Current events: 2025-12-27

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Sudanese civil war (2023–present)
  • Darfur genocide (2023–present)
    • The Rapid Support Forces kill over 200 civilians in ethnically motivated attacks in West Darfur and during advances in North Darfur according to the Sudan Doctors Union. (The Express Tribune)
• 2025 Cambodia–Thailand conflict
  • Cambodia and Thailand sign a new ceasefire agreement, calling for a pause in military movements and airspace encroachment for military purposes. (AP)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Denis Kapustin, leader of the Ukraine-aligned white-nationalist Russian Volunteer Corps, is killed in a Russian drone strike in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. (The Kyiv Independent) (The Moscow Times)
  • Kyiv strikes, Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • Two people are killed and 32 others injured during a Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv, Ukraine. Damage to critical infrastructure leaves 40% of Kyiv's residential areas and surrounding districts without heating. (BBC News)

Business and economy

• Trade policy of China
  • The National People's Congress of China passes a revised trade law that will expand the government's authority to counter trade restrictions, regulate exports of strategic goods, and update provisions on digital, green, and intellectual-property trade from March 1, 2026. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Fifteen people are killed and 19 more injured as a bus plunges in to a ravine while driving on the Inter-American Highway in Sololá Department, Guatemala. (Al Jazeera)
• At least nine people are killed and eight other injured when a bus carrying 19 charity workers overturns on a mountain in Phinh Ho, Lào Cai province, Vietnam. (Reuters) (Tuổi Trẻ News)
• A {{M|w|7.0}} earthquake, rated intensity-four on the Central Weather Administration seismic intensity scale, strikes 32 km off the coast of Yilan, Taiwan, causing a temporary power outage for over 3,000 households. (DW) (CNN)

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