Current events: 2025-11-30

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Kyiv strikes
    • One person dies and 19 others are injured overnight after a Russian strike on Kyiv, Ukraine. (ABC)
• Gaza War
  • Palestinian tunnel warfare in the Gaza Strip
    • The Israeli military says it killed four Hamas militants who attempted to exit a tunnel in eastern Rafah. (Barron's)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
  • Cyclone Ditwah
    • The toll from the landslides caused by heavy rains in Sri Lanka increases to 334 people killed and about 400 more missing. (Al Jazeera)
  • Cyclone Senyar
    • The toll from the floods in Indonesia increases to 442 people killed and 402 more missing. (Al Jazeera)
• Eleven people are killed after two buses collide near Sivaganga, Tamil Nadu, India. (THE WEEK)
• Five people are killed in a house fire in Neuves-Maisons, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Philippine anti-corruption protests, Flood control projects scandal in the Philippines
  • Trillion Peso March
    • Massive protests denouncing corruption over the ongoing flood control scandal are held across the Philippines. (DW) (The Philippine Star)
• 2025 Honduran general election
  • Hondurans vote for their president to succeed term-limited incumbent Xiomara Castro. (AP)
• 2025 Swiss referendums
  • Swiss voters reject two ballot measures to conscript women into a national service program and to establish an inheritance tax on high earners. (AP)

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