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Typhoon Fung-wong
- An amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan creates a new court of final appeal and establishes the position of Chief of Defence Forces, strengthening military rule.
- A suicide bombing kills 12 people in Islamabad, Pakistan.
- Typhoon Fung-wong (satellite image shown) hits the Philippines, leaving more than 27 people dead.
- A car explosion in Delhi, India, kills at least 13 people.
November 16, 2025 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2025 Delhi car explosion
- The National Investigation Agency of India states that the recent car explosion in Delhi was a suicide attack and report the arrest of a suspect accused of helping acquire and prepare the vehicle used in the blast. (AFP via CNA)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 12 people are killed and 10 others are injured when a bus crashes in Tungurahua Province, Ecuador. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- War on drugs in Ecuador
- Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa announces the capture of Los Lobos leader Wilmer Chavarría, who faked his own death and changed his identity, by Spanish police in Málaga, Andalusia. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Chilean general election
- Chileans vote to elect their president, who will succeed the term-limited incumbent Gabriel Boric. (CNN)
- Preliminary results indicate a second round between Jeannette Jara and José Antonio Kast on 13 December. (El País)
- Nuclear program of Iran
- Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi says that Iran is no longer enriching uranium due, in part, to the damage at nuclear facilities following the Iran–Israel war and the US strikes on nuclear sites in Iran. (AP)
Sports
- 2025 ATP Tour
- 2025 ATP Finals
- In tennis, Jannik Sinner defeats his rival Carlos Alcaraz in the final, 7–6(7–4), 7–5, to successfully defend his singles title at the 2025 ATP Finals. (AFP via Cebu Daily News)
- 2025 ATP Finals
November 15, 2025 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War on drugs, 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
- Three people are killed in an American airstrike against a boat in the Pacific Ocean. (CBS News)
- Kivu conflict
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo and the M23 rebels sign a framework agreement in Doha, Qatar, for a peace treaty to end the conflict in Kivu. (Reuters)
- Syrian conflict
- Four people are killed, including the mayor of Wady Al-Mawla, and another is severly injured in a mass shooting by unidentified gunmen at a coffeehouse in Talkalakh, Homs Governorate, Syria. (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights) (SANA)
- Three people are injured, including two critically, in a drive-by shooting by unidentified gunmen in Abu Jarin, Aleppo Governorate, Syria. (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)
Arts and culture
- Canada–Holy See relations
- The Holy See transfers 62 indigenous artifacts to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops for repatriation to the communities of origin after their removal for a 1925 missionary exhibition in Rome, Italy. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025–26 European windstorm season
- Storm Claudia makes landfall in Western Europe, killing at least three people and injuring dozens of others in southern Portugal. (Sky News Australia)
- At least 32 informal miners are killed when a makeshift bridge collapses at a flooded cobalt mine in Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Authorities state that unauthorized miners entered the area despite a ban due to landslide risks. (AFP via Daily Sabah)
- A landslide triggered by heavy rain kills at least 11 people and leaves 12 others missing in Central Java, Indonesia. (Reuters)
- Nine people are killed and others are injured in an explosion at a firecracker manufacturing unit in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan. (Dawn)
Law and crime
- 2025 Mexican protests
- At least 120 people are injured, including 100 police officers, and 20 others are arrested in clashes with police during protests across Mexico after the assassination of Uruapan mayor Carlos Manzo earlier this month. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Modern immigration to the United Kingdom
- British home secretary Shabana Mahmood announces plans to reduce the length of refugee status, extend the required period before applying for long-term residency, and end automatic state benefits for asylum seekers as part of a broad reform of its asylum system. (AFP via CBS News)
November 14, 2025 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
- 2025 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks
- At least 17 people are killed in an attack on a hospital by the Allied Democratic Forces in Lubero, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP via CTV News)
- 2025 Democratic Republic of the Congo 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)
- Kyiv strikes, Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
- 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)
- El Fasher massacre
- Colombian conflict
- Nine guerrilla fighters are killed by a Colombian military airstrike in the Arauca Department. (AFP via BSS)
- Syrian conflict
- A woman is injured in a rocket attack by unknown assailants on a house in Mezzeh, Damascus Governorate, Syria. (Al Jazeera)
- 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)
Business and economy
- Saab AB signs a contract worth €3.1 billion (US$3.62 billion) with the Colombian government to provide 17 Gripen fighter jets to the Colombian Aerospace Force over the next five years. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Tuzla retirement home fire
- Bosnian authorities report that a short circuit from an overburdened power cable in a resident's room caused the deadly fire at a Tuzla retirement home. The investigation continues to examine possible negligence. (AP)
- 2025 Nowgam explosion
- 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)
- At least 101 people are killed and others are presumed trapped in a landslide at a gold mine near Kolwezi, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (blue News)
- 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 has killed six people in southern Ethiopia. (CIDRAP)
International relations
- France–Mali relations
- Mali suspends French television channels TF1 and La Chaîne Info from airing in the country, citing unverified claims and falsehoods in a broadcast on the ongoing fuel blockades by the Islamist militant group Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin. (AP)
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 Saint Helena Island shooting
- 2025 Islamabad suicide bombing
- Four militants linked to the Pakistani Taliban who allegedly planned the suicide bombing in Islamabad three days ago are arrested in Pakistan. (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 rebel leader Roger Lumbala starts a hunger strike to protest his ongoing trial over atrocities committed during the second war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, arguing 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 development projects 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 rules that incumbent president Faustin-Archange Touadéra may run for another term, after opposition parties submitted that he did not meet the criteria to seek another term in office. (AP)
- 2025 Tanzanian election protests
- Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan creates an inquiry commission to investigate the killings that occurred during recent election-related protests and orders the release of some detained participants, while also announcing plans to begin constitutional reform within her administration's first 100 days. (AP)
Sports
- French speed skater Timothy Loubineaud breaks the world record at the ISU World Cup by more than a second in the 5000 metres with a time of 6:00.23. (Olympics) (NOS)
November 13, 2025 (Thursday)
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)
- Gaza war hostage crisis
- 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)
- Gaza war
- 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)
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Haitian conflict
- Seven gang members are killed during a Haitian police operation in Croix-des-Bouquets, Ouest, where officers also destroy a helicopter that made an emergency landing to prevent its capture. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- Eight people are killed and 15 others are injured after two trucks collide head-on in Pune, Maharashtra, India. (NDTV)
- Four people are killed after two migrant vessels carrying nearly 100 passengers capsize off the coast of Al-Khums, Murqub District, Libya. (Reuters)
- 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)
Sports
- The governing board of Major League Soccer (MLS), the top men's association football league in Canada and the U.S., votes to change its season from its current calendar-year schedule to a summer-to-spring schedule spanning two calendar years, aligning MLS with most international leagues. The first season under the new calendar will be 2027–28, with an abbreviated transitional season from February to May 2027. (ESPN)
November 12, 2025 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Cambodia–Thailand relations
- 2025 Cambodian–Thai border crisis, Cambodian–Thai border dispute
- Cambodian prime minister Hun Manet accuses Thailand of shooting and killing a Cambodian villager near the border, two days after a Thai soldier was injured by a land mine in the area, increasing tensions and threatening the ceasefire that put an end to the conflict in July. (AP)
- 2025 Cambodian–Thai border crisis, Cambodian–Thai border dispute
Business and economy
- The United States Mint strikes its last penny for circulation, though it will remain legal tender. There are still an estimated 300 billion pennies in circulation according to the Treasury Department. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Six people are killed in a stampede during a military recruitment event in Accra, Ghana. (AP)
- At least 37 people are killed and 20 others are injured when a bus collides with a truck and crashes down a ravine in Arequipa, Peru. (DW) (Al Jazeera)
International relations
- Canada–Russia relations, International sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- During a G7 meeting on the Russo-Ukrainian war, Canadian foreign minister Anita Anand announces new sanctions targeting Russian entities involved in cyberattacks, drone production, energy infrastructure, and the transport of oil via the shadow fleet. (AFP via Al Arabiya)
Law and crime
- Corruption in Ukraine
- Operation Midas
- Ukrainian justice minister German Galushchenko and energy minister Svitlana Hrynchuk resign following a National Anti-Corruption Bureau investigation into an alleged kickback scheme involving Ukraine's nuclear power plant operator Energoatom. The alleged head of the corruption group, Tymur Mindych, has fled Ukraine. (The Guardian)
- Operation Midas
- Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302
- A U.S. federal jury orders Boeing to pay $28.45 million in damages to the family of Shikha Garg, a victim of the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX crash, marking the first civil trial verdict related to the two fatal MAX accidents. (AFP via Black Hills Pioneer)
- Crime in Germany
- An 18-year-old is sentenced to eight years and nine months in prison for a shooting at a bar in Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, that killed one person and injured two others in 2024. (Deutsche Presse-Agentur)
- Two police officers are injured and 29 people are arrested when a riot breaks out at a immigration detention site in Sintiki, Serres, Greece. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Iraqi parliamentary election
- Preliminary results show prime minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani's Reconstruction and Development Coalition leading the polls. (Reuters)
- 2025 United States federal government shutdown
- A bill passes through Congress and is signed by president Donald Trump, ending the longest government shutdown in American history at 43 days. (BBC News)
November 11, 2025 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian war
- Pokrovsk offensive
- Hundreds of Russian troops enter the city of Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast with heavy street-to-street fighting underway. (Reuters)
- Pokrovsk offensive
- 2025 Islamabad suicide bombing
- Twelve people are killed and 27 injured in a suicide bombing outside a court in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli settler violence
- Israeli settlers set fire to dozens of vehicles and other property in Beit Lid and Deir Sharaf in the West Bank and attack Israeli soldiers who were dispatched to the area, injuring four Palestinians, while four Israelis are arrested. (DW)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Turkish Air Force Lockheed C-130 crash
- Twenty people are killed when a Turkish Air Force C-130 Hercules cargo plane crashes near the Azerbaijan–Georgia border. (Euronews) (AP)
- Electricity sector in the Dominican Republic
- The Dominican Republic experiences a rare countrywide blackout, which officials blame on a failure in the power transmission grid. (AP)
- Twenty people are injured when three Sarmiento trains derail in Liniers, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Todos Noticias in Spanish)
International relations
- Colombia–United States relations, 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
- Colombian president Gustavo Petro orders public forces to halt intelligence sharing with the United States Intelligence Community until the U.S. ceases its military strikes on vessels in the Caribbean Sea. (Reuters)
- Japan–Russia relations, International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian war
- Russia indefinitely bans 30 Japanese nationals, including a foreign ministry official, from entering the country in response to Japan's sanctions on Russian entities over the war in Ukraine. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- 2006 Noida serial murders
- The Supreme Court of India acquits Surendra Koli of all remaining charges in the series of child murders and rapes which occurred between 2005 and 2006 in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and ordering his immediate release. Koli was originally sentenced to death and was serving a life sentence for the remaining cases. (The Hindu)
- 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
- A high court in Seoul, South Korea, issues an arrest warrant for former National Intelligence Service director Cho Tae-yong for allegedly tampering with evidence regarding former president Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration of martial law, among other charges. (Reuters)
- 2025 Turkish football betting scandal
- A court in Istanbul, Turkey, issues arrest warrants for eight suspects involved in an investigation into alleged illegal sports betting by Turkish Football Federation referees, club presidents, and players. (DW)
- Anti-war protests in Russia
- A court in Saint Petersburg, Russia, extends street musician Diana Loginova's detention for 13 days for allegedly violating public order during an October performance that included anti-war songs, marking her third consecutive sentence since mid-October. (AP)
- Corruption in Ukraine
- The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine starts investigating a large-scale corruption scheme in the country’s energy sector, involving the state nuclear power operator Energoatom. (EuroNews)
- A Gabonese court sentences former first lady Sylvia Bongo Ondimba and her son, Noureddin Bongo Valentin, to 20 years in prison each for receiving and embezzling public funds, among other charges. Both were tried in absentia as they live in exile. (AFP via Barron's)
- The Southwark Crown Court in London, United Kingdom, sentences Chinese fraudster Qian Zhimin to 11 years and eight months in prison for running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded over 128,000 investors and laundered the proceeds into Bitcoin, resulting in the recovery of about ₿61,000 in the country's largest cryptocurrency seizure. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Iraqi parliamentary election
- Iraqis vote to elect the 329 members of the Council of Representatives, who will elect the country's president and approve the president's appointment of a prime minister. (AFP via Barron's)
- 2025 Irish presidential election
- Catherine Connolly is sworn in as the 10th president of Ireland. (BBC News)
- Gun law in New Zealand
- New Zealand announces the transfer of gun licensing responsibilities from the police to an independent Firearms Safety Authority reporting directly to the government. (AP)
- Thousands of people protest in Belgrade, Serbia, against the proposed re-development of the former Yugoslav People's Army General Staff Building, which was delisted as a cultural asset last year. (DW)
Science and technology
- The Sun emits a X5.1-class solar flare from sunspot AR4274, the most intense since October 2024. (Space)
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