Portal:Current events/2025 September 26
September 26, 2025 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza City offensive
- At least 60 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
- Médecins Sans Frontières suspends its activities in Gaza City citing security concerns due to the Israeli offensive. (MSF)
- 2025 Gaza City offensive
Business and economy
- Economy of Botswana
- Botswana president Duma Boko announces the launch of a immigrant investor program aimed at raising funds to diversify the economy amid a recession in the global diamond market. (Reuters)
- German economic crisis, Workplace impact of artificial intelligence
- German automotive supplier Bosch announces it will lay off 5,000 employees by 2030, including 3,800 in Germany. (DW)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Pacific typhoon season
- Ten people are confirmed killed as Typhoon Bualoi makes landfall in Visayas and southern Luzon in the Philippines since yesterday. (Philippine Daily Inquirer) (Reuters)
- At least 100 people are feared dead following the collapse of a gold mining pit in Zamfara State, Nigeria. (Reuters)
- At least 14 people are killed when a minibus collides with two trucks in the southern Peruvian Andes, Peru. (AP)
- Eleven people are killed and 33 are injured when a building collapses following a fire in Nile Delta, Egypt. (AP)
- At least eleven people are killed and three others are injured after a truck crashes in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Dawn)
- Six people are killed and six others are injured when a roof collapses at a steel plant in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. (NDTV)
- A fire at a South Korean government data center in Daejeon disrupts more than 600 e-government systems after an explosion in a lithium-ion battery triggered the blaze. (The Independent)
International relations
- Colombia–United States relations
- The United States revokes Colombian president Gustavo Petro's visa following his participation in a pro-Palestinian demonstration in New York and his remarks urging U.S. soldiers to disobey President Donald Trump's orders. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- 1991 Austin yogurt shop murders
- Deceased serial killer Robert Eugene Brashers is identified as the prime suspect in the quadruple homicide at an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt! shop in Austin, Texas, United States. (CBS News)
- 2025 Danish drone incidents
- Air Base Karup in Central Denmark Region, Denmark, is closed due to a drone sighting above the military base. Danish authorities describe the incident as part of an ongoing "hybrid attack". (BBC News)
- 2025 Department of Justice counterinvestigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election
- Former United States FBI director James Comey is indicted by a federal grand jury on two charges in a prosecution led by Lindsey Halligan, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. (BBC News)
- Corruption in Lebanon
- Lebanese authorities release former central bank governor Riad Salameh after he posts bail of US$14 million and LL 5 billion ($55,866) while facing ongoing charges of alleged financial crimes. (Reuters)
- Human rights in Vietnam
- Vietnamese activist Trịnh Bá Phương, already serving a 10-year sentence for anti-state propaganda, is sentenced to an additional 11 years after being convicted of writing statements against the Communist Party while in prison. (AP)
- LGBTQ rights in Slovakia
- Slovakia passes a constitutional amendment stating there are only two genders. Only married couples have the right to adopt, which de facto prevents same-sex couples from adopting, while also banning surrogacy. (Politico)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Moldovan parliamentary election
- Moldova's electoral commission removes the Greater Moldova and Heart of Moldova parties from the ballot ahead of Sunday's election, citing alleged illegal financing and foreign funding. (Reuters)
Sports
- FIFA suspends seven Malaysian national football players for one year and fines the Football Association of Malaysia over alleged use of falsified documentation in 2027 Asian Cup qualifiers, a decision the association says it will appeal. (AFP via NDTV)
- The members of the International Paralympic Committee vote not to maintain sanctions against the Russian and Belarusian National Paralympic Committees. (IPC)