Sunday, November 23rd, 2025 

The United States outlines a new 28-point peace proposal to end the war in Ukraine, including a casus foederis guarantee for Ukraine and the cession of Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia. (Axios) 

U.S. president Donald Trump gives Ukraine a deadline of November 27 to accept the peace proposal, or the U.S. will end all weapons shipments and military intelligence support. Russian president Vladimir Putin confirms he has formally received the proposal from the U.S. (BBC News) 

Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko pardons 31 Ukrainian citizens convicted of criminal offences in Belarusian territory in accordance with agreements reached between Lukashenko and United States president Donald Trump. (Reuters) 

Israel carries out an airstrike on a building in Beirut, Lebanon, killing five people and injuring 28 others. Hezbollah military chief Haytham Ali Tabatabai is confirmed among the fatalities. (Al Jazeera) 

Sectarian violence erupts in the Homs area of Syria, targeting the Alawite population.  (The Independent) 

Citizens of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, vote for a president to replace Milorad Dodik, who was removed by the court in June. Preliminary results show that Dodik’s ally, Siniša Karan of SNSD, will defeat Branko Blanuša of SDS with 50.89% of the votes. (Al Jazeera) 

Slovenians reject a referendum on a law that proposed legalising assisted dying for some terminally ill adults with 53.44% voting against. (Reuters) 

Days before the start of his 27-year sentence, former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is taken into preemptive custody due to a ruling by Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes that Bolsonaro violated his house arrest by damaging his ankle monitor. (AP) 

Ukrainian sekiwake Aonishiki Arata defeats Mongolian yokozuna Hōshōryū Tomokatsu in the playoff to become the first Ukrainian wrestler to win the Honbasho. (AFP via France 24) 

South Korean pianist Roh Hyunjin wins the 13th International Piano Competition held at the Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz, Kuyavian–Pomeranian, Poland. (Portal Kujawski) 

The death toll from the floods in central Vietnam, seven days ago, increases to 90 people. (AP) 

Guinea-Bissauans vote for a president, with incumbent Umaro Sissoco Embaló seeking a second term. (AP) 

Australia and Turkey confirm an agreement for Turkey to host the 2026 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31) in Antalya, with Australia leading the conference’s negotiation process and the Asia–Pacific Group convening a pre-COP31 meeting focused on climate-related vulnerabilities. (Reuters) 

Saturday, November 22nd, 2025 

A person is killed in an Israeli airstrike on a car in Zawtar al-Sharqiyah, Lebanon, while several more attacks are carried out across Kafr Rumman. (Al Jazeera) 

Twenty-four Palestinians are killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, including five in a vehicle in Gaza City and four children in the Nuseirat refugee camp. (Al Jazeera) 

Kyrgyz law enforcement conducts arrests, searches, and interrogations of opposition figures, including former first lady Raisa Atambayeva and several former legislators allied with former president Almazbek Atambayev, and journalists in an investigation into alleged calls for mass unrest ahead of the November 30 snap election. (Reuters) 

The Dutch defence ministry says the military opened fire at drones over Volkel Air Base, but that no wreckage was recovered. (AP) 

Five people are killed and 34 injured after a vehicle carrying passengers from Kano to Maiduguri en route to Lagos, Nigeria, collides head-on with a truck in Niger State. (Premium Times) 

Days before the start of his 27-year sentence, former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is taken into preemptive custody due to a ruling by Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes that Bolsonaro violated his house arrest by damaging his ankle monitor. (AP) 

Friday, November 21st, 2025 

One person is shot, and 315 people, including 12 teachers and 303 schoolchildren, are abducted in an attack on a Catholic school in Agwara, Niger State, Nigeria. (BBC News) 

Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov announces that Russian forces have captured the city of Kupiansk, the administrative centre of Kupiansk Raion, Kharkiv Oblast. The Ukrainian military denies the statement. (Reuters) 

Five people are killed and three others are injured in a Russian glide bomb strike on a high-rise apartment block in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. (Euronews) 

Two Palestinian teenagers, aged 16 and 18, are killed by Israeli soldiers during a raid in East Jerusalem, in the West Bank. (Al Jazeera) 

Fátima Bosch of Mexico is crowned Miss Universe in Nonthaburi, Thailand, becoming the fourth Mexican woman to win the title. (ABS-CBN News) 

A M_w 5.5 earthquake strikes central Bangladesh, killing ten people and wounding over 350 more. (AA) (Jamuna Television) 

An Indian Air Force HAL Tejas crashes at the Dubai Airshow in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, killing the pilot. (AP) 

At least 18 people are killed and 21 others injured in an explosion at a glue factory in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan. (AP) 

Jamaica declares a leptospirosis outbreak after Hurricane Melissa, with health minister Christopher Tufton reporting nine confirmed cases, 28 suspected cases, and six suspected deaths linked to flood-related exposure to contaminated water. (Reuters) 

The Philippine Sandiganbayan issues arrest warrants for former representative Zaldy Co and 17 others, including government engineers and construction executives, over alleged irregularities in a ₱289 million (US$5.87 million) flood control project in Oriental Mindoro. (AP) 

A Peruvian Supreme Court judge orders the arrest and five-month preventive detention of former prime minister Betssy Chávez, who is under asylum at the Mexican embassy and is being prosecuted for alleged seditious conspiracy in connection with former president Pedro Castillo‘s attempt to dissolve Congress. (Reuters) 

High Court judge Bobbie Cheema-Grubb sentences former Welsh MEP Nathan Gill to 10 and a half years in prison after he pleaded guilty to accepting bribes from ex-Ukrainian lawmaker Oleh Voloshyn to promote pro-Russian positions in the European Parliament. (AP) 

American telecommunications company Verizon announces it will lay off over 13,000 employees, nearly 20% of its global workforce, in a restructuring. (AP)

Israeli forces and tanks move 300 m (980 ft) beyond the “Yellow Line” in eastern Gaza City in violation of the ceasefire. (Al Jazeera)

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Thursday, November 20th, 2025

At least 170 mountain climbers are evacuated when Mount Semeru on Java, Indonesia, suddenly erupts. (AP)

Five Palestinians are killed in two Israeli attacks in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)

Spain’s Supreme Court sentences Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz to two years of disqualification and a fine for revealing secrets about a tax fraud case involving Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso‘s partner. (RTVE)

Sixteen people are killed and 24 are injured when a tourist bus plunges off from a bridge into a river in Santuk district, Kampong Thom province Cambodia. (Xinhua)

Two police officers are killed and four more injured after a bomb explodes near their armoured personnel carrier in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Pakistan Today)

At COP30, Brazilian environment minister Marina Silva announces that Germany has committed to donate €1 billion (US$1.5 billion) towards Brazil’s rainforest blended-finance mechanism over the next decade. (DW)

A court in Nigeria sentences Biafran separatist Nnamdi Kanu to life imprisonment on seven terrorism charges over his leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra militant group. (AP)

Tongans vote to elect 26 of the 30 members of the Legislative Assembly. Members of the country’s nobility elect nine representatives, while the rest of the voting population elect 17 MPs. (RNZ)

Clashes erupt across Nepal between supporters of ousted prime minister K. P. Sharma Oli and supporters of interim prime minister Sushila Karki. A curfew is imposed in various districts. (NDTV)

A Philippine regional trial court sentences former de facto Bamban mayor Alice Guo to life imprisonment after finding her guilty of human trafficking for a scam center in her town.  (BBC News)

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