User:Patrick Cristiano
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Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, "Go to the Limits of Your Longing", The Book of Hours
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- 26 November 2025 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israeli occupation of the West Bank
- The Israeli military announces a "broad counterterrorism operation" in the northern Samaria area in the occupied West Bank. (DW)
- 26 November 2025 – Holy See–Lebanon relations, Holy See–Turkey relations
- Visit by Pope Leo XIV to Turkey and Lebanon
- Pope Leo XIV begins his first papal trip, first to İznik and Nicaea in Turkey, then to Bkerké, the Monastery of Saint Maron, and the Port of Beirut in Lebanon. The trip will include an ecumenical commemoration of the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea and a mass in honor of the victims of the 2020 Beirut explosion. (AP) (Vatican News)
- 26 November 2025 – Economy of Ukraine
- Economic impact of the Russo-Ukrainian war
- The International Monetary Fund announces a staff-level agreement with Ukraine on a proposed Extended Fund Facility worth more than US$8 billion, outlining fiscal and monetary policies intended to support macroeconomic stability, debt sustainability, and external financing amid the ongoing war with Russia. (AFP via CTV News)
- 26 November 2025 – 2025 Tai Po apartment fire
- A fire at a housing estate in Tai Po, Hong Kong, leaves at least 44 people dead and 45 more injured. Police arrest three men for suspected manslaughter in the fire. (AFP via The Business Times) (Reuters)
- 26 November 2025 – Cyclone Senyar, 2025 Thailand–Malaysia floods
- The death toll from the floods in southern Thailand increases to 33 people. (Reuters)
- 26 November 2025 –
- Eleven people are killed when a UV Express van collides with a truck in Camalig, Albay, Philippines. (Manila Bulletin)
- Five people are killed in an explosion at a weapons depot in Idlib Governorate, Syria. (AFP via Arab News)
- 26 November 2025 – Cyprus–Lebanon relations
- Cyprus and Lebanon sign a long-delayed maritime boundary agreement. (AP via ABC News)
- 26 November 2025 – Dominican Republic–United States relations, War on drugs, 2025 United States naval deployment in the Caribbean
- The Dominican Republic permits the United States to use the Las Américas International Airport in Punta Caucedo, Santo Domingo, and the San Isidro Air Base to support Operation Southern Spear targeting alleged drug traffickers linked by the U.S. to Venezuelan authorities. (AFP via France 24)
- 26 November 2025 – Foreign relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Foreign relations of Hungary
- Bosnian defence minister Zukan Helez denies approval for Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó to land his military aircraft in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, citing Hungary's support for former Srpska president Milorad Dodik, whom Helez accuses of undermining Bosnia and Herzegovina's sovereignty. (Reuters)
- 26 November 2025 – South Africa–United States relations, 2026 G20 Doral summit, South African farm attacks
- U.S. president Donald Trump announces that South Africa will not be invited to the 2026 G20 summit in Doral, Florida, and that U.S. payments and subsidies to the country will cease, citing South Africa's refusal to transfer G20 hosting responsibilities to a U.S. embassy representative at the 2025 Johannesburg summit and criticizing its treatment of Afrikaners, among other reasons. (AFP via Arab News)
- 26 November 2025 – 2025 deployment of federal forces in the United States
- 2025 Washington, D.C. National Guard shooting
- Two members of the National Guard are shot in Washington, D.C., United States. (AFP via France 24)
- 26 November 2025 – Corruption in Peru
- A Peruvian court sentences former president Martín Vizcarra to 14 years in prison for accepting bribes from construction companies while serving as governor of Moquegua between 2011 and 2014. (AFP via TRT Afrika)
- 26 November 2025 – Murders of Yuna and Minu Jo
- Justice Geoffrey Venning of New Zealand's High Court sentences 45-year-old mother Hakyung Lee to life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years after convicting Lee of murdering her two children in 2018. (DW)
- 26 November 2025 – Myanmar protests
- The Tatmadaw grants amnesty to over 3,000 political prisoners, drops charges of over 5,500 others, and grants conditional release to 724 prisoners ahead of the general election in December. (AP)
- 26 November 2025 –
- Georgia's Tbilisi Appeal Court sentences opposition leader Nika Melia to an additional 18 months in prison for contempt of court after he threw water at a judge during a hearing, adding to the eight-month term he has been serving since May for refusing to appear at a parliamentary inquiry. (Reuters)
- 26 November 2025 – 2025 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état, 2025 Guinea-Bissau general election
- Bissau-Guinean president Umaro Sissoco Embaló is detained following a coup d'état one day before provisional election results were expected to be released. (BBC News) (Jeune Afrique in French)
- 26 November 2025 – Kidnapping in Nigeria, Religious violence in Nigeria
- Nigerian president Bola Tinubu declares a nationwide security emergency and orders the recruitment of 20,000 additional police officers and the deployment of specialised units in response to recent killings and kidnappings. (AFP via TRT World)
- 26 November 2025 – Women's rights in Italy
- The Italian parliament approves a bill to punish femicide with life imprisonment. (AP)
- 26 November 2025 – Chess World Cup 2025
- Javokhir Sindarov of Uzbekistan wins the Chess World Cup, at the age of 19, becoming the youngest player to win the event. (FIDE)
- 25 November 2025 – Russo–Ukrainian war
- Kyiv strikes, Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Seven people in Kyiv, Ukraine, and three more in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, are killed as both countries launches airstrikes at each other. Several more people are wounded in both countries. (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian)
- 25 November 2025 – Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
- Afghanistan says nine children and a woman were killed when a civilian home was hit by a Pakistani airstrike in Khost, Afghanistan. (Al Jazeera)
- 25 November 2025 – War in Darfur
- Médecins Sans Frontières withdraws its staff from a hospital in central Darfur, Sudan, after a stretcher bearer is shot dead and several others are injured, stating that it will not resume operations unless the Rapid Support Forces guarantee the safety of its personnel and patients. (Reuters)
- 25 November 2025 – Polygamy in Christianity
- Pope Leo XIV approves a decree affirming the Catholic Church's rejection of polygamous and polyamorous marriages. (Reuters)
- 25 November 2025 – Insurance in Australia
- The Australian Federal Court fines United Super, the Cbus pension fund's trustee, A$23.5 million (US$15.2 million) for systemic failures that caused extensive delays in processing death and disability insurance claims affecting over 7,000 members. (Reuters)
- 25 November 2025 –
- A Let L-410UVP operating as Nari Air Flight 114 and chartered by Samaritan's Purse crashes in Unity State, South Sudan, killing all three crew members while en route from Juba with two tonnes of food aid for flood-displaced communities. (Reuters)
- The Hayli Gubbi volcano in the Afar Region of Ethiopia erupts, sending ash plumes across Oman and Yemen, and prompts flight cancellations in northern India. (DW) (AP)
- 25 November 2025 – Food security in Nigeria, Islamic extremism in Northern Nigeria
- The World Food Programme reports that escalating instability in northern Nigeria is increasing acute food insecurity to record levels, with nearly 35 million people projected to face hunger in 2026 as the agency exhausts its funding by December. (Reuters)
- 25 November 2025 – Moldova–Russia relations, Violations of non-combatant airspace during the Russo-Ukrainian war
- Moldova reports that six Russian drones entered its airspace, including one that came down on a residential roof near Florești and another that crossed into Moldova before continuing toward Romania. (Reuters)
- 25 November 2025 – Arrest of Jair Bolsonaro
- Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro starts his 27-year sentence for leading a coup plot. (AP)
- 25 November 2025 – Counter-terrorism in Singapore
- Singapore orders Meta and TikTok to block local access to the social media accounts of an Australian man whose posts advocate replacing Singapore's secular system with an Islamic state and seek to cause communal tensions and influence elections. (Reuters)
- 25 November 2025 – Killing of Lisa from Abcoude
- A court in Amsterdam, Netherlands, begins the trial of an illegal migrant from Nigeria who murdered a 17-year-old girl in Duivendrecht. (NOS in Dutch)
- 25 November 2025 – LGBTQ rights in the European Union, Same-sex union legislation
- The European Court of Justice rules for all European Union member states to recognize same-sex marriage and not discriminate against same-sex couples. The ruling does not force individual countries to legalize same-sex marriages. (DW)
- 25 November 2025 –
- Two wanted gunmen, identified as "extremist" brothers, are killed and three security forces are wounded in a shootout in Ar-Ramtha, Jordan. (Sada News)
- 25 November 2025 – 2026 Ugandan general election
- Ugandan opposition party National Unity Platform says security forces have detained more than 300 supporters and officials since presidential candidate Bobi Wine began campaigning, while police report several arrests linked to clashes at Wine's rallies. (Reuters)
- 25 November 2025 – Chinese space program
- The Shenzhou 22 spacecraft enters orbit after China conducts its first emergency space launch to restore a safe return option for the three astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station following damage to the Shenzhou 20 return capsule earlier in November. The uncrewed spacecraft, launched on a Long March 2F rocket, carries replacement parts and supplies and aims to return the current crew to Earth in 2026. (Reuters)
- 24 November 2025 – Gaza war
- Gaza peace plan
- The United States and the Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation announce it will permanently wind down operations, after closing its distribution sites six weeks ago. (AP)
- 24 November 2025 – Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- 2025 Federal Constabulary headquarters attack
- A Jamaat-ul-Ahrar suicide bomber blows himself up outside the Federal Constabulary headquarters in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, killing three people and wounding two others. Two more armed attackers attempt to enter the camp and open fire, wounding nine other people, before being killed in a shootout. (Dawn)
- 24 November 2025 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israeli forces kill a Palestinian militant that killed two Kfir Brigade soldiers during a vehicle-ramming attack in May 2024 and arrest several others in Nablus, West Bank. (The Jerusalem Post)
- 24 November 2025 – Moro conflict
- Seven militants, including a field commander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), are killed in an encounter in Cotabato, Philippines, involving MILF factions caught in a clan feud. (PNA via Manila Bulletin)
- 24 November 2025 – Western DR Congo clashes
- At least 14 people are killed in conflict between rival ethnic militias in Kwamouth, Mai-Ndombe Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)
- 24 November 2025 – Yemeni civil war
- At least seven people are killed, including two attackers, and two others are injured in a mass shooting when unidentified gunmen opened fire on the governor of Taiz's motorcade on a road linking the southwestern city to the rest of Yemen. (MSN)
- 24 November 2025 –
- Seven people are killed, and more than 30 others are injured after two private buses collided head-on in Tenkasi district, Tamil Nadu, India. (The Independent) (The Hindu)
- Five people are killed and 13 others are injured after a bus carrying pilgrims overturns and plunges into a gorge in Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India. (The Indian Express)
- Two climbers are killed after falling from a ridge on Aoraki / Mount Cook in New Zealand during a guided ascent. (Reuters)
- 24 November 2025 – Myanmar–United States relations
- The United States announces the end of temporary protected status for approximately 4,000 Myanmar nationals in January 2026, with the Department of Homeland Security citing changes in Myanmar's political and security climate, particularly the upcoming election, for the policy change. (Reuters)
- 24 November 2025 – United States–Venezuela relations, War on drugs
- The United States formally declares Cartel of the Suns, an umbrella designation for Venezuelan Armed Forces officials allegedly involved in the drug trade, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. (AP via KUOW)
- 24 November 2025 – Arrest of Jair Bolsonaro
- A panel of Brazil's Supreme Federal Court upholds an order to keep former president Jair Bolsonaro in police custody after he allegedly tampered with his ankle monitor while appealing a 27-year prison sentence for plotting a coup. (Reuters)
- 24 November 2025 – Capital punishment in Sri Lanka
- A court in Embilipitiya, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka, sentences ten people, including three women, to death for the murder of a man in October 2011. Sri Lanka has an unofficial moratorium in place, with the last execution taking place in 1976. (OnLanka) (Mirror Sri Lanka)
- 24 November 2025 – Prosecution of James Comey, Prosecution of Letitia James
- Judge Cameron McGowan Currie rules that the appointment of Lindsey Halligan as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was illegal, dismissing the indictments against James Comey and Letitia James without prejudice. (NBC News)
- 24 November 2025 –
- One person is killed, and ten others are injured when a man rammed a stolen car into pedestrians in Tokyo, Japan. The perpetrator is arrested by police at the scene. (The Independent) (AP)
- 24 November 2025 – 2025 Egyptian parliamentary election
- Egyptians vote in the second round to elect parliament members after the National Elections Authority annulled votes in 19 of the 70 constituencies due to various violations. (AP)
- 24 November 2025 – India–Israel relations
- The Israeli government approves a plan jointly-coordinated with the Indian government to admit 5,800 members of the India-based Bnei Menashe ethnic group to Israel under Aliyah laws and will settle them to the Galilee region. (DW)
- 24 November 2025 – Pauline Hanson's burqa incidents
- The Australian Senate censures and suspends Queensland senator Pauline Hanson for a week after she wore a burqa in the chamber to push for a burqa ban in Australia. (AFP via CBS News)
- 24 November 2025 –
- Unions in Belgium begin a three-day general strike across the country to protest Prime Minister Bart de Wever's government of "social dismantling" through budget cuts in their savings program. (DW)
- 23 November 2025 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- November 2025 Israeli attack in Beirut
- Israel carries out an airstrike on a building in Beirut, Lebanon, killing five Hezbollah militants and injuring 28 others. Hezbollah military chief Haytham Ali Tabatabai is confirmed among the fatalities. (Al Jazeera)
- 23 November 2025 – 2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites
- Sectarian violence erupts in the Homs area of Syria, targeting the Alawite population. (SOHR) (The Independent) (The National)
- 23 November 2025 – International Paderewski Piano Competition
- South Korean pianist Roh Hyunjin wins the 13th International Piano Competition held at the Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz, Kuyavia–Pomerania, Poland. (Portal Kujawski)
- 23 November 2025 –
- The death toll from the floods in central Vietnam a week ago increases to 90 people. (AP)
- The long-dormant Hayli Gubbi volcano erupts in the Afar Region of Ethiopia for the first time in nearly 12,000 years, sending ash plumes across the Red Sea towards Oman and Yemen, and causing flight disruptions across the Arabian Peninsula and South Asia. (AP)
- 23 November 2025 – 2026 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Australia–Turkey relations
- Australia and Turkey confirm an agreement for Turkey to host the 2026 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31) in Antalya, with Australia leading the conference's negotiation process and the Asia–Pacific Group convening a pre-COP31 meeting focused on climate-related vulnerabilities. (Reuters)
- 23 November 2025 – Slender Man stabbing
- Police detain stabbing convict Morgan Geyser in Posen, Illinois, United States, after she removed her monitoring device and fled a supervised group home in Wisconsin. Geyser is returned to Wisconsin custody. (BBC News) (Reuters)
- 23 November 2025 – 2025 Guinea-Bissau general election
- Guinea-Bissauans vote for a president, with incumbent Umaro Sissoco Embaló seeking a second term. (AP)
- 23 November 2025 – 2025 Republika Srpska presidential election
- Citizens of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, vote for a president to replace Milorad Dodik, who was removed by the court in June. Preliminary results show that Dodik's ally, Siniša Karan of SNSD, will defeat Branko Blanuša of SDS with 50.89% of the votes. (Al Jazeera)
- 23 November 2025 – 2025 Slovenian assisted dying referendum
- Slovenians reject a referendum on a law that proposed legalising assisted dying for some terminally ill adults with 53.44% voting against. (Reuters)
- 23 November 2025 – 2025 in sumo
- Ukrainian sekiwake Aonishiki Arata defeats Mongolian yokozuna Hōshōryū Tomokatsu in the playoff to become the first Ukrainian wrestler to win the Honbasho. (AFP via France 24)