Current events: 2025-10-26

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Sudanese civil war
  • Siege of El Fasher
    • The Rapid Support Forces say that they have captured El Fasher, the last stronghold of the Sudanese Armed Forces in North Darfur. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Thirteen people are killed and five others are injured when a bus crashes in Kano State, Nigeria. (The Punch)
• At least nine people are killed and 29 others are injured when a bus collides with a car and plunges off of a bridge into a stream in Puerto Iguazú, Misiones, Argentina. (News.Az)

International relations

• Enlargement of ASEAN
  • Accession of Timor-Leste to ASEAN, 2025 ASEAN Summits
    • Timor-Leste becomes the eleventh member state of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. (Antara)
• Trinidad and Tobago–Venezuela relations, United States–Venezuela relations
  • Venezuelan Vice-President Delcy Rodríguez issues a statement accusing Trinidad and Tobago and the Central Intelligence Agency of "military provocations", as both countries carry out joint military exercises in the Caribbean Sea. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2025 Cameroonian presidential election
  • Cameroonian opposition presidential candidate Issa Tchiroma says that police have detained more than 30 politicians and activists linked to his campaign or who endorsed his candidacy against incumbent Paul Biya during last week's election. (Reuters)
• 2025 Louvre robbery
  • Two suspects are arrested in connection to the robbery at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, last week. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
  • 2025 PKK–Turkey peace process
    • The Kurdistan Workers' Party announces that it is withdrawing its fighters from Turkey and moving them to Iraq as part of ongoing peace talks with the Turkish government. (AP)
• 2025 Argentine legislative election
  • Argentines vote in the midterms to elect a half of the Chamber of Deputies and a third of the Senate. (The New York Times)

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