Portal:Current events/2025 December 28

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian conflict
  • Western Syria clashes
    • At least three people are killed and dozens of others are injured after gunfire erupts during Alawite-led protests in Latakia, Syria, demanding decentralization and for the transitional government to release Assadist detainees. (Reuters)
• Gaza war
  • Israel introduces new rules for aid groups, forbidding activities or criticism that "delegitimizes" Israel, without providing specific definitions. Aid groups say that the requirements are political and may hinder criticism of Israel's actions in Gaza. (ABC News)
• Ecuadorian security crisis
  • Six people, including a two-year-old girl, are killed and three others are injured in a mass shooting at a beach in Puerto López, Manabí Province, Ecuador. (La Nación in Spanish) (TRT World)

Arts and culture

• After months of a high-profile legal dispute, entertainment agency ADOR terminates its contract with singer Danielle and expels her from the South Korean girl group NewJeans. (The Independent) (Korea JoongAng Daily)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Oaxaca train derailment
  • At least 13 people are killed and 98 others are injured, including five critically, when a Tren Interoceánico train carrying 250 people derails in Asunción Ixtaltepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. (Reuters) (Infobae in Spanish)
• Sixteen people are killed and three others sustain burn injuries after a fire breaks out at a retirement home in Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. (Reuters)
• Three people, including a toddler, are killed and three others are injured when a building collapses in Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa. (AP)

Law and crime

• 2025 Richelieu stabbing
  • Nine people are killed, including five children, and three others are injured, including the perpetrator and another child, in a mass stabbing spree at multiple houses in Richelieu, Commewijne District, Suriname. (AP)
• Capital punishment in Iraq
  • The Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal sentences a former Ba'athist lieutenant to death for the massacre of Barzanis during the Anfal campaign against Kurds. (The New Region)

Politics and elections

• 2025–26 Myanmar general election
  • Citizens of Myanmar vote in the first phase to elect the nation's legislature. Two further phases of voting are expected in January. (AP)
• 2025 Central African general election
  • Citizens of the Central African Republic vote to elect a president and 140 members of the National Assembly. Incumbent president Faustin-Archange Touadéra seeks a third term in office. (Reuters)
• 2025 Guinean presidential election
  • Guineans vote for a president as incumbent Mamady Doumbouya seeks to be elected four years after leading a coup. (Reuters)
• December 2025 Kosovan parliamentary election
  • Kosovans vote for the second time in a year to elect the members of the Kuvendi. (AP via ABC News)
  • Prime Minister Albin Kurti's Vetëvendosje party wins the election with about half of the votes and an estimated 56 of the 120 assembly seats but falls short of the 61 seats required to govern without support from minority parties. (Al Jazeera)