Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian conflict
  • Israeli invasion of Syria
    • The Israeli military launches a raid in the city of 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 being on fire. Turkey says search and rescue operations are underway to evacuate the crew members. (Reuters)

Law and crime

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

Science and technology

• A team of scientists announce the detection of lightning in the atmosphere of Mars for the first time by NASA's Perseverance rover. The lightning was detected near the Jezero Crater region. (BBC News)
• A software update is required on Airbus A320 aircraft. It is expected to cause major disruption to air travel. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Crimea attacks
    • 2022 Crimean Bridge explosion
      • A Russian court sentences eight people with terrorism charges to life imprisonment 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)

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)
• 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)

Sports

• Chess World Cup
  • Javokhir Sindarov wins the Chess World Cup 2025, becoming the youngest player to date to win it, at the age of 19. (Chess.com)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israeli occupation of the West Bank
    • The Israeli military announces a "broad counterterrorism 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

• 2025 Tai Po apartment 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)

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