Current events: 2025-11-09

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Business and economy

Disasters and accidents

2025 Pacific typhoon season
- At least two people are killed as Typhoon Fung-wong makes landfall over Luzon, Philippines. Over 900,000 people are evacuated and rescue operations for victims of the previous Typhoon Kalmaegi are suspended. (BBC News) (Reuters)
At least seven people are killed, 13 others are rescued, and about 280 are reported missing when a boat carrying hundreds of migrants sinks off the Malaysia–Thailand border. (Reuters)
Dozens of people are injured when two trains collide between Bratislava and Pezinok, Slovakia. (SME)

International relations

Belgium–United Kingdom relations, Russian hybrid warfare
- The United Kingdom announces it is deploying its military to Belgium to help protect its airports amid a series of suspected Russian drone incursions over the country's airspace. (BBC News)

Law and crime

Maldives–Sri Lanka relations
- Sri Lanka foreign minister Ananda Wijepala says that police and navy officers have been sent to the Maldives to cooperate with local authorities after the Maldivian military seized a Sri Lankan ship with over 300 kilograms of heroin on Friday. (Xinhua News) (Hiru News)
Four inmates are killed and 30 others are injured during a prison riot in Machala, Ecuador. (AP)

Politics and elections

Israel confirms that it received the remains of soldier Hadar Goldin, who was killed in Gaza two hours after the ceasefire that ended the 2014 Gaza War between Palestinian militants and Israel. (AP)

Sports