Current events: 2025-10-01

Wikipedia Current Events · Wednesday at 8:38 PM

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russo-Ukrainian war
- Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
  - An "emergency situation" is declared at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant by the Ukrainian Energy Ministry after the plant experiences a power outage following a Russian drone strike on an energy facility in the town of Slavutych, Kyiv Oblast. (The Kyiv Independent)
- Vladimir Leontyev, the Russia-installed mayor of Nova Kakhovka, is killed in a Ukrainian drone strike. (The Kyiv Independent) (The Moscow Times)
Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza City offensive
  - At least 61 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip and Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
Sudanese civil war
- Siege of El Fasher
  - As El Fasher's humanitarian crisis continues to drastically deteriorate, the Rapid Support Forces reportedly makes further gains against besieged garrison units mainly composed of former Darfuri rebels and their Sudanese Armed Forces allies. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

2025 Cebu earthquake
- Cebu governor Pam Baricuatro declares a state of calamity and suspends classes throughout the province due to the {{M|w|6.9}} earthquake yesterday. (BBC News)
- The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines reports that power has been restored shortly after midnight in five islands in the central Philippines, including Cebu. (AFP via Bangkok Post)
At least 36 people are killed and over 200 others are injured when an under construction church collapses in Areti, Amhara Region, Ethiopia. (AP) (TRT World)
The death toll from the collapse of a pesantren in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia, rises to six as rescue workers continue their search. Dozens of students remain missing and approximately 100 others were injured in the collapse. (AP)
Two workers are killed, several are injured and others are reported missing when the ceiling of an under-renovation serail in Damascus, Syria, collapses. (AP)

Law and crime

Three men are arrested in Berlin, Germany, for targeting Jewish institutions and preparing a terrorist attack on behalf of Hamas. The arrests were made a week before the anniversary of the Hamas-led October 7 attacks. (Reuters)
The annual Oktoberfest is temporarily shut down in Munich, Germany, until 17:30 local time due to an explosion at a house earlier in the morning which killed two people, including the perpetrator. The police ultimately finds no link between the Oktoberfest and the explosion, which is caused by a domestic dispute. (DW) (AP)
The Italian Carabinieri Art Squad seizes 21 paintings by Salvador Dalí suspected of being forged pieces at an exhibition at the Palazzo Tarasconi in Parma. (AP) (The Irish Independent)

Politics and elections

Gen Z protests
- 2025 Malagasy protests
  - Protests in Madagascar continue and spread across the country, demanding the resignation of president Andry Rajoelina. Opposition leader Rivo Rakotovao says that his party will not join any new government under Rajoelina, asking him to step down. (Reuters)
2025 United States federal government shutdown
- A federal government shutdown occurs in the United States after a funding bill fails to be passed, the first government shutdown since January 2019. (CTV News)
The 2025 Right Livelihood Award is awarded to a student organization in the Pacific Islands fighting climate change, activist organization Justice for Myanmar, Taiwanese activist Audrey Tang, and the Sudanese Emergency Response Rooms for their work in combating injustice in their respective regions. (AP)
Thousands of people march in Athens as part of a general strike across Greece to protest against proposed changes in labor laws that could change the 8-hour work day to 13 hours, or a 48-hour workweek. (AP) (The Guardian)
Matteo Rossi and Lorenzo Bugli are sworn in as the new Captains Regent of San Marino, succeeding Denise Bronzetti and Italo Righi. (San Marino RTV)

Science and technology

A research team at the Free University of Berlin announce the detection of new organic substances within water vapour plumes erupting from the surface of Enceladus by Cassini{{'}}s Cosmic Dust Analyzer, a potential biosignature of extraterrestrial life under the Saturnian moon's icy surface. (The Guardian)