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)
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 US Southern Command's jurisdiction. (DW) (Axios)
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
Seven people are killed and 27 others are injured, including five critically, 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)
At least three people are killed and three others are injured when a bus crashes into a bus stop in Östermalm, Stockholm, Sweden. (Aftonbladet in Swedish) (Euronews)
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
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)
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. (ABC 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)
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)
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