Portal:Current events/2024 October 25

October 25, 2024 (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
  - Siege of Jabalia
    - Kamal Adwan Hospital siege
      - Israeli troops storm the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabalia in the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
    - Three Israeli soldiers from the Armored Corps are killed in an IED blast in Jabalia in the Gaza Strip. (Haaretz)
  - Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    - Israeli airstrikes in Gaza kill 72 people, including at least 38 in Khan Younis. (Reuters)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2024 Kursk offensive, Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  - Ukraine reports that the first North Korean units have entered the active "warzones" in Russia's Kursk Oblast. The North Korean soldiers are reportedly under the command of Deputy Defence Minister Yunus-bek Yevkurov. (Yonhap News Agency)
- Dnipro strikes
  - A Russian missile attack on a residential area in Dnipro, central Ukraine, kills five people and injures 21 others. (AP)
- Kyiv strikes, Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  - One person is killed and five others are injured when a Russian drone strikes a residential building in Solomianskyi District, Kyiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
  - Two people are killed and six others are injured when a rocket fired from Lebanon hits a building in the town of Majd al-Krum in northern Israel. (The Jerusalem Post)
  - Two cameramen and a technician working for Al Mayadeen and Al-Manar are killed and several other people are injured when an Israeli airstrike hits a guest house housing journalists in Hasbaya, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
- The Israeli Air Force strikes the Syrian military-controlled Jusiyah–Qaa border crossing on the Lebanon–Syria border, accusing Hezbollah of using the border crossing to transfer weapons from Syria. (The Times of Israel)
Kurdish–Turkish conflict
- 2024 Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters attack
  - The Kurdistan Workers' Party claims responsibility for Wednesday's attack on the headquarters of the Turkish Aerospace Industries in Ankara Province, Turkey, which killed five people and injured dozens of others, saying that the attack had been "planned for a long time". (France 24)
A police officer is killed and another is injured in a stabbing attack at a police station in Bosanska Krupa, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The perpetrator, a 15-year-old boy, is arrested. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

2024 Pacific typhoon season
- The death toll from Tropical Storm Trami's landfall in central and northern Philippines increases to 76 people, with more than 320,000 people evacuated. (Al Jazeera)
2024 McDonald's E. coli outbreak
- The number of people who have become ill in an E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers in the United States increases to 75. (Reuters)

Law and crime

2024 CrowdStrike-related IT outages
- Delta Air Lines files a lawsuit against cybersecurity company CrowdStrike after Crowdstrike's global outages in July forced the airline to cancel more than 7,000 flights, costing Delta Air Lines over $500 million. (Reuters)
A high court in Gulu, Uganda, sentences former Lord's Resistance Army commander Thomas Kwoyelo to 40 years in prison on 44 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including enslavement, torture, and rape. (DW)
A man fatally shoots two of his family members before killing himself in Huntsville, Ontario, Canada. (CTV News Barrie)

Politics and elections

2024 Kiribati presidential election
- Citizens of Kiribati vote for the President between three candidates, incumbent Taneti Maamau, Bautaake Beia from the Tobwaan Kiribati Party, and independent Kaotitaake Kokoria. (The Nikkei)
Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government announces that Ontario is planning to ban international students from medical schools in the province beginning in 2026. (Pelham Today)

Sports

2024 Major League Baseball season
- 2024 World Series
  - In baseball, Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman hits the first ever walk-off grand slam in World Series history to win the first game of the 2024 World Series against the New York Yankees. (Fox News)