Current events: 2026-09-25

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Somali Civil War
  • Piracy off the coast of Somalia
    • Puntland Maritime Police Force successfully frees the oil tanker Sibu 1 following a multi-day counter-piracy operation near Garacad, Mudug, Puntland, after it was seized by Somali pirates in August. (Idil News) (Reuters)
• 2026 Afghanistan–Pakistan war
  • Pakistan's claims that its military has killed 13 Afghan security forces during shootouts at the the border. The Government of Afghanistan has denied the claim. (Al Jazeera) (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• A military aircraft carrying 13 people, including three officers, crashes near Kenge, Kwango, Democratic Republic of the Congo, while on route to Kinshasa, killing all passengers. (Reuters)
• Six people are missing and two others are found injured after a suspected gas leak causes an explosion and collapses a two-storey building in Plaka, Athens, Greece. (AFP via France 24) (AP)
• Two people are killed and 13 more injured in a fire at a residential building in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. (ANSA)

Law and crime

• Mary Jane Veloso drug smuggling case
  • Mary Jane Veloso is released from a prison in Mandaluyong, Philippines, after president Bongbong Marcos's absolute pardon of her was approved yesterday. (Rappler)

Sports

• 2026 Asian Games
  • China at the 2026 Asian Games, Swimming at the 2026 Asian Games
    • In swimming, China's Zhang Zhanshuo becomes the first athlete to win seven gold medals at a single Asian Games, securing his seventh title in the men's 400-metre freestyle with a Games-record time of 3:41.28. (AFP)
• In association football, an independent Premier League commission finds Manchester City F.C. guilty of 114 of 115 alleged financial-rule breaches spanning the 2009–10 to 2022–23 seasons. (CNN)

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