Current events: 2025-11-01

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war hostage crisis
  • The remains of three bodies Hamas gave to Israel overnight are found not to have been of any known hostages, leaving 11 bodies of hostages remaining in Gaza. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present)
  • Four people are killed and three injured in an Israeli airstrike against a vehicle in Kfar Reman, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
  • The Pakistani government partially reopens the Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan to allow Afghan refugees to flee home, while all remaining restrictions on cross-border movement stay banned, following an agreement to maintain a ceasefire. (AP)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • The United States threatens the Nigerian Government to carry out attacks in the country due to "continuous attacks against Christians" by Boko Haram and ISWAP. (Al Jazeera)

Arts and culture

• The Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, Egypt, officially opens to the public following long delays. (AP)
• Pope Leo XIV of the Catholic Church declares saint John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church, one of 37, and a co-patron of Catholic education. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• A landslide triggered by heavy rain kills at least 13 people and leaves an unknown number of people missing in Rift Valley Province, Kenya. (Reuters)
• A stampede at a Hindu temple in Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh, India, kills nine people. (Reuters)
• Three people are killed, two are missing, and two others are injured in an avalanche on the Vertainspitze mountain in the Ortler Alps in South Tyrol, Italy. (Sky Tg24)

Law and crime

• 2025 Harvard Medical School explosion
  • A bomb explodes at the Harvard Medical School campus in Boston, Massachusetts, with no injuries reported. The suspects are still on the run. (AP)
• Crime in the United Kingdom
  • 2025 Cambridgeshire train stabbing
    • Multiple people are injured in a mass stabbing attack on a London North Eastern Railway passenger train in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England. Two suspects are arrested. (BBC News)
• Crime in Greece
  • Two people are killed and six others are injured, including two suspects, in a shootout in Vorizia, Crete, Greece. Police say that it was caused by a long-standing feud between two local families. (AP)
• Anyone born in 2007 or later is from today permanently banned from buying or using tobacco in the Maldives, making it the first country in the world to impose a lifelong smoking ban from a certain age. (NOS)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Tanzanian general election
  • Incumbent Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party is declared the winner of the general election with 97% of the vote, amidst protests by the opposition. (Reuters)

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