Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Kyiv strikes
    • One person dies and 19 others are injured overnight after a Russian strike on Kyiv, Ukraine. (ABC)
• Gaza War
  • Palestinian tunnel warfare in the Gaza Strip
    • The Israeli military says it killed four Hamas militants who attempted to exit a tunnel in eastern Rafah. (Barron's)

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 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)
• 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)
• 2025 Honduran general election
  • Hondurans vote for their president to succeed term-limited incumbent Xiomara Castro. (AP)
• 2025 Swiss referendums
  • Citizens in Switzerland vote in the year's last referendum to decide whether women, like men, must also do national service. (AP) A second referendum is also held, and the results of both referendums is "No."

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)

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)

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)
• 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 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)

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)
• 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)
• 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)