All news: Wednesday 26 November 2025

Israeli occupation of the West Bank

The Israeli military announces the start of a military operation in the northern Samaria area in the West Bank.

A drone strike is carried out at the Khor Mor gas field in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, causing major power cuts across the northern Kurdistan Region.

Wang Fuk Court fire

A fire at a housing estate in Tai Po, Hong Kong, leaves at least 94 people dead, dozens injured, and 279 more missing. Police arrest three men for suspected manslaughter in the fire.

Cyclone Senyar

The death toll from the floods in southern Thailand increases to 33 people.

Eleven people are killed when a UV Express van collides with a truck in Camalig, Albay, Philippines.

Five people are killed in an explosion at a weapons depot in Idlib Governorate, Syria.

A Swiss tourist is killed and another person is critically injured in a bull shark attack off the coast of Crowdy Bay National Park, New South Wales, Australia.

Cyprus–Lebanon relations

Cyprus and Lebanon sign a long-delayed maritime boundary agreement.

Dominican Republic–United States relations

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 War on cartels (2025–present) targeting alleged drug traffickers linked by the U.S. to Venezuelan authorities.

Foreign relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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.

South Africa–United States relations

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.

2025 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état

Bissau-Guinean president Umaro Sissoco Embaló is detained following a coup d'état one day before provisional election results were expected to be released.

Kidnapping 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.

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.

2025 Washington

Two members of the U.S. National Guard are shot and critically wounded in Washington, D.C.. The perpetrator, who is also wounded, is arrested.

Women's rights in Italy

The Italian parliament approves a bill to punish femicide with life imprisonment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Chess World Cup 2025

Uzbek chess grandmaster Javokhir Sindarov wins the 2025 World Cup in Goa, India, at the age of 19, becoming the youngest player to win the event.