The edition of
Wednesday 12 November 2025
11 stories, section by section, the most important first.
International
Cambodian prime minister Hun Manet accuses Thailand of shooting and killing a Cambodian villager near the border, two days after a Thai soldier was injured by a land mine in the area, increasing tensions and threatening the ceasefire that put an end to the conflict in July.
During a G7 meeting on the Russo-Ukrainian war, Canadian foreign minister Anita Anand announces new sanctions targeting Russian entities involved in cyberattacks, drone production, energy infrastructure, and the transport of oil via the shadow fleet.
Politics
A bill passes through Congress and is signed by president Donald Trump, ending the longest government shutdown in American history at 43 days.
Preliminary results show prime minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani's Reconstruction and Development Coalition leading the polls.
Business
The United States Mint strikes its last penny for circulation, though it will remain legal tender. There are still an estimated 300 billion pennies in circulation according to the Treasury Department.
The Law
Ukrainian justice minister German Galushchenko and energy minister Svitlana Hrynchuk resign following a National Anti-Corruption Bureau investigation into an alleged kickback scheme involving Ukraine's nuclear power plant operator Energoatom. The alleged head of the corruption group, Tymur Mindych, has fled Ukraine.
A U.S. federal jury orders Boeing to pay $28.45 million in damages to the family of Shikha Garg, a victim of the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX crash, marking the first civil trial verdict related to the two fatal MAX accidents.
An 18-year-old is sentenced to eight years and nine months in prison for a shooting at a bar in Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, that killed one person and injured two others in 2024.
Two police officers are injured and 29 people are arrested when a riot breaks out at a immigration detention site in Sintiki, Serres, Greece.
Environment
Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 12 November 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.