All news: Saturday 11 October 2025

2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict

Following Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan in Kabul and Paktika on October 9th, the Afghan Armed Forces launches attacks on several border posts of Pakistan along the Durand Line and seizes several posts.

2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict

Pakistan responds with retaliatory strikes, gunfire and ground raids on Afghan posts along the border.

Israeli–Lebanese conflict

One person is killed, seven others are injured, dozens of bulldozers are destroyed, and a key route connecting Beirut to Lebanon's south is severed in Israeli attacks in Msayleh, An-Najjariyah, Lebanon.

Russo-Ukrainian war

At least two people are killed and four others are injured, including one critically, in a Russian strike on a church in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.

Two Hamas members are killed by the Doghmush clan in an ambush in Gaza City, Palestine. A clan member is killed and 30 arrested in retaliation.

Fifteen people are killed after A boat capsized on Lake Volta, Ghana.

Helena Moreno is elected Mayor of New Orleans.

2025 Leland shooting

Six people are killed and 14 others are injured after an individual opens fire at the Leland High School homecoming gathering on a main street in Leland, Mississippi, United States. No suspect has been taken into custody.

British musician Ian Watkins of the band Lostprophets is killed in HM Prison Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, where he was imprisoned for sexual crimes against children and animals. Two men are arrested on suspicion of the murder.

2025 ATP Tour

In tennis, world 206th-ranked Monégasque player Valentin Vacherot defeats Novak Djokovic in the Shanghai Masters semi-final, becoming the lowest-ranked finalist in Masters 1000 history and the first finalist ranked lower than 200th. He also becomes the first Monégasque to defeat a top 10 player and is set to play his cousin Arthur Rinderknech in the final.