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Wednesday, October 29th, 2025
Hamas fires at and launches an anti-tank missile at Israeli troops in Rafah, Gaza, killing an Israeli soldier. (BBC)
Hamas announces that it is postponing the return of the body of a dead hostage, citing multiple violations of the ceasefire by Israel. (Reuters)
Peace talks held in Istanbul between Afghanistan and Pakistan collapse and achieve no clear agreement. (Reuters)
The death toll from yesterday’s police operation in Rio de Janeiro rises to at least 132 people. (Reuters)
Protests and riots erupts in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, after President Samia Suluhu Hassan bans opposition politicians to run for the general election. Tanzanian police in Dar es Salaam use tear gas to break up the protests. The main opposition leader, Tundu Lissu, is jailed on treason charges, while his party Chadema is boycotting the vote. (BBC)
Internet connectivity in Tanzania is disrupted shortly after hundreds of protesters in the Kimara and Ubungo neighborhoods of Dar es Salaam set fire to a gas station and a bus. (AP News)
Philippine president Bongbong Marcos signs a law institutionalizing a ban on the country’s offshore gaming operators and declare their operations illegal. (Philippine News Agency)
In the Canadian province of Alberta, premier Danielle Smith says teachers are expected to return to work after the teachers’ strike. (CBC)
In the Netherlands, a snap election is held following the collapse of the Schoof cabinet in June. (The Guardian)
Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
Multinational technology and e-commerce company Amazon announces it will layoff 14,000 corporate positions as it invests more in building AI and cloud computing infrastructure. (CNBC)
Sixty-four people, including four police officers, are killed in large-scale raids on Comando Vermelho spots in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, making it the deadliest police operation in the city’s history. At least 81 suspected gang members are arrested in the operation. (CNN)
The trial against Tetsuya Yamagami, the alleged killer of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, opens in Nara. It is expected to end by mid-December. (AP)
The State Duma approves a bill to extend military conscription to one-year service. The bill draft has to be approved by the Federation Council and signed by President Vladimir Putin. (AP)
The German government culls 500,000 birds, including chickens, geese, and turkeys, as the federal animal health institute reports over 100 outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza, including 30 outbreaks among poultry battery farms across the country. (DW)
The Philippine peso falls to a record low of ₱59.2 per U.S. dollar, which the country‘s central bank attributes to currency depreciation influenced by recent interest rate cuts and foreign investment outflows. (Bloomberg)
Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Westmoreland parish, southwest Jamaica, as a Category 5 hurricane with 185 mph sustained winds. (CNN) (NHC)
A Mombasa Air Safari-operated Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft carrying foreign tourists from Hungary and Germany crashes near Kwale, Kenya, killing all 11 people on board. (AP)
Eighteen people are killed when a wooden vessel carrying dozens of irregular refugees capsizes off the coast of Surman, Libya. (TRT World)
One person is killed and two others, including a 14-year-old, are injured in a mass stabbing in London, England. A 22-year-old Afghan national is arrested. (Sky News)
The Turkish Football Federation takes disciplinary action against 152 referees who were found to have actively placed bets on football matches. At least 371 of the 571 active referees are found to have a betting account. (ESPN)
Deputy Prime Minister of Fiji Biman Prasad says that he intends to resign after being charged with corruption. He is the second deputy PM in the government of Sitiveni Rabuka to be charged since last week. (RNZ)
Three Al-Qassam Brigades militants are killed by Israeli troops in a shooting–airstrike attack in Kfar Qud, near Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. (Reuters)
At least 104 people are killed, including 46 children, and 50 others are injured in multiple Israeli retaliatory airstrikes across Gaza City. (Reuters)
Monday, October 27th, 2025
A court in Mali sentences former prime minister Moussa Mara to two years in prison on charges of undermining state security and inciting public disorder. Mara will serve one year without parole and one year as a suspended sentence. (AP)
Mali‘s government closes all schools and universities across the country amid a fuel blockade by al-Qaeda-aligned JNIM insurgents. (Al Jazeera)
Fourteen people are killed and one survives after three American airstrikes against four boats in the Pacific Ocean. (CBS News)
Venezuelan vice president Delcy Rodríguez issues a statement accusing Trinidad and Tobago and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency of “military provocations” as both countries carry out joint military exercises in the Caribbean Sea. (Reuters)
King Charles III dedicates a memorial to LGBTQ members of the Armed Forces at the National Memorial Arboretum in Lichfield, Staffordshire, United Kingdom, on the 25-year anniversary of the end to the country’s ban on gay servicemen. (AP)
Malta introduces tax cuts exempting parents of two or more children from income tax on up to €18,500 (US$21,574) of earnings from 2026, rising to €30,000 ($34,985) by 2028, as part of efforts to address its low fertility rate. (Reuters)
Montenegro suspends its visa-free arrangement for Turkish citizens after the stabbing of a local man allegedly by Turkish nationals led to unrest in Podgorica. (Reuters)
Czech president Petr Pavel asks former prime minister Andrej Babiš to form a new government after his party ANO won a majority in the parliamentary elections earlier this month. (AP)
The Supreme Court of Cameroon announces the reelection of incumbent president Paul Biya. (AP)
Tunisia suspends the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights from operating for a month, citing the need to conduct a financial audit on the organization’s foreign funds. (Reuters)
Eight Palestinians are killed and 13 injured in the Gaza Strip during Israeli airstrikes, despite the agreed ceasefire. (Reuters)
Hurricane Melissa reaches Category 5 intensity on its approach to Jamaica. (NBC)
Sunday, October 26th, 2025
U.S. president Donald Trump announces that he will raise U.S. tariffs on Canada by 10% in retaliation for an anti-tariff advertisement sponsored by the Ontario government. (The Guardian)
Independent candidate Catherine Connolly is declared winner of yesterday’s election of the President of Ireland, after Fine Gael candidate Heather Humphreys concedes the election during the initial tallying of the votes. (The Guardian)
In separate incidents, an MH-60R Seahawk helicopter and an F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet of the United States Navy, both operating off of the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier, crash in the South China Sea. All crew of both craft are rescued. (CNN)
Two suspects are arrested in connection to the robbery at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, last week. (Al Jazeera)
At least 13 people are killed and 29 others are injured when a bus collides with a car and plunges off of a bridge into a stream in Puerto Iguazú, Misiones, Argentina. (Xinhua)
Three Hezbollah commanders and a Syrian citizen are killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon. (The Media Line)
One person is killed and 13 others are injured, including two seriously, in a Russian drone strike on a minibus in Mykolaivka, Sumy Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (Kyiv Post)
Thirteen people are killed and five others are injured when a bus crashes in Kano State, Nigeria. (The Punch)
Venezuelan vice president Delcy Rodríguez issues a statement accusing Trinidad and Tobago and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency of “military provocations” as both countries carry out joint military exercises in the Caribbean Sea. (Reuters)
Timor-Leste becomes the eleventh member state of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. (Antara)
Two people are killed during two Israeli airstrikes against a car and a motorcycle in Harouf and Qlayleh, Lebanon, bringing the death toll from the attacks since the past 48 hours to nine. (Al Jazeera)
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party announces that it is withdrawing its fighters from Turkey and moving them to Iraq as part of ongoing peace talks with the Turkish government. (AP)
Four people are killed and 20 others are injured in overnight Russian missile and drone strikes on residential areas in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
A man detonates a grenade on a train in Ovruch, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine, killing three women and a border guard, and wounding 12 other people. The perpetrator, who also died in the explosion, was a fugitive from Kharkiv. (Reuters)
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