Regional Developments
Yağmur Nisa METİN tarafındanREGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
24.11.2025
FRANCE AND IRAN VISIT PARIS AND NUCLEAR MEETING
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/24/france-seeks-progress-on-nuclear-dispute-as-araghchi-set-to-visit-paris
Trump orders blacklisting of Muslim Brotherhood branches as 'terrorist' groups
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/24/trump-orders-blacklisting-muslim-brotherhood-branches-as-terrorist-groups
She met with the Chinese Prime Minister and the JapanesePrime Minister at the G20 summit
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/south-koreas-president-lee-meets-chinese-premier-japan-pm-g20-summit-2025-11-23/
Hong Kong leader supports China's policy towards Japan forthe first time over issues
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/hong-kong-leader-backs-chinas-policy-japan-first-remarks-dispute-2025-11-24/
Trump discusses fragile trade truce in phone call with Xi
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/24/trump-and-xi-hold-very-good-phone-call-building-on-fragile-trade-truce
Electromagnetic Wars
https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2025/11/electromagnetic-warfare-natos-blind-spot-could-decide.html
25.11.2025
Pressure on Venezuela
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/25/top-us-military-adviser-tours-caribbean-as-pressure-on-venezuela-deepens
German court opens case against left-wing 'hammer gang'
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/25/german-court-opens-trial-against-left-wing-hammer
Trump's $50 million bounty and Nicolas Maduro
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2025/11/25/could-trumps-50m-reward-succeed-in-toppling-venezuelas-nicolas-maduro
Japan unveils DOGE version aimed at reducing waste
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-unveils-its-version-doge-aimed-cutting-wasteful-spending-2025-11-25/
26.11.2025
Trump had a 'great meeting' with Japanese leader Takaichi
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/trump-says-he-had-great-talk-with-japanese-leader-takaichi-2025-11-26/
Japan PM Takaichi
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-ready-take-necessary-action-forex-pm-takaichi-says-2025-11-26/
US diplomats meet with governments against mass migration
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-directs-diplomats-lobby-governments-against-mass-migration-cable-says-2025-11-27/
27.11.2025
Afgans And US
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/11/27/major-fallout-for-afghans-in-us-after-national-guard-shooting
Trump And Vanezuella Cold War China
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/pinch-point/2025/11/27/aje-onl-pp-caribbean-war-271125
Court Allows Carolina
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/court-allows-north-carolinas-new-republican-drawn-us-house-map-take-effect-2025-11-27/
77,00 Afgans
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/27/japan-denies-report-trump-told-pm-takaichi-not-to-provoke-china-on-taiwan
Israeli troops
kill two Palestinians
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dyqzm0rp4o
28.11.2025
Ukraine
Ukraine is running out of men
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/11/28/ukraine-is-running-out-of-men-money-and-time
Zelensky's top aide
Zelensky's top aide, anti-corruption investigators resign
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/28/ukraine-anticorruption-investigators-search-home-of-zelenskyys-top-aide
Merz
Merz will make changes to the retirement system
https://www.reuters.com/world/merz-hopes-avoid-german-coalition-crisis-with-vow-overhaul-pensions-2025-11-28/
Israel and Hamas at War
Hezbollah leader says there could be a new war with Israel
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hezbollah-chief-says-group-will-decide-timing-response-israels-killing-tabtabai-2025-11-28/
Ukraine And Nato
Says Rubio plans to skip NATO meeting at critical moment for Ukraine
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/rubio-plans-skip-nato-meeting-key-moment-ukraine-sources-say-2025-11-28/
29.11.2025
Russia's attacks
More than 600 thousand people were left without electricity in Ukraine
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2gylngx7go
russia and ukraine
6 people died
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/29/deadly-russian-attack-on-kyiv-cuts-power-to-half-of-city
Pope Leo visits Istanbul
Pope Leo And Blue Mosque
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gp917zr8no
Israel
Israel has 'de facto state policy' on organized torture, UN report says
Gaza
It was reported that more than 70 thousand people produced it in Gaza
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8e97kl240lo
Française in Paris
Finémathèque Française in Paris decided to close due to a bedbug infestation.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/28/pariss-cinematheque-francaise-closes-doors-over-bedbug-infestation
30.11.2025
Benjamin Netanyahu
HE Asked for forgiveness rom the prime mınıster of Israel
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gv76r5qpvo
Rusia And Ukraine
3 people died and many were injured as a result of the Russian attack
Zelensky And Ukraine
Zelensky chose as restructuring and investment advisor
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-picks-ex-ukrainian-envoy-us-reconstruction-investment-adviser-2025-11-30/>
01.12.2025
Pope Leo
Pope Leo finds his voice on first foreign trip
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgrwedyr0eo
Us And Venezuela
demands answers to boat attack allegations
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8zyp988zvo
Ukraine
Told Ukraine to stop attack on CCP terminal
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/kazakhstan-criticises-ukraine-over-drone-attack-cpc-oil-terminal-2025-11-30/
Zelensky
He said there were "tough problems" to solve
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-says-tough-issues-still-need-be-resolved-after-florida-talks-2025-12-01/
Ukraine And Putin
Putin “shouldn’t be rewarded” in Ukraine peace plan.
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/quotable/2025/12/1/putin-shouldnt-be-rewarded-in-ukraine-peace-plan
2.12.2025
ISRAEL-GAZA
•UK criticises Gaza aid delays as tents take year to arrive
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqlk663555no
•UK criticises Gaza aid delays as tents take year to arrive
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqlk663555no
UKRAINE-RUSSIA
•Putin and Trump's envoy set for key Ukraine talks in Moscow
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8ng3yjenpo
•Ukraine in maps: Tracking the war with Russia
https://www.bbc.com/news/war-in-ukraine
•South African radio presenter among five charged overRussia recruitment plot
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yd91y2250o
•Ukrainians in war-ravaged Donbas weigh prospects of peacedeal
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpq47derx2vo
AFRICA
•Zambian-American influencer sentenced to 18 months forhate speech
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgqnklqge7o
•Nigeria's defence minister resigns amid kidnapping crisis
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62lg9047e0o
•Nigeria grants asylum to Guinea-Bissau presidentialcandidate after coup
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3wq2zznz1o
3.12.2025
ISRAEL-GAZA
•Israel says Rafah crossing to open soon to let Palestiniansleave Gaza via Egypt
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwk7xen544o
UKRAINE-RUSSIA
•Ireland to give €125m to Ukraine as Zelensky visits Dublin
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn41jzw9eyko
•Kremlin signals no Ukraine breakthrough after Putin talkswith US
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyv0ex7v8ro
•Belgium urges Europe to drop plan for frozen Russian assetsto aid Ukraine
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7n95wzl9lo
•What latest Ukraine talks reveal about Putin's state of mind
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpq4e21nr5vo
AFRICA
•Was it a coup or was it a 'sham'? Behind Guinea-Bissau'smilitary takeover
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1m8nm22785o
•Kenyan MPs accuse British soldiers of decades of sexualabuse
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgq5dvygllo
4.12.2025
ISRAEL-GAZA
•Who are the released hostages?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvl9k4mw8no
•Israel says Palestinian groups returned body of Thai hostageheld in
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd6x2j4g3z7o
•'Like first aid for manuscripts': Recovery work begins at Gaza's war-damaged heritage sites
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c157n1g977go
•'All Israeli people are with us', parents of last dead hostage in Gaza tell BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gk7gz3d1eo,
•Prominent anti-Hamas militia leader Yasser Abu Shabab killed in Gaza
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0nd088e09o
UKRAINE-RUSSIA
•Ukraine and US negotiators to meet in Florida after Moscowtalks, White House says
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7731n5z6d3o
AFRICA
•US and EU critical minerals project could displace thousandsin DRC – report
•Uganda stops granting refugee status for Eritreans, Somalis and Ethiopians
5.12.2025
ISRAEL-GAZA
•'It's not safe for my father to remain in Gaza'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqxqev4rez7o
•Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protestscontests dismissal
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/05/tenured-professor-fired-pro-palestinian-protests
UKRAINE-RUSSIA
•Putin says Russia will take Donbas by force or Ukraine'stroops will withdraw
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgexgwr1wrro
•Putin says Russia ready to supply 'uninterrupted' fuel to India,
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g482m3yyzo
•Which European countries have mandatory or voluntary military service
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgj4npzp53o
AFRICA
•What's the fighting in DR Congo all about?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgly1yrd9j3o
•Western countries press Tanzania to release bodies of post-election victims
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xdvg2ydddo
•US considers wider sanctions on Sudanese army and RSF as ceasefire efforts falter
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/05/us-sanctions-sudan-army-rsf-ceasefire
•RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satelliteimages show
•People flee DR Congo fighting one day after peace dealsigned in Washington
• Lebanese army arrests six after gunmen attack UN peacekeepers in South
• Updates: Israel kills 7 Palestinians in Gaza as deadly violations intensify
• Israeli drone chases and kills elderly woman in Gaza as attacks continue
• Nightclub fire in India’s Goa kills 25, including four tourists
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/6/at-least-23-people-killed-in-nightclub-fire-in-indias-goa
07.12.2025
• Bodies of 17 people found in boat off of Greece’s Crete
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/7/seventeen-people-found-dead-in-boat-off-of-greeces-crete
ISRAEL
• Updates: Israel wounds child, calls grow for next phase of Gaza truce
• Hamas and Israel move towards phase two of US-backed Gaza plan
• Sudan facing ‘massive’ humanitarian aid crisis as war rages, WFP warns
08.12.2025
• Thailand launches air raids along Cambodia border after deadly clashes
• Sudan group accuses RSF of raping 19 women who fled el-Fashe
• Thailand-Cambodia updates: Thousands flee clashes as border row reignites
• Magnitude 7.5 earthquake in north Japan injures 23 people
• Ecuadorean ex-President Lenin Moreno to stand trial for bribery charges
09.12.2025
• Honduras issues arrest warrant for ex-president Hernandez after US pardon
• Thailand-Cambodia updates: Renewed fighting kills more civilians, soldiers
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/12/9/thailand-cambodia-live
• Death toll rises amid renewed hostilities along Thailand-Cambodia border
• Turkiye jails footballers Baltaci, Yandas pending trial in betting probe
10.12.2025
• Student killed, suspect in custody in Kentucky State University shooting
• S Korea, Japan scramble warplanes in response to Russia, China air patrol
• Military transport plane crashes in war-torn Sudan, killing crew: Repor
• Updates: Gaza families trapped in flooded tents as enclave hit by storm
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/12/10/live-israel-5
• ‘Possible rise in maternal deaths’: How USAID cuts strand Malawi’s mothers
• Young Palestinian dies in Israeli custody, dozens taken in West Bank raids
11.12.2025
GAZA
• Displaced Gaza families struggle as winter storm hits
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/11/displaced-gaza-families-struggle-as-winter-storm-hits
• Deaths mount on fourth day of border fighting between Thailand, Cambodia
• Indonesia’s Aceh families struggle as floods leave villages in ruins
• At least 33 killed in Myanmar military gov’t air strike on hospital
• Over 400 civilians killed in eastern DR Congo as US peace deal falters
• Baby dies of exposure in flooded tent as Storm Byron batters Gaza
12.12.2025
• Indiana’s state Senate votes down redistricting bill despite Trump pressure
• ‘Catastrophic flooding’ in North America’s Pacific Northwest as rains ease
• Tsunami warning lifted after latest earthquake hits Japan’s northeast
• Gaza’s displaced face storm disaster with almost nothing
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/12/gazas-displaced-face-storm-disaster-with-almost-nothing
• LIVE: At least 14 people die in Gaza in past 24 hours amid storm
• Israel bombards areas across southern Lebanon in latest truce violation
• Russian forces ‘completely cut off’ from Kupiansk, says Ukrainian commander
13.12.2025
• Person of interest detained over deadly Brown University shooting
• UN chief condemns ‘horrific’ drone attack in Sudan as 6 peacekeepers killed
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/13/bangladesh-peacekeepers-killed-attack-un-base-abyei-sudan
• RSF drone strike kills at least three in central Sudan, injures several
• Russian attacks cut power for thousands in Ukraine as peace talks press on
• Russia damages Turkish-owned vessels in attack on Ukrainian ports
14.12.2025
• JetBlue flight near Venezuela avoids ‘midair collision’ with US tanker
• Police release ‘person of interest’ held after 2 killed at Brown University
• Hamas confirms killing of senior commander in Israeli attack in Gaza
• At least 15 killed in shooting at Jewish festival at Sydney’s Bondi Beach
15.12.2025
• ICC rejects Israeli bid to block Gaza war crimes investigation
• Gaza authorities struggle to recover bodies from rubble amid winter storms
• At least 37 dead after flash floods hit Morocco’s Safi
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/15/dozens-dead-after-flash-floods-hit-moroccan-city-of-safi
• ‘No work’: India’s Alang, the world’s largest graveyard of ships, is dying
16.12.2025
• Trump expands US travel ban to include Syria, Palestine
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/16/trump-expands-us-travel-ban-to-include-syria-palestine
• Israel denies entry to Canadian MPs trying to reach occupied West Bank
• Europe establishes Ukraine reparations commission amid push to end war
• US military kills 8 in latest attacks on vessels in eastern Pacific
17.12.2025
• Republicans defy House leadership to force vote on healthcare subsidies
• Winter storms worsen Gaza humanitarian crisis as UN says aid still blocked
• England’s resident doctors begin five-day strike
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/17/englands-resident-doctors-begin-five-day-strike
• Morocco launches nationwide emergency relief after floods kill dozens
18.12.2025
• Houthis detain 10 more United Nations staff in Yemen, bringing total to 69
• US sanctions more ICC judges, citing ruling on Israeli war crime probe
• French anaesthetist jailed for life after poisoning and killing patients
• Baby Mohammed freezes to death as Gaza battles winter and displacement
TRUMP
• Kennedy Center board votes to rename in honour of Trump, White House says
• Trump signs order to reclassify marijuana, ease research restrictions
19.12.2025
• Moscow’s narrative wobbles as Ukraine takes back Kupiansk
• Updates: Israeli attack on school-turned-shelter in Gaza kills six people
• Israel bombs Gaza wedding as mediators hold ceasefire talks in US
• RSF artillery strikes kill 16 civilians in Sudan’s embattled Kordofan
20.12.2025
• Ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan and wife sentenced to 17 years in corruption case
• Russian attack on Ukraine’s Odesa kills at least 8 as peace talks lumber on
• Bangladesh holds state mourning, funeral for slain uprising activist
ISRAEL
• Islamic University of Gaza resumes classes on site amid Israeli destruction
• MSF urges Israel to let critical aid into Gaza as children freeze to death
• Israeli truce violations making Gaza peace efforts ‘incredibly difficult
21.12.2025
• ‘Alarming’ medicine shortages in Gaza amid Israeli restrictions
• Israel kills two Palestinians, including 16-year-old, in West Bank
• South Africa shooting updates: At least 9 people killed near Johannesburg
22.12.2025
• Ecuador soldiers sentenced to 34 years in prison for disappearing children
• Car bomb kills Russian General Fanil Sarvarov in Moscow
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/22/moscow-car-bomb-kills-russian-general
ISRAEL
• Israel kills two Palestinians in Gaza City as ceasefire violations mount
• At least three killed in Israeli attack on southern Lebanon’s Sidon
23.12.2025
• Venezuela passes law enacting harsh penalties for supporters of US blockade
• Libyan army chief killed in plane crash near Turkiye’s capital
• Israeli forces demolish shops in raids near occupied East Jerusalem
• Israel will never fully withdraw from Gaza, defence minister says
• Mexican Navy plane crashes off US coast, killing five
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/23/mexican-navy-plane-crashes-off-us-coast-killing-five
• ‘We have nothing’: Endless pain for displaced civilians fleeing Sudan war
24.12.2025
• Explosion rocks crowded mosque in Nigeria, killing at least five
• Syria says key ISIL leader Taha al-Zoubi captured near Damascus
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/24/syria-announces-arrest-of-isil-leader-al-zoubi
• Israeli forces kill, wound Palestinians as Netanyahu issues Hamas threat
• Three people, including officers, killed in explosion in Russia’s Moscow
25.12.2025
• Turkiye and Libya intensify probe into deadly plane crash near Ankara
• Five people killed in firefight on Tajik-Afghan border, Tajikistan says
• Rescue helicopter crashes, killing five on Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro
• Eleven suspects arrested over deadly South African tavern shooting
ISIL
• Turkiye arrests 115 ISIL suspects it says planned holiday attacks
• Trump says US launched strike against ISIL in northwest Nigeria
• Syria says senior ISIL commander killed in Damascus countryside raid
26.12.2025
• Stabbing, chemical spray attack injures 15 at Japanese factory
• Two people dead in stabbing, car-ramming attack in Israel
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/26/two-people-dead-in-stabbing-car-ramming-attack-in-israel
• Explosion at mosque in Syria’s Homs kills at least eight
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/26/explosion-at-mosque-in-syrias-homs-kills-three-report
27.12.2025
• Palestinians suffer flooded tents and debris as cold and rain lash Gaza
• Taiwan rocked by magnitude 7.0 quake but no major damage reported
• At least 15 dead, 19 injured in Guatemala as bus plunges into ravine
• Investigation after jet carrying Libyan officers crashes in Turkiye
28.12.2025
• Gaza storm kills Palestinian woman as Israeli curbs on aid compound misery
• Libya lays army chief of staff to rest in Misrata
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/28/libya-lays-army-chief-of-staff-to-rest-in-misrata
29.12.2025
• Trump updates: US president meets with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu
• Tents flooded by heavy rains in Gaza amid calls for Israel to let in aid
• US slashes UN humanitarian aid to $2bn, huge cut as Trump demands reforms
• Six ISIL fighters, 3 police officers killed in northwest Turkiye raid
• Fire at Indonesia retirement home kills 16 people
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/29/fire-at-indonesia-retirement-home-kills-16-people
• Train derails in southern Mexico, killing 13 and injuring dozens
30.12.2025
• Turkiye’s Erdogan calls Israel’s Somaliland recognition ‘unacceptable’
• Syrian authorities impose curfew in Latakia as violence surges
• US claims attack on dock in Venezuela, as missiles also kill two in Pacific
ISRAEL
• Israel to block dozens of aid groups working in war-battered Gaza
• Israeli strikes on Gaza are relentless as displaced endure flooded camps
• A decimated Gaza marks the end of another year of Israeli bombs
31.12.2025
• Trump says ‘removing’ National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland
• Suicide bomber kills at least one police officer in Syria’s Aleppo
• US jobless claims slow in last full week of 2025 amid weak labour market
• Turkiye arrests 125 ISIL suspects in new raids that mark widening crackdown
• Iran’s Pezeshkian urges unity as protests over economic woes turn deadly
GAZA-ISRAEL
• Which aid groups is Israel banning from Gaza now – and what will it mean?
• Palestinians in Gaza say ‘lives will be destroyed’ by Israel’s NGO ban
01.01.2026
• Israel looking to reopen Rafah crossing after US pressure: Israeli media
• Yemen’s separatist STC refuses to withdraw from provinces near Saudi Arabia
• Israel escalates West Bank demolitions amid illegal settlement expansion
• Dozens killed, 100 injured in blaze at Swiss ski resort town
• US kills five in attack on alleged drug boats, search for survivors ongoing
• Zohran Mamdani takes oath as New York mayor with historic Quran
02.01.2026
• New photo emerges of moment Swiss bar ceiling catches fire as Italian teen amongthose feared dead
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c8xdxvj2qjdt
• Flights from Aden airport in Yemen halted amid latest tensions
• At least 17 dead as heavy rains trigger flash floods in Afghanistan
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