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2025 (MMXXV) is the current year, and is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2025th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 25th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2020s decade.
So far, the year has seen an escalation of major armed conflicts,[1] including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began peace negotiations involving Vladimir Putin stringing along Donald Trump. There were also the Sudanese civil and Gaza wars, which had escalated into a famine and humanitarian crisis. Internal crises in Armenia, Bangladesh, Ecuador, France, Georgia, Germany, Haiti, Somalia, and South Korea continued into this year, with the latter leading to President Yoon Suk Yeol's arrest and removal from office. Several brief conflicts out of longstanding tensions emerged mid-year—India–Pakistan in May, Iran–Israel in June, and Cambodia–Thailand in July, in which a leaked phone call involving Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra and Cambodian Hun Sen resulted in the removal of the former.
In economics and business, the return of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency ushered in a series of tariffs levied by America on most of the world, significantly disrupting global trade, in addition to reinvigorating the China–United States trade war. The technology sector was additionally hit with the release of DeepSeek's chatbot, a Chinese large language model which competes with ChatGPT. Aviation and aerospace also saw accidents this year, including when Air India Flight 171 crashed in Ahmedabad, India. Several advances in space exploration were made as well, including the first crewed polar orbit spaceflight, and the first fully successful landing of a spacecraft on the Moon by a private company.
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Events
January
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- January 1
- Poland takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Hungarian presidency.[2][3]
- Bulgaria and Romania complete the process of joining the Schengen Area, lifting land border controls.[4]
- Liechtenstein becomes the 37th country to legalize same-sex marriage.[5]
- Ukraine halts the transportation of many Russian gas supplies through the country following the expiration of a five-year transit deal, while also becoming a state party in the International Criminal Court.[6][7]
- Fifteen people are killed (including the perpetrator) and 57 others are injured during a vehicle-ramming and shooting attack in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.[8]
- Thirteen people are killed and 3 more injured in a shooting in Cetinje, Montenegro.[9]
- January 6 – Indonesia becomes the tenth member to join BRICS.[10][11]
- January 7
- A 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Tibet, China, killing at least 126 people, with another 338 are injured.[12][13]
- Greater Los Angeles experiences the most destructive wildfires in its history, fueled by strong winds and prolonged drought conditions. Over 13,000 structures are destroyed, including most of Sunset Boulevard. At least 29 deaths are reported, while 180,000 people are evacuated, with fires continuing for days.[14][15]
- January 8 – Eighteen gunmen and a soldier are killed in an attack on the presidential palace in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad.[16]
- January 9 – The Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, Joseph Aoun, is elected the 14th president of Lebanon by parliament, ending the power vacuum that lasted over two years.[17]
- January 10 – The European Copernicus Climate Change Service reports that 2024 was the world's hottest year on record, and the first calendar year to pass the symbolic threshold of 1.5 °C of global warming.[18]
- January 11 – A gas station explosion in Al Bayda, Yemen, results in 40 deaths and dozens of others injured.[19]
- January 12 – 2024–25 Croatian presidential election: Zoran Milanović is re-elected for a second term.[20]
- January 13 – C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), a non-periodic comet, reaches perihelion, and is dubbed The Great Comet of 2025.[21][22]
- January 14 – February 2 – The 2025 World Men's Handball Championship is held in Croatia, Denmark and Norway, and is won by Denmark.[23]
- January 15
- The President of South Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol, is successfully arrested after a second attempt by police following a martial law declaration and successful impeachment motion last December.[24]
- Gaza war: Israel and Hamas approve a ceasefire agreement that seeks to end the war, exchange Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, and allow in international aid. It took effect on January 19.[25]
- Colossal Biosciences and University of Melbourne create the world's first artificial womb in marsupials as part of their project toward de-extinction of the thylacine.[26]
- January 16
- Blue Origin successfully launches its heavy-lift launch vehicle, New Glenn, on its first attempt, though fails to land its first stage booster as intended.[27][28]
- The 2025 Vanuatuan general election is held.[29]
- The National Liberation Army (ELN) launches multiple attacks in the Catatumbo region, northeastern Colombia. Over 100 people are killed during the clashes.[30]
- January 18
- 98 people are killed in a fuel tanker explosion near Suleja, Niger State, Nigeria.[31][32]
- Two Sharia judges are assassinated in their rooms at the Supreme Court of Iran in capital Tehran. The gunman injured two other people and committed suicide after the attacks.[33]
- January 19 – Gaza war: A ceasefire goes into effect, lasting until an Israeli surprise attack on 18 March.[34]
- January 21 – 78 people are killed after a fire breaks out in a hotel in the ski resort of Kartalkaya, Turkey.[35]
- January 23
- Micheál Martin is re-elected prime minister (Taoiseach) of Ireland by Dáil Éireann for a second non-consecutive term.[36][37]
- Thailand becomes the 38th country and the first in Southeastern Asia to legalize same-sex marriage.[38][39]
- January 24
- Storm Éowyn hits Ireland and the United Kingdom. Record high wind speeds of 183 km/h (114 mph) are recorded in Ireland, while over a million homes are left without power.[40][41][42]
- A series of ongoing boycotts in Southeastern European countries took place of several retail stores in that region, in response to raised food prices and alleged price fixing.[43]
- January 25 – The Dacian-era Helmet of Coțofenești, on loan from the National History Museum of Romania, is stolen along with three other gold artifacts from the Drents Museum in Assen by thieves who broke into the museum using explosives.[44]
- January 26 – The 2025 Belarusian presidential election is held,[45] with incumbent Alexander Lukashenko (independent, but of the Belaya Rus alliance) being re-elected.[46]
- January 27 – Global technology shares outside China fall sharply in response to the release of DeepSeek's chatbot, a Chinese competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT. Chip giant Nvidia loses almost $600 billion of its value, the biggest drop for a single company in U.S. stock market history.[47][48]
- January 29
- 2025 Potomac River mid-air collision: A United States Army Black Hawk helicopter with three occupants on board, collides with a Bombardier CRJ700 operated by PSA Airlines with 64 occupants on board in Washington, D.C., United States. There are no survivors.[49][50]
- Ahmed al-Sharaa is appointed as the president of Syria, after a one-month vacancy following the fall of the Assad regime.[51]
February
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- February 4
- China–United States trade war: China announces export controls and increased tariffs on certain American imports in retaliation for Donald Trump's imposition of tariffs on Chinese goods.[52]
- At least 11 people are killed (and the perpetrator) and another 15 are injured after a gunman opens fire at an adult education centre in Örebro, Sweden, the deadliest mass shooting in the country's history.[53][54]
- Donald Trump announces that the United States will take control of the Gaza Strip in an agreement with Israel, and that the U.S. military will be in charge of Gaza's reconstruction.[55][56][57]
- February 9
- The Baltic states complete synchronization of their power grids with continental Europe's grid, disconnecting from Russia's grid.[58]
- 2025 Liechtenstein general election: The Patriotic Union, led by Brigitte Haas, remains the largest party.[59]
- February 10 – A bus falls off a bridge over the Las Vacas River in Guatemala City, Guatemala, killing at least 55 people, and seriously injuring 9 others.[60]
- February 12
- Konstantinos Tasoulas is elected President of Greece by the Hellenic Parliament after four rounds in the 2025 Greek presidential election.[61]
- Klaus Iohannis resigns as President of Romania, making him the first Romanian president to do so post-revolution.[62]
- February 15 – Mahamoud Ali Youssouf is elected as the chairperson of the African Union Commission.[63]
- February 17 – 2025 Indonesian protests: A series of ongoing nationwide protests are held following the enactment of a legislation increasing military involvement in civilian government roles.[64]
- February 18
- Following a constitutional reform, Nicaragua becomes a diarchy with spouses Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo as co-presidents.[65][66]
- Vladimir Putin announces that Russia and the United States have officially agreed to restore diplomatic relations.[67] A four-hour summit between the US and Russia is held in Saudi Arabia.
- Egypt announces the discovery of Thutmose II's tomb by a joint British-Egyptian team, the first royal tomb to be discovered since Tutankhamun's in 1922. It is the 15th and final pharaoh tomb from the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt to have been found by archeologists.[68][69][a]
- February 19 – Croatia completes the process of joining the European Economic Area.[70]
- February 23 – 2025 German federal election: After being pushed forward as a result of the 2024 German government crisis, the centre-right CDU/CSU becomes the largest party, with big gains from the far-right AfD, resulting in a second-place finish.[71]
- February 25 – An Antonov An-26 of the Sudanese Air Force crashes in a residential area, near the Wadi Seidna Air Base. All 17 occupants onboard and 29 people on the ground die.[72]
- February 28 – A meeting between U.S. president Donald Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy takes place at the White House. Trump and V.P. JD Vance sharply criticise Zelenskyy, raising questions about support for Ukraine, a proposed end to the war, and the country's future in general.[73]
March
- March 2 – Firefly Aerospace becomes the first commercial company to successfully land on the Moon with no technical issues, with its Blue Ghost Mission 1.[74][75]
- March 3 – The Trump administration pauses military aid to Ukraine, following the Oval Office meeting with Zelenskyy the previous week.[76]
- March 4 – Colossal Biosciences creates woolly mice as part of de-extinction efforts for the woolly mammoth.[77][b]
- March 5 – Sudan files an application against the United Arab Emirates before the International Court of Justice, alleging violations of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide by the UAE through its support for the RSF, which is responsible for the genocide in Darfur.[78]
- March 8 – More than 1,000 people, including civilians, are reported killed in a crackdown by Syrian transitional government security forces in the Alawite region, described as the country's worst violence for years.[79][80][81]
- March 8–17 – The 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games are held in Turin, Italy.[82]
- March 9 – 2025 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election: After Justin Trudeau resigned as Canada's prime minister in January, former governor of the Bank of Canada Mark Carney becomes the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, becoming the Prime Minister of Canada five days later. The next month in April, the Liberal Party wins a fourth consecutive reelection and forms a minority government.[83][84][85][86]
- March 11
- The former President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, is arrested in the Philippines after being served an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.[87]
- Balochistan Liberation Army militants blow up railway tracks and hijack the Jaffar Express train bound from Quetta to Peshawar, taking 450 people hostages including both security personnel and civilians.[88]
- 2025 Greenlandic general election: The center-right Democrats become the largest party, defeating the incumbent Inuit Ataqatigiit.[89]
- March 12 – 2025 Belizean general election: The incumbent People's United Party wins a second term in a landslide victory.[90]
- March 16
- A fire breaks out in a nightclub in Kočani, North Macedonia, killing at least 59 people and injuring 155 others.[91]
- Keith Rowley resigns as Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago after nine years in office, and is succeeded by Stuart Young.[92][93]
- March 18
- Israel launches widespread aerial bombardments and attacks on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 591 people, including children, ending the ceasefire agreement reached in January.[94]
- The President of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, survives an attack on his convoy by al-Shabaab, killing at least 10 people.[95]
- March 19 – Nationwide protests erupt across Turkey following the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem İmamoğlu, on charges of corruption and terrorism.[96][97]
- March 20 – Kirsty Coventry is elected as the 10th, first female and African President of the International Olympic Committee in the first round of voting in the 144th IOC Session.[98]
- March 21
- A major power outage causes Heathrow Airport in London to completely shut down, with disruption expected to last for days, affecting thousands of flights around the world.[99]
- South Korea experiences one of its worst wildfires in modern history; over 87 000 hectares of land are destroyed in South Gyeongsang Province, killing at least 28 people.[100]
- March 28 – A 7.7-magnitude earthquake occurs in Myanmar, resulting in 5 413 killed and 11 402 injured.[101][102][103]
- March 31 – The Caribbean guilder is introduced, replacing the Netherlands Antillean guilder as the currency for Curaçao and Sint Maarten.[104]
April
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- April 1 – Fram2 launches aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, becoming the first crewed spaceflight to enter a polar retrograde orbit.[105][106][107]
- April 2 – US President Donald Trump issues sweeping trade tariffs on many countries, including a 10% baseline tariff for all imports.[108][109]
- April 3 – Hungary withdraws from the International Criminal Court after Israeli Prime Minister and accused war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu lands in Budapest for a state visit, in defiance of the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant against him.[110]
- April 4 – Impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol: The Constitutional Court of Korea unanimously upholds Yoon's impeachment in an 8–0 vote, officially removing him from office.[111]
- April 7 – Colossal Biosciences showcases three grey wolves that are genetically modified to exhibit the characteristics of the dire wolf.[112]
- April 8 – During a concert performance by Rubby Pérez in Santo Domingo, a nightclub roof collapses, killing at least 231 people, including Pérez, and injures more than 200 others.[113][114]
- April 12 – 2025 Gabonese presidential election: Incumbent transitional President Brice Oligui Nguema wins a full term. The election is the first since the 2023 Gabonese coup d'état, and was preceded by a constitutional referendum in 2024.[115]
- April 13 – October 13 – Expo 2025 is held in Osaka, Japan.[116]
- April 13 – 2025 Ecuadorian general election: Incumbent president Daniel Noboa is re-elected for a full term in the second round.[117]
- April 15 – A motorized wooden boat capsizes after catching fire in the Congo River near the town of Mbandaka in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing at least 148 people.[118][119][120]
- April 17 – The atmosphere of K2-18b, a candidate water world located 124 light-years away, is found to contain large quantities of dimethyl sulfide and/or dimethyl disulfide – two compounds that, on Earth, are only known to be produced by life.[121][122][123][124]
- April 21 – Pope Francis, head of the Catholic Church since 2013, dies at the age of 88. World leaders pay tribute. Many countries have declared national mourning.[125][126]
- April 22 – Militants affiliated with The Resistance Front open fire on a group of tourists at the Baisaran Valley in Jammu and Kashmir, India, killing 26 and injuring at least 20.[127]
- April 26
- The funeral of Pope Francis is attended by delegations from 164 countries, including 82 leaders, and 250,000 members of the public.[128][129][130]
- An explosion in the Port of Shahid Rajaee, Bandar Abbas, Iran, kills at least 70 people and injures more than 1,000.[131][132][133]
- At least 11 people are killed and at least 20 others are injured in a vehicle-ramming attack at the annual Lapu Lapu Day festival in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.[134][135]
- April 28
- A widespread power outage affects Spain and Portugal for hours. Andorra is affected for a few seconds while southern France is lightly affected.[136]
- 2025 Trinidad and Tobago general election: The UNC wins a majority government, defeating the incumbent PNM.[137]
- April 30 – The Ukraine–United States Mineral Resources Agreement is signed, providing an economic incentive for the US to continue to invest in Ukraine's defence and reconstruction, in exchange for access to the war-torn country's energy and mineral resources.[138]
May
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- May 3
- 2025 Australian federal election: The incumbent Labor Party led by Anthony Albanese wins reelection, increasing their majority.[139][140]
- 2025 Singaporean general election: The incumbent People's Action Party led by Lawrence Wong wins reelection in a landslide, retaining a supermajority government.[141]
- 2025 Malian protests: Hundreds of demonstrators gather in Bamako, Mali, to protest the government's proposed dissolution of political parties and extension of president Assimi Goïta's mandate by 5 years.[142] The protests mark the first pro-democracy demonstrations in the country since the regime took power in 2021.[143]
- May 6
- 2025 German federal election: Friedrich Merz is elected Chancellor of Germany in the second round of parliamentary voting, hours after being defeated in the first round, a first in post-WWII German history.[144][145][146]
- 2025 India–Pakistan conflict: India launches several missiles into Pakistani territory in response to the 2025 Pahalgam attack two weeks prior.[147]
- May 7–8 – 2025 conclave: 133 cardinal electors elect Robert Francis Prevost as Pope Francis's successor, on the fourth ballot. He takes the name Pope Leo XIV, and becomes the first pope from North America, the first with Peruvian or U.S. citizenship, and the first from the Order of Saint Augustine.[148]
- May 9–25 – The 2025 IIHF World Championship is held in Stockholm, Sweden, and Herning, Denmark, and is won by the United States.[149]
- May 11 – 2025 Albanian parliamentary election: The incumbent Socialist Party led by Edi Rama wins reelection, retaining a majority government.[150]
- May 12
- 2025 Philippine general election: The ruling Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas alliance win a narrow majority of the seats in the Senate, while one of its component parties Lakas–CMD wins the plurality of seats in the House of Representatives.[151][152]
- The Kurdistan Workers' Party announces its dissolution after previously declaring a ceasefire with Turkey.[153]
- May 13–17 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 is held in Basel, Switzerland. Austrian contestant JJ wins with the song "Wasted Love".[154]
- May 18
- 2025 Portuguese legislative election: The incumbent Social Democratic Party led by Luís Montenegro wins an increased plurality, but fails to achieve a majority.[155]
- 2025 Romanian presidential election: Following the annulment of the previous election, Bucharest mayor Nicușor Dan wins in the second round, beating George Simion.[156]
- May 25
- The 2025 Surinamese general election is held.[157]
- The 2025 Venezuelan parliamentary election is held.[158]
- May 31 – Josep-Lluís Serrano Pentinat is sworn in as the new Episcopal Co-Prince of Andorra and Bishop of Urgell after the Vatican accepts the resignation of Joan Enric Vives i Sicília for age limitation reasons.[159]
June
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- June 1
- 2025 Polish presidential election: Karol Nawrocki is narrowly elected President of Poland in the second round of voting, beating Rafał Trzaskowski.[160][161]
- Operation Spiderweb: Ukraine launches a large drone attack on Russian military bases. More than 40 aircraft of the Russian Air Force are attacked.[162]
- June 3
- 2025 South Korean presidential election: After being pushed forward as a result of the impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol, Lee Jae Myung wins the election, beating Kim Moon-soo.[163]
- 2025 Mongolian protests: Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene resigns as Prime Minister of Mongolia after losing a no confidence vote in the State Great Khural.[164]
- June 6 – June 2025 Los Angeles protests: Protests erupt in Los Angeles in response to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests and deportations of illegal immigrants.[165][166][167][168]
- June 10 – 10 people are killed and another >30 injured after a gunman opens fire at a school in Graz, Austria.[169]
- June 12 – Air India Flight 171, a London-bound Boeing 787, crashes into a building after take-off from Ahmedabad, India, killing 229 passengers, 12 crew on board, and 19 people on the ground. One passenger survives the crash.[170][171] It is the first fatal crash and hull loss involving a Boeing 787 Dreamliner.[172]
- June 13 – Iran–Israel war: Israel conducts air strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities, killing military commanders including Hossein Salami; Iran retaliates.[173][174]
- June 14 – July 13 – The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup is held in the United States, and is won by Chelsea.[175]
- June 14 – The No Kings protests occur across many cities in the U.S., as well as Canada, Europe, Japan and Mexico, against Donald Trump.[176][177]
- June 16–17 – The 51st G7 summit is held in Kananaskis, Canada.[178]
- June 22 – Iran–Israel war: The United States carries out B-2 bomber airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.[179]
- June 23 – Iran launches missiles at US bases in Qatar and Iraq in response to the previous day's strikes.[180]
- June 24–25 – A NATO summit is held at the World Forum in The Hague, Netherlands.[181]
- June 25 – The Axiom Mission 4 is launched. The mission involves four astronauts, including the first astronauts from Poland (Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski) and India (Shubhanshu Shukla) since the end of the Cold War.[182][183]
- June 27 – The U.S., with Qatari support, brokers a preliminary peace treaty between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, ending their armed conflict that started in 2022.[184]
July
- July 1 – 2025 Thai political crisis: The Constitutional Court of Thailand suspends Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from duty pending a case seeking her dismissal.[185]
- July 4–7 – At least 135 people are killed and over a hundred reported missing during a flood in Central Texas, United States.[186]
- July 11 – August 3 – The 2025 World Aquatics Championships are held in Singapore.[187]
- July 13 – Several clashes erupt in southern Syria between armed Druze and Bedouin groups.[188]
- July 16 – Israeli airstrikes hit the Syrian Presidential Palace and the Syrian General Staff headquarters in Damascus.[189]
- July 21
- 2025 Dhaka fighter jet crash: An F-7 BGI training aircraft of the Bangladesh Air Force crashes into Milestone College in Uttara, Dhaka, killing 31 people including the pilot.[190]
- Twenty-eight countries issue a joint statement calling for an immediate end to the Gaza war, saying it has "reached new depths" in terms of the suffering of civilians.[191]
- July 23 – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) rules that countries can sue each other over historical emissions of greenhouse gases and the effects of climate change.[192]
- July 24
- Angara Airlines Flight 2311, operated by an Antonov An-24 aircraft, crashes near Tynda in Eastern Siberia, Russia. All 48 people on board are killed.[193]
- Armed conflicts break out between Cambodia and Thailand after the escalation of a border dispute. At least 39 people are killed and more than 100,000 displaced due to the conflicts.[194]
- July 30 – An Mw 8.8 earthquake strikes off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, triggering tsunami warnings in Japan and Hawaii.[195]
August
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- August 7–17 – The 2025 World Games are held in Chengdu, China.[196]
- August 7 – OpenAI's model GPT-5 is released.[197]
- August 8 – Armenia and Azerbaijan sign a peace deal mediated by the United States to end 37-year-old hostilities regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.[198]
- August 15 – 2025 Russia–United States Summit: US president Donald Trump meets with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss a plan for resolving the conflict in Ukraine.[199]
- August 15–17 – The first World Humanoid Robot Games are held in Beijing, China.[200][201]
- August 19 – A multi-vehicle collision involving a bus carrying migrants deported from Iran, a motorcycle and a truck kills at least 79 people in Herat Province, Afghanistan.[202]
- August 22 – Famine is confirmed in Gaza City for the first time after the UN-backed body responsible for monitoring food security raises its classification to Phase 5, the highest and worst level. The IPC says more than 500,000 people are now facing "starvation, destitution and death".[203]
- August 22 – September 27 – The 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup is held in England.[204]
- August 30 – 2025 Thai political crisis: The Constitutional Court of Thailand removes Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office for ethical misconduct over leaked phone calls she had with former Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen.[205][206]
- August 31
- An earthquake in eastern Afghanistan kills over 2,200 people and injures 3,500.[207]
- Between 370 and 1,000 people are reported killed in a landslide caused by heavy rain that buries the village of Tarasin in the Marrah Mountains of Central Darfur and leaves one survivor.[208][209]
September
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- September 3 – At least 16 people are killed and over 21 are injured after the Glória funicular derailment in the centre of Lisbon, Portugal.[210][211]
- September 8
- 2025 Norwegian parliamentary election: Incumbent Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre's coalition retains their majority.[212]
- 2024–2025 French political crisis: The Bayrou government collapses after losing a no-confidence vote.[213]
- Mass anti-government protests erupt in Nepal, resulting in at least 22 deaths and hundreds injured. Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli resigns the following day amidst the demonstrations.[214]
- September 9
- The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly opens in New York City, United States.[215]
- Israel attacks the Hamas leadership in Doha, Qatar.[216]
- Russian drone incursion into Poland: Multiple drones breach Polish airspace during a large-scale Russian attack on Ukraine and are intercepted by Polish and NATO forces, marking the first attack on NATO territory and prompting Poland to invoke Article 4.[217]
- September 10 – Charlie Kirk, a right-wing activist and influential ally of President Trump, is assassinated at a campus event in Utah, prompting widespread reactions both domestically and internationally.[218]
- September 11 – The Supreme Federal Court convicts former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison for his involvement in the 2022 Brazilian coup plot.[219][220]
- September 12 – Former chief justice Sushila Karki assumes office as interim prime minister of an interim government formed after K. P. Sharma Oli's resignation in Nepal,[221] the decision notably being decided via a poll on a social media platform, Discord.[222][223][224]
- September 12–28 – The 2025 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship is held in Pasay and Quezon City, the Philippines.[225]
- September 13–21 – The 2025 World Athletics Championships are held in Tokyo, Japan.[226]
- September 16
- The 2025 Malawian general election is held.[227]
- A United Nations commission of inquiry finds that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.[228][229]
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Predicted and scheduled events
- September 20 – The Intervision 2025 is scheduled to be held in Moscow, Russia.[230]
- September 23 – The confirmation of charges for alleged crimes against humanity committed by former Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte is scheduled to be presented by the International Criminal Court.[231]
- September 27 – The 2025 Seychellois general election is scheduled to be held.[232][233]
- September 28 – The 2025 Moldovan parliamentary election is scheduled to be held.[234]
- October 3 – Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, will abdicate the throne in favor of his son Guillaume, who will reign as Guillaume V.[235]
- October 3–4 – The 2025 Czech parliamentary election is scheduled to be held.[236]
- October 12 – The 2025 Cameroonian presidential election is scheduled to be held.[237]
- October 19 – The second round of the 2025 Bolivian general election is scheduled to be held.[238]
- October 24 – The 2025 Irish presidential election is scheduled to be held.[239]
- October 26 – The 2025 Argentine legislative election is scheduled to be held.[240]
- October 29 – The 2025 Dutch general election is scheduled to be held.
- November 10–21 – The COP 30 summit will be held in Belém, Brazil.[241][242]
- November 15 – The 2025 Haitian general election is scheduled to be held.[243]
- November 16 – The 2025 Chilean general election is scheduled to be held.[244]
- November 21 – December 7 – The 2025 FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup will take place in the Philippines.[245]
- November 22 – The G20 Johannesburg Summit will take place in South Africa, the first time a G20 summit has been held in Africa.[246]
- November 26 – December 14 – The 2025 World Women's Handball Championship will take place in Germany and the Netherlands.[247]
- December 13 – The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 is scheduled to be held in Tbilisi, Georgia.[248]
- December 21 – January 18 – The 2025 Africa Cup of Nations will take place in Morocco.[249]
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- October – Timor-Leste will be the 11th member state of ASEAN, being the first enlargement of ASEAN since Cambodia's entry in 1999 and comprising all countries of Southeast Asia.[250]
- An ecumenical meeting of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church at Nicaea is scheduled to be held to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea.[251]
- Norway aims to ban the sale of all new diesel and petrol cars by this year.[252][253]
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Deaths
Nobel Prizes
Laureates for Nobel Prizes in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace will be presumably announced in October, with the awards ceremony taking place on 10 December 2025.[254]
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