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- In motorsport, Sébastien Ogier (pictured) and Vincent Landais win the World Rally Championship.
- Flooding and landslides caused by Cyclone Ditwah leave at least 414 people dead across Sri Lanka and India.
- An apartment complex fire in Hong Kong leaves at least 156 people dead.
- In Guinea-Bissau, armed forces seize power in a military coup, arresting President Umaro Sissoco Embaló and proclaiming Horta Inta-A Na Man as head of a transitional government.
December 2, 2025 (Tuesday)
December 1, 2025 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian war
- Dnipro strikes
- Pokrovsk offensive
- Russia says its forces have captured Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast, after months of heavy fighting. (DW)
- Sudanese civil war
- Siege of Babanusa
- The Rapid Support Forces say that they have captured Babanusa, the last stronghold of the Sudanese Armed Forces in West Kordofan, Sudan. (Sudan Tribune)
- Siege of Babanusa
- Haitian conflict
- Haitian gangs launch a large-scale attack on the Ouest and Artibonite departments, causing hundreds of people to flee. Police say the gangs now control 50% of Artibonite, including the town of Pont-Sondé. (AP)
- Tajikistan orders a reinforcement at its border with Afghanistan, as the Tajik government claims that the drone strikes which killed two Tajik and three Chinese citizens over the past week originated from its neighbour. (Anewz)
Arts and culture
- Ragebait is named word of the year by the Oxford University Press. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
- Cyclone Senyar
- The toll from the floods in Indonesia increases to 604 people killed and 464 more missing. (Al Jazeera)
- Cyclone Senyar
- A landslide strikes two boats docked at a river port in Ucayali, Peru, killing at least twelve people and leaving around 50 others missing. (BBC News)
Health and environment
- 2025 Kasaï Province Ebola outbreak
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo declares that the Ebola outbreak in the country since August, which resulted in 53 confirmed cases, 43 deaths, and 11 probable cases, has ended. (AP)
- Cuba reports 33 deaths from dengue and chikungunya amid a widespread mosquito-borne disease outbreak, with health officials reporting thousands of new cases. (Reuters)
- Spain deploys 400 Mossos d'Esquadra and 117 Military Emergencies Unit members to help contain the spread of the African swine fever virus in Catalonia after two dead wild boars tested positive for the virus. (Reuters)
International relations
- 2025 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état, Foreign relations of Nigeria
- Nigeria grants asylum to Guinea-Bissau opposition leader and presidential candidate Fernando Dias da Costa at its embassy in Bissau to protect Dias from detention by the military junta. (AFP via Barron's)
- Canada–European Union relations
- Canada agrees to join the European Union's Security Action for Europe initiative, which will allow Canadian defense firms greater access to EU markets and encourage European defense investment in Canada. (Reuters)
- Thailand–Vietnam relations
- Thailand extradites Vietnamese citizen Y Quynh Bđăp, who founded a human rights organization for ethnic minorities, amid concerns from human rights groups. (AP)
Law and crime
- 2025 Cameroonian presidential election, 2025 Cameroonian protests
- Anicet Ekane, a 74-year-old opposition politician and leader of the MANIDEM party, dies in custody after being arrested a month ago during a crackdown in Cameroon. (AP)
- International Criminal Court investigation in Libya
- A senior official of the RADA Special Deterrence Forces is transferred from Germany to The Hague, Netherlands, and placed in International Criminal Court custody for alleged war crimes while serving a senior role at a Libyan prison. (Reuters)
- Trial of Sheikh Hasina
- A Bangladeshi court sentences former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and British MP Tulip Siddiq to five years and two years in prison, respectively, for corruption involving a government land project. (AP)
- Wang Fuk Court fire
- Hong Kong police arrest thirteen people on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with the fire, while officials report that some scaffolding netting at the site failed to meet required fire-resistance standards. (AFP via New Strait Times)
- Censorship in Iran
- Irans Revolutionary Court sentences filmmaker Jafar Panahi to one year in prison in absentia and a travel ban over “propaganda activities” against the nation. (DW)
Politics and elections
- 2024–2025 Georgian protests, 2024–2025 Georgian political crisis
- Use of camite during the 2024–2025 Georgian protests
- BBC World Service publishes an investigative report uncovering evidence that the Georgian police used water cannons laced with the chemical agent camite against protesters in Tbilisi in 2024. The ruling Georgian Dream party denies the accusation, threatening to sue the BBC in an international court. (BBC News)
- Use of camite during the 2024–2025 Georgian protests
- 2025 Honduran general election
- The Honduran National Electoral Council reports that presidential candidates Nasry Asfura and Salvador Nasralla remain separated by about 500 votes in the preliminary count, which it describes as a technical tie, and announces that a manual count will begin. (AFP via South China Morning Post)
- 2025 Saint Lucian general election
- The incumbent Saint Lucia Labour Party government, led by Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre, is projected to maintain a supermajority in the House of Assembly. (Associates Times)
- Kidnapping in Nigeria, Religious violence in Nigeria
- Nigerian defence minister Mohammed Badaru Abubakar resigns amid President Bola Tinubu's declaration of a nationwide security emergency. (AFP via RFI)
Science and technology
- Mass surveillance in India
- India's Ministry of Communications orders smartphone manufacturers to pre-install a government-run cybersecurity app on all new devices within 90 days and to push the app onto older models through a software update. The ministry says the app is essential in "curbing misuse of telecom resources for cyber frauds and ensuring telecom cyber security". (AP)
November 30, 2025 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza War
- Palestinian tunnel warfare in the Gaza Strip
- The Israeli military claims to have killed more than 40 Hamas militants over the past week who attempted to exit a tunnel in eastern Rafah. (AFP via Barron's)
- Palestinian tunnel warfare in the Gaza Strip
- Russo-Ukrainian war
- Kyiv strikes
- One person is killed and 19 others are injured overnight after a Russian strike on Kyiv, Ukraine. (ABC News)
- Kyiv strikes
- Republican insurgency in Afghanistan
- The Afghanistan Freedom Front claims that its fighters killed three Taliban soldiers and wounded two more in a rocket attack in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. (Afghanistan International)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
- Cyclone Ditwah
- The toll from the floods and landslides caused by heavy rains in Sri Lanka increases to 334 people killed and about 400 more missing. (Al Jazeera)
- Cyclone Senyar
- The toll from the floods in Indonesia increases to 442 people killed and 402 more missing. (Al Jazeera)
- Cyclone Ditwah
- Eleven people are killed after two buses collide near Sivaganga, Tamil Nadu, India. (The Week)
- Five people are killed in a house fire in Neuves-Maisons, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Philippine anti-corruption protests, Flood control projects scandal in the Philippines
- Trillion Peso March
- Massive protests denouncing corruption over the ongoing flood control scandal are held across the Philippines. (DW) (The Philippine Star)
- Trillion Peso March
- 2025 Honduran general election
- Hondurans vote for their president to succeed term-limited incumbent Xiomara Castro. (AP)
- November 2025 Swiss referendums
- Swiss voters reject two ballot measures to conscript women into a national service program and to establish an inheritance tax on high earners. (AP)
- Thousands of supporters of Spain's conservative and Christian democratic opposition People's Party gather in Madrid and calls for prime minister Pedro Sanchez to resign amid a corruption scandal involving ruling PSOE. (AP)
November 29, 2025 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- 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) (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- Afghan conflict
- Two Chinese citizens are shot and killed in an ambush by unidentified gunmen in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. (Times of Islamabad)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
- Cyclone Ditwah
- The toll from the landslides caused by heavy rains in Sri Lanka increases to 132 people killed, 191 missing, 44,000 more displaced, and 15,000 houses destroyed. (Hindustan Times) (Al Jazeera)
- Cyclone Senyar
- The death toll from the floods in Indonesia increases to 303 people. Two more people are confirmed killed in Malaysia. (Al Jazeera)
- Cyclone Ditwah
Law and crime
- Mass shootings in the United States
- 2025 Stockton shooting
- 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)
- 2025 Stockton shooting
- Human rights in Tunisia
- 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)
- 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)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état
- 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)
- Human rights in Nicaragua
- Nicaragua releases about 40 political prisoners, who are transferred to house arrest and required to report to authorities. (Reuters)
Sports
- 2025 AFL Women's season
- 2025 AFL Women's Grand Final
- 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)
- 2025 AFL Women's Grand Final
- 2025 Copa Libertadores
- 2025 Copa Libertadores final
- 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)
- 2025 Copa Libertadores final
November 28, 2025 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian conflict, Israeli invasion of Syria
- 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. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News) (The Jerusalem Post)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
- Cyclone Senyar
- 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)
- Cyclone Ditwah
- 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)
- Cyclone Senyar
- 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)
International relations
- Honduras–United States relations
- 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)
Law and crime
- Corruption in Ukraine
- Operation Midas
- 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) (The Kyiv Independent)
- Operation Midas
- Russia formally outlaws Human Rights Watch as an undesirable organization. (AP)
Science and technology
- 2025 Airbus A320 software update
- 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)
- 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)
November 27, 2025 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian war
- Crimea attacks
- 2022 Crimean Bridge explosion
- 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)
- 2022 Crimean Bridge explosion
- Crimea attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israeli occupation of the West Bank
- 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)
- Israeli occupation of the West Bank
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- 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)
- Three Chinese citizens are killed in a drone–shooting attack at a gold mine in Shamsiddin Shohin District, Tajikistan. (Radio Free Europe)
Business and economy
- Green economy policies in Canada, Anti-environmentalism
- 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)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
- Cyclone Ditwah
- 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)
- Cyclone Senyar
- 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)
- Cyclone Ditwah
- 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)
International relations
- Australia–Iran relations
- 2024 Iranian operations inside Australia
- 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)
- 2024 Iranian operations inside Australia
- Moldova–Russia relations
- The Moldovan parliament votes to close a Russian cultural center, citing security concerns and recent Russian drone incursions. (Reuters)
- Poland–Russia relations
Law and crime
- 2025 deployment of federal forces in the United States
- 2025 Washington, D.C., National Guard shooting
- One of two U.S. National Guard troops who were shot in Washington, D.C., a day earlier dies. (BBC News)
- 2025 Washington, D.C., National Guard shooting
- 2022 Peruvian self-coup attempt
- 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)
- 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)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état
- 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)
- 2025 Vincentian general election
- 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)
- 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)
- Human rights in Tunisia
- Tunisia releases opposition lawyer and journalist Sonia Dahmani after serving half of her prison sentence for remarks deemed to be lèse-majesté. (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)
November 26, 2025 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israeli occupation of the West Bank
- The Israeli military announces the start of a military operation in the northern Samaria area in the West Bank. (DW)
- Israeli occupation of the West Bank
- A drone strike is carried out at the Khor Mor gas field in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, causing major power cuts across the northern Kurdistan Region. (Reuters)
Arts and culture
- Holy See–Lebanon relations, Holy See–Turkey relations
- Visit by Pope Leo XIV to Turkey and Lebanon
- Pope Leo XIV begins his first papal trip, first to İznik and Nicaea in Turkey, then to Bkerké, the Monastery of Saint Maron, and the Port of Beirut in Lebanon. The trip will include an ecumenical commemoration of the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea and a mass in honor of the victims of the 2020 Beirut explosion. (AP) (Vatican News)
- Visit by Pope Leo XIV to Turkey and Lebanon
Business and economy
- Economy of Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian war
- Economic impact of the Russo-Ukrainian war
- The International Monetary Fund announces a staff-level agreement with Ukraine on a proposed Extended Fund Facility worth more than US$8 billion, outlining fiscal and monetary policies intended to support macroeconomic stability, debt sustainability, and external financing amid the ongoing war with Russia. (AFP via CTV News)
- Economic impact of the Russo-Ukrainian war
Disasters and accidents
- Wang Fuk Court fire
- A fire at a housing estate in Tai Po, Hong Kong, leaves at least 94 people dead, dozens injured, and 279 more missing. Police arrest three men for suspected manslaughter in the fire. (AFP via The Business Times) (Reuters) (AP)
- Cyclone Senyar, 2025 Thailand–Malaysia floods
- Eleven people are killed when a UV Express van collides with a truck in Camalig, Albay, Philippines. (Manila Bulletin)
- Five people are killed in an explosion at a weapons depot in Idlib Governorate, Syria. (AFP via Arab News)
- A Swiss tourist is killed and another person is critically injured in a bull shark attack off the coast of Crowdy Bay National Park, New South Wales, Australia. (BBC News)
International relations
- Cyprus–Lebanon relations
- Cyprus and Lebanon sign a long-delayed maritime boundary agreement. (AP via ABC News)
- Dominican Republic–United States relations, War on drugs, 2025 United States naval deployment in the Caribbean
- The Dominican Republic permits the United States to use the Las Américas International Airport in Punta Caucedo, Santo Domingo, and the San Isidro Air Base to support Operation Southern Spear targeting alleged drug traffickers linked by the U.S. to Venezuelan authorities. (AFP via France 24)
- Foreign relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Foreign relations of Hungary
- Bosnian defence minister Zukan Helez denies approval for Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó to land his military aircraft in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, citing Hungary's support for former Srpska president Milorad Dodik, whom Helez accuses of undermining Bosnia and Herzegovina's sovereignty. (Reuters)
- South Africa–United States relations, 2026 G20 Doral summit, South African farm attacks
- U.S. president Donald Trump announces that South Africa will not be invited to the 2026 G20 summit in Doral, Florida, and that U.S. payments and subsidies to the country will cease, citing South Africa's refusal to transfer G20 hosting responsibilities to a U.S. embassy representative at the 2025 Johannesburg summit and criticizing its treatment of Afrikaners, among other reasons. (AP via Arab News)
Law and crime
- 2025 deployment of federal forces in the United States
- 2025 Washington, D.C. National Guard shooting
- Two members of the U.S. National Guard are shot and critically wounded in Washington, D.C.. The perpetrator, who is also wounded, is arrested. (AFP via France 24)
- 2025 Washington, D.C. National Guard shooting
- Corruption in Peru
- A Peruvian court sentences former president Martín Vizcarra to 14 years in prison for accepting bribes from construction companies while serving as governor of Moquegua between 2011 and 2014. (AFP via TRT Afrika)
- Murders of Yuna and Minu Jo
- Justice Geoffrey Venning of New Zealand's High Court sentences 45-year-old mother Hakyung Lee to life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years after convicting Lee of murdering her two children in 2018. (DW)
- Myanmar protests
- The Tatmadaw grants amnesty to over 3,000 political prisoners, drops charges of over 5,500 others, and grants conditional release to 724 prisoners ahead of the general election in December. (AP)
- Georgia's Tbilisi Appeal Court sentences opposition leader Nika Melia to an additional 18 months in prison for contempt of court after he threw water at a judge during a hearing, adding to the eight-month term he has been serving since May for refusing to appear at a parliamentary inquiry. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état, 2025 Guinea-Bissau general election
- Bissau-Guinean president Umaro Sissoco Embaló is detained following a coup d'état one day before provisional election results were expected to be released. (BBC News) (Jeune Afrique in French)
- Kidnapping in Nigeria, Religious violence in Nigeria
- Nigerian president Bola Tinubu declares a nationwide security emergency and orders the recruitment of 20,000 additional police officers and the deployment of specialised units in response to recent killings and kidnappings. (AFP via TRT World)
- Women's rights in Italy
- The Italian parliament approves a bill to punish femicide with life imprisonment. (AP)
Sports
- Chess World Cup 2025
- Uzbek chess grandmaster Javokhir Sindarov wins the 2025 World Cup in Goa, India, at the age of 19, becoming the youngest player to win the event. (FIDE)
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