All news: Thursday 25 September 2025

Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip

The Italian and Spanish navies deploy frigates to assist and protect the Global Sumud Flotilla on its way to attempt to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip after it was allegedly attacked by Israeli drones off the coast of Greece.

Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip

At least 57 Palestinians, including 10 children and three women, are killed by Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip.

Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war

Two Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants are shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during the siege of a house in Tammun in the occupied West Bank.

September 2025 Israeli attacks in Yemen

In response to a drone attack the previous day that injured 50 Israeli civilians, the Israeli Air Force bombs Houthi targets in the Yemeni capital city of Sanaa.

September 2025 Israeli attacks in Yemen

The Houthis launch a ballistic missile at central Israel, which is intercepted.

Six people are killed after a bus collides with a truck head-on in Sundergarh, Odisha, India.

Decomposed bodies of five suspected migrants are discovered in the Great Sand Sea south of Tobruk, Libya.

Foreign relations of the Netherlands

The Netherlands and Uganda sign an agreement to establish a pilot transit hub in Uganda for rejected asylum seekers from nearby countries who cannot be directly returned from the Netherlands.

France–Iran relations

France withdraws its case at the International Court of Justice accusing Iran of denying consular protection to two French citizens detained at Evin Prison in Tehran for more than three years.

France–Mali relations

The Malian junta declares an end to joint counterterrorism operations with the French military and expels five French embassy workers from the country, declaring them personae non gratae.

Israel–Slovenia relations

The Slovenian government formally bans Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu from entering the country, linking the ban to the International Criminal Court arrest warrant out for Netanyahu.

Moldova–Poland relations

Poland bars Moldovan politician Irina Vlah from entering its territory for five years for allegedly assisting Russian interference in Moldova's upcoming parliamentary election.

Lithuania's parliament votes 80–42 to approve a coalition government led by the Social Democratic Party, installing Inga Ruginienė as the new prime minister.

China–United States relations

China lists six American companies on its Unreliable Entities List, including several in the underwater drone and satellite sectors.

Ethiopia–Russia relations

Ethiopia and Russia sign an agreement on the construction of a nuclear power plant for Ethiopian Electric Power by Rosatom.

2025 Malagasy protests

Unrest erupts in Antananarivo, Madagascar, following power and water cuts in the capital city. Security forces impose an evening curfew.

Alleged Libyan financing in the 2007 French presidential election

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is sentenced to 5 years in prison for criminal association, becoming the first former French president to be sentenced to prison. His former interior ministers Brice Hortefeux and Claude Guéant are sentenced to two years and six years of house arrest under electronic tagging respectively, due to a French law allowing prison sentences equal or inferior to 2 years to be converted in another sentences, and to Guéant's health issues.

Ecuadorian security crisis

At least 17 people are killed in a prison riot in Esmeraldas, Ecuador.

Flood control projects controversy in the Philippines

The Philippine Department of Justice and the National Bureau of Investigation file criminal graft and malversation charges against Senator Chiz Escudero, former senator Nancy Binay, and former house speaker Martin Romualdez in connection with investigations into alleged corruption in flood control projects.

Two teenagers are killed and three others are injured and hospitalized in a school shooting in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil.

Tattooing in South Korea

South Korea's National Assembly passes a law legalizing tattoo artistry by licensed non-medical professionals for the first time since a 1992 court ruling restricted the practice to doctors.

Brazilian professional skateboarder Sandro Dias breaks the records for the highest drop in ever and fastest speed reached (103 km/h) on a standard skateboard after skating down the Administrative Center of the Rio Grande do Sul state in Porto Alegre, Brazil, at 70 meters-high.