Arts and culture

• The inauguration of the 13th International Paderewski Piano Competition takes place in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The results will be announced on November 22. (PaderewskiCompetition)

• China–United States trade war
  • China's commerce ministry suspends a ban on the export of gallium, germanium, antimony, and other super-hard materials used in the semiconductor industry, to the United States. (CNBC)

• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • At least two people are killed as Typhoon Fung-wong makes landfall over Luzon, Philippines. Over 900,000 people are evacuated and rescue operations for victims of the previous Typhoon Kalmaegi are suspended. (BBC News) (Reuters)
• At least seven people are killed, 13 others are rescued and about 280 are reported missing when a boat carrying hundreds of migrants sinks off the Malaysia–Thailand border. (Reuters)
• Dozens of people are injured when two trains collide between Bratislava and Pezinok, Slovakia. (Sme)

• Belgium–United Kingdom relations, Russian hybrid warfare
  • The United Kingdom announces it is deploying its military to Belgium to help protect its airports amid a series of suspected Russian drone incursions over the country's airspace. (BBC News)

• Maldives–Sri Lanka relations
  • Sri Lanka foreign minister Ananda Wijepala says that police and navy officers have been sent to the Maldives to cooperate with local authorities after the Maldivian military seized a Sri Lankan ship with over 300 kilograms of heroin on Friday. (Xinhua News) (Hiru News)
• Four inmates are killed and 30 others are injured during a prison riot in Machala, Ecuador. (AP)

• Israel confirms that it received the remains of soldier Hadar Goldin, who was murdered in Gaza two hours after the ceasefire that ended the 2014 Gaza War between Palestinian militants and Israel. (AP)

• 2025 League of Legends World Championship
  • In League of Legends esports, T1 of the League of Legends Champions Korea become the first team to win three consecutive world titles after defeating fellow South Korean representatives KT Rolster, 3–2, in the final in Chengdu, China. T1's Gumayusi is named the most valuable player. (AFP via France 24)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • Afghanistan's Taliban government states that peace talks with Pakistan in Istanbul, Turkey, have failed, while the ceasefire holds. (AFP via France 24)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war, Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • Russia launches over 450 bomber drones and 45 missiles on critical infrastructure and residential areas across Ukraine, killing at least six people and injuring 12 others in Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia, as well as damaging energy plants in the oblasts of Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Poltava. (BBC News)

• Embargo of Russian oil during the Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Bulgaria's parliament approves legal amendments giving a state-appointed manager expanded authority over Lukoil's refinery in Burgas, including operational control and the power to sell shares, to prevent a shutdown when U.S. sanctions on the refinery's Russian owner take effect. (AP)

• Six people are killed and four others are injured, including one critically, in a fire at a perfume warehouse in Dilovası, Kocaeli Province, Turkey. (BBC News)
• Three people are killed and 15 others are injured by storm surges amid rough seas off the coast of Tenerife, Spain. (AP) (Reuters)

• 2025 G20 Johannesburg summit, South Africa–United States relations
  • The United States announces that it will send no delegates to the 2025 G20 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, citing accusations of persecution of the Afrikaner minority. (AP)
• Bolivia–United States relations
  • Bolivia and the United States announce that they will restore diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level after 17 years. (AFP via New Straits Times)

• 2026 Djiboutian presidential election
  • Incumbent Djiboutian president Ismaïl Omar Guelleh accepts his party's nomination to seek a sixth term in next year's election after parliament lifted the constitutional age limit for presidential candidates. (AFP via Le Monde)
• 2025 Bolivian general election
  • Rodrigo Paz is sworn in as the new president of Bolivia, succeeding Luis Arce. (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 Tanzanian election protests
  • Tanzanian authorities charge hundreds of people with treason over protests linked to the disputed elections, including opposition officials such as Chadema secretary-general John Mnyika, while additional arrest warrants are issued for others, including Kawe MP Josephat Gwajima. (AP)

• 2025 WTA Tour
  • 2025 WTA Finals
    • In tennis, Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan becomes the first Asian player to win a WTA Finals title after defeating Aryna Sabalenka, 6–3, 7–6^(7–0) to win the singles title at the 2025 WTA Finals. By winning the title undefeated, Rybakina wins US$5.235 million in prize money, breaking the previous year's record for the largest prize money earned by a female tennis player at a single event. (BBC Sports)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Terrorism in Indonesia
  • Jakarta School bombing
    • 96 people are injured, some critically, in a bombing at a mosque inside a school in Jakarta, Indonesia. A 17-year-old male is identified as the perpetrator and later recovered at a hospital, right-wing terrorism is suspected. (Reuters) (BBC News)

• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi's impact on the Philippines rises to at least 188, with at least 135 others missing. (BBC News)
  • Typhoon Kalmaegi makes landfall in central Vietnam, killing at least five people in Daklak and Gia Lai and leaving three others missing in Quảng Ngãi. (AP via ABC News)
• 2025 Rio Bonito do Iguaçu tornado
  • A tornado, rated F3 on the Fujita scale, strikes Rio Bonito do Iguaçu, Brazil, killing at least six people and injuring 432 others. (O Globo) (Paraná)
• 2025 Dagestan Kamov Ka-226 crash
  • Five people are killed and two others are injured when a Kamov Ka-226 passenger helicopter crashes in Achi-Su, Dagestan, Russia. (ASN)

• 2020–2025 H5N1 outbreak
  • 2025 Canadian ostrich culling controversy
    • Canada's food inspection agency confirms that a marksman has culled all 300–330 ostriches at a farm in Edgewood, British Columbia, under a bird flu containment order, following a Supreme Court decision allowing the cull to proceed. (BBC News)

• Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda relations
  • 2025 Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda peace agreement
    • The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda state that they have agreed on a Regional Economic Integration Framework in Washington, D.C., United States, to expand economic cooperation and subject to conditions including the withdrawal of Rwandan forces from eastern Congo and operations against the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda. (Reuters)
• Australia–Nauru relations, Nauru Regional Processing Centre
  • Australia begins to deport hundreds of "non-citizens" to Nauru, as part of a bilateral agreement between both countries, in which Australia will pay Nauru A$2.5 billion (US$1.6 billion) over 30 years in exchange for Nauru issuing visas to these individuals deported from Australia. (RNZ)
• China–Japan relations, Discharge of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
  • Japan reports that seafood exports to China have resumed for the first time since China imposed a ban in August 2023 over treated wastewater releases from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. However, China maintains restrictions on products from Fukushima and surrounding prefectures. (AP)
• Hungary–United States relations
  • The United States grants Hungary a one-year exemption from sanctions on Russian oil and gas, with Hungary agreeing to purchase U.S. liquefied natural gas. (Reuters)
• Indonesia–United Kingdom relations, Capital punishment in Indonesia
  • Indonesia repatriates British nationals Lindsay Sandiford, sentenced to death for smuggling cocaine into Bali in 2013, and Shahab Shahabadi, who was serving a life sentence for drug offences, following a bilateral agreement on humanitarian grounds. Both are transferred to the United Kingdom to serve the remainder of their sentences under UK law. (Reuters)
• Russia–European Union relations, Government and intergovernmental reactions to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • The European Union ends the issuance of multiple-entry Schengen visas to Russian citizens, citing security concerns linked to the Russo-Ukrainian war, alleged sabotage, and visa misuse, while allowing exceptions for dissidents, journalists, human rights defenders, and close family members of EU citizens. (AP)

• 2025 Tanzanian election protests
  • Prosecutors in Tanzania charge 98 people with treason over their alleged participation in violent protests against the re-election of President Samia Suluhu Hassan last week. (Reuters)
• Poland's Sejm removes former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro's immunity, clearing the way for prosecutors to charge him with 26 offences, including abuse of power and misuse of public funds from the Justice Fund. (Reuters)
• Police in Spain arrest 13 alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in a coordinated operation in five cities. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Sudanese civil war
  • Darfur campaign
    • The Rapid Support Forces state that they accept a humanitarian ceasefire proposed by international mediators after capturing El Fasher in Darfur, while the Sudanese army signals plans to continue the conflict. (AFP via Courthouse News Service)
• 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers, War on drugs
  • Three people are killed in a United States airstrike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea. (Al Jazeera)

• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi's impact on the Philippines rises to at least 142, with 127 others missing. The storm has left the country's territory and made landfall in central Vietnam. (Al Jazeera)
  • Philippine president Bongbong Marcos declares a national state of calamity in relation to the devastation caused by Typhoon Kalmaegi and in anticipation of the upcoming tropical cyclone Fung-wong. (ABS-CBN News)
• At least three people are killed, two others are missing and two are presumed dead when a large structure being prepared for demolition at a power plant collapses in Ulsan, South Korea. (Reuters)

• 2020–2025 H5N1 outbreak
  • 2025 Canadian ostrich culling controversy
    • Canada's Supreme Court rejects an appeal by Universal Ostrich Farm, allowing the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to carry out a full cull of nearly 400 ostriches in Edgewood, British Columbia, under bird flu containment rules aligned with WHO guidelines. (AA)

• International sanctions against Syria
  • The United Nations Security Council votes to lift sanctions on Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa and interior minister Anas Khattab through a United States-drafted resolution. (Reuters)
• Israel–Kazakhstan relations
  • Kazakhstan formally joins the Abraham Accords, with the aim to enhance bilateral cooperation with Israel. (AP)
• Mexico–Peru relations
  • Peru's Congress declares Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum a persona non grata after Peru cut diplomatic ties with Mexico for granting asylum to former prime minister Betssy Chávez, who faces conspiracy charges related to former president Pedro Castillo's attempt to dissolve Congress. (Reuters)
• Khaled El-Enany is elected director-general of UNESCO by the General Conference held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, succeeding Audrey Azoulay. (UNESCO)

• 2019 Bolivian political crisis
  • Former Bolivian president Jeanine Áñez is freed from prison after the Supreme Court annulled her sentence the previous day. (AP)
• Crime in Germany
  • The Hesse State Police announce an investigation in Hanau after swastikas made of human blood are found painted on dozens of buildings and cars. (AP via ABC News)
• International Criminal Court investigation in Uganda
  • The International Criminal Court confirms 39 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against fugitive Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony in absentia, including murder, rape, sexual slavery, forced pregnancy, and the use of child soldiers. The court rules that he can stand trial once arrested, upholding the 2005 arrest warrant. (Reuters)
• Murder of Agnes Wanjiru
  • A former British soldier, Robert James Purkiss, is arrested on a Kenyan extradition warrant related to Agnes Wanjiru's 2012 murder near a UK military training facility in Nanyuki, Laikipia County. (Al Jazeera)
• War crimes in the Russo-Ukrainian war
  • A court in Russian-occupied Donetsk sentences two Colombians to 13 years in prison for fighting with Ukraine's armed forces, after they were detained while traveling home through Venezuela and transferred into Russian custody. (AFP via Kyiv Post)
  • A court in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, finds a Russian soldier guilty of killing a surrendered Ukrainian soldier in January 2024 and sentences him to life imprisonment, marking the first conviction of a Russian soldier for killing a captured Ukrainian since the war began. (CNN)

Arts and culture

• The United Methodist Church ratifies a constitutional amendment restructuring the denomination, enabling each region of the church worldwide to have equal autonomy. Other amendments involve expanding membership allowances to account for gender and ability, and condemning white supremacy and colonialism. (UMNews) (The Tennessean)

• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi's impact on Visayas and Mindanao, Philippines, rises to at least 114, with search and rescue operations ongoing. (AP via CBC News) (Reuters)

• 2025 United States listeriosis outbreak
  • An outbreak of listeriosis linked to recalled pasta products in 18 U.S. states kills at least six people and causes 25 hospitalizations. (NPR) (Health)

• 2019 Bolivian political crisis
  • Bolivia's Supreme Court overturns the 10-year prison sentence of former president Jeanine Áñez, ruling that she should have been tried by a special judicial body responsible for cases involving officials and ordering her release. (AFP via France 24)
• 2025 Island of Oléron car ramming
  • Five people are injured, two critically, in a vehicle-ramming attack on the French island of Oléron. The perpetrator attempts to set the car on fire, before being arrested by the gendarmerie. (The Guardian)
• Human rights in Malaysia
  • A Malaysian high court rules that police and the government are responsible for the enforced disappearances of activist Amri Che Mat and pastor Raymond Koh in 2016 and 2017, respectively, ordering investigations to be reopened and awarding damages exceeding RM 33 million (US$8 million) to their families. The decision marks the first judicial finding of state involvement in enforced disappearances in Malaysia. (AP)
• A court in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, sentences a 44-year-old palliative care nurse to life imprisonment for murdering 10 patients and attempting to murder 27 others with lethal injections at a hospital in Würselen between December 2023 and May 2024. (AFP via CBS News)
• Japanese defense minister Shinjiro Koizumi says that troops were sent to Akita Prefecture after a series of more than 50 bear attacks since April, which resulted in 12 deaths and over 100 injuries. Governor requested aid, saying that local authorities lack manpower to handle the situation. (AP)

• Japanese-born Tomio Okamura of the Freedom and Direct Democracy party is elected president of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic, marking the first major appointment under prime minister-designate Andrej Babiš's new coalition government. (Reuters)

• 2025–26 NHL season
  • In ice hockey, Washington Capitals forward Alexander Ovechkin becomes the first player in National Hockey League history to score 900 goals. (NHL.com)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Eastern front of the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • One person is killed and eight others are injured in a Russian strike on Synelnykove, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. (RBC-Ukraine)
• Gaza war
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Hamas returns the body of Israeli American Itay Chen to Israel, the last hostage with U.S. citizenship. (Times of Israel)
• 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers, War on drugs
  • Two people are killed in an American airstrike against a boat in the Pacific Ocean. (NBC News)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • Nineteen armed bandits, two soldiers and a vigilante are killed in a shootout in Shanono, Kano State, Nigeria. (Reuters)

• 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
  • The casualty toll from Hurricane Melissa in Haiti increases to 43 deaths, with 13 others still missing. Nearly 12,000 homes are flooded and at least 200 have been destroyed. (AP)
• 2025 Chhattisgarh train collision
  • At least eight people are killed and about a dozen others are injured when a passenger train crashes into a cargo train near Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India. (AP)
• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi's impact on Visayas and Mindanao, Philippines, rises to 66, with search and rescue operations ongoing. (BBC News)
  • Six people are killed when a Philippine Air Force Bell Huey helicopter crashes while conducting damage assessment for Typhoon Kalmaegi in Loreto, Agusan del Sur, Philippines. (Philippine Daily Inquirer) (Reuters)
• UPS Airlines Flight 2976
  • At least nine people are killed, eleven others are injured and 16 are reported missing when a UPS Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-11 aircraft crashes near Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Kentucky, United States. (CNN)
• Eleven people are killed and about 30 others are injured in a fire at a retirement home in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Reuters)

• Gaza war
  • Sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinians during the Gaza war
    • Israeli major general Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi is arrested and imprisoned a day after resigning, after leaking a surveillance video in August 2024 showing the gang rape of a Palestinian prisoner in the Sde Teiman detention camp. (Al Jazeera) (NPR)
• Violence against women in Mexico
  • President of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum is groped in front of the National Palace, Mexico City. The man is arrested on the spot. (Informador in Spanish) (Reuters)
• The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirms former Republika Srpska president Milorad Dodik's six-year ban from political office, rejecting Dodik's appeals and ruling that the ban did not violate the constitution. (Reuters)
• A Moroccan court sentences a man to five years in prison and fines him US$107,300 for human trafficking after he recruited jobseekers online who were later transported to Myanmar and forced to work in scam centers, marking the country's first conviction involving the recruitment of victims for foreign scam compounds. (AP)

• 2025 United States elections
  • Off-year elections are held in the United States, including one special election to a vacancy in the federal House of Representatives, two elections for the governors of Virginia and New Jersey, the next mayor of New York City, and various local elections. (NPR)
  • Abigail Spanberger is elected as the governor of Virginia to become the state's first female governor. (The Guardian)
  • Zohran Mamdani is elected as the 111th mayor of New York City to become the city's first Muslim and South Asian American mayor. (Al Jazeera) (France 24)
• 2025 United States federal government shutdown
  • The U.S. federal government shutdown becomes the longest shutdown in American history following a failed 14th vote by the U.S. Senate, surpassing the 2018–2019 shutdown that occurred during President Donald Trump's first term. (CBS News)
• Mexican drug war
  • Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum announces a security plan for the state of Michoacán following the assassination of the mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manzo, who was shot and killed on Saturday. The plan includes the dispatch of the National Guard, more federal personnel, and the creation of a special unit at the state's prosecution office. (AP)
• Western Sahara conflict
  • Morocco declares October 31, starting next year, to be a national holiday in celebration of Friday's UN resolution backing Morocco's plan of autonomy for Western Sahara in a 50-year dispute between the country and the Algeria-backed Polisario Front. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza war
    • Gaza war hostage crisis
      • The Israel Defence Forces return the remains of 45 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Hamas returning the remains of three hostages yesterday. (The Washington Times)
  • Israeli settler violence
    • Two Palestinian teenagers are killed in separate attacks by Israeli settlers in Hebron and Beit Furik respectively, in the occupied West Bank. (Jordan News)
• Sudanese civil war, Famine in Sudan
  • The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification review committee reports that famine is detected in two Sudanese regions, Darfur and South Kordofan, amid increased fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, which blocks humanitarian access. (NPR)
  • At least 40 people are killed and dozens of others are injured in a drone attack by the Rapid Support Forces on a funeral in North Kordofan. (AA)

• The 2025 Miguel de Cervantes Prize is awarded to Mexican writer Gonzalo Celorio. (Euronews)

• 2025 Balkh earthquake
  • A earthquake strikes near Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh, Afghanistan, killing at least 20 people, injuring hundreds others, and damaging the historic Blue Mosque. (Reuters) (DW)
• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • At least two people are killed and tens of thousands are displaced as Typhoon Kalmaegi makes landfall in Central Visayas, Philippines. (AP via ABC News)
• 2025 Shap derailment
  • A landslide causes a West Coast Main Line passenger train to derail near Shap, Cumbria, United Kingdom, injuring four people. (Sky News) (Avanti West Coast)
• At least 20 people are killed and several others are injured when a truck collides with a bus in Ranga Reddy district, Telangana, India. (India TV)
• At least 19 people are killed and 40 people are injured when a speeding dump truck collides with 17 vehicles in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. (India Today)
• At least 15 people, mostly children, are missing and presumed dead after floods and landslides strike Highland Papua, Indonesia, following heavy rainfall. (Reuters)
• Seven people are killed and eight injured when an avalanche strikes a base camp on a mountain in Nepal. (The Free Press Journal) (CTV News)
• A part of the Torre dei Conti tower collapses in Rome, Italy, killing a worker and critically injuring another. (Reuters)

• Demographics of Papua New Guinea
  • The results of the 2024 census in Papua New Guinea show that the country has surpassed the line of 10 million inhabitants, significantly below the 2023 UN estimate of 11.8 million. (RNZ)

• 10th Summit of the Americas
  • The Dominican Republic postpones the Summit of the Americas until next year, citing regional tensions following U.S. military operations near Venezuela and storm damage in several participating countries. (AFP via FMT)
• Mexico–Peru relations
  • Peru announces it has severed diplomatic relations with Mexico, citing Mexico's decision to grant asylum to former Peruvian prime minister Betssy Chávez, as well as alleged interference in Peru's internal political affairs following President Pedro Castillo's 2022 self-coup. (DW)

• Mexican drug war
  • Mexican security forces kill 13 suspected gunmen and arrest four others in Guasave, Sinaloa, during an armed confrontation that also leads to the rescue of nine kidnapped individuals. (Reuters) (Infobae)
• Piracy off the coast of Somalia
  • A commercial tanker is attacked by suspected Somali pirates off the coast of Mogadishu, Somalia. (Reuters)

• 2024 Spanish floods
  • Carlos Mazón resigns as President of the Valencian government following sustained criticism of his government's response to the floods in the region last year. (The Guardian) (elDiario.es)
• 2025 Guinean presidential election
  • Incumbent Guinean president Mamady Doumbouya submits his candidacy for the election. The election is being held under a new constitution. (BBC News)
• 2025 Tanzanian general election
  • Incumbent Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan is sworn in for a second term in office after winning a disputed election last Wednesday, which sparked deadly protests across the country. (AP)