Current events: 2025-12-04

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Hamas–Popular Forces conflict
  • 2025 Rafah ambush
    • Yasser Abu Shabab, leader of the Israeli-backed and anti-Hamas Popular Forces, is shot and killed in Rafah, Gaza, by unidentified gunmen. (Middle East Eye)
• Yemeni civil war
  • 2025 Hadhramaut offensive
    • The Southern Transitional Council announces its seizure of al-Mahrah Governorate from the Yemeni government. (Al-Araby Al-Jadeed)
• Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
  • Presidents Félix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Paul Kagame of Rwanda formally sign a peace agreement in Washington, D.C., hosted by U.S. president Donald Trump. (Newsweek)

Arts and culture

• Eurovision Song Contest 2026
  • Ireland, Slovenia, Spain, and the Netherlands announce they will boycott next year's Eurovision Song Contest after Israel's participation was confirmed by the European Broadcasting Union. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Human trafficking in Spain
  • Spanish police arrest eleven people linked to a criminal network that smuggled over 300 workers into the country on tourist visas, mostly from Nepal, and placed them on farms. (AP)
• Planning of the January 6 United States Capitol attack
  • A 30-year-old man is arrested and charged with transporting an explosive device and attempted malicious destruction by means of explosive materials after planting pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic national party headquarters in Washington, D.C., United States, a day before the January 6 United States Capitol attack in 2021. (NBC News)

Politics and elections

• Pakistani prime minister Shehbaz Sharif confirms Asim Munir to a five-year term as the country's first Chief of the Armed Forces, giving him control of all military branches. (AP)

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