All news: Tuesday 9 December 2025

2025 Uvira offensive

M23 captures Sange, South Kivu, from the Congolese government and Burundian troops.

2025 Uvira offensive

M23 enter Uvira, with at least 20,000 people fleeing across the Burundi–DRC border and reach Bujumbura.

2025 Cambodia‒Thailand conflict

The Royal Thai Air Force carries out several airstrikes against Cambodia, killing nine civilians and wounding 20 more.

2025 Cambodia‒Thailand conflict

Three Thai soldiers are killed and 29 more injured during clashes with Cambodian soldiers.

Sudanese civil war

Dozens of people are killed in a drone strike by the Sudanese Armed Forces on an oil field in Heglig, West Kordofan, Sudan.

2025 Terra Drone Building fire

Twenty-two people are killed, while 19 are rescued, in a fire at a seven-story building in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Twelve people are killed and four more are injured in a fire at a four-story building in Shantou, Guangdong, China.

Seven people are killed when a Russian Air Force Antonov An-22 military transport aircraft crashes during a test flight following repairs in Ivanovo Oblast, Russia.

A Sudanese Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft crashes while landing at an air base in Port Sudan, Red Sea State, Sudan, killing all crew members.

Belarus–Lithuania relations

Lithuania declares a state of national emergency over security risks from Belarusian weather balloons violating Lithuanian airspace.

2025 Czech parliamentary election

Andrej Babiš of the opposition ANO party is appointed as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic for his second non-consecutive term.

2025 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état

Guinea-Bissau's military junta adopts a one-year transitional charter that suspends the constitution, bars the interim leaders from contesting forthcoming elections, and assigns the junta authority over political and institutional reforms until new elections are held at the end of the transition.

2025 Honduran general election

Honduran president Xiomara Castro denounces the manipulation of the election results, which are still being counted, and accuses U.S. president Donald Trump of interference.

The Slovak parliament votes to abolish the country's whistleblower protection office and replace it with a new body.

2025 IndiGo disruption

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation of India orders IndiGo, the country's largest airline, to reduce its flights by 5% following a scheduling crisis last week that caused thousands of cancellations.

Pakistani economic crisis

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) approves the release of US$1.2 billion to Pakistan to assist with recovery from an economic crisis. The country has already received $3.3 billion from the IMF since last year.

International Criminal Court investigation in Darfur

The International Criminal Court sentences Janjaweed militia leader Ali Kushayb to 20 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the war in Darfur.

Catholic Church sexual abuse cases

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York in the United States announces the archdiocese will set up a $300 million fund to compensate victims of sexual abuse who have sued the church.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

A court in Beijing, China, orders Malaysia Airlines (MH) to pay CN¥2.9 million (US$410,000) each to families of eight missing passengers of MH370, which disappeared after departing from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in 2014.

Operation Synytsia

A court in Villajoyosa, Spain, provisionally closes its investigation into the killing of Russian defector Maxim Kuzminov in the town after authorities cannot identify any perpetrators.

School violence in the United States

One person is killed and another is critically injured in a shooting at Kentucky State University in Frankfort, Kentucky, United States. A suspect is taken into custody.

Australia's Online Safety Amendment takes effect, age-restricting social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter (X), TikTok, and YouTube, as well as accounts on the said sites registered to users under the age of 16.

The Nepalese Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority charges 55 people, including former ministers and officials, and a Chinese engineering company with fraud related to inflating expenses in the construction of Pokhara International Airport.

Chinese space program

Chinese astronauts install debris-shielding on the Tiangong space station following damage to the docked Shenzhou 20 reentry capsule from orbital debris, and the crew conducts a spacewalk to prepare the compromised spacecraft for an uncrewed return.

2025 Catalonia swine fever outbreak

The Catalan government in Spain announces a state of emergency due to the rapid spread of African swine fever virus in wild boars in a 12 km (7.5 mi) region to avoid spreading to other regions of Spain.

2025 Turner Prize

British autistic artist Nnena Kalu wins the 2025 Turner Prize for her wrapped fabric sculptures, becoming the first artist with a learning disability to win the award.

2025 SEA Games

The 2025 SEA Games opens at the Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, with heightened security for Cambodian athletes and staff due to the ongoing Cambodia–Thailand conflict.