
Saturday, September 27th , 2025
Deceased serial killer Robert Eugene Brashers is identified as the prime suspect in the quadruple homicide at an I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt! shop in Austin, Texas, United States. (CBS News)
Former United States FBI director James Comey is indicted by a federal grand jury on two charges in a prosecution led by Lindsey Halligan, the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. (BBC)
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is sentenced to 5 years in prison for criminal association, becoming the first former French president to be sentenced to prison. His former interior ministers Brice Hortefeux and Claude Guéant are sentenced to two years in prison and six years of house arrest respectively, convertible due to Guéant’s health issues. (BBC News)
U.S. president Donald Trump orders the deployment of troops to Portland, Oregon, saying he has directed U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to secure the “war-ravaged” city. (BBC News)
Brazilian professional skateboarder Sandro Dias breaks the records for the highest drop in ever and fastest speed reached on a standard skateboard after skating down a government building in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, at 70 meters-high. (Red Bull) (Transworld Skateboarding)
Two teenagers are killed and three others are injured and hospitalized in a school shooting in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil. (AFP via France 24) (AP)
The Pakistan Armed Forces kill 17 Pakistani Taliban militants and recover weapons and ammunition in an overnight operation in Lakki Marwat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (The Express Tribune)

Cambodian and Thai forces reportedly exchange fire at their countries’ shared border despite a ceasefire agreement in August. (Nation Thailand)
At least 39 people are killed, including ten children, and 83 others are injured in a crowd crush at actor-politician Vijay‘s rally in Velusamypuram, Tamil Nadu, India. (The Hindu)
Eight people are killed after a bus collides head-on with a vehicle carrying oil in Panjgur, Pakistan. (The Express Tribune)

In Australian rules football, the Brisbane Lions defeat the Geelong Cats to win the 2025 Australian Football League by 47 points, winning their second consecutive premiership and fifth overall. (The Age)
In flag football, the Italian men’s and British women’s national teams win their respective IFAF European Flag Football Championship titles in Paris, France. (EuroFlag)
England defeats Canada in the final of the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup. (BBC News)
At least 66 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)

Friday, September 26th , 2025
The Government of Slovakia passes a constitutional amendment stating there are only two sexes, male and female. Furthermore only married couples have the right to adopt, which de facto prevents same-sex couples from adopting since same-sex marriage is illegal in Slovakia. Surrogacy is also banned. (Politico)
Air Base Karup in Central Denmark Region, Denmark, is closed due to a drone sighting above the military base. Danish authorities describe the incident as part of an ongoing “hybrid attack“. (BBC News)
At least 100 people are feared dead following the collapse of a gold mining pit in Zamfara State, Nigeria. (Reuters)

At least 14 people are killed after a minibus collides with two trucks in the southern Peruvian Andes, Peru. (AP)
Eleven people are killed and 33 are injured after a building collapses following a fire in Nile Delta, Egypt. (AP)
The members of the International Paralympic Committee vote not to maintain sanctions against the Belarussian and Russian Paralympic Committee. (IPC)

Ten people are confirmed killed as tropical cyclone Bualoi makes landfall in Visayas and southern Luzon in the Philippines since yesterday. (Reuters)
Six people are killed and six others are injured after a roof collapses at a steel plant in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. (NDTV)
At least eleven people are killed and three others injured after a truck crashes in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Dawn)
France withdraws its case at the International Court of Justice accusing Iran of denying consular protection to two French citizens detained at Evin Prison in Tehran for more than three years. (Reuters)
The Netherlands and Uganda sign an agreement to establish a pilot transit hub in Uganda for rejected asylum seekers from nearby countries who cannot be directly returned from the Netherlands. (Reuters)

China lists six American companies on its Unreliable Entities List, including several in the underwater drone and satellite sectors. (AP)
South Korea’s National Assembly passes a law legalizing tattoo artistry by licensed non-medical professionals for the first time since a 1992 court ruling restricted the practice to doctors. (BBC News)
At least five people are confirmed killed as tropical cyclone Bualoi makes landfall in southern Luzon and Visayas in the Philippines since yesterday. (Gulf News)
Médecins Sans Frontières suspends its activities in Gaza City citing security concerns due to the Israeli offensive. (MSF)
At least 60 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
Thursday, September 25th, 2025
Uganda’s Electoral Commission clears President Yoweri Museveni to run for reelection in 2026, a move that could extend his rule to nearly 50 years. (Reuters)
Ethiopia and Russia sign an agreement on the construction of a nuclear power plant for Ethiopian Electric Power by Rosatom. (Anadolu Agency)
The Italian and Spanish navies deploy frigates to assist and protect the Global Sumud Flotilla on its way to attempt to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip after it was attacked by Israeli drones off the coast of Greece. (Reuters)
Two Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants are shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during the siege of a house in Tammun in the occupied West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
Six people are killed after a bus collides with a truck head-on in Sundergarh, Odisha, India. (The Hans India)
The Malian junta declares an end to joint counterterrorism operations with the French military and expels five French embassy workers from the country, declaring them personae non gratae. (AP)
The Slovenian government formally bans Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu from entering the country, linking the ban to the International Criminal Court arrest warrant out for Netanyahu. (AP)
Poland bars Moldovan politician Irina Vlah from entering its territory for five years for allegedly assisting Russian interference in Moldova’s upcoming parliamentary election. (Reuters)
Unrest erupts in Antananarivo, Madagascar, following power and water cuts in the capital city. Security forces impose an evening curfew. (AP)
At least 17 people are killed in a prison riot in Esmeraldas, Ecuador. (Reuters)
The Philippine Department of Justice and the National Bureau of Investigation file criminal graft and malversation charges against Senator Chiz Escudero, former senator Nancy Binay, and former house speaker Martin Romualdez in connection with investigations into alleged corruption in flood control projects. (The Philippine Star)
Lithuania’s parliament votes 80–42 to approve a coalition government led by the Social Democratic Party, installing Inga Ruginienė as the new prime minister. (AFP via The Straits Times)
Decomposed bodies of five suspected migrants are discovered in the Great Sand Sea south of Tobruk, Libya. (AP)
In response to a drone attack the previous day that injured 50 Israeli civilians, the Israeli Air Force bombs Houthi targets in the Yemeni capital city of Sanaa. (Al Monitor)
The Houthis launch a ballistic missile at central Israel, which is intercepted. (The Times of Israel)
In retaliation for a drone attack that injured 20 Israeli civilians, the Israeli Defense Forces bombs Houthi targets in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. (Al Monitor)
At least 57 Palestinians, including 10 children and three women, are killed by Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
The End