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Last update: 2025-12-13 13:06:02

December 13, 2025 (2025-12-13) (Saturday)

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December 12, 2025 (2025-12-12) (Friday)

Disasters and accidents

  • Gaza war
      □ Gaza humanitarian crisis, Gaza genocide
          ☆ Fourteen people are killed, including three children who died of
            hypothermia, amid a severe storm in the Gaza Strip. At least 13
            homes previously damaged by Israel have also collapsed. (Al
            Jazeera)
  • One person is killed and several others are missing and presumed trapped
    under rubble when an under-construction building on top of a Hindu temple
    collapses in Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. (AP) (WRAL)

International relations

  • Brazil–United States relations
      □ The United States Treasury Department lifts sanctions on Brazilian
        Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, citing a shift in U.S.
        foreign policy priorities. (AFP via France 24)

Law and crime

  • Corruption in Bolivia
      □ A Bolivian judge orders former president Luis Arce into five months of
        pre-trial detention in La Paz while authorities investigate alleged
        embezzlement linked to the diversion of public funds for projects in
        Indigenous communities during his tenure as economy minister under Evo
        Morales. (Reuters)
  • Corruption in the Philippines
      □ Civil society groups and church representatives file complaints against
        Philippine vice president Sara Duterte at the Office of the Ombudsman,
        accusing her of plunder, violations of Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices
        Act, bribery, and betrayal of public trust. (Bloomberg) (Rappler)
  • Police in Mashhad, Iran, arrests Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi during a
    ceremony honoring deceased lawyer and human rights activist Khosrow
    Alikordi. (AP)

December 11, 2025 (2025-12-11) (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

  • Russo-Ukrainian war
      □ 2025 Sumy offensive, Russian attacks on civilians in the
        Russo-Ukrainian war
          ☆ Two people are killed and two others injured by a Russian guided
            bomb strike on a shop in Velyka Pysarivka, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (
            Ukrainska Pravda)
  • 2025 Cambodia‒Thailand conflict
      □ The death toll during the clashes between the Thai Army and the
        Cambodian Army at the border increases to eight Thai soldiers, eleven
        Cambodian civilians and four Thai civilians. (Al Jazeera)
  • Nigerian bandit conflict
      □ Eleven bandits are killed and several more injured in an ambush by the
        Nigerian Army in Sabon Birni, Sokoto State, Nigeria. The bandits
        allegedly planned an attack on a nearby village. (The Guardian)

Business and economy

  • Greek economic minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis is elected the new president
    of the Eurogroup, succeeding Paschal Donohoe. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

  • Two people are killed and two others are trapped when an under-construction
    library collapses in Gwangju, South Korea. (Reuters)
  • One person is killed and several others are injured when a boat carrying
    migrants overturns on the Sava river near Slavonski Brod, Croatia. (AP)

Law and crime

  • Hijab and burqa controversies in Europe
      □ Austria passes a law banning hijabs and burqas being worn in schools by
        girls aged under 14. (BBC News)
  • Brazilian police arrest former Peruvian foreign minister Augusto Blacker
    Miller in Rio de Janeiro, where he is located after evading authorities
    following an Albanian court conviction for fraud and an active Interpol
    notice. (Reuters)
  • A military court in Pakistan sentences former Inter-Services Intelligence
    director general Faiz Hameed to 14 years in prison on charges related to
    engaging in political activities and violations of the Official Secrets Act
    . (AP)
  • Chief of the Indonesian National Police openly challenges Indonesian
    Constitutional Court ruling that barring police personnel holding civilian
    government positions by decreeing that the police personnel can hold
    civilian positions in up to 17 government bodies. (Kompas)

Politics and elections

  • 2025 Bulgarian budget protests
      □ The Zhelyazkov Government resigns after weeks of massive protests
        against economic policies and alleged corruption. (The Guardian)
  • 2025 Falkland Islands general election
      □ Falklanders vote to elect eight members of the Legislative Assembly.
        (Falkland Islands TV)
  • 2025 Portuguese general strike
      □ The General Confederation of the Portuguese Workers and the General
        Union of Workers, which together represent nearly 1 million workers in
        Portugal, launch a general strike across the country to protest against
        the government's planned changes to labour laws. (AP)

Sports

  • Match fixing in tennis
      □ The International Tennis Integrity Agency fines French player Quentin
        Folliot US$70,000 and suspends him from play for 20 years for alleged
        match-fixing. He is the sixth player to be fined in a wider
        investigation involving other French and Italian players. (AP)