An investigative committee in Syria detains members of the country's military and security forces in an investigation into sectarian violence in Sweida in July involving the Druze.
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November 17, 2025 (Monday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
The United Nations Security Council votes in favor of a US-drafted resolution endorsing the peace plan, including the establishment of the International Stabilization Force (ISF) and Board of Peace.
A Russian missile strike on a residential area in Balakliia, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, kills three people and injures 10 others.
Ukraine signs an agreement with France to receive up to 100 Rafale fighter jets, along with anti-aircraft warfare, munitions, and drones. Both governments say the proposed use of frozen Russian assets will partly finance it.
Gunmen kidnap 25 female students from and kill the vice principal of a secondary school in Maga, Kebbi State, Nigeria.
Thirty-eight Pakistani Taliban militants are killed by the army in a series of raids since yesterday in Dera Ismail Khan, North Waziristan, Bannu and Bajaur, in Pakistan.
Germany expects to lift its restrictions on military equipment exports to Israel from November 24, which were banned in August due to the siege of Gaza City.
Business and economy
Spanish transport minister Óscar Puente announces the AV350 project, which will upgrade the Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line to a maximum operating speed of 350 km/h (220 mph) and make it one of the world's fastest trains. Puente says work is scheduled to begin next year and is expected to take three years.
Disasters and accidents
A bus carrying Indian Umrah pilgrims collides with a tank truck near Medina, Saudi Arabia, killing 45 people.
The toll from yesterday's bus crash in Simiatug, Tungurahua Province, Ecuador, increases to 21 people killed and 40 others injured.
Six people are killed and 19 others are injured when a landslide triggered by heavy rain strikes a bus carrying 32 passengers in Khánh Vĩnh district, Khánh Hòa province, Vietnam.
Five tourists are killed in a blizzard in Torres del Paine National Park in Chilean Patagonia, where military and police rescue four others and continue search and rescue operations.
An Embraer ERJ-145 operating as AirJet Angola Flight 100 carrying 29 members of a Ministry of Mines delegation crashes while attempting to land at Kolwezi Airport in Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. No casualties are reported.
Health and environment
International relations
The United States imposes visa restrictions and revokes some existing visas for Nicaraguans, including owners of transportation and travel companies, who it says facilitate illegal immigration to the U.S. under Nicaragua's migration policies.
Law and crime
A domestic tribunal in Bangladesh sentences former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan to death in absentia over crimes against humanity committed during the quota reform protests in 2024.
Politics and elections
Philippine executive secretary Lucas Bersamin and budget secretary Amenah Pangandaman resign over their alleged involvement in flood control corruption. Finance secretary Ralph Recto replaces Bersamin as the executive secretary.
Due to no candidates receiving 50% of the vote in the presidential election, a runoff occurs between left-wing candidate Jeannette Jara of the Unity for Chile coalition and right-wing candidate José Antonio Kast of the Change for Chile coalition, with the vote set for December 14.
The Independent High Electoral Commission releases the seat distribution from Iraq's recent election as prime minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani's Coordination Framework alliance declares that it will form the majority bloc and will nominate the next prime minister.
Russia's Rosfinmonitoring adds former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov and London Business School dean Sergei Guriev to its list of extremists and terrorists.
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