Current events: 2025-09-18

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • At least 50 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, including 40 killed in Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
    • A Jordanian truck driver bringing aid to the Gaza Strip kills two Israeli military personnel before being fatally shot by security personnel at the Allenby Bridge. (Reuters)
    • The United States casts its sixth veto over a draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, the lifting of Israeli restrictions on aid, and the release of all hostages. (Reuters)
  • Red Sea crisis
    • A Houthi drone attack damages a hotel in Eilat, Israel. (Jerusalem Post) (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • Two security personnel are killed and twenty-three others are injured when a suicide car bomb targets a security convoy in Turbat, Balochistan, Pakistan. Meanwhile, six people are killed in a separate car bombing in Chaman. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• At least ten people are killed and 25 others are injured when a fire breaks out in a high-rise office building in Lagos, Nigeria. (BBC News)
• Three people, including musician Brett James, are killed when James's Cirrus SR22T aircraft crashes near Macon County Airport in North Carolina, United States. (ASN) (FOX17)
• A 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes Kamchatka, Russia, but there were no reports of damage. Tsunami warnings are issued for the region. (Reuters) (TVP Info)

International relations

• Poland–Ukraine relations, 2025 Russian drone incursion into Poland
  • Ukraine announces it will train Polish troops and engineers in counter-drone operations following recent Russian drone incursions into Polish airspace. (Al Jazeera)
• Syria–United States relations
  • Syrian foreign minister Asaad al-Shaibani visits Washington, D.C. to attend meetings with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and to meet with Israeli delegations and U.S. secretary of state Marco Rubio, marking the first time a Syrian official has visited the United States in 25 years. (AP)

Law and crime

• Egypt's interior ministry reports that a 3,000-year-old gold bracelet belonging to the pharaoh Amenemope, missing from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, was stolen, melted and sold, with several suspects arrested. (BBC News)
• Iraq receives 47 French nationals previously detained in northeast Syria on suspicion of Islamic State membership for prosecution on terrorism charges. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Albanian parliamentary election
  • Albanian prime minister Edi Rama begins an unprecedented fourth term following the Socialist Party's victory in the last election. (Reuters)
• Censorship in the Maldives
  • Maldivian president Mohamed Muizzu ratifies the Media and Broadcasting Regulation Law, which allows fines, license suspensions, and closures of media outlets found in violation of its provisions. (AP)
• Bulgarian prime minister Rosen Zhelyazkov's government survives their fifth vote of no-confidence this year over alleged failures to reform the justice and security sectors, with 133 lawmakers opposing and 101 supporting the motion. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• In the United States, automaker Toyota recalls over 590,000 vehicles due to a software failure for its dashboard that hides vehicle speed, braking status, and tire pressure warnings. Meanwhile, Hyundai recalls over 568,000 Palisades due to seatbelt buckle failures. (AP) (Yahoo! Autos)

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