The day
Thursday 6 November 2025
16 stories, biggest first.
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News2025 Pacific typhoon season
The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi's impact on the Philippines rises to at least 142, with 127 others missing. The storm has left the country's territory and made landfall in central Vietnam.
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News2025 Pacific typhoon season
Philippine president Bongbong Marcos declares a national state of calamity in relation to the devastation caused by Typhoon Kalmaegi and in anticipation of the upcoming tropical cyclone Fung-wong.
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News2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
Three people are killed in a United States airstrike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea.
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News
At least three people are killed, two others are missing and two are presumed dead when a large structure being prepared for demolition at a power plant collapses in Ulsan, South Korea.
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NewsInternational sanctions against Syria
The United Nations Security Council votes to lift sanctions on Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa and interior minister Anas Khattab through a United States-drafted resolution.
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NewsMexico–Peru relations
Peru's Congress declares Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum a persona non grata after Peru cut diplomatic ties with Mexico for granting asylum to former prime minister Betssy Chávez, who faces conspiracy charges related to former president Pedro Castillo's attempt to dissolve Congress.
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CrimeCrime in Germany
The Hesse State Police announce an investigation in Hanau after swastikas made of human blood are found painted on dozens of buildings and cars.
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CrimeInternational Criminal Court investigation in Uganda
The International Criminal Court confirms 39 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against fugitive Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony in absentia, including murder, rape, sexual slavery, forced pregnancy, and the use of child soldiers. The court rules that he can stand trial once arrested, upholding the 2005 arrest warrant.
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CrimeMurder of Agnes Wanjiru
A former British soldier, Robert James Purkiss, is arrested on a Kenyan extradition warrant related to Agnes Wanjiru's 2012 murder near a UK military training facility in Nanyuki, Laikipia County.
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CrimeWar crimes in the Russo-Ukrainian war
A court in Russian-occupied Donetsk sentences two Colombians to 13 years in prison for fighting with Ukraine's armed forces, after they were detained while traveling home through Venezuela and transferred into Russian custody.
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CrimeWar crimes in the Russo-Ukrainian war
A court in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, finds a Russian soldier guilty of killing a surrendered Ukrainian soldier in January 2024 and sentences him to life imprisonment, marking the first conviction of a Russian soldier for killing a captured Ukrainian since the war began.
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Science2025 Canadian ostrich culling controversy
Canada's Supreme Court rejects an appeal by Universal Ostrich Farm, allowing the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to carry out a full cull of nearly 400 ostriches in Edgewood, British Columbia, under bird flu containment rules aligned with WHO guidelines.
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NewsIsrael–Kazakhstan relations
Kazakhstan formally joins the Abraham Accords, with the aim to enhance bilateral cooperation with Israel.
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Crime2019 Bolivian political crisis
Former Bolivian president Jeanine Áñez is freed from prison after the Supreme Court annulled her sentence the previous day.
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Khaled El-Enany is elected director-general of UNESCO by the General Conference held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, succeeding Audrey Azoulay.
Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 6 November 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.