Tuesday 4 November 2025

Hamas returns the body of Israeli American Itay Chen to Israel, the last hostage with U.S. citizenship.

Two people are killed in an American airstrike against a boat in the Pacific Ocean.

Nineteen armed bandits, two soldiers and a vigilante are killed in a shootout in Shanono, Kano State, Nigeria.

Off-year elections are held in the United States, including one special election to a vacancy in the federal House of Representatives, two elections for the governors of Virginia and New Jersey, the next mayor of New York City, and various local elections.

The U.S. federal government shutdown becomes the longest shutdown in American history following a failed 14th vote by the U.S. Senate, surpassing the 2018–2019 shutdown that occurred during President Donald Trump's first term.

Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum announces a security plan for the state of Michoacán following the assassination of the mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manzo, who was shot and killed on Saturday. The plan includes the dispatch of the National Guard, more federal personnel, and the creation of a special unit at the state's prosecution office.

Morocco declares October 31, starting next year, to be a national holiday in celebration of Friday's UN resolution backing Morocco's plan of autonomy for Western Sahara in a 50-year dispute between the country and the Algeria-backed Polisario Front.

Abigail Spanberger is elected as the governor of Virginia to become the state's first female governor.

President of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum is groped in front of the National Palace, Mexico City. The man is arrested on the spot.

The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirms former Republika Srpska president Milorad Dodik's six-year ban from political office, rejecting Dodik's appeals and ruling that the ban did not violate the constitution.

A Moroccan court sentences a man to five years in prison and fines him US$107,300 for human trafficking after he recruited jobseekers online who were later transported to Myanmar and forced to work in scam centers, marking the country's first conviction involving the recruitment of victims for foreign scam compounds.

The casualty toll from Hurricane Melissa in Haiti increases to 43 deaths, with 13 others still missing. Nearly 12,000 homes are flooded and at least 200 have been destroyed.

At least eight people are killed and about a dozen others are injured when a passenger train crashes into a cargo train near Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India.

14 people are killed, including the three crew members and 11 on the ground, and fifteen others are injured when UPS Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-11 aircraft crashes near Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Kentucky, United States shortly after takeoff.

The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi's impact on Visayas and Mindanao, Philippines, rises to 66, with search and rescue operations ongoing.

Eleven people are killed and about 30 others are injured in a fire at a retirement home in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.