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November 2025

30 days, the opening story of each.

  1. 30SundayMassive protests denouncing corruption over the ongoing flood control scandal are held across the Philippines.
  2. 29SaturdayTwo Palestinian children are killed in an Israeli drone attack as they were gathering firewood in the town of Bani Suheila in the Gaza Strip.
  3. 28FridayThe Israeli military launches a raid in Beit Jinn, Syria, targeting unknown gunmen and carrying out airstrikes, killing 13 Syrians, including two children, and wounding…
  4. 27ThursdayAlejandro Gertz Manero resigns as Attorney General of Mexico, citing an invitation from President Claudia Sheinbaum to serve as ambassador to an unspecified country. His…
  5. 26WednesdayA fire at a housing estate in Tai Po, Hong Kong, leaves at least 94 people dead, dozens injured, and 279 more missing. Police arrest three men for suspected manslaughter…
  6. 25TuesdaySeven people in Kyiv, Ukraine, and three more in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, are killed as both countries launch airstrikes at each other. Several more people are wounded in…
  7. 24MondayA court in Embilipitiya, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka, sentences ten people, including three women, to death for the murder of a man in October 2011. Sri Lanka has…
  8. 23SundaySectarian violence erupts in the Homs area of Syria, targeting the Alawite population.
  9. 22SaturdayTwenty-four Palestinians are killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, including five in a vehicle in Gaza City and four children in the Nuseirat…
  10. 21FridayAn Indian Air Force HAL Tejas crashes at the Dubai Airshow in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, killing the pilot.
  11. 20ThursdayA Philippine regional trial court sentences former de facto Bamban mayor Alice Guo to life imprisonment after finding her guilty of human trafficking for a scam center…
  12. 19WednesdayUnited States president Donald Trump enacts a bill ordering the release of more information about Jeffrey Epstein's case, a day after Congress passed the bill.
  13. 18TuesdayA major outage of Cloudflare causes global disruptions to numerous apps and websites. Cloudflare says the outage occurred after a configuration file designed to handle…
  14. 17MondayA domestic tribunal in Bangladesh sentences former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan to death in absentia over crimes against…
  15. 16SundayA broken railway line in the area of Życzyn, Garwolin County, in east central Poland is under police investigation as a possible act of sabotage. Two Ukrainian citizens…
  16. 15SaturdayFour people are killed, including the mayor of Wady Al-Mawla, and another is severely injured in a mass shooting by unidentified gunmen at a coffeehouse in Talkalakh…
  17. 14FridayThe United States defense department announces Operation Southern Spear to target alleged narco-terrorists in Central and South America and the Caribbean under the US…
  18. 13ThursdayIsraeli settlers set fire to the Hajja Hamida mosque in Deir Istiya in the West Bank and deface the mosque's exterior wall in defiance of an Israeli government rebuke of…
  19. 12WednesdayAt least 37 people are killed and 20 others are injured when a bus collides with a truck and crashes down a ravine in Arequipa, Peru.
  20. 11TuesdayTwenty people are killed when a Turkish Air Force C-130 Hercules cargo plane crashes near the Azerbaijan–Georgia border.
  21. 10MondayThe United States Senate votes 60–40 to a bill to end the 41-day government shutdown and extend funding for the U.S. government until January 30, 2026, sending the bill…
  22. 9SundayAt least two people are killed as Typhoon Fung-wong makes landfall over Luzon, Philippines. Over 900,000 people are evacuated and rescue operations for victims of the…
  23. 8SaturdayRussia launches over 450 bomber drones and 45 missiles on critical infrastructure and residential areas across Ukraine, killing at least seven people and injuring 12…
  24. 7FridayNinety-six people are injured, some critically, in a bombing at a mosque inside a school in Jakarta, Indonesia. A 17-year-old male is identified as the perpetrator and…
  25. 6ThursdayThe Rapid Support Forces state that they accept a humanitarian ceasefire proposed by international mediators after capturing El Fasher in Darfur, while the Sudanese army…
  26. 5WednesdayThe death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi's impact on Visayas and Mindanao, Philippines, rises to at least 114, with search and rescue operations ongoing.
  27. 4TuesdayZohran Mamdani is elected as the 111th mayor of New York City to become the city's first Muslim and South Asian American mayor.
  28. 3MondayA Mw 6.3 earthquake strikes near Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh, Afghanistan, killing at least 20 people, injuring hundreds others, and damaging the historic Blue Mosque.
  29. 2SundayIn cricket, the Indian women's team defeats South Africa by 52 runs to win the 13th edition of the Women's Cricket World Cup.
  30. 1SaturdayCarlos Manzo, mayor of Uruapan, Michoacán, is assassinated during Day of the Dead festivities.