Portal:Current events/2025 October 20

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza peace plan
    • Hamas returns the body of dead Israeli hostage Tai Haimi to Israel. (The Times of Israel)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • War crimes in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
      • Russian soldiers kill five people and injure another in a mass shooting at a house in Zvanivka, Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (RBC-Ukraine)

Business and economy

• Pizzeria chain Pizza Hut enters administration in the United Kingdom with at least 68 venues expected to close and 1,210 employees at risk of redundancy. (The Independent)
• Cambodian prime minister Hun Manet formally inaugurates Techo International Airport, replacing the 70-year-old Phnom Penh International Airport as the main aviation hub for the country. (AP) (Airport World)

Disasters and accidents

• Emirates SkyCargo Flight 9788
  • Two airport ground crew are killed when an Emirates cargo plane crash-lands and strikes a service vehicle at Hong Kong International Airport, before falling into the sea. (RTHK)
• At least one person is killed and four others are critically injured when a tornado hits the Ermont commune in Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France. (Euronews in French) (Metro)

Law and crime

• 2025 Louvre robbery
  • The damaged 19th-century Crown of Empress Eugénie is recovered on a street near the Louvre in Paris, France, following its burglary yesterday. (Le Figaro in French) (Town and Country)
• Corruption in Armenia
  • Police arrest Gyumri mayor Vardan Ghukasyan on bribery charges amid an anti-corruption investigation in Armenia, prompting protests outside his office and the detention of at least 23 demonstrators. (Reuters)
• Murder of Kim Ha-neul
  • A court in Daejeon, South Korea, sentences a teacher to life in prison for the murder of a eight-year-old student whom she stabbed at school in a murder-suicide attempt in February 2025. (The Korea Herald)
• The Tatmadaw conducts a raid on the KK Park scam center in Myawaddy Township, Myanmar, near the border with Thailand, and detains over 2,000 people and seizes over 30 Starlink terminals. (AP) (AFP via France 24)
• Vilnius International Airport in Lithuania temporarily ceases operations, suspends all air traffic, and closes the country's airspace and borders after the government reports sightings of weather balloons used to smuggle cigarettes from Belarus. (DW) (The New Voice of Ukraine)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Malagasy coup d'état
  • Malagasy president Michael Randrianirina appoints Herintsalama Rajaonarivelo as prime minister. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• A severe outage of Amazon Web Services occurs in the United States, impacting many apps and websites. (NPR)