Two police officers are killed and four more injured after a bomb explodes near their armoured personnel carrier in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
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November 20, 2025 (Thursday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Israeli forces and tanks move 300 m (980 ft) beyond the Yellow Line in Gaza City, violating the ceasefire.
Arts and culture
Frida Kahlo's 1940 self-portrait El sueño (La cama) sells for US$54.66 million at Sotheby's in New York City, United States, setting a new auction record for the most expensive painting by a woman, surpassing the previous high set by Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed.
Business and economy
American telecommunications company Verizon announces it will lay off over 13,000 employees, nearly 20% of its management workforce, in a restructuring.
Disasters and accidents
The toll from the landslides in Cilacap Regency, Indonesia, seven days ago, increases to 18 people killed and 34 others missing.
Two trains collide near ÄeskĂ© BudÄjovice, Czech Republic, injuring at least 57 people, including five seriously.
Nearly 100 people are rescued when a ferry develops a leak while traveling in the Gulf of Thailand.
Sixteen people are killed and 24 are injured when a tourist bus plunges off from a bridge into a river in Santuk district, Kampong Thom province, Cambodia.
The toll from the floods and landslides in Vietnam since the last four days increases to 41 people killed and nine missing.
A grizzly bear attacks a group of schoolchildren and teachers on a walking trail in Bella Coola, British Columbia, Canada, injuring 11 people, two of them critically.
Health and environment
At COP30, Brazilian environment minister Marina Silva announces that Germany has committed to donate âŹ1 billion (US$1.5 billion) towards Brazil's rainforest blended-finance mechanism over the next decade.
The conference is temporarily suspended after a fire breaks out in a venue.
International relations
Lithuania reopens its Medininkai and Ć alÄininkai border checkpoints with Belarus after closing them over security concerns involving weather balloons used for smuggling.
Law and crime
A Philippine regional trial court sentences former de facto Bamban mayor Alice Guo to life imprisonment after finding her guilty of human trafficking for a scam center in her town.
Clashes erupt across Nepal between supporters of ousted Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli and supporters of interim prime minister Sushila Karki. A curfew is imposed in various districts.
Spain's Supreme Court sentences Attorney General Ălvaro GarcĂa Ortiz to two years of disqualification and a fine for revealing secrets about a tax fraud case involving Madrid president Isabel DĂaz Ayuso's partner.
A Nigerian court sentences Biafran separatist Nnamdi Kanu to life imprisonment on seven terrorism charges over his leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra militant group.
Politics and elections
Tongans vote to elect 26 of the 30 members of the Legislative Assembly. Members of the country's nobility elect nine representatives, while the rest of the voting population elect 17 MPs.
Brazilian president Luiz InĂĄcio Lula da Silva appoints Attorney General Jorge Messias to the Supreme Federal Court to fill the seat that retired justice LuĂs Roberto Barroso vacated, pending Senate confirmation.
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