The edition of
Friday 28 November 2025
10 stories, section by section, the most important first.
International
The Israeli military launches a raid in Beit Jinn, Syria, targeting unknown gunmen and carrying out airstrikes, killing 13 Syrians, including two children, and wounding 25 others. Six Israeli soldiers are also wounded in a shootout with local residents. Israel says it was targeting Jaama Islamiya.
United States president Donald Trump announces that he will pardon former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who is serving a U.S. prison sentence for drug-trafficking offenses.
The Law
Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak resigns after agents from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office raid his apartment.
Russia formally outlaws Human Rights Watch as an undesirable organization.
Science
Airbus launches an emergency software update on A320 aircraft worldwide to prevent potential corruption to guidance systems caused by intense solar radiation, affecting 6,000 planes, causing major travel disruptions worldwide.
A team of scientists announces the detection of electric discharges in the atmosphere of Mars for the first time by NASA's Perseverance rover, detected near the Jezero crater region, as a phenomenon described as "mini lightning", though not confirmed to be the same as actual lightning.
Environment
The toll from the landslides caused by heavy rains in Sri Lanka, mainly between Badulla and Nuwara Eliya, increases to 56 people killed and 600 houses damaged.
Two tankers sanctioned as being a part of the alleged Russian shadow fleet are hit by explosions while transiting the Bosporus, with at least one of the vessels catching on fire. Turkey says search and rescue operations are underway to evacuate the crew members.
The toll from the floods in Indonesia increases to 174 people killed and 80 more missing, mainly in North Sumatra.
The death toll from the floods in Thailand increases to 145 people, mainly in Songkhla province.
Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 28 November 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.