Portal:Current events/2025 November 11

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Pokrovsk offensive
    • Hundreds of Russian troops enter the city of Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast with heavy street-to-street fighting underway. (Reuters)
• 2025 Islamabad suicide bombing
  • Twelve people are killed and 27 injured in a suicide bombing outside a court in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
• Israeli settler violence
  • Israeli settlers set fire to dozens of vehicles and other property in Beit Lid and Deir Sharaf in the West Bank and attack Israeli soldiers who were dispatched to the area, injuring four Palestinians, while four Israelis are arrested. (DW)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Turkish Air Force Lockheed C-130 crash
  • Twenty people are killed when a Turkish Air Force C-130 Hercules cargo plane crashes near the Azerbaijan–Georgia border. (Euronews) (AP)
• Electricity sector in the Dominican Republic
  • The Dominican Republic experiences a rare countrywide blackout, which officials blame on a failure in the power transmission grid. (AP)
• Twenty people are injured when three Sarmiento trains derail in Liniers, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Todos Noticias in Spanish)

International relations

• Colombia–United States relations, 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
  • Colombian president Gustavo Petro orders public forces to halt intelligence sharing with the United States Intelligence Community until the U.S. ceases its military strikes on vessels in the Caribbean Sea. (Reuters)
• Japan–Russia relations, International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Russia indefinitely bans 30 Japanese nationals, including a foreign ministry official, from entering the country in response to Japan's sanctions on Russian entities over the war in Ukraine. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2006 Noida serial murders
  • The Supreme Court of India acquits Surendra Koli of all remaining charges in the series of child murders and rapes which occurred between 2005 and 2006 in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and ordering his immediate release. Koli was originally sentenced to death and was serving a life sentence for the remaining cases. (The Hindu)
• 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
  • A high court in Seoul, South Korea, issues an arrest warrant for former National Intelligence Service director Cho Tae-yong for allegedly tampering with evidence regarding former president Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration of martial law, among other charges. (Reuters)
• 2025 Turkish football betting scandal
  • A court in Istanbul, Turkey, issues arrest warrants for eight suspects involved in an investigation into alleged illegal sports betting by Turkish Football Federation referees, club presidents, and players. (DW)
• Anti-war protests in Russia
  • A court in Saint Petersburg, Russia, extends street musician Diana Loginova's detention for 13 days for allegedly violating public order during an October performance that included anti-war songs, marking her third consecutive sentence since mid-October. (AP)
• Corruption in Ukraine
  • The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine starts investigating a large-scale corruption scheme in the country’s energy sector, involving the state nuclear power operator Energoatom. (EuroNews)
• A Gabonese court sentences former first lady Sylvia Bongo Ondimba and her son, Noureddin Bongo Valentin, to 20 years in prison each for receiving and embezzling public funds, among other charges. Both were tried in absentia as they live in exile. (AFP via Barron's)
• The Southwark Crown Court in London, United Kingdom, sentences Chinese fraudster Qian Zhimin to 11 years and eight months in prison for running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded over 128,000 investors and laundered the proceeds into Bitcoin, resulting in the recovery of about ₿61,000 in the country's largest cryptocurrency seizure. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Iraqi parliamentary election
  • Iraqis vote to elect the 329 members of the Council of Representatives, who will elect the country's president and approve the president's appointment of a prime minister. (AFP via Barron's)
• 2025 Irish presidential election
  • Catherine Connolly is sworn in as the 10th president of Ireland. (BBC News)
• Gun law in New Zealand
  • New Zealand announces the transfer of gun licensing responsibilities from the police to an independent Firearms Safety Authority reporting directly to the government. (AP)
• Thousands of people protest in Belgrade, Serbia, against the proposed re-development of the former Yugoslav People's Army General Staff Building, which was delisted as a cultural asset last year. (DW)

Science and technology

• The Sun emits a X5.1-class solar flare from sunspot AR4274, the most intense since October 2024. (Space)