Current events: 2025-12-10

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency
    • Three members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are killed after an ambush by gunmen in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. (AP)
• M23 campaign, Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
  • 2025 Uvira offensive
    • M23 rebels take control of Uvira, South Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP via ABC News)
• 2025 United States naval deployment in the Caribbean
  • Operation Southern Spear
    • The United States Coast Guard seizes an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. (CNBC)

Arts and culture

• Eurovision Song Contest 2026
  • Iceland announces that it will join several other countries in boycotting next year's Eurovision Song Contest in Austria in response to the participation of Israel. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Tourism in the United States
  • The U.S. Customs and Border Protection files a proposal to request mandatory checks on social media and email accounts to all future Visa Waiver Program applicants. (Nine News Australia) (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Fez buildings collapse
  • Twenty-two people are killed and several more injured during the collapse of two adjacent buildings in Fez, Morocco. (Reuters)

International relations

• Bolivia–Israel relations
  • Bolivia and Israel formally restore diplomatic relations which were severed in 2023 under the previous left-wing Bolivian president Luis Arce in response to the Gaza war. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Arrest of Jair Bolsonaro
  • The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies approves a bill that reduces penalties for certain crimes, including attempted coup, which could significantly shorten former president Jair Bolsonaro's 27-year prison sentence. (AFP via France 24)

Law and crime

• Former Bolivian president Luis Arce is arrested as part of an investigation into alleged embezzlement during his tenure as economy minister. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2025 SEA Games
  • Cambodia withdraws its entire delegation from the SEA Games, citing security concerns arising from its escalating border conflict with the host nation Thailand. (AFP via France 24)

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