The day

Monday 17 November 2025

25 stories, biggest first.

1
CrimeCapital punishment in Bangladesh
A domestic tribunal in Bangladesh sentences former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan to death in absentia over crimes against humanity committed during the quota reform protests in 2024.
2
NewsAirjet Angola Flight MBC-100
An Embraer ERJ-145 operating as AirJet Angola Flight 100 carrying 29 members of a Ministry of Mines [fr] delegation crashes while attempting to land at Kolwezi Airport in Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. No casualties are reported.
3
NewsNigerian bandit conflict
Gunmen kidnap 25 female students from and kill the vice principal of a secondary school in Maga, Kebbi State, Nigeria.
4
NewsGerman support for Israel in the Gaza war
Germany expects to lift its restrictions on military equipment exports to Israel from November 24, which were banned in August due to the siege of Gaza City.
5
NewsGaza peace plan
The United Nations Security Council votes in favor of a US-drafted resolution endorsing the peace plan, including the establishment of the International Stabilization Force (ISF) and Board of Peace.
6
NewsMilitary aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian war
Ukraine signs an agreement with France to receive up to 100 Rafale fighter jets, along with anti-aircraft warfare, munitions, and drones. Both governments say the proposed use of frozen Russian assets will partly finance it.
7
NewsYemeni civil war
In Lahij, Yemen, suspected Houthi gunmen carry out an ambush against a convoy carrying the governor of Taiz and a military commander, killing five of their bodyguards. Both the governor and the commander are unharmed, while two gunmen are also killed.
8
NewsDruze insurgency in Southern Syria
An investigative committee in Syria detains members of the country's military and security forces in an investigation into sectarian violence in Sweida in July involving the Druze.
9
NewsInsurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Thirty-eight Pakistani Taliban militants are killed by the army in a series of raids since yesterday in Dera Ismail Khan, North Waziristan, Bannu and Bajaur, in Pakistan.
10
NewsKharkiv strikes
A Russian missile strike on a residential area in Balakliia, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, kills three people and injures 10 others.
11
Politics2025 Chilean presidential election
Due to no candidates receiving 50% of the vote in the presidential election, a runoff occurs between left-wing candidate Jeannette Jara of the Unity for Chile coalition and right-wing candidate José Antonio Kast of the Change for Chile coalition, with the vote set for December 14.
12
Politics2025 Iraqi parliamentary election
The Independent High Electoral Commission releases the seat distribution from Iraq's recent election as prime minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani's Coordination Framework alliance declares that it will form the majority bloc and will nominate the next prime minister.
13
PoliticsFlood control projects controversy in the Philippines
Philippine executive secretary Lucas Bersamin and budget secretary Amenah Pangandaman resign over their alleged involvement in flood control corruption. Finance secretary Ralph Recto replaces Bersamin as the executive secretary.
14
PoliticsOpposition to Vladimir Putin in Russia
Russia's Rosfinmonitoring adds former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov and London Business School dean Sergei Guriev to its list of extremists and terrorists.
15
News
Six people are killed and 19 others are injured when a landslide triggered by heavy rain strikes a bus carrying 32 passengers in Khánh Vĩnh district, Khánh Hòa province, Vietnam.
16
News
Five tourists are killed in a blizzard in Torres del Paine National Park in Chilean Patagonia, where military and police rescue four others and continue search and rescue operations.
17
News2025 Medina bus crash
A bus carrying Indian Umrah pilgrims collides with a tank truck near Medina, Saudi Arabia, killing 45 people.
18
NewsNicaragua–United States relations
The United States imposes visa restrictions and revokes some existing visas for Nicaraguans, including owners of transportation and travel companies, who it says facilitate illegal immigration to the U.S. under Nicaragua's migration policies.
19
News
The toll from yesterday's bus crash in Simiatug, Tungurahua Province, Ecuador, increases to 21 people killed and 40 others injured.
20
Money
Spanish transport minister Óscar Puente announces the AV350 project, which will upgrade the Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line to a maximum operating speed of 350 km/h (220 mph) and make it one of the world's fastest trains. Puente says work is scheduled to begin next year and is expected to take three years.
21
Money
At the Dubai Airshow, UAE flagship airline Emirates announces a deal to buy 65 Boeing 777-9 aircraft worth US$38 billion, with deliveries starting in 2027.
22
Science
At least 71 schools in Australia and New Zealand close as authorities investigate recalled children's play sand products from Kmart and Target after testing detected asbestos in some samples.
23
SciencePolio in Pakistan
Pakistan launches an initiative to vaccinate 34.5 million children against measles and rubella and 23.3 million against polio.
24
ScienceHealth in Ethiopia
Ethiopia confirms three deaths from a Marburg virus disease declared on Friday in West Omo Zone.
25
Culture
The Cambridge University Press and Assessment announces parasocial as its word of the year.

Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 17 November 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.