2025

November

30 days of people in the news

  1. 30SundayThousands of supporters of Spain's conservative and Christian democratic opposition People's Party gather in Madrid and calls for prime minister Pedro Sánchez to resign…2 stories
  2. 29SaturdayGuinea-Bissau's military junta installs a 28-member provisional government after seizing power, while ousted president Umaro Sissoco Embaló travels to Brazzaville…3 stories
  3. 28FridayHead of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak resigns after agents from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption…2 stories
  4. 27ThursdayAlejandro Gertz Manero resigns as Attorney General of Mexico, citing an invitation from President Claudia Sheinbaum to serve as ambassador to an unspecified country. His…8 stories
  5. 26WednesdayBissau-Guinean president Umaro Sissoco Embaló is detained following a coup d'état one day before provisional election results were expected to be released.9 stories
  6. 25TuesdayUgandan opposition party National Unity Platform says security forces have detained more than 300 supporters and officials since presidential candidate Bobi Wine began…3 stories
  7. 24MondayJudge Cameron McGowan Currie rules that the appointment of Lindsey Halligan as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was illegal, dismissing the indictments…4 stories
  8. 23SundayCitizens of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, vote for a president to replace Milorad Dodik, who was removed by the court in June. Preliminary results show that…4 stories
  9. 22SaturdayKyrgyz law enforcement conducts arrests, searches, and interrogations of journalists and opposition figures, including former first lady Raisa Atambayeva and several…3 stories
  10. 21FridayU.S. president Donald Trump gives Ukraine a deadline of November 27 to accept the peace proposal, or the U.S. will end all weapons shipments and military intelligence…7 stories
  11. 20ThursdayBrazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva appoints Attorney General Jorge Messias to the Supreme Federal Court to fill the seat that retired justice Luís Roberto…7 stories
  12. 19WednesdayUnited States president Donald Trump enacts a bill ordering the release of more information about Jeffrey Epstein's case, a day after Congress passed the bill.4 stories
  13. 18TuesdayBrazil'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…7 stories
  14. 17MondayA domestic tribunal in Bangladesh sentences former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan to death in absentia over crimes against…6 stories
  15. 16SundayPreliminary results indicate a second round between Jeannette Jara and José Antonio Kast on 13 December.5 stories
  16. 15SaturdayBritish home secretary Shabana Mahmood announces plans to reduce the length of refugee status, extend the required period before applying for long-term residency, and…2 stories
  17. 14FridayBritish High Court judge Finola O'Farrell rules Australian mining corporation BHP liable for the 2015 Samarco dam collapse in Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, considered…5 stories
  18. 13ThursdayBangladeshi chief adviser Muhammad Yunus announces a national referendum on the July Charter, which recognizes the 2024 uprising that ousted former prime minister Sheikh…3 stories
  19. 12WednesdayUkrainian justice minister German Galushchenko and energy minister Svitlana Hrynchuk resign following a National Anti-Corruption Bureau investigation into an alleged…5 stories
  20. 11TuesdayA high court in Seoul, South Korea, issues an arrest warrant for former National Intelligence Service director Cho Tae-yong for allegedly tampering with evidence…6 stories
  21. 10MondayFormer South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol, former defense minister Kim Yong-hyun, and former Defense Counterintelligence Command leader Yeo In-hyung are indicted on…10 stories
  22. 9SundaySri Lankan public security minister Ananda Wijepala says that police and navy officers have been sent to the Maldives to cooperate with local authorities after the…3 stories
  23. 8SaturdayGuinea's supreme court publishes a provisional list of nine presidential candidates for the upcoming election, including junta leader Mamady Doumbouya, while excluding…7 stories
  24. 7FridayIndonesia repatriates British nationals Lindsay Sandiford, sentenced to death for smuggling cocaine into Bali in 2013, and Shahab Shahabadi, who was serving a life…3 stories
  25. 6ThursdayPeru's Congress declares Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum a persona non grata after Peru cut diplomatic ties with Mexico for granting asylum to former prime minister…6 stories
  26. 5WednesdayJapanese-born Tomio Okamura of the Freedom and Direct Democracy party is elected president of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic, marking the first major…5 stories
  27. 4TuesdayZohran Mamdani is elected as the 111th mayor of New York City to become the city's first Muslim and South Asian American mayor.7 stories
  28. 3MondayCarlos Mazón resigns as President of the Valencian government following sustained criticism of his government's response to the floods in the region last year.6 stories
  29. 2SundayThe Nigerian government says that it welcomes assistance from the United States to combat Islamic terrorism, but adds that its sovereignty must be respected, in response…3 stories
  30. 1SaturdayCarlos Manzo, mayor of Uruapan, Michoacán, is assassinated during Day of the Dead festivities.5 stories