Current events: 2025-11-11

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Pokrovsk offensive
    • Hundreds of Russian troops enter the city of Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast with heavy street-to-street fighting underway. (Reuters)
• 2025 Islamabad suicide bombing
  • Twelve people are killed and 27 injured in a suicide bombing outside a court in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• Turkish Air Force Flight 543
  • Twenty people are killed when a Turkish Air Force C-130 Hercules cargo plane crashes near the Azerbaijan–Georgia border. (Euronews) (AP)
• Electricity sector in the Dominican Republic
  • The Dominican Republic experiences a rare countrywide blackout, which officials blame on a failure in the power transmission grid. (AP)
• Twenty people are injured when three Sarmiento trains derail in Liniers, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Todos Noticias in Spanish)

Law and crime

• 2006 Noida serial murders
  • The Supreme Court of India acquits Surendra Koli of all remaining charges in the series of child murders and rapes which occurred between 2005 and 2006 in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and ordering his immediate release. Koli was originally sentenced to death and was serving a life sentence for the remaining cases. (The Hindu)
• 2025 Turkish football betting scandal
  • A court in Istanbul, Turkey, issues arrest warrants for eight suspects involved in an investigation into alleged illegal sports betting by Turkish Football Federation referees, club presidents, and players. (DW)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Irish presidential election
  • Catherine Connolly is inaugurated as the 10th President of Ireland. (BBC)
• LGBTQ rights in China
  • The Chinese government orders Apple to remove two gay dating apps from its App Store, despite homosexuality being decriminalized in 1997. (AP)
• Polish president Karol Nawrocki and at least 100,000 people participate in a nationalist march celebrating National Independence Day in Warsaw, Poland. (PolskieRadio24 in Polish) (The Guardian)
• Thousands of people protest in Belgrade, Serbia, against the proposed re-development of the former Yugoslav People's Army headquarters site, which was delisted as a cultural asset last year. (DW)

Science and technology

• The Sun emits a X5.1-class solar flare from sunspot AR4274, the strongest in 2025 and most intense since October 2024. (Space)

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