The Pakistani government partially reopens the Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan to allow Afghan refugees to flee home, while all remaining restrictions on cross-border movement stay banned, following an agreement to maintain a ceasefire.
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November 1, 2025 (Saturday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Four people are killed and three injured in an Israeli airstrike against a vehicle in Kfar Reman, Lebanon.
The United States threatens to carry out attacks in Nigeria due to continuous attacks against Christians by Boko Haram and ISWAP.
Israel Defense Forces Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who served as Military Advocate General, resigns after leaking a surveillance video to the media showing the gang rape of a Palestinian prisoner at Sde Teiman detention camp in August last year.
At least 12 people are killed and several others are seriously injured in attacks by the Rapid Support Forces on two displaced civilian shelters in South Kordofan, Sudan.
Arts and culture
Pope Leo XIV of the Catholic Church declares saint John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church, one of 38, and a co-patron of Catholic education.
Disasters and accidents
A landslide triggered by heavy rain kills at least 21 people and leaves 30 others missing in Rift Valley Province, Kenya.
Five people are killed and two others are injured in an avalanche on the Vertainspitze mountain in the Ortler Alps in South Tyrol, Italy.
At least 23 people are killed and eleven others are injured in a fire and explosion at a Waldo's store in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.
Law and crime
In the Maldives, people born since 2007 are permanently banned from buying or using tobacco, making it the first country in the world to impose a lifelong smoking ban from a certain age.
Eleven people are injured, including nine in life-threatening conditions, in a mass stabbing attack on a London North Eastern Railway passenger train in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England. Two suspects are arrested.
Politics and elections
Incumbent Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party is declared the winner of the general election with 97% of the vote, amidst protests by the opposition.
Sports
In baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Toronto Blue Jays 5–4 in Game 7 to win the World Series.
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