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2025-12-05
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Armed conflicts and attacks
2025-12-05
The Pakistani military and Afghan military exchange fire along their border with Pakistani artillery targeting several Taliban outposts in Helmand Province, Kandahar Province and Zabul Province. Both sides accuse the other of instigating the clashes. (Reuters) (WTOP News)
Business and economy
2025-12-05
Netflix, Inc. agrees to buy Warner Bros. Discovery for US$72 billion in one of the largest takeovers in entertainment industry history. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
2025-12-05
At least 15 people are run over when a vehicle strikes pedestrians during Christmas festivity preparations in Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe, France. (RCI)
Law and crime
2025-12-05
Philippine president Bongbong Marcos orders the interior department and the national police to pursue contractor Sarah Discaya and others accused of involvement in a ghost project in Davao Occidental. (Rappler)
Law and crime
2025-12-05
The European Union fines social media platform X €120 million (🇺🇸 US$140 million) for breaching the Digital Services Act. (DW)
Armed conflicts and attacks
2025-12-04
Presidents Félix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Paul Kagame of Rwanda formally sign a peace agreement in Washington, D.C., hosted by U.S. president Donald Trump. (Newsweek)
Armed conflicts and attacks
2025-12-04
The Southern Transitional Council announces the capture of the al-Mahrah Governorate from the Yemeni government forces. (Al-Araby Al-Jadeed)
Armed conflicts and attacks
2025-12-04
The United States Navy strikes a boat in the Pacific Ocean alleged to have been carrying illegal narcotics, killing four people onboard the vessel, according to the United States Southern Command. (The Guardian)
Armed conflicts and attacks
2025-12-04
Yasser Abu Shabab, leader of the Israeli-backed and anti-Hamas Popular Forces, is fatally shot in Rafah, Gaza, by unidentified gunmen. (Middle East Eye)
Arts and culture
2025-12-04
Ireland, Slovenia, Spain, and the Netherlands announce they will boycott next year's Eurovision Song Contest after the European Broadcasting Union confirmed Israel's participation. (BBC News)
International relations
2025-12-04
The United Kingdom imposes sanctions against Russia's GRU and several military intelligence officers after a public inquiry concludes that Russian operatives carried out the 2018 Novichok attack in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, under orders from President Vladimir Putin. The UK also summons Russian ambassador Andrey Kelin. (Reuters)
International relations
2025-12-04
The United States signs a five-year agreement to provide over $1.6 billion to Kenya's health system under its new global health strategy, with Kenya committing to increase domestic health spending by US$850 million. (Reuters)
Law and crime
2025-12-04
A 30-year-old man is arrested and charged with transporting an explosive device and attempted malicious destruction by means of explosive materials after planting pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic parties' headquarters in Washington, D.C., United States, a day before the January 6 U.S. Capitol attack in 2021. (NBC News)
Politics and elections
2025-12-04
Pakistani prime minister Shehbaz Sharif confirms Asim Munir to a five-year term as the country's first Chief of the Armed Forces. (AP)
Politics and elections
2025-12-04
The Faroe Islands Løgting votes 17–16 to legalize abortion within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. (AFP via NAMPA)
Politics and elections
2025-12-04
The U.S. Supreme Court permits Texas to use its redrawn congressional map for the 2026 midterm elections, staying a lower court ruling that found the plan relied on racial considerations. (AFP via 🇫🇷 France 24)
Armed conflicts and attacks
2025-12-03
Five Palestinians, including two children, are killed by Israeli drone strikes near Khan Younis. (Al Jazeera)
Armed conflicts and attacks
2025-12-03
The Houthis release eleven seamen from the Eternity C carrier. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
Armed conflicts and attacks
2025-12-03
The 🇮🇱 Israeli army says four of its soldiers were wounded in a Hamas attack in Rafah. (The Times of Israel)
Armed conflicts and attacks
2025-12-03
The Israeli government says it will reopen the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, allowing Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip. (BBC News) (PBS)
Armed conflicts and attacks
2025-12-03
The Southern Transitional Council seizes swathes of territory from the government of Yemen in Hadhramaut Governorate, including Seiyun. (The New York Times)
Disasters and accidents
2025-12-03
Malaysia announces that the search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will resume on December 30, with Ocean Infinity conducting a 55-day underwater search in a targeted area of the southern Indian Ocean under its existing "no-find, no-fee" agreement with the government. (Reuters)
Law and crime
2025-12-03
The 🇮🇱 Israeli Knesset votes 39–0 to endorse the 20-point Gaza peace plan, in a vote boycotted by the member parties of the Netanyahu government. (CNN)
Armed conflicts and attacks
2025-12-02
A government administrator, two of his guards and a passerby are killed in an ambush against a vehicle in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
Arts and culture
2025-12-02
The Winter Egg, one of the few Fabergé eggs remaining in private hands, sells at Christie's in London, England, United Kingdom, for £22.9 million (US$30.2 million), setting a new auction record for a work by the House of Fabergé. (CNN)
International relations
2025-12-02
Indonesia and the Netherlands agree to repatriate two elderly Dutch nationals convicted of drug trafficking, including one on death row, on humanitarian grounds, following a request from Dutch king Willem-Alexander. (Reuters)
International relations
2025-12-02
Venezuela approves the United States's request to resume deportation flights, reversing a brief suspension imposed following U.S. president Donald Trump's declaration that Venezuelan airspace was "closed". (AFP via Al Arabiya)
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