Saturday 25 October 2025

2025 Ivorian presidential election

Ivorians vote to elect their president, as incumbent Alassane Ouattara seeks a fourth term.

2025 Ivorian presidential election

Ouattara is re-elected with 89.7% of the vote.

2025 Atlantic hurricane season

Hurricane warnings are issued in Jamaica, as forecasts indicate Hurricane Melissa will likely reach Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, while rainfall estimates exceed 30 in (76 cm) across the country and in Haiti.

2025 Atlantic hurricane season

Over 145,000 people are evacuated by Guantánamo Province officials ahead of Hurricane Melissa's potential impacts in eastern Cuba.

2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico

U.S. president Donald Trump announces that he will raise U.S. tariffs on Canada by 10% in retaliation for an anti-tariff advertisement sponsored by the Ontario government.

Politics

The United Nations Convention against Cybercrime, also known as the Hanoi Convention, is signed in Hanoi, Vietnam, marking the first time a UN treaty signing ceremony took place in Vietnam and the first time a multilateral treaty is named after a Vietnamese location.

Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Five soldiers and 25 gunmen are killed in a shootout between Kurram and North Waziristan, in Pakistan, at the border with Afghanistan.

2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict

Pakistani defence minister Khawaja Asif says that if peace talks with the Taliban fail, Pakistan will declare an open war on Afghanistan, as Pakistan accuses the Taliban of sheltering Pakistani militants, which Kabul denies.

2025 Irish presidential election

Independent candidate Catherine Connolly is declared winner of yesterday's election of the President of Ireland, after Fine Gael candidate Heather Humphreys concedes the election during the initial tallying of the votes.

Kyiv strikes

Four people are killed and 20 others are injured in overnight Russian missile and drone strikes on residential areas in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Israel–Hezbollah conflict

Two people are killed during two Israeli airstrikes against a car and a motorcycle in Harouf and Qlayleh, Lebanon, bringing the death toll from the attacks since the past 48 hours to nine.