Portal:Current events/September 2025
September 2025 is the ninth month of the current common year. The month, which began on a Monday, will end on a Tuesday after 30 days. It is the current month.
September 1, 2025 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip famine, Gaza genocide
- The International Association of Genocide Scholars, an international non-partisan research organization on genocide and crimes against humanity, declares that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. (IAGS) (BBC News) (Reuters)
- Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip famine, Gaza genocide
- At least four South Sudanese soldiers and ten militia members are killed in clashes near Nasir, Upper Nile, an area where earlier violence led to the detention of First Vice President Riek Machar. (Reuters)
Business and economy
- Economy of New Zealand
- New Zealand prime minister Christopher Luxon announces that holders of investor residence visas may buy or build a single home valued above NZ$5 million (US$3.55 million), following changes to the visa rules previously preventing such investments. (Reuters)
- Economy of South Korea
- The South Korean trade ministry reports that semiconductor exports reached a record ₩21 trillion (US$15 billion) in August, up nearly one-third from last year, contributing to total monthly exports of ₩81 trillion ($58.4 billion). (AFP via Barron's)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Afghanistan earthquake
- The toll from yesterday's earthquake in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, increases to at least 1,100 people killed and 3,500 others injured. (BNO News) (Reuters)
- An EastIndo passenger MBB/Kawasaki BK 117 helicopter goes missing with eight people on board in the Tanah Bumbu Regency, Indonesia. (ASN)
- Five people are killed when a Gilgit-Baltistan government helicopter crashes in Thor Valley, Chilas, Diamer District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. (Dawn)
International relations
- Australia–Nauru relations
- Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese announces that Australia will pay Nauru to accept foreign-born criminals who are expelled from Australia following the signing of a memorandum by Nauruan president David Adeang. (AP)
- North Korea–South Korea relations
- The South Korean defense ministry announces that it has suspended the "Voice of Freedom" military radio broadcast to North Korea for the first time in 15 years as part of measures to reduce tensions between the two countries. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- August 2025 Indonesian protests
- The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence reports that 20 people are missing across Bandung and Depok, West Java, and the Jakarta metropolitan area, Indonesia, following the protests. (AFP via France 24)
- Police storm into the campuses of Universitas Pasundan and Universitas Islam Bandung in West Java, firing tear gas at protesters. (IDN Times)
- Indonesia–Peru relations
- LGBTQ rights in Burkina Faso
- Burkina Faso passes a law criminalizing homosexuality, providing sentences of between two and five years in prison as well as fines. (France 24)
- An Argentine federal judge bars media outlets from publishing audio recordings made inside the presidential palace, which reportedly include conversations involving President Javier Milei's sister and chief of staff, Karina Milei, amid ongoing corruption allegations against the government. (Reuters)
- A Finnish court sentences Biafran activist Simon Ekpa to six years in prison for incitement, tax fraud, and terrorism, among other charges. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2026 Beninese presidential election
- Benin's ruling coalition, composed of the Progressive Union Renewal and the Republican Bloc, nominates finance minister Romuald Wadagni as their presidential candidate in the upcoming election. (Reuters)
- 2025 Guyanese general election
- Guyana votes to elect a new National Assembly and president, with polls favouring a second term for incumbent Irfaan Ali of the PPP/C. (The Guardian)
- Flood control projects controversy in the Philippines
- The Philippine Senate Blue Ribbon Committee orders the arrest of two contractors who failed to attend hearings on alleged corruption in flood control projects, as part of its probe into incomplete or substandard works awarded under President Bongbong Marcos's infrastructure program. (Gulf News)
- Ghanaian president John Mahama removes Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo from office following a committee report recommending her dismissal for misconduct, which Torkornoo denies. (Reuters)
September 2, 2025 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War on drugs, United States–Venezuela relations
- 2025 United States war on cartels
- 2025 United States strike on a Southern Caribbean boat
- The United States military conducts a precision strike and sinks a Venezuelan boat reportedly used by Tren de Aragua for smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea, killing 11 people. The Trump administration reports it currently has no plans of attacking the Venezuelan government. (CBS News) (USA Today)
- 2025 United States strike on a Southern Caribbean boat
- 2025 United States war on cartels
- Gaza war
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- At least 105 Palestinians are killed during Israeli airstrikes and shootings across the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- Insurgency in Balochistan
- At least fourteen people are killed and dozens of others are injured, including seven critically, in a suicide bombing at a political rally in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Digital Journal)
- An attack near the Iran–Pakistan border in Balochistan, Pakistan, kills five people. (AFP via France 24)
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Six soldiers and six militants are killed in a suicide attack on a paramilitary base in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (The Hindu)
Business and economy
- Economy of Brazil
- Brazil's Federal Senate approves a constitutional amendment that phases in court-ordered debt payments to fiscal target calculations beginning in 2027, initially counting 10% of the total and gradually reaching full inclusion over up to ten years. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 60 people are killed and dozens rescued after an overloaded boat carrying more than 100 passengers strikes a submerged tree stump and capsizes on the Niger River near Borgu, Niger State, Nigeria, with search operations continuing for missing persons. (Reuters)
International relations
- Belgium–Palestine relations, Belgium–Israel relations, International recognition of Palestine
- Belgian foreign minister Maxime Prévot announces that Belgium will conditionally recognize a Palestinian state at the upcoming United Nations General Assembly session upon the release of hostages and removal of Hamas, and impose sanctions on Israel, including bans on products from Israeli settlements and restrictions on certain public contracts. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Catholic Church sexual abuse cases
- Prosecution of Syrian civil war criminals
- French judges issue arrest warrants for seven former senior Ba'athist Syrian officials, including former president Bashar al-Assad, on charges of complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity for a 2012 rocket attack on a media center in Homs that killed journalists Marie Colvin and Rémi Ochlik and injured others. (Reuters)
- Five people are injured, including one critically and two seriously, in a mass stabbing attack at a hotel and a nearby street in Marseille, France. The perpetrator, a 35-year-old Tunisian, is fatally shot by police. (Le Monde)
- An Argentine court places the daughter of Nazi adviser Friedrich Kadgien and her husband under house arrest and accuses them of stealing the painting Portrait of a Lady, which had been missing since 1945. (AP)
Politics and elections
- A Turkish court annuls the Istanbul provincial congress of the Republican People's Party over alleged procedural violations, dismissing local leaders including the Istanbul chair, and appoints an interim committee to oversee the branch. (AP) (Reuters)
September 3, 2025 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in the Sahel
- Boko Haram insurgency
- Nigeria's air force kills more than 15 Islamist fighters in an airstrike on hideouts in Borno's Sambisa forest, while troops separately kill 13 Boko Haram militants after repelling an ambush on a military convoy along the Gubio–Damasak road. (Reuters)
- Mali War
- Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin spokesman Abou Houfeiza al-Bambari announces a blockade on all fuel trucks that enter Mali. (TRAC Terrorism)
- Boko Haram insurgency
- Gaza war
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- More than 70 Palestinians are killed by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
- Puntland counter-terrorism operations
- Puntland forces kill at least 15 ISIS fighters and capture key militant positions, including Ceelasha Burti-Cise and Af-ka Dharimood in the Baallade Valley, following a series of intense military operations in the broader Cal Miskaad Mountains of the Bari region, Puntland. (AllAfrica)
- Puntland counter-terrorism operations
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russia fires more than 500 drones and two dozen missiles at Ukraine overnight, targeting mostly western and central Ukraine and wounding at least five people, in response to the attacks, Poland scrambles its fighter jets and places ground-based air defenses and radar systems on maximum readiness. (Newsweek) (AP)
- Red Sea crisis
- The Houthis launch a ballistic missile at Israel, which is intercepted. (Reuters)
Arts and culture
- The Nazi-looted painting Portrait of a Lady by Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi is handed over to the Argentine justice system after being discovered on display in a private house in Mar del Plata, Argentina. (NOS)
Business and economy
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Punjab, India floods
- At least 30 people are killed in flash floods caused by cloudbursts, landslides, and waterlogging across north India, including in Punjab, Odisha, and Jammu and Kashmir. Casualty numbers are expected to increase. (DW) (Reuters)
- Ascensor da Glória derailment
- Sixteen people are killed and 22 others are injured when the Ascensor da Glória funicular crashes into a building in Lisbon, Portugal. The Portuguese government declares a day of mourning for the following day in remembrance of those deceased. (Reuters) (BBC News) (NPR)
- Seven migrants are found dead on beaches after several boats from Algeria sink off the coast of Andalusia, Spain, as authorities rescue 26 people from one vessel and 38 from another and continue searching for additional victims. (AFP via Dawn)
- One person is killed, another is injured, and five others are reported missing during an accident on a Hanwha Ocean floating production storage and offloading ship at a shipyard in South Korea. (Upstream)
- A rescue team locates the burnt remains of the EastIndo passenger MBB/Kawasaki BK 117 helicopter that went missing on Monday in Kalimantan, Indonesia, on the island of Borneo and recovers one body. (AP)
International relations
- 2025 China Victory Day Parade
- China holds a military parade in Beijing to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The event is attended by the leaders of about two dozen countries. (AP)
- Czech Republic–Germany relations
- Czech defence minister Jana Černochová announces that the Czech government signed a deal to pay Kč34 billion (US$1.6 billion) for 44 Leopard 2A8 tanks from Germany as part of its efforts to modernize the Armed Forces. (AP)
Law and crime
- Odebrecht case
- A Peruvian court sentences former president Alejandro Toledo to 13 years and four months in prison for laundering S/18 million (US$5.1 million) in bribes from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht through offshore accounts to purchase and refinance properties in Lima, with the sentence to run concurrently with his earlier conviction for accepting S/124 million ($35 million) in kickbacks. (Reuters)
- Three people are killed and the perpetrator is injured in a mass stabbing in a pizza restaurant in Gwanak District, Seoul, South Korea. (The Japan Times)
- A Moroccan court sentences human rights activist Ibtissame Lachgar to 30 months in prison and a fine of DH50,000 (US$5,510) for blasphemy, with her lawyers stating they will appeal. (AFP via France 24)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Jamaican general election
- Jamaicans vote to elect the 63 members of the Parliament using first-past-the-post voting. The two leading parties are the ruling Jamaica Labour Party and the opposition People's National Party. (Caribbean Life)
- 2025 Saint Helena general election
- Residents of Saint Helena, a British Overseas Territory, vote for the twelve members of the Legislative Council using plurality block voting. (MercoPress)
- 2025 Thai political crisis, 2025 Cambodian–Thai border crisis
- The ruling Pheu Thai Party of the acting government of Thailand moves to dissolve the parliament, setting up for a new election, after Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra was dismissed from office due to her phone call leak with Cambodia. (DW)
Science and technology
September 4, 2025 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip, 2025 Gaza City offensive
- At least 75 Palestinians are killed, including 44 who are killed in Gaza City, amid Israel's military assault. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip, 2025 Gaza City offensive
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Afghanistan earthquake
- Hundreds of deceased people are found under the rubble of collapsed houses after the August 31 earthquake in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, bringing the death toll to 2,205. (AP)
- Seventeen people are injured and fifteen are hospitalized when a double-decker bus crashes near Victoria station in London, England. (AP)
Health and environment
- Vaccination policy of the United States
- Make America Healthy Again
- The U.S. state of Florida announces it will formally eliminate all vaccination mandates, including school and childhood mandates for chickenpox, measles, and polio. (DW) (AP)
- Make America Healthy Again
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo declares a new Ebola outbreak in Kasaï Province with 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths, confirmed as the Zaire strain. (Reuters)
International relations
- Algeria–Mali relations
- The Malian transitional government files a lawsuit against Algeria at the International Court of Justice and accuses Algeria of destroying a Malian military drone near Tinzaouaten, Kidal region, to allegedly hinder Mali's campaign against armed rebels in the Mali War. (AP)
- Belarus–Poland relations
- Belarus detains a Polish national and a Belarusian citizen on charges of espionage after authorities allege they possessed documents on Zapad 2025. (Reuters)
- Ecuador–United States relations, War on drugs
- The United States designates Ecuadorian drug cartels Los Choneros and Los Lobos as terrorist organizations. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio also says that the US will support the Ecuadorian Navy by providing $6 million in drones and $13 other million for general security in the fight against these gangs. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Chromebook procurement scandal
- Former Indonesian education minister and Gojek co-founder Nadiem Makarim are detained after prosecutors name him as a suspect in a corruption case over the alleged unauthorized procurement of Chromebook laptops that resulted in state losses estimated at Rp 1.98 trillion (US$121.85 million). (Reuters)
- Robodebt scheme
- Australia agrees to pay an additional A$475 million (US$309M) in compensation to victims of the unlawful "Robodebt" welfare debt recovery scheme, bringing total repayments and compensation to A$2.4 billion (US$1.6 bn) in what would be the country's largest class action settlement if approved by the courts. (Reuters)
- Two people are killed, including the suspect, and eight others are injured in a stabbing spree in Hollow Water First Nation, Manitoba, Canada. (CBC)
- A Hong Kong jury convicts three people and acquits five others over 2020 bomb plots targeting hospitals and trains during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding them guilty of conspiracy to cause explosions but not of terrorism charges under the UN anti-terrorism law. (Reuters)
- Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra leaves Thailand after a court ruling that placed him at risk for arrest. Police indicate that he was allowed to leave the country as there is no active warrant for his arrest. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Jamaican general election
- Jamaica's Labour Party wins the general election with 34 seats in the House of Representatives against 29 for the People's National Party, securing a third term for Prime Minister Andrew Holness amid a voter turnout of 39.5%. (Reuters)
- Censorship in Nepal
- Nepal orders its telecommunications authority to block access to unregistered social media platforms after companies failed to meet government requirements to register locally and designate compliance representatives. (Reuters)
- Argentina's Congress overturns President Javier Milei's veto of a bill expanding spending and protections for people with disabilities, marking the first such reversal of his presidency. (Reuters)
September 5, 2025 (Friday)
Disasters and accidents
- A bus carrying tourists plunges down a hill in Uva Province, Sri Lanka, killing at least 15 people and injuring 15 more. (Indian Express)
September 6, 2025 (Saturday)
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