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Portal:Current events/2025 October 7
Armed conflicts and attacks
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Syrian civil war
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SDF–Syrian Transitional Government clashes
- The Syrian government announces an immediate ceasefire with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces following clashes last night that killed at least four people and injured at least eight others. (AP)
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SDF–Syrian Transitional Government clashes
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Red Sea crisis
- Houthi rebels detain nine United Nations workers in Yemen as part of a long-term crackdown on UN presence in the country, bringing the total number of detained UN personnel to 53. (AP)
- The value of gold futures rise above $4,000 per troy ounce for the first time in trading history. (AP)
- Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling
- At least 18 people are killed when a bus is hit by a landslide Himachal Pradesh, India. (Reuters) (NDTV)
- At least ten people are injured and four people are missing when a five-story building under construction collapses in Madrid, Spain. (RTHK) (DW)
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Crime in Norway
- A restaurant in Strømmen, Akershus, Norway, receives damage after hand grenades were thrown into it. The Norwegian Police suspects gang activity with links to the Swedish–Kurdish criminal gang Foxtrot, arresting two teenagers shortly after the incident. (VG in Norwegian)
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Terrorism in Germany
- Iris Stalzer, the mayor of Herdecke, Germany, is stabbed by several men outside her home and is in critical condition. (CNN)
- Residents of Bonaire, a Dutch special municipality in the Caribbean, file a class action lawsuit backed by Greenpeace against the Netherlands accusing them of failure to act in protecting the island's residents against climate change, as they are legally Dutch citizens. (AP) (Euractiv)
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John M. Martinis are jointly awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantization in an electric circuit. (Euronews)