The edition of
Wednesday 22 October 2025
17 stories, section by section, the most important first.
International
According to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society forty-five people, including former prisoners and a child, are arrested during a series of Israeli raids in Nablus, Ramallah, Qalqilya and Tulkarem, in the occupied West Bank. They further say that homes are vandalized and the arrested are assaulted.
One person is killed and six others are injured in Russian drone strikes on a kindergarten in Kholodnohirskyi District, Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.
Five people are killed during two separate United States airstrikes against two boats in the Pacific Ocean, the first such attacks in the area. The attacks since September 2025, previously limited only to the Caribbean Sea, have killed a total of 37 people.
A man opens fire outside the Serbian Parliament in Belgrade and sets fire to a tent, critically injuring a person, before being arrested. The incident is classified as a terrorist attack.
Six people are killed and several others are injured in Russian strikes on power plants in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Three soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces are killed in an operation in Stavropol, Stavropol Krai, Russia.
Politics
Greece's parliament approves a law prohibiting demonstrations around the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens, designating the area for ceremonial use only.
Argentine foreign minister Gerardo Werthein submits his resignation to President Javier Milei.
Thai deputy finance minister Vorapak Tanyawong resigns following his alleged involvement in a transnational scam operation.
The Law
The Fijian High Court sentences former prime minister Frank Bainimarama to a 12-month suspended prison term after being found guilty of making an unwarranted demand to a public official under the Crimes Act this month.
An opposition politician of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya party is shot and killed by an unidentified gunman in Weligama, Sri Lanka, amid an increase of shootings in the country, which have left 51 people killed and 56 injured since the beginning of the year.
Environment
Four people are killed when a Robinson R66 helicopter crashes near Ekalaka, Montana, United States.
At least 12 people are killed, 19 others are injured and 10 are reported missing following an explosion at a munitions factory in Kopeysk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.
Forty-six people are killed and others are injured in a collision between two buses and other vehicles on the Kampala–Gulu Highway in Uganda.
Forty people are killed, including infants, and thirty others are rescued when a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Mahdia, Mahdia Governorate, Tunisia.
Arts
The Louvre Museum in Paris, France, reopens with increased activity several days after jewelry from the Galerie d'Apollon was stolen in a heist. The Galerie d'Apollon, however, remains closed.
Imprisoned journalists Andrzej Poczobut of Belarus and Mzia Amaglobeli of Georgia are awarded the 2025 Sakharov Prize.
Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 22 October 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.