Current events: 2025-12-29

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Assassination of Abu Obaida
    • Hamas confirms the death of the spokesperson of the al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Obaida, and other officials. (The Jerusalem Post) (Reuters)
• Turkey–Islamic State conflict
  • Three police officers and six Islamic State gunmen are killed in a shootout during a raid at a house in Elmalık, Yalova Province, Turkey. Eight other officers and a civilian are also wounded. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• Three people are killed and another is injured when an avalanche hits a popular ski resort on the Pyrenees in Panticosa, Aragon, Spain. (Daily Express)
• Two people are killed and British boxer Anthony Joshua is injured when a car crashes into a stationary truck on the Ogun–Lagos state expressway near Lagos, Nigeria. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Iranian protests
  • December 2025 Iranian protests
    • Protests erupt in Tehran, Iran, for a second day after the Iranian rial drops in value and inflation rates increase by 42.2%. The leader of the Central Bank of Iran resigns in response. (AP)

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