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A car explosion in Delhi, India, kills at least 13 people.
- On 10 November 2025, a car exploded near the Red Fort in Delhi, India, killing at least 13 people and injuring more than twenty others. According to early police assessments, it was ammonium nitrate fuel oil (ANFO) and other explosives being carried inside the vehicle which triggered the fire and subsequent blast, that destroyed multiple nearby automobiles.
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David Szalay is awarded the Booker Prize for his novel Flesh.
- Flesh, published in 2025, is the sixth novel by David Szalay. It tells a rags-to-riches story about a young Hungarian man named István. He lives an impulsive lifestyle, making rash decisions without thinking them through. After his sexual awakening, juvenile detention, military service and a series of menial jobs, István becomes a rich married socialite in London. This success brings him some contentment, but István's largely unchanged personality generates conflict with his new family.
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Typhoon Fung-wong hits the Philippines, leaving more than 27 people dead.
- Typhoon Fung-wong, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Uwan, was a very large, powerful, deadly, and destructive tropical cyclone that struck the Philippines, Taiwan, and the Ryukyu Islands of Japan in mid-November 2025. The twenty-sixth named storm and thirteenth typhoon of the annual typhoon season, Fung-wong originated from a broad low-pressure area northeast of Chuuk on November 3. It gradually organized over the following days before undergoing rapid intensification on November 8 under increasingly favorable atmospheric conditions.
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The Reconstruction and Development Coalition, led by Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani , places first in the Iraqi parliamentary election.
- Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 11 November 2025. The elections will determine the 329 members of Iraq's Council of Representatives, who are responsible for electing the country's president and approving the appointment of the prime minister.
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Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves more than 240 people dead in the Philippines.
- Typhoon Kalmaegi, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Tino, was a powerful, deadly, and highly destructive tropical cyclone that devastated portions of the central Philippines, particularly in Cebu, and later struck Central Vietnam as one of the strongest typhoons on record in the area during early November 2025. The twenty-fifth named storm and twelfth typhoon of the 2025 Pacific typhoon season, Kalmaegi originated from an area of convection on October 30. The following day, it was later classified as a tropical depression as the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert (TCFA) at 02:00 UTC. At 12:00 UTC, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) upgraded the system to a tropical storm and assigned it the name Kalmaegi, as environmental conditions became increasingly favorable for development. The JTWC followed suit at 21:00 UTC, also designating it as a tropical storm. The system entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) at 05:30 PHT on November 2 (21:30 UTC on the previous day) and was named Tino by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA). At 12:00 UTC, the JMA upgraded Kalmaegi to a severe tropical storm. By 03:00 UTC on November 3, PAGASA, the JTWC, and the JMA all upgraded the system to typhoon status, citing a highly favorable environment for rapid intensification.
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A suicide bombing kills 12 people in Islamabad, Pakistan.
- On 11 November 2025, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside of the District Judicial Complex in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, killing 12 people and injuring 36, after attempting to enter the structure. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a faction of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), claimed responsibility for the attack. It was the deadliest attack in Islamabad in nearly a decade.
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genocide (ongoing)
- The Gaza genocide is the ongoing, intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel during the Gaza war. It encompasses mass killings, deliberate starvation, infliction of serious bodily and mental harm, and preventing births. Other acts include blockading, destroying civilian infrastructure, destroying healthcare facilities, killing healthcare workers and aid-seekers, causing mass forced displacement, committing sexual violence, and destroying educational, religious, and cultural sites. The genocide has been recognised by a United Nations special committee and commission of inquiry, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, multiple human rights groups, numerous genocide studies and international law scholars, and other experts. Israel and its supporters deny that its actions constitute genocide.
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Russo-Ukrainian war (ongoing)
- On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. The resultant conflict is the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, and a major escalation of the war between the two countries that began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thousands of military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties. As of 2025, Russian troops occupy about 20% of Ukraine. From a population of 41 million, about 8 million Ukrainians had been internally displaced and more than 8.2 million had fled the country by April 2023, creating Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II.
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Sudanese civil war (ongoing)
- Since 15 April 2023, there has been an active civil war in Sudan between two rival factions of the country’s military government. The conflict involves the internationally recognized government controlled by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan; and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, commonly known as "Hemedti", who leads the broader Janjaweed coalition. Several smaller armed groups have also taken part. Fighting began on 15 April 2023 after a power struggle within the military government that had taken power following the October 2021 coup. The conflict has resulted in the largest forced displacement in recent history, with nearly 12 million individuals being forced to flee Sudan since 2023.
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massacre (ongoing)
- The El Fasher massacre (Arabic: مجزرة الفاشر, romanized: Majzarat al-Fāshir) is an ongoing massacre in the city of El Fasher, in western Sudan, during which an estimated 2,500 or more civilians have been executed or murdered since 26 October 2025. The massacre has been carried out by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, after they captured the city, which was the last stronghold in Darfur of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Sudanese government.
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