Armed conflicts and attacks

• Armed conflict for control of the favelas
  • Operation Containment
    • The death toll from yesterday's police operation in Rio de Janeiro rises to at least 132 people. (Reuters)

• Afghanistan–Pakistan relations
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • Peace talks held in Istanbul between Afghanistan and Pakistan collapse and achieve no clear agreement. (Reuters)

• Philippine president Bongbong Marcos signs a law institutionalizing a ban on the country's offshore gaming operators and declare their operations illegal. (Philippine News Agency)

• 2025 Alberta teachers' strike
  • In the Canadian province of Alberta, premier Danielle Smith says teachers are expected to return to work after her government passed legislation to end their strike and invoked the notwithstanding clause to prevent court challenges of the legislation's constitutionality. (CBC) (Global News)
• 2025 Dutch general election
  • In the Netherlands, a snap election is held following the collapse of the Schoof cabinet in June. (The Guardian)
  • Centrist liberal party Democrats 66, led by Rob Jetten, takes a surprise lead according to the main exit poll, just two years after the party ranked sixth in the previous vote. (Euronews)
  • Frans Timmermans the leader of the GroenLinks–PvdA alliance steps down following a poor performance during the election. (Politico)
• 2025 Tanzanian general election
  • Protests and riots erupts in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, after President Samia Suluhu Hassan bans opposition politicians from running in the general election. Tanzanian police in Dar es Salaam use tear gas to break up the protests. The main opposition leader, Tundu Lissu, is jailed on treason charges, while his party Chadema is boycotting the vote. (BBC) (The Guardian)
  • Internet connectivity in Tanzania is disrupted shortly after hundreds of protesters in the Kimara and Ubungo neighborhoods of Dar es Salaam set fire to a gas station and a bus. (AP News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Hamas announces that it is postponing the return of the body of a dead hostage, citing multiple violations of the ceasefire by Israel. (Reuters)
  • Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
    • Three Al-Qassam Brigades militants are killed by Israeli troops in a shooting–airstrike attack in Kfar Qud, near Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. (L'Orient Today) (Reuters)
  • Hamas fires at and launches an anti-tank missile at Israeli troops in Rafah, Gaza, killing an Israeli soldier. (The Jerusalem Post) (BBC)
  • At least 104 people are killed, including 46 children, and 50 others are injured in multiple Israeli retaliatory airstrikes across Gaza City. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
• Armed conflict for control of the favelas
  • Operation Containment
    • Sixty-four people, including four police officers, are killed in large-scale raids on Comando Vermelho spots in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, making it the deadliest police operation in the city's history. At least 81 suspected gang members are arrested in the operation. (CNN) (DW)
• Sudanese civil war
  • 2025 Al-Fashir hospital attack
    • Over 460 people are killed in an attack on a hospital by the Rapid Support Forces in Al-Fashir, North Darfur, Sudan. (AP)

• AI boom, Workplace impact of artificial intelligence
  • Multinational technology and e-commerce company Amazon announces it will lay off 14,000 corporate positions as it invests more in building AI and cloud computing infrastructure. (DW) (CNBC)
• Economy of the Philippines
  • The Philippine peso falls to a record low of ₱59.2 per U.S. dollar, which the country's central bank attributes to currency depreciation influenced by recent interest rate cuts and foreign investment outflows. (Bloomberg)

• 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Westmoreland parish, southwest Jamaica, as a Category 5 hurricane with 185 mph sustained winds. (CNN) (NHC)
• Mombasa Air Safari Flight 203
  • A Mombasa Air Safari-operated Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft carrying foreign tourists from Hungary and Germany crashes near Kwale, Kenya, killing all 11 people on board. (AP)
• Eighteen people are killed when a wooden vessel carrying dozens of irregular refugees capsizes off the coast of Surman, Libya. (TRT World)

• 2020–2025 H5N1 outbreak
  • The German government culls 500,000 birds, including chickens, geese, and turkeys, as the federal animal health institute reports over 100 outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza, including 30 outbreaks among poultry battery farms across the country. (DW)

• China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) sign an upgraded free trade agreement, which will broaden collaboration on infrastructure, digital and green transition, trade facilitation and people-to-people exchanges between the two sides, on the sidelines of the 47th ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (CNA)

• Assassination of Shinzo Abe
  • The trial of Tetsuya Yamagami, the alleged killer of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, opens in Nara. It is expected to end by mid-December. (AP)
• Crime in London
  • One person is killed and two others, including a 14-year-old, are injured in a mass stabbing in London, England. A 22-year-old Afghan national is arrested. (Sky News)
• Fijian deputy prime minister Biman Prasad says that he intends to resign after being charged with corruption. He is the second deputy PM in Sitiveni Rabuka's government to be charged since last week. (RNZ)

• Conscription in Russia
  • The Russian State Duma approves a bill to change military conscription to a year-round process, passing it to the Federation Council for approval. (AP)

• 2025 Turkish referee betting scandal, Gambling in Turkey
  • The Turkish Football Federation takes disciplinary action against 152 referees who were found to have actively placed bets on football matches. At least 371 of the 571 active referees are found to have a betting account. (ESPN) (NTV in Turkish)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War in the Sahel
  • Mali War
    • Mali's government closes all schools and universities across the country amid a fuel blockade by al-Qaeda-aligned JNIM insurgents. (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
  • Fourteen people are killed and one survives after three American airstrikes against four boats in the Pacific Ocean. (CBS News)
• Gaza war
  • Eight Palestinians are killed and 13 injured in the Gaza Strip during Israeli airstrikes, despite the agreed ceasefire. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)

• LGBTQ rights in the United Kingdom
  • King Charles III dedicates a memorial to LGBTQ members of the Armed Forces at the National Memorial Arboretum in Lichfield, Staffordshire, United Kingdom, on the 25-year anniversary of the end to the country's ban on gay servicemen. (AP)

• Taxation in Malta
  • Malta introduces tax cuts exempting parents of two or more children from income tax on up to €18,500 (US$21,574) of earnings from 2026, rising to €30,000 ($34,985) by 2028, as part of efforts to address its low fertility rate. (Reuters)

• 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Melissa reaches Category 5 intensity on its approach to Jamaica. (NBC) (Washington Post) (Fox Weather)

• Montenegro–Turkey relations
  • Montenegro suspends its visa-free arrangement for Turkish citizens after the stabbing of a local man allegedly by Turkish nationals led to unrest in Podgorica. (Reuters)

• A court in Mali sentences former prime minister Moussa Mara to two years in prison on charges of undermining state security and inciting public disorder. Mara will serve one year without parole and one year as a suspended sentence. (AP)

• 2025 Cameroonian presidential election
  • The Supreme Court of Cameroon announces the reelection of incumbent president Paul Biya. (AP)
• 2025 Czech parliamentary election
  • Czech president Petr Pavel asks former prime minister Andrej Babiš to form a new government after his party ANO won the most seats in the parliamentary elections earlier this month. (AP)
• Tunisia suspends the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights from operating for a month, citing the need to conduct a financial audit on the organization's foreign funds. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • 2025 Sumy offensive
    • One person is killed and 13 others are injured, including two seriously, in a Russian drone strike on a minibus in Mykolaivka, Sumy Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (Kyiv Post)
  • Two people are killed, including an elderly woman, and another is injured in a Ukrainian drone strike on an apartment building in Russian-controlled Donetsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (MSN)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Siege of El Fasher
    • The Rapid Support Forces say that they have captured El Fasher, the last stronghold of the Sudanese Armed Forces in North Darfur. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Three people are killed in two Israeli airstrikes in An-Naqoura and Baalbek, Lebanon. Separately, an Israeli drone drops a grenade near UNIFIL forces in Kfar Kila, without casualties. (Al Jazeera)
• A man plants an explosive near propane gas cylinders at a gas station in Georgetown, Guyana, killing a child and wounding four other people. The attacks is described as a terrorist incident, while the perpetrators are unknown. (AP)

• Patriarch Daniel consecrates the newly-constructed National Cathedral in Bucharest, Romania, as the country's largest cathedral with the capacity for 5,000 worshippers and the patriarchal seat of the Romanian Orthodox Church. (DW) (Romania Insider)

• Fourteen people are killed when a fire engulfs dwellings in Bukavu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Africanews)
• Thirteen people are killed and five others are injured when a bus crashes in Kano State, Nigeria. (The Punch)
• At least 13 people are killed and 29 others are injured when a bus collides with a car and plunges off of a bridge into a stream in Puerto Iguazú, Misiones, Argentina. (News.Az) (Xinhua)
• In separate incidents, an MH-60R Seahawk helicopter and an F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet of the United States Navy, both operating off of the aircraft carrier, crash in the South China Sea. All crew of both craft are rescued. (CNN)

• Enlargement of ASEAN
  • Accession of Timor-Leste to ASEAN, 2025 ASEAN Summits
    • Timor-Leste becomes the eleventh member state of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. (Antara)
• Trinidad and Tobago–Venezuela relations, United States–Venezuela relations
  • Venezuelan vice president Delcy Rodríguez issues a statement accusing Trinidad and Tobago and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency of military provocations as both countries carry out joint military exercises in the Caribbean Sea. (Reuters)

• 2025 Cameroonian presidential election
  • Cameroonian opposition presidential candidate Issa Tchiroma says that police have detained more than 30 politicians and activists linked to his campaign or who endorsed his candidacy against incumbent Paul Biya during last week's election. (Reuters)
  • Four protestors are killed and several policemen are injured during clashes in Douala, as pro-opposition protestors rejects Biya's re-election. (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 Louvre robbery
  • Two suspects are arrested in connection to the robbery at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, last week. (Al Jazeera)

• Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
  • 2025 PKK–Turkey peace process
    • The Kurdistan Workers' Party announces that it is withdrawing its fighters from Turkey and moving them to Iraq as part of ongoing peace talks with the Turkish government. (AP)
• 2025 Argentine legislative election
  • Argentines vote in the midterms to elect a half of the Chamber of Deputies and a third of the Senate. (The New York Times)
  • The ruling La Libertad Avanza party of President Javier Milei wins the election with over 40% of the votes. (AP)
• 2026 Colombian presidential election
  • The Historic Pact party nominates Senator Iván Cepeda as its candidate for president in next year's election. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Kyiv strikes, Attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Four people are killed and 20 others are injured in overnight Russian missile and drone strikes on residential areas in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Reuters) (AP)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Five soldiers and 25 gunmen are killed in a shootout between Kurram and North Waziristan, in Pakistan, at the border with Afghanistan. (Al Jazeera)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Two people are killed during two Israeli airstrikes against a car and a motorcycle in Harouf and Qlayleh, Lebanon, bringing the death toll from the attacks since the past 48 hours to nine. (Al Jazeera)

• 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane warnings are issued in Jamaica, as forecasts indicate Hurricane Melissa will likely reach Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, while rainfall estimates exceed across the country and in Haiti. (CNN)
  • Over 145,000 people are evacuated by Guantánamo Province officials ahead of Hurricane Melissa's potential impacts in eastern Cuba. (NBC)

• Afghanistan–Pakistan relations
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • Pakistani defence minister Khawaja Asif says that if peace talks with the Taliban fail, Pakistan will declare an open war on Afghanistan, as Pakistan accuses the Taliban of sheltering Pakistani militants, which Kabul denies. (Reuters)
• Canada–United States trade relations
  • 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
    • U.S. president Donald Trump announces that he will raise U.S. tariffs on Canada by 10% in retaliation for an anti-tariff advertisement sponsored by the Ontario government. (The Guardian)

• 2025 Irish presidential election
  • Independent candidate Catherine Connolly is declared winner of yesterday's election of the President of Ireland, after Fine Gael candidate Heather Humphreys concedes the election during the initial tallying of the votes. (Reuters) (The Guardian)
• 2025 Ivorian presidential election
  • Ivorians vote to elect their president, as incumbent Alassane Ouattara seeks a fourth term. (Reuters)
  • Ouattara is re-elected with 89.7% of the vote. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War on drugs
  • 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
    • Six people are killed in a U.S. missile strike on a suspected drug-running boat in the Caribbean Sea. (AP)
    • The United States deploys the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier battle group to Latin America for counter-drug cartel operations. (Reuters)
• Gaza war, Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
    • An 18-year-old Palestinian man is killed after being shot and critically injured yesterday during an Israeli attack in the Askar Camp in Nablus, occupied Palestine. (Al Jazeera)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Three people are killed in a roadside bombing on a police vehicle in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in Hangu District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (The Canadian Press)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Three people are killed and two others injured during two Israeli airstrikes against two vehicles in Toul and Nabatieh, Lebanon. Senior Hezbollah commander Abbas Karki is among the fatalities. (AA)

• The Booker Prize Foundation announces the creation of the Children's Booker Prize, with the first £50,000 (US$66,500) winner to be announced in early 2027. (The Guardian)

• 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
  • At least four people are killed in Haiti and the Dominican Republic by Tropical Storm Melissa. (The New York Times) (AP)
• Twenty-five people are killed and several others are injured in a fire on a bus in Kurnool, India. (AP)
• Fourteen people are killed, two others are rescued, and two are reported missing when a rubber boat sinks off the coast of Bodrum, Muğla, Turkey. (DPA International)
• Four people are killed and over 21,000 others are affected during heavy rains in Sri Lanka. (Xinhua News Agency)

• Colombia–United States relations
  • The United States imposes sanctions on Colombian president Gustavo Petro, his wife Verónica Alcocer, his son Nicolás, and Interior Minister Armando Benedetti, accusing them of involvement in the global drug trade amid worsening relations between both countries. (AP)

• 2025 Ovruch train attack
  • A man detonates a grenade on a train in Ovruch, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine, killing three women and a border guard, and wounding 12 other people. The perpetrator, who also died in the explosion, was a fugitive from Kharkiv. (Reuters) (News.az)
• 2025 Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan protests
  • Pakistan bans the Tehreek-e-Labbaik party after deadly clashes between party members and Pakistani police during a protest march led by the party over the past two weeks. (Reuters)
• Azerbaijan–Russia relations, Media freedom in Azerbaijan
  • A court in Azerbaijan orders a senior Russian journalist of state media agency Sputnik be released from prison and placed under house arrest for three months. The decision comes after a meeting between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Tajikistan amid deteriorating relations between the two countries. (Reuters)
• Murders of Albert Alfonso and Paul Longworth
  • A court in London, United Kingdom, sentences a Colombian man to life in prison for the murder and dismemberment of two men in London in July 2024. The man also pleaded guilty to three counts of possession of child pornography. (AP)
• Pork barrel scam
  • The Philippines' anti-graft court acquits former Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile, his former chief of staff Gigi Reyes, and businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles of their remaining graft charges, citing failure to prove their guilt. The three had been charged over their alleged misuse of the Priority Development Assistance Fund. (Philippine Daily Inquirer) (ABS-CBN News)
• A manhunt is launched for Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, whose sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl sparked anti-immigration protests in Epping, Essex, England, after he was accidentally released from prison. (BBC News)

• 2025 Irish presidential election
  • Citizens of the Republic of Ireland vote for the next President to succeed Michael D. Higgins, who is term-limited. The candidates are independent candidate Catherine Connolly and Fine Gael candidate Heather Humphreys. (BBC)
• The Croatian parliament votes to reintroduce compulsory military service, which had been shifted to a volunteer system in 2008. The new conscription will require two months of basic training, allowing conscientious objectors to opt for civilian service. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Boko Haram insurgency
  • At least 50 insurgents are killed as the Nigerian Army repel drone-backed attacks on military positions in Borno and Yobe States. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Four people, including an elderly woman, are killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes in eastern and southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Syrian conflict
  • A ceasefire is agreed between the Syrian Armed Forces and Firqat al-Ghuraba, after the latter's camp was sieged yesterday in Harem. (France24)

• Billboard magazine revises the rules for its Hot 100 record chart and implements a maximum time spent on the list if a song drops below a certain rank, intended to shorten the age to be considered "contemporary". (NPR)

• 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico, Canada–United States trade relations
  • U.S. president Donald Trump announces all trade negotiations with Canada are "terminated" following an advertisement featuring former U.S. president Ronald Reagan released by the government of Ontario. (CBC)
• Israel–United States relations, Proposed Israeli annexation of the West Bank, International law and the Arab–Israeli conflict
  • The United States rules out Israel's plan to annex the West Bank following a Knesset vote, while several other countries also affirm their standings against the plan, calling it a violation of international law. (Gulf News)
• Nearly 700 foreigners have fled Myanmar and crossed into Thailand following the Tatmadaw's raid on the KK Park scam center on Monday. Thailand detains 677 people, including 618 men and 59 women, after they cross the border into Tak Province, Thailand. (Reuters)

• 2025 National Basketball Association illegal gambling prosecution
  • More than 30 people are arrested by United States law enforcement as part of an investigation into illegal gambling linked to the American mafia, including former professional basketball player Damon Jones, Miami Heat player Terry Rozier, and Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups. (Reuters)
• Deportation in the second Trump administration
  • A review conducted by National Public Radio reveals that there have been at least 20 deaths in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody this year, making it the deadliest year since record-keeping began in 2004. (NPR)
• English Channel illegal migrant crossings
  • The United Kingdom Foreign Office issues sanctions against gangs from the Balkans for facilitating migrant smuggling across the English Channel into the UK. (DW)
• Killing of Iryna Zarutska
  • A grand jury indicts Decarlos Brown Jr., the perpetrator of the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte Area Transit System train in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, of first-degree murder and causing death on a public transport system, making him eligible for the death penalty. (NBC News) (Newsweek)
• A court in Belfast, Northern Ireland, finds a British soldier not guilty over killings on Bloody Sunday in 1972 in Derry. (Reuters)

• 2026 Brazilian general election
  • At a meeting with Indonesian counterpart Prabowo Subianto, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announces his bid for a fourth non-consecutive term in next year's election. (AP)
• 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election
  • Hundreds of thousands of people gather in Budapest, Hungary, in rival rallies for incumbent prime minister Viktor Orbán and his main opposition rival Péter Magyar. (AP)