Tuesday, September 9, 2025

2025 Gaza City offensive

The Israeli Defense Forces issues an evacuation order for the entirety of Gaza City amidst its renewed offensive.

Israeli airstrike on Hamas leadership in Qatar

The Israeli Air Force carries out a series of airstrikes against the Hamas leadership's office in Doha, Qatar, during a meeting. Six people are killed; however, the entire leadership survived according to Palestinian and Hamas sources. A member of the Qatari security forces is among the fatalities.

Red Sea crisis

The Houthis launch a ballistic missile at Israel, which is intercepted.

Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine

A Russian airstrike kills at least 24 people collecting their pensions in Yarova, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.

2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests

Nepalese prime minister K.P. Sharma Oli resigns in response to the protests amid a government collapse.

2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests

The Federal Parliament building is stormed and set on fire by protesters.

2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests

Foreign minister Arzu Rana Deuba and her husband, former prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, are assaulted at their residence.

2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests

A video shows finance minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel being beaten and dragged through the streets of Kathmandu by protesters. His condition is unknown.

2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests

The private residence of President Ram Chandra Poudel is stormed and vandalized by protesters while the headquarters of the Communist Party of Nepal (UML) and the Nepali Congress party are both destroyed.

2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests

Nakhu Jail in Lalitpur District, Bagmati Province, is stormed by protesters and all inmates are freed, including prominent opposition figure Rabi Lamichhane. The prison is then set ablaze.

2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests

Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport is closed and occupied by the Nepali Army, while several airlines suspend flights to Nepal due to the ongoing civil unrest.

Cambodia–United States relations

The United States announces more sanctions on cyber scamming rings operating in Cambodia and Myanmar.

Iraq–Israel relations

Iraqi Shia militia Kata'ib Hezbollah releases Russian–Israeli researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov who was abducted in 2023 during a research trip to Iraq following negotiations involving Israel and the United States.

Nuclear program of Iran

Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency agree to resume nuclear site inspections which were suspended after U.S. and Israeli strikes, with Iran warning the deal will be void if international sanctions are reimposed.

World

Former German minister of foreign affairs Annalena Baerbock is elected and sworn in as the new president of the United Nations General Assembly.

2025 Indian vice presidential election

Elections take place for the next vice president of India following the early resignation of Jagdeep Dhankhar.

2025 Indian vice presidential election

C.P. Radhakrishnan is elected as the 15th vice president of India.

2024–2025 French political crisis

French prime minister François Bayrou formally submits his resignation after losing a vote of confidence in the National Assembly the day before. President Emmanuel Macron appoints Sébastien Lecornu as the new prime minister.

2025 Bougainvillean general election

Off-island voting in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville's general election concludes, with vote counting expected to begin on Thursday.

Ecuadorian conflict

Ecuadorian police seize more than US$313 million in real estate assets from the armed group Comandos de la Frontera, which the government links to drug-related organized crime.

LGBTQ rights in Hong Kong

The Hong Kong Court of First Instance rules that a lesbian couple are both legal parents of their son born through reciprocal in vitro fertilization, marking a landmark case in parental recognition for same-sex couples in Hong Kong.

Justice

An arson attack on two power poles in Berlin, Germany, causes a widespread blackout affecting the Berlin S-Bahn, emergency services, and more in the southeastern part of the city.

Justice

Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson announces that the government will lower the age of criminal responsibility from 15 in response to rising cases of criminal gangs recruiting children to commit serious crimes.

Justice

The Thai Supreme Court rules that former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra must serve a one-year prison term for corruption, declaring his prior hospital detention unlawful.

Disasters

Seven members of a single family are killed in the detonation of explosives stockpiled inside a house in Bala Buluk District, Farah Province, Afghanistan.

World War II bomb disposal in Europe

Police in Bratislava, Slovakia, evacuate several downtown blocks and suspend traffic and public transport after the discovery of a 500-pound (225-kilogram) World War II unexploded bomb in a construction site.

Health

UNICEF reports that for the first time, obesity has surpassed undernourishment as the leading form of global malnutrition among children and adolescents.

Science

Ethiopia fully launches the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Africa's largest hydroelectric dam, sparking concerns about Nile water security from Egypt and Sudan.