Current events: 2025-10-21

Wikipedia Current Events · 2025-10-21T20:06:36-0400

Arts and culture

Disasters and accidents

At least 38 people are killed and dozens of others are injured when a tanker truck transporting gasoline crashes and explodes in Bida, Nigeria. (AP) (Ilkha)

Law and crime

Attempted assassination of Robert Fico
- A court in Slovakia sentences 72-year-old Juraj Cintula, the perpetrator in the attempted assassination of prime minister Robert Fico in 2024, to 21 years in prison. Cintula continues to deny the accusations, saying he aimed away from vital organs. (AP) (BBC News)
Poland–Ukraine relations, Romania–Ukraine relations, Russia–Ukraine relations
- A Ukrainian citizen is detained in Poland and two others are arrested in Romania for allegedly working for Russian intelligence agencies and preparing acts of sabotage on Ukrainian shipping routes. (AP)
A court in Colombia overturns a bribery conviction against former President Álvaro Uribe, who had been sentenced to 12 years of house arrest in August 2025. The court is still considering further appeals on a fraud charge. (Reuters) (DW)
Rioting takes place in Dublin, Ireland, with several thousand anti-immigration protesters attempting to storm a hotel housing asylum seekers in the city. A police vehicle is set on fire as riot police clash with the protesters. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

The government of Greece submits an amendment to the law on the care of monuments in an attempt to ban protests at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens, sparking heated debate in parliament and a call by the Syriza party to protest in opposition to the government's proposal. (AP)
Sanae Takaichi is elected as Japan's first female prime minister by the House of Representatives after her party, the Liberal Democratic Party, agreed to form a coalition government with the Japan Innovation Party. (The Japan Times) (NPR)