Current events: 2025-10-15

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza War
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Hamas has returned two more hostages' bodies to the Red Cross, with 19 still in Gaza despite the Gaza peace plan's deadline last Monday. Donald Trump also states Israel may resume fighting if he believes Hamas does not uphold their part of the agreement. (AP)
• Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • Pakistan claims that it killed at least 15 Taliban members in an airstrike in Spin Boldak, Afghanistan. The Taliban claims that twelve civilians are killed and over 100 are injured. Both countries also claim that they killed several soldiers during a shootout. (BBC News)
• Haitian conflict
  • Doctors Without Borders announce that they are permanently closing their offices in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, due to safety concerns. (AP)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Six Pakistani soldiers and nine Pakistani Taliban gunmen are killed in a shootout in Orakzai District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Reuters)
• United States–Venezuela relations, 2025 US Caribbean naval deployment, United States involvement in regime change in Latin America
  • The Trump administration reportedly greenlights covert operations in Venezuela. (The New York Times)
• Ecuadorian conflict
  • Explosive devices detonate on two bridges in Ecuador. No casualties are reported. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Ten people are killed and 21 others are injured, including four critically, in an explosion on a crude palm oil tanker docked at a shipyard on Batam Island, Indonesia. (AP) (Marine Insight)

International relations

• Cambodia–South Korea relations, Scam centers in Cambodia
  • South Korea issues a blanket travel ban on its citizens to parts of Cambodia known for its scam centers, alleging that over 200,000 foreign nationals are working in these centers, including 1,200 South Koreans. (DW) (South China Morning Post)
• Russo-Ukrainian war, Russia–United Kingdom relations, International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian war
  • The United Kingdom imposes new sanctions on Russian energy companies Lukoil and Rosneft. (RBC-Ukraine)

Law and crime

• International Criminal Court investigation in the Philippines
  • Judges at the International Criminal Court dismiss Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor in the case against former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte due to links between Khan and some victims of Duterte's alleged crimes, whom Khan represented prior to Duterte's arrest. (AP)
• Nord Stream pipelines sabotage, Italy–Ukraine relations, Germany–Italy relations
  • Italy's Supreme Court of Cassation blocks the extradition of a Ukrainian national suspected of causing explosions which damaged the Nord Stream pipelines in 2022 to Germany, where he is wanted. (DW)
• Iraqi politician Safaa Al Mashhadani, a candidate for the upcoming parliamentary elections, is assassinated by a bomb attached to his vehicle in Al-Tarmia District. The perpetrators are unknown. (Gulf News)

Politics and elections

• Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo accepts the resignation of three top security officials following a jailbreak where 20 members of the Barrio 18 gang escaped from prison. (AP)

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