Tuesday, December 9, 2025

27 stories, grouped by subject, the most important first

Conflict

  1. 2025 Uvira offensive

    M23 captures Sange, South Kivu, from the Congolese government and Burundian troops.

  2. 2025 Uvira offensive

    M23 enter Uvira, with at least 20,000 people fleeing across the Burundi–DRC border and reach Bujumbura.

  3. 2025 Cambodia‒Thailand conflict

    The Royal Thai Air Force carries out several airstrikes against Cambodia, killing nine civilians and wounding 20 more.

  4. 2025 Cambodia‒Thailand conflict

    Three Thai soldiers are killed and 29 more injured during clashes with Cambodian soldiers.

  5. Sudanese civil war

    Dozens of people are killed in a drone strike by the Sudanese Armed Forces on an oil field in Heglig, West Kordofan, Sudan.

World

  1. Belarus–Lithuania relations

    Lithuania declares a state of national emergency over security risks from Belarusian weather balloons violating Lithuanian airspace.

Politics

  1. 2025 Czech parliamentary election

    Andrej Babiš of the opposition ANO party is appointed as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic for his second non-consecutive term.

  2. 2025 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état

    Guinea-Bissau's military junta adopts a one-year transitional charter that suspends the constitution, bars the interim leaders from contesting forthcoming elections, and assigns the junta authority over political and institutional reforms until new elections are held at the end of the transition.

  3. 2025 Honduran general election

    Honduran president Xiomara Castro denounces the manipulation of the election results, which are still being counted, and accuses U.S. president Donald Trump of interference.

  4. Politics

    The Slovak parliament votes to abolish the country's whistleblower protection office and replace it with a new body.

Crime & Justice

  1. International Criminal Court investigation in Darfur

    The International Criminal Court sentences Janjaweed militia leader Ali Kushayb to 20 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the war in Darfur.

  2. Catholic Church sexual abuse cases

    Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York in the United States announces the archdiocese will set up a $300 million fund to compensate victims of sexual abuse who have sued the church.

  3. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

    A court in Beijing, China, orders Malaysia Airlines (MH) to pay CN¥2.9 million (US$410,000) each to families of eight missing passengers of MH370, which disappeared after departing from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in 2014.

  4. Operation Synytsia

    A court in Villajoyosa, Spain, provisionally closes its investigation into the killing of Russian defector Maxim Kuzminov in the town after authorities cannot identify any perpetrators.

  5. School violence in the United States

    One person is killed and another is critically injured in a shooting at Kentucky State University in Frankfort, Kentucky, United States. A suspect is taken into custody.

  6. Justice

    Australia's Online Safety Amendment takes effect, age-restricting social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter (X), TikTok, and YouTube, as well as accounts on the said sites registered to users under the age of 16.

  7. Justice

    The Nepalese Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority charges 55 people, including former ministers and officials, and a Chinese engineering company with fraud related to inflating expenses in the construction of Pokhara International Airport.

Disasters

  1. 2025 Terra Drone Building fire

    Twenty-two people are killed, while 19 are rescued, in a fire at a seven-story building in Jakarta, Indonesia.

  2. Disasters

    Twelve people are killed and four more are injured in a fire at a four-story building in Shantou, Guangdong, China.

  3. Disasters

    Seven people are killed when a Russian Air Force Antonov An-22 military transport aircraft crashes during a test flight following repairs in Ivanovo Oblast, Russia.

  4. Disasters

    A Sudanese Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft crashes while landing at an air base in Port Sudan, Red Sea State, Sudan, killing all crew members.

Business

  1. 2025 IndiGo disruption

    The Directorate General of Civil Aviation of India orders IndiGo, the country's largest airline, to reduce its flights by 5% following a scheduling crisis last week that caused thousands of cancellations.

  2. Pakistani economic crisis

    The International Monetary Fund (IMF) approves the release of US$1.2 billion to Pakistan to assist with recovery from an economic crisis. The country has already received $3.3 billion from the IMF since last year.

Health

  1. 2025 Catalonia swine fever outbreak

    The Catalan government in Spain announces a state of emergency due to the rapid spread of African swine fever virus in wild boars in a 12 km (7.5 mi) region to avoid spreading to other regions of Spain.

Science & Tech

  1. Chinese space program

    Chinese astronauts install debris-shielding on the Tiangong space station following damage to the docked Shenzhou 20 reentry capsule from orbital debris, and the crew conducts a spacewalk to prepare the compromised spacecraft for an uncrewed return.

Culture

  1. 2025 Turner Prize

    British autistic artist Nnena Kalu wins the 2025 Turner Prize for her wrapped fabric sculptures, becoming the first artist with a learning disability to win the award.

Sport

  1. 2025 SEA Games

    The 2025 SEA Games opens at the Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, with heightened security for Cambodian athletes and staff due to the ongoing Cambodia–Thailand conflict.

Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for December 9, 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.