Current events: 2025-10-12

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • At least 23 Pakistani soldiers and nine Afghan soldiers are killed during the ongoing clashes at the border. Pakistan claims that it captured 19 Afghan border posts. (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 Malagasy protests
  • 2025 Malagasy mutiny
    • Malagasy President Andry Rajoelina says that an attempted coup has been initiated after a group of the military joined protestors and exchanged gunfire with pro-government security forces, demanding Rajoelina to step down. (AP)
• Gaza war
  • At least 19 Doghmush clan members and eight Hamas fighters are killed in a shootout in Gaza City. (BBC News)
  • Palestinian journalist Saleh al-Jafarawi is shot and killed by Doghmush clan members amid shootouts with Hamas in Gaza City. (TRT World)

Law and crime

• Mass shootings in the United States
  • 2025 Saint Helena Island shooting
    • Four people are killed and at least 20 others are injured, including four critically, in a mass shooting at a crowded bar in Saint Helena Island, South Carolina, United States. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Cameroonian presidential election
  • Cameroonians vote to elect their president, with the incumbent Paul Biya seeking his eighth term. (Reuters)
• 2025 Ecuador protests
  • Police clash with protestors in Quito, Ecuador, amid ongoing demonstrations against President Daniel Noboa over an increase in fuel price. Noboa has refused to negotiate with the Indigenous federation, which leads part of the protests against his government. (AP)
• 2025 Seychellois general election
  • Patrick Herminie wins the presidential election in Seychelles by obtaining more than 52% of the votes, becoming the next President of Seychelles, defeating the incumbent Wavel Ramkalawan. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2025 ATP Tour
  • In tennis, Monégasque player Valentin Vacherot, who was ranked 204th on the ATP rankings, defeats his cousin Arthur Rinderknech in the Shanghai Masters final 4–6, 6–3, 6–3, to become the lowest-ranked Masters 1000 winner in ATP history, and the first from Monaco. (ESPN) (ATP Tour)
  • Following his win at the Shanghai Masters, Vacherot moves to rank 40 and becomes the highest rank achieved by a Monégasque in history, surpassing Jean-René Lisnard who ranked 106th in 2006. (Olympics)

Continue reading...