Friday, September 5, 2025

Gaza war hostage crisis

Hamas releases a video showing a speech by two Israeli hostages in Gaza kidnapped during the Nova music festival massacre in 2023.

M23 campaign

The United Nations Human Rights Office reports that M23 rebels, the Congolese armed forces, and other groups in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have committed serious abuses, including killings, torture, sexual violence, and child recruitment, some of which may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity.

War on drugs

The Trump administration deploys ten F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico to take part in military action against drug cartels in Venezuela and Latin America.

War on drugs

Venezuelan Air Force F-16 fighter jets fly over the USS Jason Dunham in international waters for a second time in 24 hours as tensions mount between the United States and Venezuela.

War on drugs

Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro accuses the U.S. of seeking a regime change in Venezuela under the guise of combating cartels.

War on drugs

Caribbean Airlines halts all flights between Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela for the entire month of September due to the military situation in the region.

Anglophone Crisis

A roadside bomb kills seven Cameroonian soldiers in the Southwest Region. An English-speaking separatist group claims responsibility for the bombing.

Boko Haram insurgency

At least 63 people are killed, including seven soldiers, and others are reported missing in attacks by Boko Haram jihadists in Darul Jamal, Borno State, Nigeria.

Kidnapping in Nigeria

Eight security officials are killed, four others are seriously injured, and five Chinese workers are kidnapped, with four rescued afterwards, in an attack on a Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps convoy in Edo State, Nigeria.

Terrorism in India

Lashkar-e-Jihadi warns police that multiple terrorist attacks involving 34 explosive-laden vehicles and 14 terrorists are being planned for the Ganesh Chaturthi finale on Saturday in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, causing security to be tightened.

China–Pakistan relations

During a state visit to Beijing, Pakistani prime minister Shehbaz Sharif announces new US$8.5 billion investment agreements with China, including $7 billion in a memorandum of understanding and $1.5 billion in joint ventures between the two countries.

Finland–Latvia relations

Finland accepts Latvia's request to deploy border guards at the Belarus–Latvia border to help manage increased migration from Belarus, with Estonia and Lithuania also providing support.

Finland–Palestine relations

Finland joins the New York Declaration calling for the end of the Gaza war and advancing a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

2025 British cabinet reshuffle

Angela Rayner resigns as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leaves her other government posts amid a scandal over a tax underpayment on a property she owns in Hove, East Sussex.

2025 British cabinet reshuffle

Prime Minister Keir Starmer conducts a cabinet reshuffle and appoints foreign secretary David Lammy as the new deputy PM and Secretary of State for Justice Shabana Mahmood as the new home secretary.

2025 Georgian local elections

Georgian president Mikheil Kavelashvili pardons opposition politicians Mamuka Khazaradze and Badri Japaridze, allowing them to run in the upcoming elections after serving prison sentences for refusing to testify before parliament.

2025 Samoan general election

Official results show that the FAST party led by Laʻauli Leuatea Schmidt wins the election by a landslide, securing 30 out of the 50 Legislative Assembly seats.

2025 Thai political crisis

The House of Representatives of Thailand elects Anutin Charnvirakul, leader of the conservative opposition Bhumjaithai Party, as the country's prime minister, replacing Paetongtarn Shinawatra.

Executive orders in the second Trump presidency

U.S. president Donald Trump signs an executive order unofficially renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

Justice

The European Commission fines Google €2.95 billion (US$3.47 billion) for allegedly abusing its position as the leading search engine to commit anti-trust violations in the advertising technology space.

Justice

A Swedish district court acquits former national security adviser Henrik Landerholm of severe negligence after he left classified documents in an unlocked hotel safe, ruling that his actions did not meet the threshold required for conviction.

Disasters

A bus carrying tourists plunges down a hill in Uva Province, Sri Lanka, killing at least 15 people and injuring 15 others.

Disasters

Eleven people are reported missing, including children and an infant, and three others are rescued when a hippopotamus capsizes a boat on the Sassandra River near Buyo in Ivory Coast.

Disasters

A man is killed in a shark attack off Long Reef beach in New South Wales, Australia. The species of shark is currently unknown but it is believed to be a large shark due to the injuries recorded.

2023–2025 mpox epidemic

World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declares that mpox is no longer a public health emergency of international concern, citing a consistent decline in cases in Africa.

Health

Portugal records its hottest and driest summer since measurements began in 1931, with an average maximum temperature of 30.78 °C (87.40 °F) and only 24% of normal rainfall, conditions that contributed to recent wildfires.

European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking

The Jupiter supercomputer, capable of at least one quintillion calculations per second with 24,000 Nvidia chips, is inaugurated in Jülich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, marking Europe's first system considered internationally competitive in training artificial intelligence models. On a partial system test, Jupiter has achieved a preliminary 793.4 Petaflop/s, placing it 4th in the Top 500 behind El Capitan, Frontier, and Aurora at the US Department of Energy.