Current events: 2025-10-28

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Hamas announces that it is postponing the return of the body of a dead hostage after what they claim are multiple violations of the ceasefire by Israel. (Reuters)
  • Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
    • Three Al-Qassam Brigades militants are killed by Israeli troops in a shooting–airstrike attack in Kfar Qud, near Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. (L'Orient Today) (Reuters)
  • Hamas fires at and launches an anti-tank missile at military troops in Rafah, Gaza City. (The Jerusalem Post)
  • At least 18 people are killed and 50 others are injured in multiple retaliatory strikes by the Israel Defense Forces across Gaza City. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)

Business and economy

• AI boom, Workplace impact of artificial intelligence
  • Multinational technology and e-commerce company Amazon announces it will lay off 14,000 corporate positions as it invests more in building AI and cloud computing infrastructure. (DW) (CNBC)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in southwest Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane with 185 mph sustained winds. (CNN) (NHC)
• Mombasa Air Safari Flight 203
  • A Mombasa Air Safari-operated Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft carrying foreign tourists from Hungary and Germany crashes near Kwale, Kenya, killing all 11 people on board. (AP)
• Eighteen people are killed when a wooden vessel carrying dozens of irregular refugees capsizes off the coast of Surman, Libya. (TRT World)

Health and environment

• 2020–2025 H5N1 outbreak
  • The German government culls 500,000 birds, including chickens, geese, and turkeys, as the federal animal health institute reports over 100 outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza, including 30 outbreaks among poultry battery farms across the country. (DW)

Law and crime

• Crime in Brazil
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    • Sixty people and four police officers are killed in large-scale raids on Comando Vermelho spots in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At least 81 suspected gang members are arrested in the operation. (CNN) (DW)
• Assassination of Shinzo Abe
  • The trial against Tetsuya Yamagami, the alleged killer of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, opens in Nara. It is expected to end by mid-December. (AP)
• Crime in London
  • One person is killed and two others, including a 14-year-old, are injured in a mass stabbing in London, England. A 22-year-old Afghan national is arrested. (Sky News)
• Fijian deputy prime minister Biman Prasad says that he intends to resign after being charged with corruption. He is the second deputy PM in Sitiveni Rabuka's government to be charged since last week. (RNZ)

Politics and elections

• Conscription in Russia
  • The Russian State Duma approves a bill to change military conscription to a year-round process, passing it to the Federation Council for approval. (AP)

Sports

• 2025 Turkish referee betting scandal, Gambling in Turkey
  • The Turkish Football Federation takes disciplinary action against 152 referees who were found to have actively placed bets on football matches. At least 371 of the 571 active referees are found to have a betting account. (ESPN) (NTV in Turkish)

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