Tuesday 18 November 2025

The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) accuses French energy and petroleum company TotalEnergies of committing war crimes through a joint task force deployed to protect natural gas sites in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. The ECCHR alleges that the joint task force illegally imprisoned, beat, tortured, and killed over 220 civilians.

Thirteen people are killed and several others are wounded in an Israeli airstrike in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon District, Lebanon.

A 17-year-old girl is killed, and nine other people are injured in overnight Russian missile strikes on Berestyn, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.

Two people are killed in two separate Israeli airstrikes on vehicles in Bint Jbeil and Marjayoun, Lebanon.

Saudi Arabia and the United States ratify a joint declaration on civil nuclear energy, and the U.S. approves a defense sale that includes future deliveries of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia.

U.S. president Donald Trump announces the designation of Saudi Arabia as a major non-NATO ally.

A United States district court bars Texas from using a newly drawn congressional map in next year's midterm elections, ruling that it is likely an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

Texas governor Greg Abbott declares the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as terrorist organizations and bans them from owning land in Texas, United States.

The Polish Sejm elects Włodzimierz Czarzasty as Marshal, replacing Szymon Hołownia, who becomes Deputy Marshal.

Brazil's Supreme Federal Court sentences three army officers and a federal police officer to 21–24 years in prison after finding them guilty of participating in a plot to kill then-president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and other officials to prevent the 2023 transfer of power. The court rules that the group helped plan the broader coup attempt linked to former president Jair Bolsonaro, who was previously convicted in the same case.

The Spanish National Police Corps, in coordination with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, dismantle a Jalisco New Generation Cartel logistics office in Spain, arresting 20 people, including two members of the Italian Camorra organization.

An Argentine court orders the seizure of 20 properties owned by former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her family in connection with her fraud conviction involving public works contracts.

Poland annuls former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro's diplomatic passport at the request of prosecutors, who seek his arrest on charges that include leading an organized criminal group and misusing public funds.