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Fatafehi Fakafānua
- Fatafehi Fakafānua (pictured) is elected prime minister by the legislative assembly of Tonga.
- Filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, are found stabbed to death in their Los Angeles home.
- José Antonio Kast is elected president of Chile.
- Sixteen people, including a gunman, are killed in a mass shooting attack on a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney.
December 17, 2025 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Terrorism in Australia
- 2025 Bondi Beach shooting
- The surviving gunman of the attack on Bondi Beach, Australia, is charged with 59 offences, including 15 counts of murder and one count of committing a terrorist act. (BBC News)
- 2025 Bondi Beach shooting
International relations
- Foreign relations of the United States, Travel bans under the Trump administrations
- United States president Donald Trump expands the country's existing travel ban by banning citizens of Burkina Faso, Mali, South Sudan, and Syria, as well as those holding passports issued by the Palestinian Authority, from entering the country. He also imposes partial restrictions on citizens from 15 other countries. (NPR)
December 16, 2025 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- M23 campaign, Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
- 2025 Uvira offensive
- The March 23 Movement announces that they will withdraw from Uvira, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, following a request from the United States. (Reuters)
- 2025 Uvira offensive
Disasters and accidents
- Thirteen people are killed, and several others are injured when a passenger bus overturns on a highway and collides with a taxi in Isfahan Province, Iran. (AP)
Health and environment
- The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration records the Arctic's warmest year since measurements began, with average temperatures from October 2024 to September 2025 standing 1.60 °C (2.88 °F) above the 1991–2020 baseline. (AFP via RFI)
International relations
- Canada–Israel relations
- Israel denies entry to six Canadian MPs trying to visit the occupied West Bank as part of a nonprofit-sponsored tour. (Al Jazeera)
- Operation Southern Spear, United States–Venezuela relations
- U.S. president Donald Trump orders a blockade on oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela. (The Telegraph)
Law and crime
- 2025 Beninese coup attempt
- Benin places about 30 suspects, most of them soldiers, in pre-trial detention on charges including treason, murder, and endangering state security following a failed coup attempt. (AFP via Arab News)
- 2025 Liverpool parade incident
- The Liverpool Crown Court convicts Paul Doyle, the perpetrator who injured 130 people after ramming his car into a crowd in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom, of charges of dangerous driving and maliciously causing grievous bodily harm, and sentences him to 21 years in prison. (DW)
- Belarus–Lithuania relations
- Lithuanian police arrest 21 people allegedly connected to a criminal network responsible for smuggling cigarettes into the country via weather balloons from Belarus. (AP)
- Colombia–United States relations, War on drugs
- The U.S. State Department designates Colombian cartel and neo-paramilitary group Clan del Golfo as a foreign terrorist organization. (DW)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Honduran general election
- Honduran president Xiomara Castro announces that she will denounce an alleged "electoral coup" to the European Union, the Organization of American States, and the United Nations, accusing U.S. president Donald Trump of "interference". (The Guardian) (Reuters)
Sports
- In association football, French and Paris Saint-Germain player Ousmane Dembélé is named the 2025 FIFA Men's Player of the Year. (BBC News)
December 15, 2025 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War on drugs, Operation Southern Spear
- 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
- The United States Southern Command says the U.S. Navy has carried out airstrikes on three alleged drug smuggling vessels in international waters of the Eastern Pacific, killing at least eight people. (Reuters)
- 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
Disasters and accidents
- Ten people are killed when a Cessna Citation III aircraft flying from Acapulco to Toluca crashes near a football field in San Mateo Atenco, Edomex, Mexico. (UNO TV in Spanish) (AP)
International relations
- Laos–South Korea relations
- Laos and South Korea agree to upgrade their bilateral relations to a comprehensive partnership. (Reuters)
- Laos–Thailand relations, 2025 Cambodia–Thailand conflict
- Thailand's military stops fuel shipments through its border crossing with Laos in Chong Mek, Ubon Ratchathani province, after intelligence indicates that supplies are being diverted to Cambodian forces amid an ongoing conflict between Cambodia and Thailand. (Reuters)
- Trinidad and Tobago–Venezuela relations
- The Venezuelan government accuses Trinidad and Tobago of participating in the United States seizure of the oil tanker Skipper and suspends all oil trade agreements and contracts between the two countries. (The Guardian)
Law and crime
- 2024 anti-tourism protests in Spain
- The Spanish government fines homestay company Airbnb €63.9 million (US$75 million) for advertising unlicensed tourist rentals as protests blaming companies like Airbnb and Booking.com for driving up property prices for residents across the country continue. (AP)
- Capital punishment in Saudi Arabia
- Saudi Arabia records a new annual high in executions, carrying out 340 executions to date after authorities execute three additional individuals, exceeding the previous record of 338 executions in 2024. (AFP via CTV News)
- Terrorism in the United States
- Five individuals associated with the far-left Turtle Island Liberation Front are arrested for allegedly plotting a series of bombings across Southern California, United States, on New Year's Eve. (BBC News)
- Hong Kong's High Court convicts pro-democracy activist and media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and to publish seditious material under the national security law. (Reuters)
- A court in Moscow, Russia, designates protest music group Pussy Riot as an extremist group, banning its activities within Russia. (Reuters)
- Danske Bank completes its three-year corporate probation with the United States Department of Justice, concluding all regulatory proceedings related to suspicious transactions at its former Estonian branch, after pleading guilty to bank fraud conspiracy and forfeiting US$2 billion as part of a 2022 settlement. (Reuters)
- A judge in the Dominican Republic sentences seven former government officials to over a year in preventative detention in a US$250 million corruption case involving the health ministry. (AP)
December 14, 2025 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2025 Bondi Beach shooting
- Two gunmen open fire during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, killing 15 people and leaving 42 others injured. One perpetrator is killed, while the other is arrested. Two bombs are found at the scene and detonated by police. (News.au) (Al Jazeera)
- 2025 Cambodia–Thailand conflict
- Gaza war
- Hamas Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Zamzam is shot and killed by a gunman inside the Maghazi refugee camp in the Deir al-Balah Governorate, Gaza Strip. The perpetrator is arrested. (Palestine Chronicle) (Reuters)
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Three people are killed in three separated Israeli airstrikes against vehicles in southern Lebanon. (L'Orient Today)
- Syrian conflict
- Four security force members are killed and another is injured in a mass shooting when gunmen open fire on a patrol in Idlib, Syria. (TRT World)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 37 people are killed and 14 more injured during flash floods in Safi, Morocco. (Al Jazeera)
- A school bus carrying students returning from a field trip falls off a cliff in Remedios, Antioquia, Colombia, killing 17 people and injuring 20 others. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Mass shootings in the United States, School violence in the United States
- 2025 Brown University shooting
- A person of interest is taken into custody for yesterday's mass shooting that killed two people and injured nine others at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. The person is later released from custody the same day, with authorities announcing that they are still searching for a suspect. (CNN) (The New York Times)
- 2025 Brown University shooting
- Crime in Guatemala
- Guatemalan president Bernardo Arévalo declares a state of emergency in two municipalities in western Guatemala a day after gunmen attacked a military post and a police station, cut off roads, and hijacked buses, killing at least five people. (CityNews Halifax)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Chilean general election
- Chileans vote for their president in a runoff between Jeannette Jara and José Antonio Kast. (AP)
- Kast is elected president of Chile. (Reuters)
- 2025 Czech parliamentary election
- Czech president Petr Pavel appoints prime minister Andrej Babiš's cabinet following ANO's victory in the recent election. (Reuters)
December 13, 2025 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- M23 campaign, Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
- 2025 Uvira offensive
- The March 23 Movement states that it has captured several hundred Burundian soldiers during its recent offensive in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, including around Uvira. (Reuters)
- 2025 Uvira offensive
- Middle Eastern crisis
- Gaza war
- The Israeli military kills Ra'ad Sa'ad, a senior Hamas military commander, in an airstrike against a vehicle in Gaza City, in violation of the ceasefire. Four other people were also killed in the attack, and 25 more injured. (The Times of Israel) (Al Jazeera)
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- The Israeli military issues an evacuation order in southern Lebanese villages in preparation for planned airstrikes on Hezbollah targets. (The Jerusalem Post)
- Syrian conflict
- An attacker identified by the United States Central Command as a member of ISIL opens fire on a joint Syrian and American convoy in Palmyra, killing two U.S. service members and one American civilian interpreter and injuring three others, before being killed by return fire. (SANA via Al Jazeera)
- Gaza war
- Sudanese civil war
- Kordofan Campaign
- A Rapid Support Forces (RSF) drone strike kills at least three people in El-Obeid, North Kordofan, Sudan. (Al Jazeera)
- An RSF drone strike on a United Nations base in Kadugli, South Kordofan, Sudan, kills six Bangladeshi peacekeepers and injures eight others. (Al Jazeera)
- Kordofan Campaign
- 2025 Cambodia–Thailand conflict
- In response to resumed clashes with Thailand, Cambodia shuts down its border crossings with Thailand. (BBC News)
- United States president Donald Trump says a new ceasefire has been brokered. However, hours later, Thai leaders announce an increased commitment to fighting Cambodian forces. (France 24)
Disasters and accidents
- Nine African migrants die due to freezing temperatures near the Algeria–Morocco border. (MSN)
- Eight people are killed and five others are injured after a multicab falls into rocky terrain in Ayungon, Negros Oriental, Philippines. (The Philippine Star)
Law and crime
- Mass shootings in the United States, School violence in the United States
- 2025 Brown University shooting
- Two people are killed and nine others are injured in a mass shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. The suspect fled the scene and is not in custody. (NBC News) (BNO News)
- 2025 Brown University shooting
- Human rights in Belarus, Belarus–United States relations
- Belarus releases 123 political prisoners, including Nobel Peace prize laureate Ales Bialiatski and protest leader Maria Kalesnikava, from prisons after the United States lifts its sanctions. (BBC)
- War on drugs
- Spanish authorities dismantle a drug-trafficking network that uses helicopters to transport large quantities of hashish from Morocco into southern Spain, arresting six suspects in a joint operation involving several European countries. (AFP via Arab News)
- Islamic terrorism in Europe
- Munich police arrest five men, including three Moroccans, one Egyptian, and one Syrian of allegedly planning to attack a Christmas market in Dingolfing, Bavaria, Germany. (DW)
December 12, 2025 (Friday)
Disasters and accidents
- Gaza humanitarian crisis, Gaza genocide
- Fourteen people are killed, including three children who died of hypothermia, amid a severe storm in the Gaza Strip. At least 13 homes previously damaged by Israel have also collapsed. (Al Jazeera)
- At least eight people are killed and multiple others are injured when a tank truck crashes and explodes in Tiko, Southwest Region, Cameroon. (Africanews)
- Four people are killed and eleven others are rescued when an under-construction building on top of a Hindu temple collapses in Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. (AP) (SABC)
International relations
- Brazil–United States relations
- The United States Treasury Department lifts sanctions on Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, citing a shift in U.S. foreign policy. (AFP via France 24)
Law and crime
- Corruption in Bolivia
- A Bolivian judge orders former president Luis Arce into five months of pre-trial detention in La Paz while authorities investigate alleged embezzlement linked to the diversion of public funds for projects in Indigenous communities during his tenure as economy minister under Evo Morales. (Reuters)
- Corruption in the Philippines
- Civil society groups and church representatives file complaints against Philippine vice president Sara Duterte at the Office of the Ombudsman, accusing her of plunder, violations of Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, bribery, and betrayal of public trust. (Bloomberg) (Rappler)
- Police in Mashhad, Iran, arrest Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi during a ceremony honoring deceased lawyer and human rights activist Khosrow Alikordi. (AP)
December 11, 2025 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian war
- 2025 Sumy offensive, Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
- Two people are killed and two others injured by a Russian guided bomb strike on a shop in Velyka Pysarivka, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (Ukrainska Pravda)
- 2025 Sumy offensive, Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
- 2025 Cambodia‒Thailand conflict
- The death toll during the clashes between the Thai Army and the Cambodian Army at the border increases to eight Thai soldiers, eleven Cambodian civilians and four Thai civilians. (Al Jazeera)
- Nigerian bandit conflict
- Eleven bandits are killed and several more injured in an ambush by the Nigerian Army in Sabon Birni, Sokoto State, Nigeria. The bandits allegedly planned an attack on a nearby village. (The Guardian)
Business and economy
- Greek economic minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis is elected the new president of the Eurogroup, succeeding Paschal Donohoe. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Two people are killed and two others are trapped when an under-construction library collapses in Gwangju, South Korea. (Reuters)
- One person is killed and several others are injured when a boat carrying migrants overturns on the Sava river near Slavonski Brod, Croatia. (AP)
Law and crime
- Hijab and burqa controversies in Europe
- Austria passes a law banning hijabs and burqas being worn in schools by girls aged under 14. (BBC News)
- Brazilian police arrest former Peruvian foreign minister Augusto Blacker Miller in Rio de Janeiro, where he is located after evading authorities following an Albanian court conviction for fraud and an active Interpol notice. (Reuters)
- A military court in Pakistan sentences former Inter-Services Intelligence director general Faiz Hameed to 14 years in prison on charges related to engaging in political activities and violations of the Official Secrets Act. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Bulgarian budget protests
- The Zhelyazkov Government resigns after weeks of massive protests against economic policies and alleged corruption. (The Guardian)
- 2025 Falkland Islands general election
- Falklanders vote to elect eight members of the Legislative Assembly. (Falkland Islands TV)
- 2025 Portuguese general strike
- The General Confederation of the Portuguese Workers and the General Union of Workers, which together represent nearly 1 million workers in Portugal, launch a general strike across the country to protest against the government's planned changes to labour laws. (AP)
Sports
- Match fixing in tennis
- The International Tennis Integrity Agency fines French player Quentin Folliot US$70,000 and suspends him from play for 20 years for alleged match-fixing. He is the sixth player to be fined in a wider investigation involving other French and Italian players. (AP)
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