Current events: 2025-10-05

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • 2025 Gaza City offensive
      • At least 24 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Lviv strikes, Attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • At least five people are killed in Lviv, Ukraine, during an attack involving 53 ballistic and cruise missiles and 496 drones. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• More than 60 people are killed since Friday during landslides in India and Nepal after days of heavy rain. (MSN)
• Rescue efforts are underway after over 550 people are trapped by a blizzard on the eastern slope of Mount Everest in Tibet, 350 of which safely reach {{Interlanguage link|Qutang Township|zh|曲当乡}} and the remaining of which are in contact with authorities. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2025 deployment of federal forces in the United States
  • U.S. president Donald Trump authorizes the deployment of 300 National Guard personnel to Chicago, Illinois. (BBC News)
• A court in Mexico formally indicts footballer Omar Bravo with the aggravated child sexual abuse of a teenage girl following his arrest in Zapopan, Jalisco, yesterday afternoon. (TV Azteca) (AP)

Sports

• 2025 Formula One World Championship
  • 2025 Singapore Grand Prix
    • In auto racing, McLaren wins their second consecutive Formula One World Constructors' Championship after their drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri place third and fourth, respectively, at the Singapore Grand Prix. (AFP via France 24)

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