One person is killed in an Israeli airstrike attack against a vehicle in Bint Jbeil, Lebanon. Several students are also wounded on a bus passing in the area.
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November 19, 2025 (Wednesday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Gunmen target a church in Eruku, Kwara state, Nigeria, killing two people and kidnapping the pastor and some worshippers.
At least 28 Palestinians are killed and 77 more are injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City and Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip after Israel accused Hamas of firing at Israeli troops.
Twenty-three Pakistani Taliban militants are killed in two army's raids in Kurram District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
At least 10 Niger Armed Forces soldiers are killed in an attack by Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin in Garbougna, Tillabéri Region, Niger.
Dozens of people are killed in a series of Russian missile and drone strikes across Ukraine, including 31 people killed and more than 100 others injured in a ballistic missile strike on a nine-story residential building in Ternopil. Many more remain missing with search and rescue operations underway.
Arts and culture
At the 76th National Book Awards, Rabih Alameddine wins the Fiction prize for his novel The True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), while Omar El Akkad wins the Nonfiction prize for his book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This about the Gaza war.
Disasters and accidents
Sixty-four people are missing when a barge capsizes on the Sankuru River in Kasaï Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
One person is killed and another injured in a large-scale fire in Ōita, Japan. At least 170 homes are damaged and another 260 households remain without electricity.
Health and environment
Cambodian conservation groups release two captive-bred greater adjutants into the Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary for the first time, fitting them with GPS trackers as part of efforts to restore the species' wild population.
International relations
Iran releases a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker and its 21 crew after seizing it without explanation last Friday in the Strait of Hormuz.
Russian Navy spy ship Yantar uses lasers to disrupt Royal Air Force aircraft monitoring the vessel in the North Sea for the first time. The ship was being followed by a Royal Navy frigate with Poseidon P-8 planes deployed to track its movements.
Law and crime
The Tatmadaw conducts a raid on the scam center compound in Shwe Kokko, Myawaddy District, Myanmar, and detains 346 foreigners and confiscates nearly 10,000 mobile devices.
United States president Donald Trump enacts a bill ordering the release of more information about Jeffrey Epstein's case, a day after Congress passed the bill.
Spain's Supreme Court orders the provisional release of former Socialist Party official Santos Cerdán, who is under investigation for alleged involvement in a criminal organization, bribery, and influence peddling in public works contracting, stating that the risk of evidence tampering has been reduced. The court requires him to surrender his passport.
Italy's Supreme Court of Cassation approves a Ukrainian national's extradition to Germany, where he faces charges related to alleged involvement in the Nord Stream pipelines explosions in 2022.
Lawrence Reed, who have poured flammable liquid over a 26-year-old woman on a Chicago CTA Blue Line train and later set her on fire Monday evening, faces federal terrorism charge.
Politics and elections
Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada dismisses energy minister Svitlana Hrynchuk and justice minister German Galushchenko after an anti-corruption investigation into alleged misconduct at the state nuclear agency implicated them, among other officials.
Science and technology
Ford Motor Co. issues a recall of over 200,000 Bronco and Bronco Sport vehicles due to a possible dashboard failure.
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