Portal:Current events/2025 September 9

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • 2025 Gaza City offensive
      • The Israeli Defense Forces issues an evacuation order for the entirety of Gaza City amidst its renewed offensive. (CNN)
  • Israeli airstrike on Hamas leadership in Qatar
    • The Israeli Air Force carries out a series of airstrikes against the Hamas leadership's office in Doha, Qatar, during a meeting. Six people are killed; however, the entire leadership survived according to Palestinian and Hamas sources. A member of the Qatari security forces is among the fatalities. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News) (Al Arabiya)
  • Red Sea crisis
    • The Houthis launch a ballistic missile at Israel, which is intercepted. (The Times of Israel) (YNet)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • A Russian airstrike kills at least 24 people collecting their pensions in Yarova, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• 2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests
  • Nepalese prime minister K.P. Sharma Oli resigns in response to the protests amid a government collapse. (News24) (Reuters)
  • The Federal Parliament building is stormed and set on fire by protesters. (Al Jazeera)
  • Foreign minister Arzu Rana Deuba and her husband, former prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, are assaulted at their residence. (Himalpress)
  • A video shows finance minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel being beaten and dragged through the streets of Kathmandu by protesters. His condition is unknown. (NDTV)
  • The private residence of President Ram Chandra Poudel is stormed and vandalized by protesters while the headquarters of the Communist Party of Nepal (UML) and the Nepali Congress party are both destroyed. (Israel Hayom)
  • Nakhu Jail in Lalitpur District, Bagmati Province, is stormed by protesters and all inmates are freed, including prominent opposition figure Rabi Lamichhane. The prison is then set ablaze. (Setopati)
  • Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport is closed and occupied by the Nepali Army, while several airlines suspend flights to Nepal due to the ongoing civil unrest. (Online Khabar) (The Economic Times)

Disasters and accidents

• Seven members of a single family are killed in the detonation of explosives stockpiled inside a house in Bala Buluk District, Farah Province, Afghanistan. (Amu TV)
• World War II bomb disposal in Europe
  • Police in Bratislava, Slovakia, evacuate several downtown blocks and suspend traffic and public transport after the discovery of a 500-pound (225-kilogram) World War II unexploded bomb in a construction site. (AP)

Health and environment

• UNICEF reports that for the first time, obesity has surpassed undernourishment as the leading form of global malnutrition among children and adolescents. (AFP via France 24)

International relations

• Cambodia–United States relations, Myanmar–United States relations
  • The United States announces more sanctions on cyber scamming rings operating in Cambodia and Myanmar. (Reuters)
• Iraq–Israel relations, Iraq–United States relations
  • Iraqi Shia militia Kata'ib Hezbollah releases Russian–Israeli researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov who was abducted in 2023 during a research trip to Iraq following negotiations involving Israel and the United States. (CNBC)
• Nuclear program of Iran
  • Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency agree to resume nuclear site inspections which were suspended after U.S. and Israeli strikes, with Iran warning the deal will be void if international sanctions are reimposed. (Reuters)
• Former German minister of foreign affairs Annalena Baerbock is elected and sworn in as the new president of the United Nations General Assembly. (Forbes)

Law and crime

• Ecuadorian conflict
  • Ecuadorian police seize more than US$313 million in real estate assets from the armed group Comandos de la Frontera, which the government links to drug-related organized crime. (Reuters)
• LGBTQ rights in Hong Kong
  • The Hong Kong Court of First Instance rules that a lesbian couple are both legal parents of their son born through reciprocal in vitro fertilization, marking a landmark case in parental recognition for same-sex couples in Hong Kong. (AP)
• An arson attack on two power poles in Berlin, Germany, causes a widespread blackout affecting the Berlin S-Bahn, emergency services, and more in the southeastern part of the city. (Tagesschau) (Reuters)
• Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson announces that the government will lower the age of criminal responsibility from 15 in response to rising cases of criminal gangs recruiting children to commit serious crimes. (Reuters)
• The Thai Supreme Court rules that former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra must serve a one-year prison term for corruption, declaring his prior hospital detention unlawful. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Indian vice presidential election
  • Elections take place for the next vice president of India following the early resignation of Jagdeep Dhankhar. (The Hindu)
  • C.P. Radhakrishnan is elected as the 15th vice president of India. (India Today)
• 2024–2025 French political crisis
  • French prime minister François Bayrou formally submits his resignation after losing a vote of confidence in the National Assembly the day before. President Emmanuel Macron appoints Sébastien Lecornu as the new prime minister. (Reuters)
• 2025 Bougainvillean general election
  • Off-island voting in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville's general election concludes, with vote counting expected to begin on Thursday. (Papua New Guinea Post-Courier)

Science and technology

• Ethiopia fully launches the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Africa's largest hydroelectric dam, sparking concerns about Nile water security from Egypt and Sudan. (TRT)