Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
  • Three Al-Qassam Brigades militants are killed by Israeli troops in a shooting–airstrike attack in Kfar Qud, near Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. (L'Orient Today) (Reuters)

Business and economy

• AI boom, Workplace impact of artificial intelligence
  • Multinational technology and e-commerce company Amazon announces it will lay off 14,000 corporate positions as it invests more in building AI and cloud computing infrastructure. (DW) (CNBC)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in southwest Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane with 185 mph sustained winds. (CNN) (NHC)
• Mombasa Air Safari Flight 203
  • A Mombasa Air Safari-operated Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft carrying foreign tourists from Hungary and Germany crashes near Kwale, Kenya, killing all 11 people on board. (AP)

Health and environment

• 2020–2025 H5N1 outbreak
  • The German government culls 500,000 birds, including chickens, geese, and turkeys, as the federal animal health institute reports over 100 outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza, including 30 outbreaks among poultry battery farms across the country. (DW)

Law and crime

• Assassination of Shinzo Abe
  • The trial against Tetsuya Yamagami, the alleged killer of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, opens in Nara. It is expected to end by mid-December. (AP)
• Fijian deputy prime minister Biman Prasad says that he intends to resign after being charged with corruption. He is the second deputy PM in Sitiveni Rabuka's government to be charged since last week. (RNZ)

Politics and elections

• Conscription in Russia
  • The Russian State Duma approves a bill to change military conscription to a year-round process, passing it to the Federation Council for approval. (AP)

Sports

• 2025 Turkish referee betting scandal, Gambling in Turkey
  • The Turkish Football Federation takes disciplinary action against 152 referees who were found to have actively placed bets on football matches. At least 371 of the 571 active referees are found to have a betting account. (ESPN) (NTV in Turkish)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War in the Sahel
  • Mali War
    • Mali's government closes all schools and universities across the country amid a fuel blockade by al-Qaeda-aligned JNIM insurgents. (Al Jazeera)
• Gaza War
  • Eight Palestinians are killed and 13 injured in the Gaza Strip during Israeli airstrikes, despite the agreed ceasefire. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
• 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
  • Fourteen people are killed and one survives after three American airstrikes against four boats in the Pacific Ocean. (CBS News)

Arts and culture

• LGBTQ rights in the United Kingdom
  • King Charles III dedicates a memorial to LGBTQ members of the Armed Forces at the National Memorial Arboretum in Lichfield, Staffordshire, United Kingdom, on the 25-year anniversary of the end to the country's ban on gay servicemen. (AP)

Business and economy

• Malta introduces tax cuts exempting parents of two or more children from income tax on up to €18,500 (US$21,574) of earnings from 2026, rising to €30,000 ($34,985) by 2028, as part of efforts to address its low fertility rate. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Melissa reaches Category 5 intensity on its approach to Jamaica. (NBC) (Washington Post) (Fox Weather)

International relations

• Montenegro–Turkey relations
  • Montenegro suspends its visa-free arrangement for Turkish citizens after the stabbing of a local man allegedly by Turkish nationals led to unrest in Podgorica. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• A court in Mali sentences former prime minister Moussa Mara to two years in prison on charges of undermining state security and inciting public disorder. Mara will serve one year without parole and one year as a suspended sentence. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Cameroonian presidential election
  • The Supreme Court of Cameroon announces the reelection of incumbent president Paul Biya. (AP)
• 2025 Czech parliamentary election
  • Czech president Petr Pavel asks former prime minister Andrej Babiš to form a new government after his party ANO won a majority in the parliamentary elections earlier this month. (AP)
• Tunisia suspends the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights from operating for a month, citing the need to conduct a financial audit on the organization's foreign funds. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • 2025 Sumy offensive
    • One person is killed and 13 others are injured, including two seriously, in a Russian drone strike on a minibus in Mykolaivka, Sumy Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (Kyiv Post)
  • Two people are killed, including an elderly woman, and another is injured in a Ukrainian drone strike on an apartment building in Russian-controlled Donetsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (MSN)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Siege of El Fasher
    • The Rapid Support Forces say that they have captured El Fasher, the last stronghold of the Sudanese Armed Forces in North Darfur. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Three people are killed in two Israeli airstrikes in An-Naqoura and Baalbek, Lebanon. Separately, an Israeli drone drops a grenade near UNIFIL forces in Kfar Kila, without casualties. (Al Jazeera)
• A man plants an explosive near propane gas cylinders at a gas station in Georgetown, Guyana, killing a child and wounding four other people. The attacks is described as a terrorist incident, while the perpetrators are unknown. (AP)

Arts and culture

• Patriarch Daniel consecrates the newly-constructed National Cathedral in Bucharest, Romania, as the country's largest cathedral with the capacity for 5,000 worshippers and the patriarchal seat of the Romanian Orthodox Church. (DW) (Romania Insider)

Disasters and accidents

• Fourteen people are killed when a fire engulfs dwellings in Bukavu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Africanews)
• Thirteen people are killed and five others are injured when a bus crashes in Kano State, Nigeria. (The Punch)
• At least 13 people are killed and 29 others are injured when a bus collides with a car and plunges off of a bridge into a stream in Puerto Iguazú, Misiones, Argentina. (News.Az) (Xinhua)
• In separate incidents, an MH-60R Seahawk helicopter and an F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet of the United States Navy, both operating off of the aircraft carrier, crash in the South China Sea. All crew of both craft are rescued. (CNN)

International relations

• Enlargement of ASEAN
  • Accession of Timor-Leste to ASEAN, 2025 ASEAN Summits
    • Timor-Leste becomes the eleventh member state of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. (Antara)
• Trinidad and Tobago–Venezuela relations, United States–Venezuela relations
  • Venezuelan vice president Delcy Rodríguez issues a statement accusing Trinidad and Tobago and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency of military provocations as both countries carry out joint military exercises in the Caribbean Sea. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2025 Cameroonian presidential election
  • Cameroonian opposition presidential candidate Issa Tchiroma says that police have detained more than 30 politicians and activists linked to his campaign or who endorsed his candidacy against incumbent Paul Biya during last week's election. (Reuters)
  • Four protestors are killed and several policemen are injured during clashes in Douala, as pro-opposition protestors rejects Biya's re-election. (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 Louvre robbery
  • Two suspects are arrested in connection to the robbery at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, last week. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
  • 2025 PKK–Turkey peace process
    • The Kurdistan Workers' Party announces that it is withdrawing its fighters from Turkey and moving them to Iraq as part of ongoing peace talks with the Turkish government. (AP)
• 2025 Argentine legislative election
  • Argentines vote in the midterms to elect a half of the Chamber of Deputies and a third of the Senate. (The New York Times)
  • The ruling La Libertad Avanza party of President Javier Milei wins the election with over 40% of the votes. (AP)
• 2026 Colombian presidential election
  • The Historic Pact party nominates Senator Iván Cepeda as its candidate for president in next year's election. (Reuters)