russian cultural center, citing security concerns and recent Russian drone incursions. (Reuters)
• Poland–Russia relations
  • Russia orders Poland to close its consulate in Irkutsk in response to Poland's closure of the Russian consulate in Gdańsk following a railway explosion earlier this month that Poland attributes to Russian involvement. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2025 deployment of federal forces in the United States
  • 2025 Washington, D.C., National Guard shooting
    • One of two U.S. National Guard troops who were shot in Washington, D.C., a day earlier dies. (BBC News)
• 2022 Peruvian self-coup attempt
  • The Peruvian Supreme Court sentences former president Pedro Castillo to 11 and a half years in prison for criminal conspiracy when he tried to dissolve Congress and attempted a self-coup in 2022. (AP)
• Koldo Case
  • The Spanish Supreme Court orders former transport minister and former deputy leader of the ruling PSOE José Luis Ábalos and ex-adviser Koldo García into pre-trial detention without bail on charges linked to alleged kickbacks in public procurement, while also naming former lawmaker Santos Cerdán as a suspect. (AFP via Gulf Times)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état
  • The Bissau-Guinean military installs General Horta Inta-A Na Man as interim leader for one year, while President Umaro Sissoco Embaló is flown to Senegal, with opposition candidate Fernando Dias da Costa alleging the coup was orchestrated to block the release of the election results he claims to have won. (AFP via Vanguard)
• 2025 Vincentian general election
  • NDP leader Godwin Friday is projected to become the next prime minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, ending 24 years of ULP government under the premiership of Ralph Gonsalves. (WIC News)
• Conscription in France
  • French president Emmanuel Macron announces the revival of voluntary military service for 18 and 19-year-olds to begin in 2026. (DW)
• Human rights in Tunisia
  • Tunisia releases opposition lawyer and journalist Sonia Dahmani after serving half of her prison sentence for remarks deemed to be lèse-majesté. (Reuters)
• Alejandro Gertz Manero resigns as Attorney General of Mexico, citing an invitation from President Claudia Sheinbaum to serve as ambassador to an unspecified country. His departure comes amid scrutiny over his role in overseeing multiple prominent investigations, the most recent being the Miss Universe 2025 controversy involving its co-owner, Rubén Rocha, who has been accused of cooperating in drug, fuel, and weapons trafficking in Mexico. (Bloomberg) (MVS in Spanish)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israeli occupation of the West Bank
    • The Israeli military announces the start of a military operation in the northern Samaria area in the West Bank. (DW)
• A drone strike is carried out at the Khor Mor gas field in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, causing major power cuts across the northern Kurdistan Region. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• Holy See–Lebanon relations, Holy See–Turkey relations
  • Visit by Pope Leo XIV to Turkey and Lebanon
    • Pope Leo XIV begins his first papal trip, first to İznik and Nicaea in Turkey, then to Bkerké, the Monastery of Saint Maron, and the Port of Beirut in Lebanon. The trip will include an ecumenical commemoration of the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea and a mass in honor of the victims of the 2020 Beirut explosion. (AP) (Vatican News)

Business and economy

• Economy of Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Economic impact of the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • The International Monetary Fund announces a staff-level agreement with Ukraine on a proposed Extended Fund Facility worth more than US$8 billion, outlining fiscal and monetary policies intended to support macroeconomic stability, debt sustainability, and external financing amid the ongoing war with Russia. (AFP via CTV News)

Disasters and accidents

• Wang Fuk Court fire
  • A fire at a housing estate in Tai Po, Hong Kong, leaves at least 94 people dead, dozens injured, and 279 more missing. Police arrest three men for suspected manslaughter in the fire. (AFP via The Business Times) (Reuters) (AP)
• Cyclone Senyar, 2025 Thailand–Malaysia floods
  • The death toll from the floods in southern Thailand increases to 33 people. (Reuters)
• Eleven people are killed when a UV Express van collides with a truck in Camalig, Albay, Philippines. (Manila Bulletin)
• Five people are killed in an explosion at a weapons depot in Idlib Governorate, Syria. (AFP via Arab News)
• A Swiss tourist is killed and another person is critically injured in a bull shark attack off the coast of Crowdy Bay National Park, New South Wales, Australia. (BBC News)

International relations

• Cyprus–Lebanon relations
  • Cyprus and Lebanon sign a long-delayed maritime boundary agreement. (AP via ABC News)
• Dominican Republic–United States relations, War on drugs, 2025 United States naval deployment in the Caribbean
  • The Dominican Republic permits the United States to use the Las Américas International Airport in Punta Caucedo, Santo Domingo, and the San Isidro Air Base to support Operation Southern Spear targeting alleged drug traffickers linked by the U.S. to Venezuelan authorities. (AFP via France 24)
• Foreign relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Foreign relations of Hungary
  • Bosnian defence minister Zukan Helez denies approval for Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó to land his military aircraft in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, citing Hungary's support for former Srpska president Milorad Dodik, whom Helez accuses of undermining Bosnia and Herzegovina's sovereignty. (Reuters)
• South Africa–United States relations, 2026 G20 Doral summit, South African farm attacks
  • U.S. president Donald Trump announces that South Africa will not be invited to the 2026 G20 summit in Doral, Florida, and that U.S. payments and subsidies to the country will cease, citing South Africa's refusal to transfer G20 hosting responsibilities to a U.S. embassy representative at the 2025 Johannesburg summit and criticizing its treatment of Afrikaners, among other reasons. (AP via Arab News)

Law and crime

• 2025 deployment of federal forces in the United States
  • 2025 Washington, D.C. National Guard shooting
    • Two members of the U.S. National Guard are shot and critically wounded in Washington, D.C.. The perpetrator, who is also wounded, is arrested. (AFP via France 24)
• Corruption in Peru
  • A Peruvian court sentences former president Martín Vizcarra to 14 years in prison for accepting bribes from construction companies while serving as governor of Moquegua between 2011 and 2014. (AFP via TRT Afrika)
• Murders of Yuna and Minu Jo
  • Justice Geoffrey Venning of New Zealand's High Court sentences 45-year-old mother Hakyung Lee to life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years after convicting Lee of murdering her two children in 2018. (DW)
• Myanmar protests
  • The Tatmadaw grants amnesty to over 3,000 political prisoners, drops charges of over 5,500 others, and grants conditional release to 724 prisoners ahead of the general election in December. (AP)
• Georgia's Tbilisi Appeal Court sentences opposition leader Nika Melia to an additional 18 months in prison for contempt of court after he threw water at a judge during a hearing, adding to the eight-month term he has been serving since May for refusing to appear at a parliamentary inquiry. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état, 2025 Guinea-Bissau general election
  • Bissau-Guinean president Umaro Sissoco Embaló is detained following a coup d'état one day before provisional election results were expected to be released. (BBC News) (Jeune Afrique in French)
• Kidnapping in Nigeria, Religious violence in Nigeria
  • Nigerian president Bola Tinubu declares a nationwide security emergency and orders the recruitment of 20,000 additional police officers and the deployment of specialised units in response to recent killings and kidnappings. (AFP via TRT World)
• Women's rights in Italy
  • The Italian parliament approves a bill to punish femicide with life imprisonment. (AP)

Sports

• Chess World Cup 2025
  • Uzbek chess grandmaster Javokhir Sindarov wins the 2025 World Cup in Goa, India, at the age of 19, becoming the youngest player to win the event. (FIDE)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo–Ukrainian war
  • Kyiv strikes, Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Seven people in Kyiv, Ukraine, and three more in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, are killed as both countries launch airstrikes at each other. Several more people are wounded in both countries. (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian)
• Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
  • Afghanistan says nine children and a woman were killed when a civilian home was hit by a Pakistani airstrike in Khost, Afghanistan. (Al Jazeera)
• War in Darfur
  • Médecins Sans Frontières withdraws its staff from a hospital in central Darfur, Sudan, after a stretcher bearer is shot dead and several others are injured, stating that it will not resume operations unless the Rapid Support Forces guarantee the safety of its personnel and patients. (Reuters)
• Moro conflict
  • Seven people in a village located in Cotabato, Philippines are fatally shot during a firefight between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Moro National Liberation Front that left 48 families temporarily displaced. (Inquirer)

Arts and culture

• Polygamy in Christianity
  • Pope Leo XIV approves a decree affirming the Catholic Church's rejection of polygamous and polyamorous marriages. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Insurance in Australia
  • The Australian Federal Court fines United Super, the Cbus pension fund's trustee, A$23.5 million (US$15.2 million) for systemic failures that caused extensive delays in processing death and disability insurance claims affecting over 7,000 members. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• A Let L-410UVP operating as Nari Air Flight 114 and chartered by Samaritan's Purse crashes in Unity State, South Sudan, killing all three crew members while en route from Juba with two tonnes of food aid for flood-displaced communities. (Reuters)
• The Hayli Gubbi volcano in the Afar Region of Ethiopia erupts, sending ash plumes across Oman and Yemen, and prompts flight cancellations in northern India. (DW) (AP)

Health and environment

• Food security in Nigeria, Islamic extremism in Northern Nigeria
  • The World Food Programme reports that escalating instability in northern Nigeria is increasing acute food insecurity to record levels, with nearly 35 million people projected to face hunger in 2026 as the agency exhausts its funding by December. (Reuters)

International relations

• Moldova–Russia relations, Violations of non-combatant airspace during the Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Moldova reports that six Russian drones entered its airspace, including one that came down on a residential roof near Florești and another that crossed into Moldova before continuing toward Romania. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Arrest of Jair Bolsonaro
  • Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro starts his 27-year sentence for leading a coup plot. (AP)
• Counter-terrorism in Singapore
  • Singapore orders Meta and TikTok to block local access to the social media accounts of an Australian man whose posts advocate replacing Singapore's secular system with an Islamic state and seek to cause communal tensions and influence elections. (Reuters)
• Killing of Lisa from Abcoude
  • A court in Amsterdam, Netherlands, begins the trial of an illegal migrant from Nigeria who murdered a 17-year-old girl in Duivendrecht. (NOS in Dutch)
• LGBTQ rights in the European Union, Same-sex union legislation
  • The European Court of Justice rules for all European Union member states to recognize same-sex marriage and not discriminate against same-sex couples. The ruling does not force individual countries to legalize same-sex marriages. (DW)
• Two wanted gunmen, identified as "extremist" brothers, are killed and three security forces are wounded in a shootout in Ar-Ramtha, Jordan. (Sada News)

Politics and elections

• 2026 Ugandan general election
  • Ugandan opposition party National Unity Platform says security forces have detained more than 300 supporters and officials since presidential candidate Bobi Wine began campaigning, while police report several arrests linked to clashes at Wine's rallies. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Chinese space program
  • The Shenzhou 22 spacecraft enters orbit after China conducts its first emergency space launch to restore a safe return option for the three astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station following damage to the Shenzhou 20 return capsule earlier in November. The uncrewed spacecraft, launched on a Long March 2F rocket, carries replacement parts and supplies and aims to return the current crew to Earth in 2026. (Reuters)