Current events: 2025-09-30

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip, 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
      • At least 59 Palestinians are killed by Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, including 20 who were seeking aid. (Al Jazeera)
  • Palestinian political violence
    • A Palestinian man rams into Israeli pedestrians near Al-Khader in the West Bank, injuring two children, before being shot. (The Times of Israel) (Haaretz)

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • An overnight Russian drone strike kills four people, all members of the same family, in Chernechchyna, Okhtyrka Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (BBC News)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • Upwards of 10 people are killed and over 30 others are injured in a suicide car bombing followed by gunfire outside the Frontier Corps' headquarters in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera) (NDTV)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Cebu earthquake
  • A {{M|w|6.9}} earthquake hits the central Philippines with damages and power interruption reported, particularly in Cebu. At least 20 people are reported dead in multiple towns. (AFP via The Guardian) (Newsweek) (The New York Times)
• Nine people are killed when an under-construction coal preparation plant collapses in Chennai, India. (NDTV)
• Five people are killed when a truck collides with two motorbikes in Bhind district, Madhya Pradesh, India. Indian express)

International relations

• France–South Africa relations
  • South African ambassador to France and former Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture Nathi Mthethwa is found dead outside his hotel in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. The ambassador had previously been reported missing by his wife. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sentences former president Joseph Kabila to death in absentia for treason. (AP)
• Chinese intelligence activity abroad, China–Germany relations
  • The Higher Regional Court of Dresden convicts a Chinese–German man of espionage for China while working for AfD politician Maximilian Krah, giving him a sentence of over five years. A co-defendant accused of supplying cargo and passenger information from her job at Leipzig Airport is given a suspended sentence of one and a half years. (AP)
• 2025 Moroccan Gen Z protests
  • Large-scale youth-led demonstrations in Morocco continue for a third day, despite police arrests and tight security. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Human rights in Afghanistan
  • Telecommunications are almost entirely down in Afghanistan following a internet cut by the government, with mobile phone services down to 1% of normal connectivity levels. (The Guardian)

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