Current events: 2025-09-27

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza City offensive
    • At least 66 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • The Pakistan Armed Forces kill 17 Pakistani Taliban militants and recover weapons and ammunition in an overnight operation in Lakki Marwat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (The Express Tribune)
• 2025 Cambodian–Thai border crisis
  • Cambodian and Thai forces reportedly exchange fire at their countries' shared border despite a ceasefire agreement in August. (Nation Thailand)
• 2025 deployment of federal forces in the United States
  • U.S. president Donald Trump orders the deployment of troops to Portland, Oregon, saying he has directed U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to secure the "war-ravaged" city. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Karur crowd crush
  • At least 39 people are killed, including ten children, and 83 others are injured in a crowd crush at actor-politician Vijay's rally in Velusamypuram, Tamil Nadu, India. (The Hindu) (Hindustan Times)
• Eight people are killed after a bus collides head-on with a vehicle carrying oil in Panjgur, Pakistan. (The Express Tribune)

Sports

• 2025 AFL Grand Final
  • In Australian rules football, the Brisbane Lions defeat the Geelong Cats to win the 2025 Australian Football League by 47 points, winning their second consecutive premiership and fifth overall. (The Age) (AFL)
• In flag football, the Italian men's and British women's national teams win their respective IFAF European Flag Football Championship titles in Paris, France. (EuroFlag) (IFAF)
• 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup
  • England defeats Canada in the final of the 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup. (BBC News)

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