Current events: 2025-10-08

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Donald Trump's September 2025 Gaza Strip proposal
    • United States President Donald Trump announces that Israel and Hamas have agreed a ceasefire and the first phase of his peace plan to end the Gaza war. (Al Jazeera).
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • 2025 Sumy offensive, Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • A family is injured, including a 4-year-old girl critically, and dozens of civilian infrastructure facilities are damaged in a drone strike on a house in Sumy, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (RBC-Ukraine)
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A Ukrainian missile strike kills three people and injures nine others in Maslova Pristan, Belgorod Oblast, Russia. A search and rescue operation is underway for others believed to be trapped under rubble. (BBC News)
• 2025 deployment of federal forces in the United States
  • Operation Midway Blitz
    • Hundreds of Texas Military Forces troops arrive at a United States Army Reserve military base near Chicago in Illinois ahead of a deployment to secure control of the city. (Sky News)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Thirty people are killed, including eleven military personnel, in an ambush on a military convoy by Pakistani Taliban fighters in Orakzai District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• The World Health Organization intervenes as the death toll from toxic cough syrup in Madhya Pradesh, India, rises to at least 20. (The Independent)
• Six people are killed and eight others are critically injured in a fire at a firecracker factory in East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India. (India Today)

Law and crime

• January 2025 Southern California wildfires
  • A 29-year-old man is arrested for allegedly starting the Palisades Fire that killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,000 homes in Los Angeles County, Southern California, United States. (BBC News)
• 2025 New Orleans jailbreak
  • Derrick Groves, the last remaining prisoner from a group of ten who escaped the Orleans Parish Prison in May in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, is captured in Atlanta following a standoff with police at a house. (NBC News)
• Capital punishment in Singapore
  • Singapore executes Pannir Selvam Pranthaman, a Malaysian man convicted of drug offenses, bringing this year's number of executions in the country to 12. (AP)

Science and technology

• 2025 Nobel Prizes, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  • Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar Yaghi are jointly awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on metal–organic frameworks. (BBC News)

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