Current events: 2025-10-06

Wikipedia Current Events · 2025-10-06T20:08:19-0400

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russo-Ukrainian war
- Crimea attacks
  - Ukraine says it has struck one of Russia's main factories producing explosives and ammunition as well as an oil terminal in Crimea. (Reuters)
Aftermath of the Syrian Civil War
- Clashes erupt between Syrian government troops and Kurdish militias affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces in Aleppo. (Alarabiya English)

Disasters and accidents

2025 tornado season
- 2025 Enderlin tornado
  - The U.S. National Weather Service upgrades the rating of the tornado near Enderlin, North Dakota, on June 20 this year, to EF5, the most recent tornado to attain the highest rating on the Enhanced Fujita scale. (CNN)
Three people are killed after an 80-year-old residential structure collapses in Veraval, Gir Somnath district, India. (The Indian Express)

International relations

Australia–Papua New Guinea relations
- Australia and Papua New Guinea sign a defense treaty, granting Australia access to Papuan military facilities and requiring mutual defense in case of foreign aggression. (BBC News)
New Zealand–Samoa relations
- New Zealand announces that it has paid a NZ$6 million compensation to Samoa over the sinking of the HMNZS Manawanui off the coast of Upolu in October 2024. (RNZ)

Law and crime

2025 deployment of federal forces in the United States
- United States federal judge Karin Immergut temporarily blocks the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops from California and Texas to Portland, Oregon, saying there is no evidence that the city requires any federal military intervention. (BBC News)
Mexican drug war, Mexico–United States relations
- The United States Treasury issues sanctions against a dozen Mexican companies, including those in the pharmaceutical, real estate, chemical, and cleaning sectors, and eight people who manage them for allegedly supplying drug precursors to the Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel. (AP)
A man opens fire inside an appeals courts in Tirana, Albania, killing the presiding judge and injuring two others in the courtroom. Police later arrest the suspect. (AP)´
The International Criminal Court convicts Janjaweed commander Ali Kushayb of war crimes in Darfur, including rape, murder, and persecution. Kushayb is the first militia leader to be convicted for these war crimes. His sentence will be determined in a later hearing. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

2024–2025 French political crisis
- Lecornu government
  - French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu resigns after 27 days of being in office. With only 14 hours between the appointment of ministers and his resignation, Lecornu becomes the shortest-serving Prime Minister of France. (BFMTV) (Libération)
2025 Malagasy protests
- Youth-led protests against president Andry Rajoelina resume across Madagascar, with clashes with riot police taking place in multiple cities, including the capital Antananarivo. (Reuters)
- President Andry Rajoelina appoints Ruphin Fortunat Zafisambo, a Madagascar Armed Forces general, as the new prime minister of Madagascar. (Reuters)

Science and technology