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)
  • Pokrovsk offensive
    • Russia says its forces have captured the city of Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast after months of heavy fighting. (DW)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Siege of Babanusa
    • The Rapid Support Forces say that they have captured Babanusa, the last stronghold of the Sudanese Armed Forces in West Kordofan, Sudan. (Sudan Tribune)
• Haitian conflict
  • Haitian gangs launch a large-scale attack on the Ouest and Artibonite departments, causing hundreds of people to flee. (AP)
• Tajikistan orders a reinforcement at its border with Afghanistan, as the Tajik government claims Afghan drone strikes killed two Tajik and three Chinese citizens over the past week. (Anewz)

• Ragebait is named word of the year by the Oxford University Press. (AP)

• 2025 Kasaï Province Ebola outbreak
  • The Congolese government declares that the Ebola outbreak in the country since August, which resulted in 53 confirmed cases, 43 deaths, and 11 probable cases, has ended. (AP)
• The Spanish government deploys 400 Catalan Mossos d'Esquadra and 117 Military Emergencies Unit members to help contain the spread of the African swine fever virus in Catalonia after two dead wild boars tested positive for the virus. (Reuters)

• 2025 Cameroonian presidential election, 2025 Cameroonian protests
  • Anicet Ekane, a 74-year-old opposition politician, leader of the MANIDEM party, dies in custody after being arrested a month ago during a crackdown in Cameroon. (AP)
• Trial of Sheikh Hasina
  • A Bangladeshi court sentences former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and British Labour Party MP Tulip Siddiq to five years and two years in prison respectively for corruption involving a government land project. (AP)
• Wang Fuk Court fire
  • Hong Kong police arrest thirteen 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)

• 2024–2025 Georgian protests, 2024–2025 Georgian political crisis
  • Use of camite during the 2024–2025 Georgian protests
    • BBC World Service publishes an investigative report uncovering evidence that the Georgian police used water cannons laced with the chemical agent camite against protesters in Tbilisi in 2024. The ruling Georgian Dream party denies the accusation, threatening to sue the BBC in an international court. (BBC News) (Civil Georgia)

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)

• 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)

• 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)
• November 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)
• Thousands of supporters of Spain's conservative and Christian democratic opposition People's Party gather in Madrid and calls for prime minister Pedro Sanchez to resign. (AP)