Sunday, November 30th, 2025
Russia formally outlaws Human Rights Watch as an undesirable organization. (AP)
A team of scientists announces the detection of electric discharges in the atmosphere of Mars for the first time by NASA’s Perseverance rover, detected near the Jezero crater region, as a phenomenon described as “mini lightning”, though not confirmed to be the same as actual lightning. (BBC News)
Airbus launches an emergency software update on A320 aircraft worldwide to prevent potential corruption to guidance systems caused by intense solar radiation, affecting 6,000 planes, causing major travel disruptions worldwide. (BBC News)
Massive protests denouncing corruption over the ongoing flood control scandal are held in Metro Manila and across the Philippines. (The Philippine Star)
One person is killed and 19 others are injured overnight after a Russian strike on Kyiv, Ukraine. (ABC)
Five people die in a house fire in Neuves-Maisons, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. (AP)
Hondurans vote for their president to succeed term-limited incumbent Xiomara Castro. (AP)
Citizens in Switzerland vote in the year’s last referendum to decide whether women, like men, must also do national service. (AP)
Saturday, November 29th, 2025
Seven people are killed and five others are injured when armed attackers open fire inside a bar in Tula de Allende, Hidalgo, Mexico. (AFP via Times of India)
Four people are killed and ten others injured in a mass shooting during a family gathering at a banquet hall in Stockton, California, United States. (ABC News)
Guinea-Bissau‘s military junta installs a 28-member provisional government after seizing power, while ousted president Umaro Sissoco Embaló travels to Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, where he intends to stay. (AFP via France 24)
Two Palestinian children are killed in an Israeli drone attack as they were gathering firewood in the town of Bani Suheila in the Gaza Strip. (Sky News)
The toll from the landslides caused by heavy rains in Sri Lanka increases to 153 people killed, 191 missing, 44,000 more displaced, and 15,000 houses destroyed. (Al Jazeera)
The death toll from the floods in Indonesia increases to 303 people. Two more people are confirmed killed in Malaysia. (Al Jazeera)
Tunisian police detain National Salvation Front member Chaima Issa in Tunis to enforce a 20-year prison sentence after an appellate court recently issued prison terms of up to 45 years against several opposition leaders on charges of plotting to overthrow the president. (Reuters)
Nicaragua releases about 40 political prisoners, who are transferred to house arrest and required to report to authorities. (Reuters)
In women’s Australian rules football, the North Melbourne Tasmanian Kangaroos defeats the Brisbane Lions in the grand final by 40 points to win their second premiership in a row. North Melbourne’s half-back Eilish Sheerin is voted best-on-ground. (ABC News Australia)
In association football, Flamengo defeats fellow Brazilians Palmeiras 1–0 to win their fourth Copa Libertadores title, becoming the most successful Brazilian club in the continental competition. (BBC Sport)
Friday, November 28th, 2025
United States president Donald Trump announces that he will pardon former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who is serving a U.S. prison sentence for drug-trafficking offenses. (AFP via France 24)
Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak resigns after agents from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office raid his apartment. (BBC News)
Two tankers sanctioned as being a part of the alleged Russian shadow fleet are hit by explosions while transiting the Bosporus, with at least one of the vessels catching on fire. Turkey says search and rescue operations are underway to evacuate the crew members. (Reuters)
The Israeli military launches a raid in Beit Jinn, Syria, targeting unknown gunmen and carrying out airstrikes, killing 13 Syrians, including two children, and wounding 25 others. Six Israeli soldiers are also wounded in a shootout with local residents. Israel says it was targeting Jaama Islamiya. (BBC News)
The toll from the floods in Indonesia increases to 174 people killed and 80 more missing, mainly in North Sumatra. (Al Jazeera)
The death toll from the floods in Thailand increases to 145 people, mainly in Songkhla province. (Al Jazeera)
The toll from the landslides caused by heavy rains in Sri Lanka, mainly between Badulla and Nuwara Eliya, increases to 56 people killed and 600 houses damaged. (Al Jazeera)
Conscription in France French president Emmanuel Macron announces the revival of voluntary military service for 18 and 19-year-olds to begin in 2026. (DW)
Thursday, November 27th, 2025
Alejandro Gertz Manero resigns as Attorney General of Mexico, citing an invitation from President Claudia Sheinbaum to serve as ambassador to an unspecified country. His departure comes amid scrutiny over his role in overseeing multiple prominent investigations, the most recent being the Miss Universe 2025 controversy involving its co-owner, Rubén Rocha, who has been accused of cooperating in drug, fuel, and weapons trafficking in Mexico. (Bloomberg)
A Russian court sentences eight people to life imprisonment for terrorism after a truck bomb attack on the Crimean Bridge in Crimea killed five people in October 2022. (MSN)
Russia orders Poland to close its consulate in Irkutsk in response to Poland’s closure of the Russian consulate in Gdańsk following a railway explosion earlier this month that Poland attributes to Russian involvement. (Reuters)
The Moldovan parliament votes to close a Russian cultural center, citing security concerns and recent Russian drone incursions. (Reuters)
Australia adds Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to its list of terrorist organisations as a state sponsor due to its role in orchestrating and executing terrorist attacks in Australia last year. (ABC News Australia)
The Bissau-Guinean military installs General Horta Inta-A Na Man as interim leader for one year, while President Umaro Sissoco Embaló is flown to Senegal, with opposition candidate Fernando Dias da Costa alleging the coup was orchestrated to block the release of the election results he claims to have won. (AFP via Vanguard)
The Israeli military and police say they are reviewing a raid in Jenin, West Bank, in which forces fatally shot two Palestinians who had exited a surrounded building after a prolonged surrender procedure. (AFP via Le Monde)
Three policemen are killed in a shooting attack by unknown militants with assault rifles on a roadside checkpoint in Hangu District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP via ABC News)
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney and Alberta premier Danielle Smith sign an agreement removing planned federal emissions caps and eases clean-energy rules in exchange for strengthened provincial carbon pricing and support for carbon-capture projects, while also committing to enable a privately financed oil pipeline to British Columbia. (Reuters)
More than 40 people are killed, and 21 others are missing after landslides caused by heavy rains hit Sri Lanka, mainly between Badulla and Nuwara Eliya. (AP)
The death toll from flooding in Songkhla province, Thailand, rises to 104. (Thai Post)
Flooding on Sumatra, Indonesia, kills 49 people, leaves 67 others missing, and submerges over 2,000 buildings, with many of the worst-affected areas still unreachable a day after Cyclone Seynar’s landfall. (The Independent)
Nineteen people are killed after heavy winds cause a riverboat to capsize on Lake Mai-Ndombe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
Eleven people are killed and two more are injured in Kunming, China, when a train hits a group of railway maintenance workers. (Al Jazeera)
One of two U.S. National Guard troops who were shot in Washington, D.C., a day earlier dies. (BBC News)
The Peruvian Supreme Court sentences former president Pedro Castillo to 11 and a half years in prison for criminal conspiracy when he tried to dissolve Congress and attempted a self-coup in 2022. (AP)
The Israeli military launches a raid in the city of Beit Jinn, Syria, targeting an unknown gunman and carrying out airstrikes, killing 13 Syrians and wounding 25 others. Six Israeli soldiers are also wounded in a shootout with residents. (Al Jazeera)
Koldo Case The Spanish Supreme Court orders former transport minister and former deputy leader of the ruling PSOE José Luis Ábalos and ex-adviser Koldo García into pre-trial detention without bail on charges linked to alleged kickbacks in public procurement, while also naming former lawmaker Santos Cerdán as a suspect. (AFP via Gulf Times)
NDP leader Godwin Friday is projected to become the next prime minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, ending 24 years of ULP government under the premiership of Ralph Gonsalves. (WIC News)
Tunisia releases opposition lawyer and journalist Sonia Dahmani after serving half of her prison sentence for remarks deemed to be lèse-majesté. (Reuters)
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