Current events: 2025-09-25

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • At least 17 Palestinians, including 10 children and three women, are killed by Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip. (AP News)
• Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
  • Two Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants are shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during the siege of a house in Tammun in the occupied West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
• Red Sea crisis
  • September 2025 Israeli attacks in Yemen
    • In response to a drone attack the previous day that injured 50 Israeli civilians, the Israeli Air Force bombs Houthi targets in the Yemeni capital city of Sanaa. (Al Monitor)
    • The Houthis launch a ballistic missile at central Israel, which is intercepted. (The Times of Israel) (YNet)

Business and economy

• China–United States relations, China–United States trade war
  • China issues sanctions on six American companies, including several in the underwater drone and satellite sectors. (AP)
• Ethiopia–Russia relations
  • Russia and Ethiopia sign an agreement on the construction of a nuclear power plant for Ethiopian Electric Power by Rosatom. (Anadolu Agency)

Disasters and accidents

• Six people are killed after a bus collides with a truck head-on in Sundergarh, Odisha, India. (The Hans India)
• Decomposed bodies of five suspected migrants are discovered in the Great Sand Sea south of Tobruk, Libya. (AP)

International relations

• France–Mali relations, French military withdrawal from West Africa
  • The Malian junta declares an end to joint counterterrorism operations with the French military and expels five French embassy workers from the country, declaring them personae non gratae. (AP)
• Israel–Slovenia relations, International Criminal Court arrest warrants for Israeli leaders
  • The Slovenian government formally bans Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu from entering the country, linking the ban to the International Criminal Court arrest warrant out for Netanyahu. (AP)

Law and crime

• Alleged Libyan financing in the 2007 French presidential election
  • Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is sentenced to 5 years in prison for criminal association, becoming the first former French president to be sentenced to prison. His former interior ministers Brice Hortefeux and Claude Guéant are sentenced to two years in prison and six years of house arrest respectively, convertible due to Guéant's health issues. (BBC News) (France24)
• Flood control projects controversy in the Philippines
  • The Philippine Department of Justice and the National Bureau of Investigation file criminal graft and malversation charges against Senator Chiz Escudero, former senator Nancy Binay, and former House Speaker Martin Romualdez in connection with investigations into alleged corruption in flood control projects. (The Philippine Star)
• Two teenagers are killed and three others are injured and hospitalized in a school shooting in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil. (AP) (France 24)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Malagasy protests
  • Unrest erupts in Antananarivo, Madagascar, following power and water cuts in the capital city. (AP News)

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