Current events: 2025-10-29

Wikipedia Current Events · 2025-10-29T20:11:49-0400

Armed conflicts and attacks

Armed conflict for control of the favelas
- Operation Containment
  - The death toll from yesterday's police operation in Rio de Janeiro rises to at least 132 people. (Reuters)

International relations

Law and crime

Philippine president Bongbong Marcos signs a law institutionalizing a ban on the country's offshore gaming operators and declare their operations illegal. (Philippine News Agency)

Politics and elections

2025 Alberta teachers' strike
- In the Canadian province of Alberta, premier Danielle Smith says teachers are expected to return to work after her government passed legislation to end their strike and invoked the notwithstanding clause to prevent court challenges of the legislation's constitutionality. (CBC) (Global News)
2025 Dutch general election
- In the Netherlands, a snap election is held following the collapse of the Schoof cabinet in June. (The Guardian)
- Centrist liberal party Democrats 66, led by Rob Jetten, takes a surprise lead according to the main exit poll, just two years after the party ranked sixth in the previous vote. (Euronews)
- Frans Timmermans, the leader of the GroenLinks–PvdA alliance, steps down following a poor performance during the election. (Politico)
2025 Tanzanian general election
- Protests and riots erupts in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, after President Samia Suluhu Hassan bans opposition politicians from running in the general election. Tanzanian police in Dar es Salaam use tear gas to break up the protests. The main opposition leader, Tundu Lissu, is jailed on treason charges, while his party Chadema is boycotting the vote. (BBC) (The Guardian)
- Internet connectivity in Tanzania is disrupted shortly after hundreds of protesters in the Kimara and Ubungo neighborhoods of Dar es Salaam set fire to a gas station and a bus. (AP News)

Privacy & Transparency