Wednesday 22 October 2025

Disasters

Forty-six people are killed and others are injured in a collision between two buses and other vehicles on the Kampala–Gulu Highway in Uganda.

Disasters

Forty people are killed, including infants, and thirty others are rescued when a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Mahdia, Mahdia Governorate, Tunisia.

Disasters

Four people are killed when a Robinson R66 helicopter crashes near Ekalaka, Montana, United States.

War on drugs

Five people are killed during two separate United States airstrikes against two boats in the Pacific Ocean, the first such attacks in the area. The attacks since September 2025, previously limited only to the Caribbean Sea, have killed a total of 37 people.

Politics

Argentine foreign minister Gerardo Werthein submits his resignation to President Javier Milei.

Crime & Justice

The Fijian High Court sentences former prime minister Frank Bainimarama to a 12-month suspended prison term after being found guilty of making an unwarranted demand to a public official under the Crimes Act this month.

Crime & Justice

An opposition politician of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya party is shot and killed by an unidentified gunman in Weligama, Sri Lanka, amid an increase of shootings in the country, which have left 51 people killed and 56 injured since the beginning of the year.

Politics

Thai deputy finance minister Vorapak Tanyawong resigns following his alleged involvement in a transnational scam operation.

Kharkiv strikes

One person is killed and six others are injured in Russian drone strikes on a kindergarten in Kholodnohirskyi District, Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.

Terrorism in Serbia

A man opens fire outside the Serbian Parliament in Belgrade and sets fire to a tent, critically injuring a person, before being arrested. The incident is classified as a terrorist attack.

2025 Plastmass Factory explosion

At least 12 people are killed, 19 others are injured and 10 are reported missing following an explosion at a munitions factory in Kopeysk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.

Kyiv strikes

Six people are killed and several others are injured in Russian strikes on power plants in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Three soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces are killed in an operation in Stavropol, Stavropol Krai, Russia.

Politics

Greece's parliament approves a law prohibiting demonstrations around the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens, designating the area for ceremonial use only.

2025 Louvre robbery

The Louvre Museum in Paris, France, reopens with increased activity several days after jewelry from the Galerie d'Apollon was stolen in a heist. The Galerie d'Apollon, however, remains closed.

Culture

Imprisoned journalists Andrzej Poczobut of Belarus and Mzia Amaglobeli of Georgia are awarded the 2025 Sakharov Prize.

Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war

According to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society forty-five people, including former prisoners and a child, are arrested during a series of Israeli raids in Nablus, Ramallah, Qalqilya and Tulkarem, in the occupied West Bank. They further say that homes are vandalized and the arrested are assaulted.