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October 1, 2025 (Wednesday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
As El Fasher's humanitarian crisis continues to drastically deteriorate, the Rapid Support Forces reportedly makes further gains against besieged garrison units mainly composed of former Darfuri rebels and their Sudanese Armed Forces allies.
The Ukrainian Energy Ministry declares an "emergency situation" at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant as the New Safe Confinement structure meant to prevent radioactive material from spreading into the environment experiences a three-hour power outage due to a Russian drone strike on an energy facility in nearby Slavutych, Kyiv Oblast.
Volodymyr Leontiev, the former Russia-installed mayor of Nova Kakhovka, is killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.
Business and economy
The U.S. Department of the Treasury postpones sanctions for Serbian oil company Naftna Industrija Srbije, of which Russian state-owned companies Gazprom and Gazprom Neft hold a majority of shares, until October 8, 2025.
Disasters and accidents
Cebu governor Pam Baricuatro declares a state of calamity and suspends classes throughout the province due to the Mw 6.9 earthquake yesterday.
The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines reports that power has been restored shortly after midnight in five islands in the central Philippines, including Cebu.
At least 36 people are killed and over 200 others are injured when an under construction church collapses in Areti, Amhara Region, Ethiopia.
A flight attendant is injured when two CRJ-900 aircraft, one operated by Delta Air Lines and one by Endeavor Air, collide on a runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York, United States.
Law and crime
The Italian Carabinieri Art Squad seizes 21 paintings by Salvador Dalà suspected of being forged pieces at an exhibition at the Palazzo Tarasconi in Parma.
The annual Oktoberfest is temporarily shut down in Munich, Germany, until 17:30 local time due to an explosion at a house earlier in the morning which killed two people, including the perpetrator. The police ultimately finds no link between the Oktoberfest and the explosion, which was related to a domestic dispute.
At least three people are killed in Lqliâa, Souss-Massa, Morocco, as security forces open fire during nationwide protests over alleged corruption and public spending priorities.
Politics and elections
The 2025 Right Livelihood Award is awarded to a student organization in the Pacific Islands fighting climate change, activist organization Justice for Myanmar, Taiwanese activist Audrey Tang, and the Sudanese Emergency Response Rooms for their work in combating injustice in their respective regions.
Thousands of people march in Athens as part of a general strike across Greece to protest against proposed changes in labor laws that could change the 8-hour work day to 13 hours, or a 48-hour workweek.
A federal government shutdown occurs in the United States after a funding bill fails to be passed, the first government shutdown since January 2019.
Matteo Rossi and Lorenzo Bugli are sworn in as the new Captains Regent of San Marino, succeeding Denise Bronzetti and Italo Righi.
Protests in Madagascar continue and spread across the country, demanding the resignation of president Andry Rajoelina. Opposition leader Rivo Rakotovao says that his party will not join any new government under Rajoelina, asking him to step down.
Science and technology
A research team at the Free University of Berlin announce the detection of new organic substances within water vapour plumes erupting from the surface of Enceladus by Cassini's Cosmic Dust Analyzer, a potential biosignature of extraterrestrial life under the Saturnian moon's icy surface.
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