Saturday, November 22, 2025
7 stories, grouped by subject, the most important first
Conflict
Gaza war
Twenty-four Palestinians are killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, including five in a vehicle in Gaza City and four children in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
Israel–Hezbollah conflict
A person is killed in an Israeli airstrike on a car in Zawtar al-Sharqiyah, Lebanon, while several more attacks are carried out across Kafr Rumman.
World
Belarus–Ukraine relations
Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko pardons 31 Ukrainian citizens convicted of criminal offences in Belarusian territory in accordance with agreements reached between Lukashenko and United States president Donald Trump.
Politics
2025 Kyrgyz parliamentary election
Kyrgyz law enforcement conducts arrests, searches, and interrogations of journalists and opposition figures, including former first lady Raisa Atambayeva and several former legislators allied with former president Almazbek Atambayev, in an investigation into alleged calls for mass unrest ahead of the November 30 snap election.
Crime & Justice
2022–2023 Brazilian coup plot
Days before the start of his 27-year sentence, former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is taken into preemptive custody due to a ruling by Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes that Bolsonaro violated his house arrest by damaging his ankle monitor.
Disasters
2025 European drone sightings
The Dutch defence ministry says the military opened fire at drones over Volkel Air Base, but that no wreckage was recovered.
Disasters
Five people are killed and 34 injured after a vehicle carrying passengers from Maiduguri through Kano en route to Lagos, Nigeria, collides head-on with a truck in Niger State.
Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for November 22, 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.