Armed conflicts and attacks

• 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)
• 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)
• Syrian conflict
  • A woman is injured in a rocket attack by unknown assailants on a house in Mezzeh, Damascus Governorate, Syria. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 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)
• 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 killed six people in southern Ethiopia. (CIDRAP)

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
  • The Pakistani government arrests four militants linked to Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan who allegedly planned and carried out the suicide bombing in Islamabad on Tuesday. (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 DR Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala starts a hunger strike to protest his ongoing trial over atrocities committed during the Second Congo War in DR Congo. Lumbala argues 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 developments 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 of the Central African Republic clears the path for incumbent president Faustin-Archange Touadéra to run for another term in December, after opposition parties argued that he did not meet the criteria to seek another term in office. (AP)

Sports

• from France breaks the world records in speed skating at the 2025–26 ISU Speed Skating World Cup by more than a second in the 5000 metres with a time of 6:00.23. (Olympics), (NOS)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza war
    • Gaza war hostage crisis
      • Hamas hands over the remains of one more Israeli hostage to the Israeli military. (Xinhua)
  • Israeli settler violence, Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
    • Israeli settlers set fire to the Hajja Hamida mosque in Deir Istiya in the West Bank and deface the mosque's exterior wall in defiance of an Israeli government rebuke of settler violence. (DW)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingo and drones strike Oryol in Oryol Oblast, Russia, damaging several cars and apartments, while several drones are shot down by air defense. (The Kyiv Independent)
    • The Ukrainian intelligence directorate claims to have derailed a train carrying North Korean weapons to Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railway, near Sosnovka in Khabarovsk Krai, using explosives. (United24)

Disasters and accidents

• Eight people are killed and 15 others are injured after two trucks collide head-on in Pune, Maharashtra, India. (NDTV)
• Three people are killed and 20 others are reported missing after landslides hit Java, Indonesia. (AP)
• A truck crashes into pedestrians at an outdoor market in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, killing two people and injuring 18 others. (AP)
• During a training flight, a Sukhoi Su-30SM crashes in Prionezhsky District, Republic of Karelia, Russia. The two crew members are killed. (Aviation Safety Network)

Health and environment

• The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reports about 300,000 confirmed and suspected cholera cases in the continent, mostly in Angola and Burundi, and more than 7,000 deaths in 2025, marking Africa's largest outbreak in 25 years and a more than 30% increase from the previous year. (Reuters)

International relations

• 2025 Islamabad suicide bombing, 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
  • Pakistani interior minister Mohsin Naqvi says that Afghan nationals carried out Tuesday's suicide bombing in Islamabad, which killed 12 people and injured many others, adding that the attack was planned and directed from Afghanistan, increasing tensions between the countries. (AP)
• Latin America–United States relations, Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • The United States announces new trade agreements with Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador, and Guatemala that lower tariffs on selected goods and expand market access for U.S. products. (AFP via Buenos Aires Times)

Law and crime

• Human trafficking in Spain
  • Spanish police dismantle an alleged international network accused of trafficking minors from the Canary Islands to France, arresting eleven suspects in operations in Lanzarote, Las Palmas, and Madrid. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Aftermath of the July Revolution
  • Bangladeshi chief adviser Muhammad Yunus announces a national referendum on the July Charter, which recognizes the 2024 uprising that ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina. (Reuters)
• The state of Victoria enacts Australia's first treaty with Indigenous peoples, establishing a permanent First Peoples' Assembly and a truth-telling commission as part of a formal state–Indigenous governance framework. (Reuters)
• Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan appoints MP Mwigulu Nchemba as prime minister, who is confirmed by parliament. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• In the United States, Blue Origin launches NASA's ESCAPADE spacecraft mission to study Mars' magnetosphere. It is the second launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn launch vehicle, and the first successful landing of the vehicle's reusable first stage. (The New York Times)