Monday

October 13, 2025

Armed conflicts and attacks

Gaza war

Hamas publicly executes eight men in Gaza City accused of being criminals and Israeli collaborators. (Reuters) (BBC)

Gaza peace plan

Hamas hands over the 20 remaining living Israeli hostages to the Red Cross, and Israel releases over 1,900 Palestinian detainees, including 250 people serving life sentences for convictions in attacks on Israelis, as part of the ceasefire agreement. (AP)

Under the terms of the ceasefire agreement, local authorities shut down aid distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which were the locations of shootings by the Israeli military that killed over 2,600 people seeking food aid. (AP)

Hamas returns the bodies of four of the 28 deceased Israeli hostages, partially violating a provision of the ceasefire agreement for all hostages to be returned in one day, though the agreement acknowledged the possible inability of Hamas to be able to locate all the bodies in the specified timeframe. (BBC) (Haaretz)

Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes

2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict

Nineteen security forces are killed in two Pakistani airstrikes in Spin Boldak and Bahramcha, Afghanistan. A local high-ranking commander is among the fatalities. (Kabul Now)

2025 Malagasy protests

2025 Malagasy coup d'état

Malagasy president Andry Rajoelina flees the country after losing the support of the armed forces following weeks of Gen Z-led protests against him. Rajoelina says he has not resigned and confirms a coup d'état is underway. (AP) (Global Nation)

Business and economy

2025 Nobel Prizes

Joel Mokyr is awarded half of this year's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for "having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress", with Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt sharing the other half for "the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction". (CNN) (Nobel Prize)