Portal:Current events

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza peace plan
    • Hamas hands over the 20 remaining living Israeli hostages to the Red Cross, and Israel releases over 1,900 Palestinian prisoners and detainees, including 250 people serving life sentences for convictions in attacks on Israelis, as part of the ceasefire agreement. (AP)
    • Under the terms of the ceasefire agreement, local authorities shut down aid distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which were the locations of shootings by the Israeli military, which killed over 2,600 people seeking food aid. (AP)
  • Hamas returns the bodies of only four of the 30 remaining deceased Israeli hostages, in violation of the ceasefire agreement that all the hostages would be returned in the same day. (Haaretz)
  • Hamas reportedly publicly executes several militia members in Gaza City, accusing them of collaborating with Israel or being linked to ongoing internal fighting between the group, local clans and militias. (Ynet)
• 2025 Malagasy protests
  • 2025 Malagasy mutiny
    • Malagasy president Andry Rajoelina flees the country after losing the support of the armed forces following weeks of Gen Z-led protests calling for his resignation. Rajoelina's office announces he will address the nation, without specifying his whereabouts. (AP)

Business and economy

• 2025 Nobel Prizes
  • Joel Mokyr is jointly awarded this year's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for "having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress", with Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt for "the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction". (CNN) (Nobel Prize)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 66 people are injured, including around 16 seriously, when two trains collide outside Jablonov nad Turňou, Slovakia. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• Tipping points in the climate system, Environmental issues with coral reefs
  • Scientists at the University of Exeter in England report large-scale die-off of coral reefs, the first major tipping point in large changes in the climate system. (The Guardian) (Nature)

International relations

• 2025 Gaza peace summit
  • Heads of government of 30 countries and leaders of the main international organisations gather in Egypt to discuss the next steps in the implementation of the Gaza peace plan. It is expected that the focus will be on the future governance of the Gaza Strip, security, and humanitarian assistance. (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian) (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Nauruan parliamentary election
  • Results from Saturday's election in Nauru show that incumbent president David Adeang has been reelected to his seat, though the parliament must decide whether Adeang continues to serve as president. (RNZ)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • At least 23 Pakistani soldiers and nine Afghan soldiers are killed during the ongoing clashes at the border. Pakistan claims that it captured 19 Afghan border posts. (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 Malagasy protests
  • 2025 Malagasy mutiny
    • Malagasy President Andry Rajoelina says that an attempted coup has been initiated after a group of the military joined protestors and exchanged gunfire with pro-government security forces, demanding Rajoelina to step down. (AP)
• Gaza war
  • Societal breakdown in the Gaza Strip during the Gaza war
    • At least 19 Doghmush clan members and eight Hamas fighters are killed in a shootout in Gaza City. (BBC News)
    • Palestinian journalist Saleh al-Jafarawi is shot and killed by Doghmush clan members amid shootouts with Hamas in Gaza City. (TRT World)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • More than three people are reported missing and more at least 34 others are rescued when remenants of Typhoon Halong causes flooding in Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, Alaska, United States. (ABC News)
• Forty-two people are killed and 49 others injured in a bus crash in Louis Trichardt, Limpopo, South Africa. (AP)

Law and crime

• Mass shootings in the United States
  • 2025 Saint Helena Island shooting
    • Four people are killed and at least 20 others are injured, including four critically, in a mass shooting at a crowded bar in Saint Helena Island, South Carolina, United States. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Cameroonian presidential election
  • Cameroonians vote to elect their president, with the incumbent Paul Biya seeking his eighth term. (Reuters)
• 2025 Ecuador protests
  • Police clash with protestors in Quito, Ecuador, amid ongoing demonstrations against President Daniel Noboa over an increase in fuel price. Noboa has refused to negotiate with the Indigenous federation, which leads part of the protests against his government. (AP)
• 2025 Seychellois general election
  • Patrick Herminie wins the presidential election in Seychelles by obtaining more than 52% of the votes, becoming the next President of Seychelles, defeating the incumbent Wavel Ramkalawan. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2025 ATP Tour
  • In tennis, Monégasque player Valentin Vacherot, who was ranked 204th on the ATP rankings, defeats his cousin Arthur Rinderknech in the Shanghai Masters final 4–6, 6–3, 6–3, to become the lowest-ranked Masters 1000 winner in ATP history, and the first from Monaco. (ESPN) (ATP Tour)
  • Following his win at the Shanghai Masters, Vacherot moves to rank 40 and becomes the highest ranked Monégasque player in history, surpassing Jean-René Lisnard who ranked 106th in 2006. (Olympics)
• 2025 Supercars Championship
  • In touring car racing, Grove Racing drivers Matthew Payne and Garth Tander win the 68th running of the Supercars Bathurst 1000. (Supercars)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • Following Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan in Kabul and Paktika on October 9th, the Afghan Armed Forces launches attacks on several border posts of Pakistan along the Durand Line and seizes several posts. (The Guardian)
    • Pakistan responds with retaliatory strikes, gunfire and ground raids on Afghan posts along the border. (The Guardian)
• Israeli–Lebanese conflict
  • One person is killed, seven others are injured, dozens of bulldozers are destroyed, and a key route connecting Beirut to Lebanon's south is severed in Israeli attacls in Msayleh, An-Najjariyah, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera) (Naharnetnet)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • At least two people are killed and four others are injured, including one critically, in a Russian strike on a church in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Ukrainska Pravda)
• Two Hamas members are killed by the Doghmush clan in an ambush in Gaza City, Palestine. A clan member is killed and 30 arrested in retaliation. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Mass shootings in the United States
  • 2025 Leland shooting
    • Six people are killed and 14 others are injured after an individual opens fire at the Leland High School homecoming gathering on a main street in Leland, Mississippi, United States. No suspect has been taken into custody. (The Guardian)
• British musician Ian Watkins of the band Lostprophets is killed in HM Prison Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, where he was imprisoned for sexual crimes against children and animals. Two men are arrested on suspicion of the murder. (BBC News)

Sports

• 2025 ATP Tour
  • In tennis, world 206th-ranked Monégasque player Valentin Vacherot defeats Novak Djokovic in the Shanghai Masters semi-final, becoming the lowest-ranked finalist in Masters 1000 history and the first finalist ranked higher than 200th. He also becomes the first Monégasque to defeat a top 10 player and is set to play his cousin Arthur Rinderknech in the final. (ATP Tour) (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

• Helena Moreno is elected Mayor of New Orleans. (CNN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza war peace plan
    • A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas comes into effect hours after the approval of the ceasefire agreement by the Israeli war cabinet. The Israel Defense Forces complete their withdrawal to the agreed-upon lines within the Gaza Strip. (AP)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Siege of El Fasher
    • The United Nations human rights chief says three days of attacks in and near a displaced persons camp in Al-Fashir, North Darfur, Sudan, has killed at least 53 civilians. (The Canadian Press)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • All the 30 surviving Pakistani Taliban insurgents involved in the attack in Orakzai District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, on Tuesday that killed 30 people, including eleven security personnel, are killed in a retribution operation. (Dawn)
  • At least eleven Pakistani soldiers are killed in an attack on a military post by the Pakistani Taliban in Tirah, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. (Reuters)
  • At least seven police officers and six militants are killed and 13 others are injured in an attack on a police training center in Ratta Kulachi, Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. (The Independent) (Dawn)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present)
  • The Lebanese government announces the arrest of a network affiliated to Israel which attempted to carry out assassinations and bombing attacks, mainly during a commemoration ceremony for the assassinated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Davao earthquakes
  • A doublet earthquake, consisting of two events measuring M_w 7.4 and 6.7–6.8, strikes Manay, Davao Oriental, Philippines, killing eight people and injuring more than 400. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
  • The United States Pacific Tsunami Warning Center raises a tsunami alert for the Philippines, Indonesia, and Palau for more than two hours. Local authorities record "minor tsunamis" in Talaud Islands, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and an inch-long wave in Tandag, Surigao del Sur, Philippines. (BBC News)
• 2025 Accurate Energetic Systems explosion
  • At least 16 people are killed and multiple others are injured after an explosion at a manufacturing plant in Hickman County, Tennessee, United States. (WKRN-TV) (CNN) (WBIR-TV)
• At least 28 people are killed in floods and landslides in central and southeastern Mexico. Roads and homes are destroyed. (AP)

Health and environment

• Senegalese health authorities confirm 17 deaths in a major outbreak of Rift Valley fever that began on September 21. (Africanews)

International relations

• Afghanistan–Pakistan relations
  • 2025 Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan
    • Afghanistan spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid says Pakistan launched an airstrike in the country's eastern Paktia Province, while the Pakistani government says the Pakistani Taliban was allowed to use Afghanistan as a base for attacks against Pakistan. (AP)
• Afghanistan–India relations
  • Indian foreign minister S. Jaishankar announces the country will reopen its embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, after it was shut down four years ago during the fall of Kabul. (DW)
• Qatar–United States relations
  • US secretary of defense Pete Hegseth announces an agreement with Qatar to build a new Qatar Emiri Air Force facility at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Elmore County, Idaho, that will host QEAF F-15QA fighter jets and pilots. (TIME) (CBS News)

Law and crime

• International Criminal Court investigation in the Philippines
  • Arrest of Rodrigo Duterte
    • The International Criminal Court rejects a request from former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to be released from detention, citing flight risk and witness tampering concerns. (AP)
• 2025 Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan protests
  • One person is killed and 22 others are injured during a Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan protest in Lahore, Punjab. (Dawn)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Nobel Prizes
  • 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
    • Venezuelan activist María Corina Machado is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her promotion of democratic rights in Venezuela. (CNN) (Nobel Peace Prize)
• Impeachment of Dina Boluarte
  • Following a vote of 124–0, the Peruvian Congress removes President Dina Boluarte from power after she fails to appear for a required defense in Congress regarding her government's inability to lower crime. (AP)
  • Congress president José Jerí is sworn in as the interim president following Boluarte's removal from power. (DW)
• 2024–2025 French political crisis
  • French president Emmanuel Macron re-appoints Sébastien Lecornu as Prime Minister, four days after Lecornu resigned. (France 24)
• Politics of Japan
  • Komeito announces their exit from the Japanese ruling coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Four people are killed and 40 others are trapped under rubble in an Israeli strike on a building in Sabra, Gaza City, Palestine, as the ceasefire agreement proposed by US president Donald Trump awaits approval by the Israeli cabinet. (The Times of Israel)
    • Twenty-nine people are killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip. (Wafa)
  • Gaza war peace plan
    • The Israeli cabinet formally approves the ceasefire agreement, with the Israeli military given 24 hours to withdraw their troops to the agreed-upon line within Gaza. The hostage and prisoner releases are expected to begin in the coming days. (AP)
    • US officials announce that 200 troops will be sent to Israel to run a civil-military coordination center established by U.S. Central Command to support and monitor the ceasefire deal, joined by members of the armed forces of Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. (AP)
• Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
  • 2025 Pakistani airstrikes in Kabul
    • The Pakistan Air Force carries out two airstrikes in Kabul, Afghanistan, targeting Pakistani Taliban leaders. (Amu.tv)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Seven Pakistani Taliban members and a major are killed in a raid and ensuing shootout in Daraban, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The Inter-Services Public Relations further reports that the security forces recovered a cache of weapons and ammunition, along with stating that the killed terrorists were actively involved in multiple attacks. (Daily Pioneer)
  • Three tribal leaders from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, are abducted and killed by Pakistani Taliban militants. (Press Trust of India)

Arts and culture

• 2025 Nobel Prizes
  • Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai wins this year's Nobel Prize in Literature "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art". (CNN)

Business and economy

• Argentina–United States relations, Argentine monetary crisis
  • US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent announces that the United States has purchased Argentine pesos and has finalized a currency swap framework, adding that the US is prepared to provide assistance to Argentina's economy, after ending four days of meetings with Argentine economy minister Luis Caputo. (AP)
• Serbia–United States relations, United States government sanctions, Russia–United States relations
  • The United States Treasury Department issues sanctions against Naftna Industrija Srbije, the primary petroleum producer and supplier in Serbia, which is majority-owned by Russian state company Gazprom. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • One person is killed in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, and hundreds of people are evacuated as Typhoon Halong makes landfall in the Izu Islands. (AP) (Kyodo News)
• 2025 Azerbaijan–Russia diplomatic crisis, Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243
  • Russian president Vladimir Putin says that Russian air defense shot down Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 in December 2024, in his first admission of responsibility for the accident. (CNN)

International relations

• Trinidad and Tobago–Venezuela relations, Trinidad and Tobago–United States relations
  • The attorney general of Trinidad and Tobago says that the United States has granted permission yesterday to the country to negotiate a gas deal with Venezuela without facing U.S. sanctions related to its relationship with Venezuela. (AP)

Law and crime

• The United States Department of Justice indicts Attorney General of New York Letitia James on a criminal bank fraud charge by in Alexandria, Virginia, United States. (CNN) (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Ecuador protests, Economy of Ecuador
  • The Ecuadorian Army deploys at least 5,000 personnel to Quito to "prevent vandalism" amid ongoing protests against President Daniel Noboa over the rise of price of diesel fuel due to end of subsidies. (AP)

Sports

• 2025 ATP Tour
  • In tennis, Monégasque player Valentin Vacherot defeats Holger Rune at the Shanghai Masters to become the lowest-ranked player on the ATP rankings to reach a Masters 1000 semi-final in 26 years, and the first Monégasque in history to do so. (The Independent) (ATP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza war peace plan
    • United States president Donald Trump announces that Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire and the first phase of his peace plan to end the Gaza war. (Al Jazeera).
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • 2025 Sumy offensive, Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • A family is injured, including a 4-year-old girl critically, and dozens of civilian infrastructure facilities are damaged in a drone strike on a house in Sumy, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (RBC-Ukraine)
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A Ukrainian missile strike kills three people and injures nine others in Maslova Pristan, Belgorod Oblast, Russia. A search and rescue operation is underway for others believed to be trapped under rubble. (BBC News)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Eleven soldiers and 19 Pakistani Taliban fighters are killed in an ambush on a military convoy and subsequent shootout in Orakzai District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• The World Health Organization intervenes as the death toll from toxic cough syrup in Madhya Pradesh, India, rises to at least 20. (The Independent)
• Six people are killed and eight others are critically injured in a fire at a firecracker factory in East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India. (India Today)

Law and crime

• 2025 deployment of federal forces in the United States
  • Operation Midway Blitz
    • Hundreds of Texas Military Forces troops arrive at a United States Army Reserve military base near Chicago, Illinois, ahead of a deployment to the city. (Sky News)
• 2025 New Orleans jailbreak
  • Derrick Groves, the last remaining prisoner from a group of ten who escaped the Orleans Parish Prison in May in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, is captured in Atlanta following a standoff with police at a house. (NBC News)
• Capital punishment in Singapore
  • Singapore executes Pannir Selvam Pranthaman, a Malaysian man convicted of drug offenses, bringing this year's number of executions in the country to 12. (AP)
• January 2025 Southern California wildfires
  • A 29-year-old man is arrested for allegedly starting the Palisades Fire that killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,000 homes in Los Angeles County, Southern California, United States, earlier this year. (BBC News)
• Attempted assassination of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
  • Sabag Montiel is sentenced to ten years for attempting to assassinate the former president of Argentina and then-vice president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. His girlfriend, Brenda Uliarte, is sentenced to eight years for being an accomplice. (El País)
• Four people are killed, including the perpetrator, in a shooting spree at three locations across southwest Houston and Sugar Land, Texas, United States. (KHOU)
• At least six people are injured, including four musicians, in a mass shooting at an Agua Marina concert in Lima, Peru. No arrests have been made. (BNO News) (Lokmat Times)

Science and technology

• 2025 Nobel Prizes
  • Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar Yaghi are jointly awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on metal–organic frameworks. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • SDF–Syrian Transitional Government clashes
    • The Syrian government announces an immediate ceasefire with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces following clashes last night that killed at least four people and injured at least eight others. (AP)
  • US intervention in the Syrian civil war
    • United States Central Command announces that US forces conducted a strike in Syria on October 2, killing Muhammad ‘Abd-al-Wahhab al-Ahmad, a senior Jama'at Ansar al-Islam attack planner. (The Hill)
• Red Sea crisis
  • Houthi rebels detain nine United Nations workers in Yemen as part of a long-term crackdown on UN presence in the country, bringing the total number of detained UN personnel to 53. (AP)
  • The Philippine Department of Migrant Workers confirms the death of a critically injured Filipino crew member of MV Minervagracht which was attacked by the Houthis in the Gulf of Aden on September 29. The Netherlands-based operator of the vessel has reported that another injured Filipino is still being treated in Djibouti. (Philippine Daily Inquirer) (The Times of Israel)

Business and economy

• The value of gold futures rise above $4,000 per troy ounce for the first time in trading history. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Al-Khoziny Islamic Boarding School collapse
  • The death toll from the collapse of a pesantren last week in East Java, Java, Indonesia, rises to 67 as search and rescue operations end. (The Guardian)
• Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling
  • Four people are killed, including a girl, after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the coast of Lesbos, Greece. Police find the 34 survivors at shore. (AP)
• At least 16 people are killed after a bus is hit by a landslide in Himachal Pradesh, India. (Reuters) (NDTV)
• Four people are killed, three others are injured and others are reported missing when a former office block being converted into a hotel partially collapses in Madrid, Spain. (BBC News)
• Over ten people are injured when a ferris wheel collapses at a fair in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. (BNO News)

International relations

• Foreign relations of the Holy See
  • Visit by Pope Leo XIV to Turkey and Lebanon
    • The Holy See Press Office announces that Pope Leo XIV will visit İznik, Turkey, the location of the ancient city Nicaea, and Lebanon in November and December as his first papal visits abroad. (The Catholic Herald) (Anadolu Agency)

Law and crime

• Crime in Mexico
  • Six civilians are killed and two others are injured in a mass shooting when Mexican Army soldiers open fire on a vehicle that tried to ram them on the highway connecting Ciudad Mante and Tampico in Tamaulipas, Mexico. Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum vowed an investigation. (MSN)
• Crime in Germany
  • Iris Stalzer, the mayor-elect of Herdecke, Germany, is left in a critical condition. She has told investigators it was her 17-year-old adoptive African daughter who stabbed her repeatedly in her home and tortured her for hours (CNN) (AP) (DW)
• Crime in Norway
  • A restaurant in Strømmen, Akershus, Norway, receives damage after hand grenades were thrown into it. The Norwegian Police suspects gang activity with links to the Swedish–Kurdish criminal gang Foxtrot, arresting two teenagers shortly after the incident. (VG)
• Residents of Bonaire, a Dutch special municipality in the Caribbean, file a class action lawsuit backed by Greenpeace against the Netherlands accusing them of failure to act in protecting the island's residents against climate change, as they are legally Dutch citizens. (AP) (Euractiv)
• The Supreme Court of Argentina approves the extradition of businessman Fred Machado to the United States, where he faces federal charges on drug trafficking and money laundering. (AP)
• The Supreme Electoral Court of Costa Rica requests the National Assembly to strip President Rodrigo Chaves Robles of immunity so that he can be prosecuted for corruption charges. (AP)
• Five people are arrested after an alleged assassination attempt on Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Barbadian presidential election
  • Jeffrey Bostic is elected President of Barbados by the Parliament. He succeeds Sandra Mason and becomes the second president after Barbados becoming a republic. (Barbados Today)

Science and technology

• 2025 Nobel Prizes, Nobel Prize in Physics
  • John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John M. Martinis are jointly awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantization in an electric circuit. (Euronews)