Black Friday, November 28th, 2025 

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) 

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One of two U.S. National Guard troops who were shot in Washington, D.C., a day earlier dies. (BBC News) 

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) 

A Russian court sentences eight people with terrorism charges to life imprisonment after a truck bomb attack on the Crimean Bridge in Crimea killed five people in October 2022. (MSN) 

Moldova reports that six Russian drones entered its airspace, including one that came down on a residential roof near Florești and another that crossed into Moldova before continuing toward Romania. (Reuters) 

The Moldovan parliament votes to close a Russian cultural center, citing security concerns and recent Russian drone incursions. (Reuters) 

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) 

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) (MVS in Spanish) 

French president Emmanuel Macron announces the revival of voluntary military service for 18- and 19-year-olds to begin in 2026. (DW) 

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) 

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) 

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) 

Eleven people are killed and two more are injured in Kunming, China, when a train hits a group of railway maintenance workers. (Al Jazeera) 

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 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 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) 

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) 

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) 

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) 

Wednesday, November 26th, 2025