Current events: 2025-10-17

Wikipedia Current Events · 2025-10-17T20:05:14-0400

Armed conflicts and attacks

Gaza war
- Gaza war hostage crisis
  - Hamas returns one more hostage body to the Red Cross. (France 24)
Terrorism in Sweden
- Killing of Salwan Momika
  - A man is identified as the main perpetrator who assassinated anti-Muslim activist Salwan Momika; a 24-year-old man from Syria who was living in Sweden at the time. (The Jerusalem Post)
Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
- 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
  - Pakistan carries out a series of airstrikes in Barmal District and Urgun District, Paktia Province, Afghanistan, killing ten people and wounding eight others, ending the 48-hours ceasefire which started two days ago. (Kabul Now)
  - It is confirmed that media worker Abdul Zahir Safi was among those killed during the Pakistani airstrikes in Kabul, Afghanistan, two days ago. A day prior, journalist Abdul Ghafoor Abed was shot dead while covering the shootouts at the border. (IFJ)
  - The toll from the Pakistani airstrikes in Spin Boldak, Afghanistan, two days ago, increases to 40 people killed and 170 injured. (Tolo News)
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- At least 14 people are killed, including six attackers, and 13 others are injured in a suicide car bomb followed by gunfire at a military compound in Mir Ali, North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami claims responsibility for the attack. (Xinhua News Agency)

Disasters and accidents

2025 Rahova gas explosion
- Three people are killed and 14 others are injured in an explosion caused by a suspected gas leak at an apartment building in Bucharest, Romania. (Reuters)

Law and crime

The parliament of Portugal approves a ban on face veils for "gender or religious" reasons and making it punishable by up to 2000 euros. The bill, impulsed by far-right party Chega, is up for decision to President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who can also approve, veto, or refer the bill to the Constitutional Court for review. (AP)
Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping
- The Ministry of National Defense of China announces that Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of China He Weidong, Director of the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission Miao Hua and seven other generals were expelled from the party and the military following charges of corruption against them. (South China Morning Post)

Politics and elections