Current events: 2025-10-10

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza war peace plan
    • A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas comes into effect hours after the approval of the ceasefire agreement by the Israeli war cabinet. The Israel Defense Forces complete their withdrawal to the agreed-upon lines within the Gaza Strip. (AP)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Siege of El Fasher
    • The United Nations human rights chief says three days of attacks in and near a displaced persons camp in Al-Fashir, North Darfur, Sudan, has killed at least 53 civilians. (The Canadian Press)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • All 30 Pakistani Taliban terrorists involved in the Orakzai District attack on Tuesday that killed 30 people, including 11 security personnel, are killed in a retribution operation in Jamal Maya, Orakzai District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Dawn)
  • At least 11 Pakistan Armed Forces soldiers are killed in an attack on a military post by the Pakistani Taliban in Tirah, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (News18)
  • At least three terrorists are killed during an attack on a police training center in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Dawn)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Davao earthquake
  • A {{M|w|7.4}} earthquake strikes Manay, Davao Oriental, Philippines, killing eight people and wounding over 400. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
  • The United States Pacific Tsunami Warning Center raises a tsunami alert for the Philippines, Indonesia, and Palau for more than two hours. Local authorities record "minor tsunamis" in Talaud Islands, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and an inch-long wave in Tandag, Surigao del Sur, Philippines. (BBC News)
• 2025 Accurate Energetic Systems explosion
  • Multiple people are killed, multiple others are injured and at least 19 people are reported missing after an explosion at a manufacturing plant in Hickman County, Tennessee, United States. (WKRN-TV) (CNN) (WBIR-TV)

Health and environment

• Senegal's health authorities confirm 17 deaths in a major outbreak of Rift Valley fever that started on September 21. (Africanews)

International relations

• Afghanistan–India relations
  • Indian foreign minister S Jaishankar announces the country will reopen its embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, after it was shut down four years ago during the fall of Kabul. (DW)
• Qatar–United States relations
  • US secretary of defense Pete Hegseth announces that he has signed an agreement with Qatar to build a new Qatar Emiri Air Force (QEAF) facility at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Elmore County, Idaho, that will host QEAF F-15QA fighter jets and pilots. (TIME) (CBS News)

Law and crime

• One person is killed and 22 others are injured during a Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan protest in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. (Dawn)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Nobel Prizes
  • 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
    • Venezuelan activist María Corina Machado is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her promotion of democratic rights in Venezuela. (CNN) (Nobel Peace Prize)
• Impeachment of Dina Boluarte
  • Following a vote of 124–0, the Peruvian Congress removes President Dina Boluarte from power after she fails to appear for a required defense in Congress regarding her government's inability to lower crime. (AP)
  • Congress president José Jerí is sworn in as the interim president following Boluarte's removal from power. (DW)
• 2024–2025 French political crisis
  • French President Emmanuel Macron reappoints Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, four days after Lecornu handed in his resignation. (France 24)
• Politics of Japan
  • Komeito announces their exit from the Japanese ruling coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party. (Reuters)

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