All news: Friday 14 November 2025

2025 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks

At least 17 people are killed in an attack on a hospital by the Allied Democratic Forces in Lubero, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Kyiv strikes

Six people are killed and 35 others are injured in a missile and drone attack by Russian forces on Kyiv, Ukraine.

El Fasher massacre

The United Nations Human Rights Council establishes an independent fact-finding mission to investigate reported mass killings and other alleged war crimes by the Rapid Support Forces and their allied groups in El Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan.

Colombian conflict

Nine guerrilla fighters are killed by a Colombian military airstrike in the Arauca Department.

Syrian conflict

A woman is injured in a rocket attack by unknown assailants on a house in Mezzeh, Damascus Governorate, Syria.

War on drugs

The United States defense department announces Operation Southern Spear to target alleged narco-terrorists in Central and South America and the Caribbean under the US Southern Command's jurisdiction.

War on drugs

Four people are killed in an American airstrike against a boat in the Caribbean Sea. The attack is announced today, but was carried out four days ago.

Tuzla retirement home fire

Bosnian authorities report that a short circuit from an overburdened power cable in a resident's room caused the deadly fire at a Tuzla retirement home. The investigation continues to examine possible negligence.

2025 Nowgam explosion

Nine people are killed and 29 others are injured after seized explosives detonate inside of a police station in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

At least 101 people are killed and others are presumed trapped in a landslide at a gold mine near Kolwezi, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Five Chinese nationals are killed after a minibus loses control and crashes in Bali, Indonesia.

Three people are killed and three others are injured when a bus crashes into a bus stop in Östermalm, Stockholm, Sweden.

France–Mali relations

Mali suspends French television channels TF1 and La Chaîne Info from airing in the country, citing unverified claims and falsehoods in a broadcast on the ongoing fuel blockades by the Islamist militant group Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin.

2025 Central African general election

The Constitutional Court [fr] rules that incumbent president Faustin-Archange Touadéra may run for another term, after opposition parties submitted that he did not meet the criteria to seek another term in office.

2025 Tanzanian election protests

Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan creates an inquiry commission to investigate the killings that occurred during recent election-related protests and orders the release of some detained participants, while also announcing plans to begin constitutional reform within her administration's first 100 days.

Saab AB signs a contract worth €3.1 billion (US$3.62 billion) with the Colombian government to provide 17 Gripen fighter jets to the Colombian Aerospace Force over the next five years.

2025 Saint Helena Island shooting

A 27-year-old man is arrested and charged with four counts of murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime for a mass shooting that killed four people and injured 15 others at a bar in October in Saint Helena Island, South Carolina, United States.

2025 Islamabad suicide bombing

Four militants linked to the Pakistani Taliban who allegedly planned the suicide bombing in Islamabad three days ago are arrested in Pakistan.

Dresden left-wing extremism trial

The United States declares four Antifa groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, including the Germany-based Antifa Ost, who was involved in the attempted murder of three neo-Nazi individuals in Saxony and Thuringia. The U.S. government is also pursuing action against three other antifa groups in Italy and Greece, including the Informal Anarchist Federation.

Mariana dam disaster

British High Court judge Finola O'Farrell rules Australian mining corporation BHP liable for the 2015 Samarco dam collapse in Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, considered the biggest environmental disaster in the country.

Former rebel leader Roger Lumbala starts a hunger strike to protest his ongoing trial over atrocities committed during the second war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, arguing that the French court which judges him does not have legitimacy to try him.

The Borgarting Court of Appeal nullifies the Norwegian government's approval of three offshore oil and gas development projects due to insufficient assessment of combustion-related climate impacts, but allows production to continue for six months as authorities address the deficiencies.

The World Health Organization deploys a team of technical officers and aid to monitor and support an outbreak of viral hemorrhagic fever that has killed six people in southern Ethiopia.

French speed skater Timothy Loubineaud breaks the world record at the ISU World Cup by more than a second in the 5000 metres with a time of 6:00.23.