Current events: 2025-11-04

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Eastern front of the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • One person is killed and eight others are injured in a large-scale Russian strike on Synelnykove, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. (RBC-Ukraine)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • Nineteen armed bandits, two soldiers and a vigilante are killed in a shootout in Shanono, Kano State, Nigeria. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
  • The casualty toll from Hurricane Melissa in Haiti increases to 43 deaths, with 13 others still missing. Nearly 12,000 homes are flooded and at least 200 have been destroyed. (AP)
• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi's impact on Visayas and Mindanao, Philippines, rises to 40, with search and rescue operations ongoing. (Al Jazeera)
  • Six people are killed when a Philippine Air Force Bell Huey helicopter crashes while conducting damage assessment for Typhoon Kalmaegi in Agusan del Sur, Caraga, Philippines. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
• 2025 Chhattisgarh train collision
  • At least eight people are killed and about a dozen others are injured when a passenger train crashes into a cargo train near Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India. (AP)
• UPS Airlines Flight 2976
  • A UPS Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-11 aircraft crashes near Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. (CNN)

Law and crime

• Gaza war
  • Sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinians during the Gaza war
    • Israel arrests and imprisons Israeli major general Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi for leaking a surveillance video showing the gang rape of a Palestinian detainee in the Sde Teiman detention camp in August. (NPR)

Politics and elections

• 2025 United States elections
  • Off-year elections are held in the United States, including one special election to a vacancy in the federal House of Representatives, two elections for the governors of Virginia and New Jersey, the next mayor of New York City, and various local elections. (NPR)
• Mexican Drug War
  • Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announces a security plan for the state of Michoacán following the assassination of the mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manzo, who was shot and killed on Saturday; the plan includes the dispatch of the National Guard, more federal personnel, and the creation of a special unit at the state's prosecution office. (AP)
• Western Sahara conflict
  • Morocco declares October 31, starting next year, to be a national holiday in celebration of Friday's UN resolution backing Morocco's plan of autonomy for Western Sahara in a 50-year dispute between the country and the Algeria-backed Polisario Front. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Tesla Inc. orders a recall of over 6,000 Cybertrucks, approximately 12% of all vehicles sold due to a detachment issue with its off-road lightbar, an optional add-on for the vehicle. (Anadolu Ajansi)

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