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David Szalay
- David Szalay (pictured) is awarded the Booker Prize for his novel Flesh.
- American molecular biologist James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, dies at the age of 97.
- UPS Airlines Flight 2976 crashes after takeoff from Louisville, Kentucky, United States, killing 14 people.
- Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves more than 240 people dead in the Philippines.
November 14, 2025 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war, Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- Four people are killed and 27 others are injured in a massive missile and drone attack by Russian forces on Kyiv, Ukraine. (AP)
- Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war, Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
November 13, 2025 (Thursday)
Disasters and accidents
- Eight people are killed and 15 others are injured after two trucks collide head-on in Pune, Maharashtra, India. (NDTV)
- 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 percent 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 11 suspects in operations across 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)
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. Alleged head of the corruption group, Tymur Mindych, 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)
- 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 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)
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)
- Polish president Karol Nawrocki and at least 100,000 people participate in a nationalist march celebrating the National Independence Day in Warsaw, Poland. (PolskieRadio24 in Polish) (The Guardian)
- 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)
November 10, 2025 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2025 Delhi car explosion
- Thirteen people are killed and over 20 others are injured in a suspected car bombing near the Red Fort in New Delhi, India. (Al Jazeera)
- Colombian conflict
- The Colombian military conducts airstrikes in the Amazon region following failed peace talks, killing 19 FARC splinter group fighters. (AFP via CTV News)
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Cadet College Wana attack
- At least three people are killed during an attack by the Pakistani Taliban on a cadet college in South Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Reuters)
- Cadet College Wana attack
Arts and culture
- 2025 Booker Prize
- British–Hungarian writer David Szalay wins the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel Flesh. (AFP via Bangkok Post)
Business and economy
- A court declares Brazilian telecommunications company Oi bankrupt, the largest bankruptcy in the country's history. (O Estado de S. Paulo in Brazilian Portuguese) (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
- Two people are killed when a Beechcraft King Air plane carrying Hurricane Melissa relief supplies for Jamaica crashes into a pond in Coral Springs, Florida, United States. (CNN) (The Palm Beach Post)
- 2025 Pacific typhoon season
- The death toll from Typhoon Fung-wong's impact on Luzon, Philippines, rises to 25, with more than 1.4 million others displaced. (AP)
- The death toll from a Rohingya boat sinking near Langkawi, Malaysia, rises to 21 as authorities in Malaysia and Thailand continue their search and rescue operations, with 13 survivors having been rescued and detained for immigration investigations. (Reuters)
- Four people are killed, including three officials from the national registry, when a passenger Cessna 206 plane crashes in a jungle in Colombia. (Todo Noticias in Spanish)
Health and environment
- The Pan American Health Organization rescinds Canada's measles elimination status after more than a year of continuous transmission and over 5,000 confirmed cases across most provinces, declaring that the Americas region as a whole no longer meets elimination criteria. (Reuters)
International relations
- Cambodia–Thailand relations
- 2025 Cambodian–Thai border crisis
- Thailand suspends the implementation of a peace agreement with Cambodia after a land mine explosion injures two Thai soldiers in Sisaket province. (AFP via CNA)
- 2025 Cambodian–Thai border crisis
Law and crime
- 2020 United States presidential election
- Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election, Trump fake electors plot
- United States president Donald Trump grants pardons to 77 people, including political allies who are accused of electoral fraud-related charges from the 2020 presidential election, including several who have pled guilty. (NPR)
- Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election, Trump fake electors plot
- 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
- Former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol, former defense minister Kim Yong-hyun, and former Defense Counterintelligence Command leader Yeo In-hyung are indicted on additional charges related to Yoon's attempt to invoke martial law last December alleging that they ordered surveillance drones to be sent into North Korea to stoke tensions and justify their plans. (DW) (The Chosun Ilbo)
- Corruption in Nigeria
- Nigeria's anti-graft agency issues an arrest warrant for former petroleum minister Timipre Sylva on charges of conspiracy and fraud of US$14.85 million allocated by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board for a refinery project. (Reuters)
- Ecuadorian security crisis
- Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa transfers 300 high-risk inmates, including former vice president Jorge Glas, to the El Encuentro maximum-security prison in Santa Elena as part of a security strategy targeting gang activity inside overcrowded prisons. (Reuters)
- A court of appeals in Paris, France, releases former president Nicolas Sarkozy from prison under judicial supervision conditions, less than three weeks after he began to serve a five-year sentence for criminal conspiracy over his 2007 election campaign funds. (AP)
- Lebanon grants a US$900,000 bail to Hannibal Gaddafi, the son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, ending his nearly 10-year detention in a case involving the 1978 disappearance of Shia Muslim cleric Musa al-Sadr, for which Gaddafi was accused of withholding information but never tried. (AFP via Arab News)
- A Thai court orders the extradition of convicted kingpin She Zhijiang to China to face charges related to operating cybercrime and illegal gambling networks across Asia. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Egyptian parliamentary election
- Egyptians begin voting to elect 568 of the 596 members of the House of Representatives. (Reuters)
- 2025 United States federal government shutdown
- The United States Senate votes 60–40 to a bill to end the 41-day government shutdown and extend funding for the U.S. government until January 30, 2026, sending the bill to the House of Representatives for a vote. (NPR) (Reuters)
- Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto posthumously grants the title of National Hero to former president Suharto, despite criticism by activists and civil society due to his New Order military dictatorship. (CNN Indonesia) (Reuters)
- Pakistan's Senate approves a constitutional amendment that expands Army Chief Asim Munir's powers by creating the position of Chief of Defence Forces with command over all military branches, while also limiting the Supreme Court's authority. (Reuters)
November 9, 2025 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Boko Haram insurgency
- Battle of Lake Chad
- Around 200 fighters are killed in clashes between Boko Haram and ISWAP near Lake Chad in Nigeria. (AFP via Al-Ahram)
- Battle of Lake Chad
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Twenty Pakistani Taliban insurgents are killed in raids on hideouts in North Waziristan District and Darra Adam Khel, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (MSN)
Business and economy
- China–United States relations
- China–United States trade war
- China's commerce ministry suspends a ban on the export of gallium, germanium, antimony, and other materials used in the semiconductor industry, to the United States. (CNBC)
- China–United States trade war
- 2025 BBC editorial bias allegations
- Tim Davie, Director-General of the BBC, and Deborah Turness, CEO of BBC News, resign over the controversy. (The Guardian)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Pacific typhoon season
- At least two people are killed as Typhoon Fung-wong makes landfall over Luzon, Philippines. Over 900,000 people are evacuated and rescue operations for victims of the previous Typhoon Kalmaegi are suspended. (BBC News) (Reuters)
- At least seven people are killed, thirteen are rescued, and 280 others are reported missing when a boat carrying hundreds of Rohingya refugees sinks near Langkawi, Malaysia. (Reuters)
International relations
- Belgium–United Kingdom relations
- The United Kingdom announces it is deploying its military to Belgium to help protect its airports amid a series of drone incursions over the country's airspace. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- Ecuadorian security crisis
- Four inmates are killed and 30 others are injured during a prison riot in Machala, El Oro, Ecuador. (AP)
- Following the riot, 27 inmates at the Machala prison are found dead by asphyxiation, with investigations ongoing to determine the circumstances of the deaths. (AFP via Al Arabiya)
- Maldives–Sri Lanka relations
- Sri Lankan foreign minister Ananda Wijepala says that police and navy officers have been sent to the Maldives to cooperate with local authorities after the Maldivian military seized a Sri Lankan ship with over 300 kilograms of heroin on Friday. (Xinhua News) (Hiru News)
Politics and elections
- Israel confirms that it received the remains of soldier Hadar Goldin, who was killed in Gaza two hours after the ceasefire that ended the 2014 Gaza War between Palestinian militants and Israel. (AP)
Sports
- 2025 League of Legends World Championship
- In League of Legends esports, T1 of the League of Legends Champions Korea become the first team to win three consecutive world titles after defeating fellow South Korean representatives KT Rolster, 3–2, in the final in Chengdu, China. T1's Gumayusi is named the most valuable player. (AFP via France 24)
November 8, 2025 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
- Afghanistan's Taliban government states that peace talks with Pakistan in Istanbul, Turkey, have failed, while the ceasefire holds. (AFP via France 24)
- 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
- Russo-Ukrainian war
- Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war, Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- Russia launches over 450 bomber drones and 45 missiles on critical infrastructure and residential areas across Ukraine, killing at least seven people and injuring 12 others in Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia, as well as damaging energy plants in the oblasts of Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Poltava. (BBC News) (Reuters)
- Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war, Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
Business and economy
- Embargo of Russian oil during the Russo-Ukrainian war
- Bulgaria's parliament approves legal amendments giving a state-appointed manager expanded authority over Lukoil's refinery in Burgas, including operational control and the power to sell shares, to prevent a shutdown when U.S. sanctions on the refinery's Russian owner take effect. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- Six people are killed and four others are injured, including one critically, in a fire at a perfume warehouse in Dilovası, Kocaeli Province, Turkey. (BBC News)
- Three people are killed and 15 others are injured by storm surges amid rough seas off the coast of Tenerife, Spain. (AP) (Reuters)
International relations
- 2025 G20 Johannesburg summit, South Africa–United States relations
- The United States announces that it will send no delegates to the 2025 G20 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, citing accusations of persecution of the Afrikaner minority. (AP)
- Bolivia–United States relations
- Bolivia and the United States announce that they will restore diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level after 17 years. (AFP via New Straits Times)
Law and crime
- Police in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, arrest a man suspected of participating in the 1994 assassination of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, and takes him to a maximum security prison in central Mexico. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Bolivian general election
- Rodrigo Paz is sworn in as the new president of Bolivia, succeeding Luis Arce. (Al Jazeera)
- 2025 Guinean presidential election
- Guinea's supreme court publishes a provisional list of nine presidential candidates for the upcoming election, including junta leader Mamady Doumbouya, while excluding former prime minister Lansana Kouyaté on procedural grounds. (AP)
- 2025 Tanzanian election protests
- Tanzanian authorities charge hundreds of people with treason over protests linked to the disputed elections, including opposition officials such as Chadema secretary-general John Mnyika, while additional arrest warrants are issued for others, including Kawe MP Josephat Gwajima. (AP)
- 2026 Djiboutian presidential election
- Incumbent Djiboutian president Ismaïl Omar Guelleh accepts his party's nomination to seek a sixth term in next year's election after parliament lifted the constitutional age limit for presidential candidates. (AFP via Le Monde)
- Kenya–Uganda relations
- Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni confirms that two Kenyan activists were detained after attending an opposition rally and accuses them of working with rival political groups; both men are released to Kenyan authorities following diplomatic discussions. (AP)
Sports
- 2025 WTA Tour
- 2025 WTA Finals
- In tennis, Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan becomes the first Asian player to win a WTA Finals title after defeating Aryna Sabalenka, 6–3, 7–6(7–0) to win the singles title at the 2025 WTA Finals. By winning the title undefeated, Rybakina wins US$5.235 million in prize money, breaking the previous year's record for the largest prize money earned by a female tennis player at a single event. (BBC Sports)
- 2025 WTA Finals
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