The day
Monday 20 October 2025
13 stories, biggest first.
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News
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.
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Crime2025 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.
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Crime
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.
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Crime
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.
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Money
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.
- 6
NewsEmirates 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.
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NewsRussian 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.
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CrimeCorruption 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.
- 10
CrimeMurder 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.
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Politics2025 Malagasy coup d'état
Malagasy president Michael Randrianirina appoints Herintsalama Rajaonarivelo as prime minister.
- 12
Money
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.
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Science
A severe outage of Amazon Web Services occurs in the United States, impacting many apps and websites.
Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 20 October 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.