Current events: 2025-10-22

Wikipedia Current Events · 2025-10-22T20:38:52-0400

Armed conflicts and attacks

Gaza war
- Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
  - Forty-five people, including former prisoners and a child, are arrested during a series of Israeli raids in Nablus, Ramallah, Qalqilya and Tulkarem, in the occupied West Bank. They further say that homes are vandalized and the arrested are assaulted. (Al Jazeera)
Russo-Ukranian war
- Kyiv strikes
  - Six people are killed and several others are injured in Russian strikes on power plants in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Euronews)
- Kharkiv strikes
  - One person is killed and six others are injured in Russian drone strikes on a kindergarten in Kholodnohirskyi District, Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. (The Kyiv Independent)
Terrorism in Serbia
- A man opens fire outside the Serbian Parliament in Belgrade and sets fire to a tent, critically injuring a person, before being arrested. The incident is classified as a terrorist attack. (Ansa)

Arts and culture

2025 Louvre robbery
- The Louvre Museum in Paris, France, reopens with increased activity several days after jewelry from the Galerie d'Apollon was stolen in a heist. The Galerie d'Apollon remains closed. (DW)

Disasters and accidents

Forty-six people are killed and others are injured in a collision between two buses and other vehicles on the Kampala–Gulu Highway in Uganda. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

The Fijian High Court sentences former Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama to a 12-month suspended prison term after being found guilty of making an unwarranted demand to a public official under the Crimes Act this month. (RNZ)
An opposition politician of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya party is shot and killed by an unidentified gunman in Weligama, Sri Lanka, amid an increase of shootings in the country in the past months, which have left 51 people killed and 56 injured since the beginning of the year. (AP)

Politics and elections