Current events: 2025-11-17

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Military aid to Israel during the Gaza war, Germany–Israel relations
    • The German government lifts its restrictions on military equipment exports to Israel, which was banned in August due to the siege of Gaza City. (AP)
• Druze insurgency in Southern Syria
  • An investigative committee in Syria detains members of the country's military and security forces in an investigation into sectarian violence in Sweida in July involving the Druze. (AP)
• Nigerian bandit conflict, Kidnapping in Nigeria
  • Gunmen kidnap 25 female students from and kill the vice principal of a secondary school in Kebbi State, Nigeria. (DW)

Business and economy

• At the Dubai Airshow, UAE flagship airline Emirates announces a deal to buy 65 Boeing 777-9 aircraft worth US$38 billion, with deliveries starting in 2027. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• A bus carrying Umrah pilgrims collides with a tank truck near Medina, Saudi Arabia, killing 45 people. (Hindustan Times)
• Six people are killed and 19 others are injured when a landslide triggered by heavy rain strikes a bus carrying 32 passengers in Khánh Hòa, Vietnam. (Reuters)
• An Embraer ERJ-145 operating as AirJet Angola Flight 100 carrying 29 members of a delegation of the Minister of Mines crashes while attempting to land at Kolwezi Airport in Kolwezi, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. No casualties are reported. (ASN) (Israel Hayom)

Health and environment

• Measles & Rubella Initiative, Polio eradication
  • Pakistan launches an initiative to vaccinate 34.5 million children of measles and rubella and 23.3 million of polio. (AP)
• At least 71 schools in Australia and New Zealand close as authorities investigate recalled children's play sand products from Kmart and Target after testing detected asbestos in some samples. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Bangladesh, Trial of Sheikh Hasina
  • A domestic tribunal in Bangladesh sentences former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan to death in absentia over crimes against humanity committed during the quota reform protests in 2024. (AP) (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Chilean presidential election
  • Due to no candidates receiving 50% of the vote in the presidential election, a runoff occurs between left-wing candidate Jeannette Jara of the Unidad por Chile coalition and right-wing candidate José Antonio Kast of the Change for Chile coalition, with the vote set for December 14. (DW)
• Flood control projects controversy in the Philippines
  • Philippine executive secretary Lucas Bersamin and budget secretary Amenah Pangandaman resign over their alleged involvement in flood control corruption. Finance secretary Ralph Recto replaces Bersamin as the executive secretary. (Gulf News)

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