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Fred Ramsdell

• The Nobel Prize in Medicine is awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell (pictured), and Shimon Sakaguchi for "their fundamental discoveries relating to peripheral immune tolerance".
• The ANO party, led by Andrej Babiš, wins the most seats in the Czech parliamentary election.
• Sarah Mullally is announced as the next archbishop of Canterbury, which will make her the first female leader of the Anglican Communion.
• Guillaume V succeeds his father Henri as Grand Duke of Luxembourg after the latter's abdication.

Ongoing:

• Gaza war (timeline · genocide)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
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• Sudanese civil war
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Recent deaths:

• Graham Bell
• Ivan Klíma
• Arthur Jones
• Balin Miller
• Claus Offe
• Renato Casaro

October 9, 2025 (2025-10-09) (Thursday)

Arts and culture

• 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature
  • Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai wins this year Nobel Prize in Literature. (CNN)

October 8, 2025 (2025-10-08) (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Donald Trump's September 2025 Gaza Strip proposal
    • United States president Donald Trump announces that Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire and the first phase of his peace plan to end the Gaza war. (Al Jazeera).
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • 2025 Sumy offensive, Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • A family is injured, including a 4-year-old girl critically, and dozens of civilian infrastructure facilities are damaged in a drone strike on a house in Sumy, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (RBC-Ukraine)
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A Ukrainian missile strike kills three people and injures nine others in Maslova Pristan, Belgorod Oblast, Russia. A search and rescue operation is underway for others believed to be trapped under rubble. (BBC News)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Eleven soldiers and 19 Pakistani Taliban fighters are killed in an ambush on a military convoy and subsequent shootout in Orakzai District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• The World Health Organization intervenes as the death toll from toxic cough syrup in Madhya Pradesh, India, rises to at least 20. (The Independent)
• Six people are killed and eight others are critically injured in a fire at a firecracker factory in East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India. (India Today)

Law and crime

• 2025 deployment of federal forces in the United States
  • Operation Midway Blitz
    • Hundreds of Texas Military Forces troops arrive at a United States Army Reserve military base near Chicago, Illinois, ahead of a deployment to the city. (Sky News)
• 2025 New Orleans jailbreak
  • Derrick Groves, the last remaining prisoner from a group of ten who escaped the Orleans Parish Prison in May in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, is captured in Atlanta following a standoff with police at a house. (NBC News)
• Capital punishment in Singapore
  • Singapore executes Pannir Selvam Pranthaman, a Malaysian man convicted of drug offenses, bringing this year's number of executions in the country to 12. (AP)
• January 2025 Southern California wildfires
  • A 29-year-old man is arrested for allegedly starting the Palisades Fire that killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,000 homes in Los Angeles County, Southern California, United States, earlier this year. (BBC News)
• Four people are killed, including the perpetrator, in a shooting spree at three locations across southwest Houston and Sugar Land, Texas United States. (KHOU)

Science and technology

• 2025 Nobel Prizes
  • Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar Yaghi are jointly awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on metal–organic frameworks. (BBC News)

October 7, 2025 (2025-10-07) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • 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)
  • US intervention in the Syrian civil war
    • United States Central Command announces that US forces conducted a strike in Syria on October 2, killing Muhammad ‘Abd-al-Wahhab al-Ahmad, a senior Jama'at Ansar al-Islam attack planner. (The Hill)
• 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 Philippine Department of Migrant Workers confirms the death of a critically injured Filipino crew member of MV Minervagracht which was attacked by the Houthis in the Gulf of Aden on September 29. The Netherlands-based operator of the vessel has reported that another injured Filipino is still being treated in Djibouti. (Philippine Daily Inquirer) (The Times of Israel)

Business and economy

• The value of gold futures rise above $4,000 per troy ounce for the first time in trading history. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling
  • At least four people are killed, including a child, after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the coast of Lesbos, Greece. Police find the 34 survivors at shore. (AP)
• At least 18 people are killed after a bus is hit by a landslide in Himachal Pradesh, India. (Reuters) (NDTV)
• Four people are killed, three others are injured and others are reported missing when a former office block being converted into a hotel partially collapses in Madrid, Spain. (BBC News)
• Over ten people are injured when a ferris wheel collapses at a fair in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. (BNO News)

International relations

• Foreign relations of the Holy See
  • Visit by Pope Leo XIV to Turkey and Lebanon
    • The Holy See Press Office announces that Pope Leo XIV will visit İznik, Turkey, the location of the ancient city Nicaea, and Lebanon in November and December as his first papal visits abroad. (The Catholic Herald) (Anadolu Agency)

Law and crime

• Crime in Germany
  • Iris Stalzer, the mayor-elect of Herdecke, Germany, is left in a critical condition after a stabbing allegedly committed by several men. A later police statement declares that it was presumed the stabbing had a family connection and that there are "no indications of a politically motivated act". (CNN) (AP)
• 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)
• 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)
• The Supreme Court of Argentina approves the extradition of businessman Fred Machado to the United States, where he faces federal charges on drug trafficking and money laundering. (AP)
• The Supreme Electoral Court of Costa Rica requests the National Assembly to strip president Rodrigo Chaves Robles of immunity so that he can be prosecuted for corruption charges. (AP)
• Five people are arrested after an alleged assassination attempt on Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa. (CNN)

Science and technology

• 2025 Nobel Prizes, 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)

October 6, 2025 (2025-10-06) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • 2025 Gaza City offensive
      • Ten Palestinians, including three people who were seeking humanitarian aid, are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip ahead of peace talks in Egypt, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks since Friday up to 104. (Al Jazeera)
• Syrian civil war
  • SDF–Syrian Transitional Government clashes
    • Clashes erupt between Syrian government troops and Kurdish militias affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces in Sheikh Maqsood, Aleppo. (Alarabiya English)
• Myanmar civil war
  • More than 40 people are killed, including children, and about 80 others are injured in a strike on a festival and an anti-junta protest in Chaung-U, Sagaing Region, Myanmar. (ABC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 tornado season
  • 2025 Enderlin tornado
    • The U.S. National Weather Service upgrades the rating of the tornado near Enderlin, North Dakota, on June 20 this year, to EF5, the most recent tornado to attain the highest rating on the Enhanced Fujita scale. (CNN)
• Three people are killed after an 80-year-old residential structure collapses in Veraval, Gir Somnath district, India. (The Indian Express)

International relations

• Gaza war
  • Donald Trump's September 2025 Gaza Strip proposal
    • Indirect talks between Hamas and Israel begin in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to negotiate field conditions for the release of the remaining hostages in return for an undetermined number of Palestinian prisoners. (BBC News)
• Australia–Papua New Guinea relations
  • Australia and Papua New Guinea sign a defense treaty, formally granting Australia access to Papuan military facilities and requiring mutual defense in case of aggression. (BBC News) (AP)
• New Zealand–Samoa relations
  • New Zealand announces that it has paid a NZ$6 million compensation to Samoa over the sinking of the HMNZS Manawanui off the coast of Upolu in October 2024. (RNZ)

Law and crime

• 2025 deployment of federal forces in the United States
  • United States federal judge Karin Immergut temporarily blocks the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops from California and Texas to Portland, Oregon, saying there is no evidence that the city requires any federal military intervention. (BBC News)
• Mexican drug war, Mexico–United States relations
  • The United States Treasury issues sanctions against various Mexican companies, including those in the pharmaceutical, real estate, chemical, and cleaning sectors, and eight people who manage them for allegedly supplying drug precursors to the Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel. (AP)
• A man opens fire inside an appeals courts in Tirana, Albania, killing the presiding judge and injuring two others in the courtroom. Police later arrest the suspect. (AP)
• A person opens fire inside the Iberville Parish Courthouse in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, United States, killing a deputy and injuring another, before being fatally shot. (KATC) (BNO News)
• The International Criminal Court convicts Janjaweed commander Ali Kushayb of war crimes in Darfur, Sudan, including rape, murder, and persecution. Kushayb is the first militia leader to be convicted for these war crimes. His sentence will be determined in a later hearing. (Reuters)
• A group of human rights organizations in Myanmar file a joint lawsuit against Norwegian telecoms firm Telenor for allegedly sharing customer data with the Tatmadaw after the 2021 coup d'état and in the civil war. (Al Jazeera) (The Straits Times)

Politics and elections

• 2024–2025 French political crisis
  • Lecornu government
    • French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu resigns after 27 days of being in office. With only 14 hours between the appointment of ministers and his resignation, Lecornu becomes the shortest-serving Prime Minister in French history. (BFMTV) (Libération)
• 2025 Malagasy protests
  • Youth-led protests against president Andry Rajoelina resume across Madagascar, with clashes with riot police taking place in multiple cities, including the capital Antananarivo. (Reuters)
  • President Andry Rajoelina appoints Ruphin Fortunat Zafisambo, a Madagascar Armed Forces general, as the new prime minister of Madagascar. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi are jointly awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discoveries relating to peripheral immune tolerance. (CNN)

October 5, 2025 (2025-10-05) (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • 2025 Gaza City offensive
      • At least 24 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Lviv strikes, Attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • At least five people are killed in Lviv, Ukraine, during an overnight Russian attack involving 53 ballistic and cruise missiles and 496 drones. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Over 550 people are trapped by a blizzard on the eastern slope of Mount Everest in Tibet. (Reuters)
• More than 60 people are killed in landslides in India and Nepal after days of heavy rain. (MSN)
• At least nine people are killed and five others are critically injured in a fire inside of an intensive care unit at a hospital in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. (MSN)
• American mining company Freeport-McMoRan confirms that all seven workers missing after a mudflow at the Grasberg mine in Central Papua, Indonesia, have died as recovery teams find the remaining bodies and investigations continue. (Reuters)
• At least three Croatian mountaineers are killed in an avalanche on Tosc Mountain in northwestern Slovenia. (AP)

International relations

• Eswatini–United States relations, Deportation in the second Trump administration
  • Eswatini announces that it will receive eleven more third country nationals deported from the United States. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2025 deployment of federal forces in the United States
  • Operation Midway Blitz
    • U.S. president Donald Trump authorizes the deployment of 300 National Guard personnel to Chicago, Illinois. (BBC News)
• 2025 Ecuador protests
  • Ecuador enforces a state of emergency in ten provinces amid ongoing Indigenous-led protests against the government's removal of a fuel subsidy that increased diesel prices. (AP)
• Five people are killed and six others are injured in a mass shooting at a local establishment in Commodore, Linstead, Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica. (CVM Television)
• A court in Mexico formally indicts footballer Omar Bravo with the aggravated child sexual abuse of a teenage girl following his arrest in Zapopan, Jalisco, yesterday afternoon. (TV Azteca) (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2024–2025 French political crisis
  • Lecornu government
    • French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu announces his first batch of minister appointments, including former finance minister Bruno Le Maire as armed forces minister, while facing a potential no-confidence vote in parliament. (AP)
• 2025 Indonesian protests
  • Indonesia lifts its temporary suspension of TikTok's operating license after the platform provided government-requested data on live streaming activity during the recent protests. (AFP via The Manila Times)
• 2025 Syrian parliamentary election
  • Syrians vote to elect 121 of the 210 members of the People's Assembly in the first election held since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. Elections are postponed in the Al-Hasakah, Raqqa, and Suwayda governorates due to security reasons. (CNN)

Sports

• 2025 Formula One World Championship
  • 2025 Singapore Grand Prix
    • In auto racing, McLaren win their second consecutive Formula One World Constructors' Championship after their drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri place third and fourth, respectively, at the Singapore Grand Prix. (AFP via France 24)

October 4, 2025 (2025-10-04) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • 2025 Gaza City offensive
      • At least 70 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip and in Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
• Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
  • Puntland counter-terrorism operations
    • Puntland Security Forces kill over ten Islamic State militants and capture another in a major operation targeting wells used by ISIS as bases to carry out attacks in the Cal Miskaad Mountains in Bari region of Puntland. Three soldiers are killed and six others are injured in the operation. (Hiiraan Online)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Mogadishu prison attack
    • At least seven people are killed and injured and several prisoners escape in an attack on a National Intelligence and Security Agency prison by militant group Al-Shabaab in Mogadishu, Somalia. The Somali government reports that no civilian or security officers were killed, and that all seven attackers were killed. (AP) (Hiiraan Online)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • 2025 Sumy offensive
    • One person is killed and at least 30 people are injured in Russian drone strikes on two passenger trains at a rail station in Shostka, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (The Independent)
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A Russian Buyan-class corvette is allegedly attacked near Lake Onega, in Karelia, Russia. The ship sustains damage to the right side of its power plant compartment. (The Kyiv Independent)

Arts and culture

• The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities formally opens the tomb of Amenhotep III in the Valley of the Kings to the public after 20 years of renovations following its excavation in 1989. (DW) (ANewZ)
• The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States, installs Reverend Yehiel Curry as its presiding bishop, making him the first Black bishop to lead the denomination. Curry succeeds Reverend Elizabeth Eaton, the first woman to lead the organization. (AP) (CBS News)
• Pope Leo XIV attends the oath-taking ceremony for the new batch of Pontifical Swiss Guards, becoming the first pope to do so since 1968. (The Catholic Herald)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025–26 European windstorm season
  • At least two people are killed and another is severely injured in northern France as Storm Amy makes landfall. (France 24)
  • A man is killed in Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland, and hundreds of thousands are without power as Storm Amy brings high winds to the United Kingdom and Ireland. (Sky News)
• 2025 India–Pakistan floods
  • At least ten people are killed and two others are reported missing when heavy rainfall triggered multiple landslides in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. (India TV)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Iran, Iran–Israel relations
  • Iran executes six prisoners accused and convicted of carrying out attacks inside Iran for the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz on behalf of Israel. (AP)
• Islamophobia in the United Kingdom
  • A mosque with two people inside is set on fire in a suspected hate crime in Peacehaven, East Sussex, England. (CNN)
• Lithuania temporarily suspends air traffic at Vilnius Airport after unidentified balloons are detected in its airspace. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2024–2025 Georgian protests
  • 2025 Georgian uprising attempt
    • Protestors attempt to storm the Orbeliani Palace and clash with police in Tbilisi, Georgia, during the local elections. (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 Azad Kashmir protests
  • Violent protests that killed at least ten people in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan, end as a peace agreement is reached with a civil rights alliance. (MSN)
• 2025 Czech parliamentary election
  • The second and final day of the election to elect the members of the Czech Chamber of Deputies takes place. (TVN24)
  • Former prime minister Andrej Babiš's populist ANO party wins the election with about 35% of the vote but falls short of a majority, prompting him to begin coalition talks with smaller right-wing parties. (BBC News)
• 2025 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) presidential election
  • Sanae Takaichi defeats Shinjiro Koizumi in a runoff election to become the next president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and prime minister-designate. She is the first female leader of the LDP and, should she be confirmed by the Diet, the first female prime minister of Japan. (Kyodo News)
• 2025 Malawian general election
  • Peter Mutharika is sworn in for his second non-consecutive term as President of Malawi following his victory in last month's national election. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2025 Speedway of Nations
  • In motorcycle speedway, Australia wins the 2025 Speedway of Nations, defeating Poland in the grand final at the MotoArena Toruń, BiT City, Kuyavia–Pomerania, Poland. (FIM Speedway)

October 3, 2025 (2025-10-03) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Donald Trump's September 2025 Gaza Strip proposal
    • Hamas says it has agreed to part of the 20-point plan proposed by U.S. president Donald Trump to end the war, including the release of hostages and handing over administration of the enclave. (The Hill) (Reuters)
    • United Nations human rights experts warn that multiple portions of the plan contradict international law and the ICJ ruling on Israel's occupation of Palestine. (OCHR)
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip, 2025 Gaza City offensive
    • At least 72 Palestinians are killed from Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, including 42 killed in Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, Gaza genocide, Humanitarian aid during the Gaza war
    • The Israeli Navy intercepts and seizes the Polish-flagged Marinette, the last vessel of the Global Sumud Flotilla, an international humanitarian flotilla seeking to break the Gaza blockade. (Al Jazeera)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • With Ugandan support, the Somali National Army and other pro-federal forces reportedly recapture two villages from al-Shabaab. Government sources claim that al-Shabaab's forces suffered heavy casualties from the fighting. (Somali National News Agency)
• War on drugs, 2025 US Caribbean naval deployment
  • 2025 United States strikes on Venezuelan boats
    • The United States Navy conducts a strike targeting an alleged drug smuggling boat in the Venezuelan coast. According to U.S. defense secretary Pete Hegseth, at least four crewmembers were killed in the attack. (Reuters)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • More than 5,000 people flee from Borno State, Nigeria, to Cameroon after Boko Haram fighters seize the border town of Kirawa and burn multiple buildings. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • Seven terrorists are killed and a huge cache of weapons and ammunition is recovered in an operation by security forces in Sherani District, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Xinhua News Agency)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • List of journalists killed during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • French journalist Antoni Lallican is killed and photographer Hryhoriy Ivanchenko is injured by a Russian drone strike in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (RFE/RL)

Arts and culture

• Bishop of London Sarah Mullally is announced as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first woman to lead the Church of England and the Anglican Communion. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Five people are killed after an overcrowded vehicle overturns on NR-165 in Nabari, Mie Prefecture, Japan. (Kyodo News)
• At least three people drown after catastrophic flash floods hit the southern Black Sea coast of Bulgaria. (Novinite.com)
• At least two people are killed and others are injured when an Iranian Red Crescent Society rescue helicopter carrying nine people crashes in Lorestan province, Iran. (Mehr News Agency)

International relations

• China–India relations, Sino–Indian border dispute
  • Indian airline IndiGo announces it will resume direct flights between Kolkata and Guangzhou, China, on October 26, launching the first direct flights between the two countries since border skirmishes in 2020. (DW)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Tunisia, Decree Law 54
  • A court in Nabeul, Tunisia, sentences a 56-year-old man to death over online statements criticizing president Kais Saied and state security agencies. (Reuters)
• Trial of Sean Combs
  • A court in Manhattan, New York, United States, sentences musician Sean Combs to four years and two months in prison for prostitution-related charges. (BBC News)
• The Bangkok Criminal Court sentences a Thai man to life in prison for the January 7 assassination of Cambodian politician Lim Kimya in Bangkok. (AP)
• A Finnish court dismisses charges against the crew of the Eagle S tanker, ruling prosecutors failed to prove intent in the 2024 Estlink 2 incident and that negligence must be addressed by the ship's flag state or crew's home countries. (Reuters)
• A court in Yerevan, Armenia sentences Mikael Ajapahyan, a prominent cleric of the Armenian Apostolic Church, to two years in prison for allegedly calling for the overthrow of prime minister Nikol Pashinyan. (AP)
• At least two people are killed and five others are injured in a mass shooting in Les Moulins near Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. (Le Figaro) (Times Now)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Czech parliamentary election
  • Czechs vote to elect the members of the Chamber of Deputies. For the first time, Czechs living or stationed abroad can vote via mail. (Reuters)
• 2025 Indonesian protests
  • Indonesia suspends TikTok's registration as an electronic service provider after the company fails to submit complete data on its live streaming activity during nationwide protests. (Reuters)
• 2025 Maldivian protests
  • Police violently crack down on and arrest eight people during an overnight protest against government corruption in Malé in the Maldives. (AP) (Raajje TV)
• Abdication of Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
  • Henri, the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, abdicates and is succeeded by his eldest son, Guillaume V. (Financial Times)
• Lithuanian culture minister Ignotas Adomavičius resigns after one week in office amidst protests. (LRT)

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Ongoing events

Disasters and humanitarian

• Gaza Strip famine
• Ukrainian refugee crisis
• Venezuelan crisis

Economics

• German economic crisis
• United States tariff policy

• United States–Canada–Mexico trade war
• United States–China trade war

Politics and diplomacy

• French political crisis
• Gaza war hostage crisis
• Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations
• United States federal forces deployments
• United States federal government shutdown

Protests and strikes

• Gaza war protests
• Gen Z protests
• Georgian protests and political crisis
• Moroccan Gen Z protests
• Serbian anti-corruption protests

Weather

• European windstorm season

• Storm Amy

• Pacific typhoon season

• Typhoon Matmo

Elections and referendums

Recent

• September

• 27: Gabon, National Assembly (1st round)
• 25–27: Seychelles, President (1st round), National Assembly
• 28: Moldova, Parliament
• 28: Switzerland, Referendums

• October

• 3–4: Czech Republic, Chamber of Deputies
• 05: Syria, People's Assembly (indirect)
• 07: Barbados, President (indirect)

Upcoming

• 9–11: Seychelles, President (2nd round)
• 11: Nauru, Parliament, Constitutional referendum
• 11: Gabon, National Assembly (2nd round)
• 12: Cameroon, President
• 19: Northern Cyprus, President
• 19: Bolivia, President (2nd round)

Sports

• American football

• 2025 NFL season
• 2025 NCAA Division I FBS season

• Association football

• 2025–26 UEFA Champions League
• 2025–26 UEFA Europa League
• 2025–26 UEFA Conference League
• 2025 Copa Libertadores
• 2025–26 UEFA Women's Champions League
• 2025–26 UEFA Women's Europa Cup
• 2025–26 Premier League
• 2025–26 La Liga
• 2025–26 Bundesliga
• 2025–26 Serie A
• 2025–26 Ligue 1
• 2025 Major League Soccer season
• 2025 National Women's Soccer League season
• 2025–26 Women's Super League

• Australian rules football

• 2025 AFL Women's season

• Baseball

• 2025 MLB postseason
• 2025 NPB season

• Basketball

• 2025–26 EuroLeague
• 2025 WNBA Finals

• Canadian football

• 2025 CFL season

• International cricket

• 2025–27 ICC World Test Championship

• Cycling

• 2025 UCI World Tour

• Golf

• 2025 PGA Tour
• 2025 LPGA Tour

• Motorsport

• 2025 Formula One World Championship
• 2025 MotoGP World Championship
• 2025 World Rally Championship
• 2025 NASCAR Cup Series

• Rugby league

• 2025 Super League season

• Rugby union

• 2025–26 Premiership Rugby
• 2025–26 United Rugby Championship

• Tennis

• 2025 ATP Tour
• 2025 WTA Tour

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

October0/0September

• 08: Joan Bennett Kennedy
• 07: John Gurdon
• 05: Jilly Cooper
• 04: Ivan Klíma
• 04: Milan Mandarić
• 03: Patricia Routledge
• 02: Pangalian Balindong
• 01: Jane Goodall
• 30: Joshua Allen
• 30: Nigel Latta
• 30: Nathi Mthethwa
• 29: Lally Weymouth
• 28: Mika Immonen
• 27: Russell M. Nelson
• 27: Chang Chun-hsiung
• 26: Menzies Campbell
• 26: Tony Harrison
• 25: Robert Barnett
• 25: Voddie Baucham
• 25: Chris Dreja
• 25: Assata Shakur
• 25: Datchinamurthy Kataiah
• 24: George Hardy
• 24: Sara Jane Moore
• 23: Claudia Cardinale
• 23: Rudi Johnson
• 23: Ruth Posner
• 23: Abdulaziz Al Sheikh
• 23: Danny Thompson
• 22: Dickie Bird
• 22: Henry Jaglom
• 22: Nikola Pilić
• 21: Bernie Parent
• 21: John Stapleton
• 20: Matt Beard
• 19: Sonny Curtis
• 18: Brett James
• 18: Diane Martel
• 18: Charles Guthrie
• 18: George Smoot
• 17: Roger Climpson
• 16: Tomas Lindberg
• 16: Robert Redford
• 16: Joseph Urusemal
• 15: Marilyn Knowlden
• 14: Pat Crowley
• 14: Jim Edgar
• 14: Ricky Hatton
• 14: Beverly Thomson
• 11: Tiana Mangakahia
• 11: Yu Menglong
• 10: Bobby Hart
• 10: Charlie Kirk
• 09: Polly Holliday

Ongoing conflicts

Global

• War against the Islamic State

Africa

• Cameroon

• Anglophone Crisis

• Central African Republic

• Civil war

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• M23 campaign

• Sahel

• Mali War
• Chad Basin

• Burkina Faso
• Niger

• Somalia

• Civil war

• Sudan

• Civil war

Americas

• Colombia

• Colombian conflict

• Haiti

• Gang war

• Mexico

• Mexican drug war

Asia−Pacific

• Cambodia and Thailand
  • Cambodia–Thailand border conflict
• India

• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

• Myanmar

• Civil war

• Pakistan

• Insurgency in Balochistan
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Europe

• Russia and Ukraine

• Russo-Ukrainian war

Middle East

• Israel

• Gaza war

• Syria

• Israeli invasion of Syria

• Druze insurgency

• Yemen

• Red Sea crisis

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars

2025 events and developments by topic

Arts

• Animation (Anime)
• Architecture
• Comics
• Film (Horror, Science fiction)
• Literature (Poetry)
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