Portal:Current events/2025 October 25

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Kyiv strikes, Attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Four people are killed and 20 others are injured in overnight Russian missile and drone strikes on residential areas in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Reuters) (AP)
• 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. (Al Jazeera)
• 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. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

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

International relations

• Afghanistan–Pakistan relations
  • 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. (Reuters)
• Canada–United States trade relations
  • 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. (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

• 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. (Reuters) (The Guardian)
• 2025 Ivorian presidential election
  • Ivorians vote to elect their president, as incumbent Alassane Ouattara seeks a fourth term. (Reuters)
  • Ouattara is re-elected with 89.7% of the vote. (Reuters)
• 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. (The Diplomat) (UNODC)