Business and economy

• Economy of South Korea
  • South Korea’s central bank cuts its key interest rate by a quarter percentage point to 2.5%, marking its fourth cut since October, and sharply lowered its 2025 growth forecast to 0.8%, nearly halving the previous projection of 1.5% announced in February after a monetary policy meeting. Share prices rose, with the Kospi gaining 1.7%. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Four people are killed when a South Korean Navy Lockheed P3-C Orion crashes into a hill in Pohang, Gyeongsang, South Korea. (Euronews)

Health and environment

• The health ministry of Khartoum State in Sudan reports a cholera outbreak in the state, with 2,119 cases and 242 deaths in the past week and this week, including 70 in the last two days. (News Central TV)

International relations

• Israeli settlements
  • Israel announces 22 new Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, being the biggest expansion in decades. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Pamplona massacre
  • Former Philippine lawmaker Arnolfo Teves Jr. is deported back to the Philippines from Timor-Leste. (ABS-CBN News)
• Lliuya v RWE AG
  • A court in Germany rejects a lawsuit filed by a Peruvian farmer against German energy firm RWE. Saúl Luciano Lliuya alleged that the firm's global emissions contributed to the melting of glaciers in Peru, threatening his hometown of Huaraz with flooding. (BBC News)
• Corruption in Slovakia
  • Slovakia’s central bank chief, Peter Kažimír, a member of the European Central Bank committee, is convicted of bribery and fined 200,000 euros. The verdict was issued by Judge Milan Cisarik at the Special Criminal Court in Pezinok. (AP)
• A court in Argentina nullifies the ongoing trial of Diego Maradona's former medical personnel accused of malpractice following the removal of one of the trial's judges for alleged lack of impartiality. (CNN)
• US president Donald Trump commutes the federal prison sentence of Larry Hoover, the founder of the Chicago street gang Gangster Disciples, who was sentenced to six life sentences on conspiracy, extortion, drug and other criminal charges in the 1990s. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Portuguese legislative election
  • Portugal’s right-wing Chega party becomes the lead parliamentary opposition with the second-most seats in parliament. (AP)
• 2025 South Korean presidential election
  • Early voting begins in South Korea, from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm KST on today and tomorrow, with a record early voting turnout rate being observed. (The Straits Times)
• 2025 Nepalese pro-monarchy protests
  • Tens of thousands of people demonstrate in Kathmandu, Nepal, asking for the restoration of the country's monarchy and for Hinduism to be declared the state religion. Nepal abolished its monarchy in 2008. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Cambodia–Thailand relations
  • A Cambodian soldier is killed in an exchange of fire with a Thai soldier. Cambodia initially said that the Thai soldier opened fire, but Thailand denied this citing a misunderstanding when the Cambodian soldier crossed the border during a routine operation. (AP)
  • Thai prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra says that she spoke with Cambodian prime minister Hun Manet, and both agreed to resolve the crisis. (Bloomberg)
• Red Sea crisis
  • Israel says it launched airstrikes against targets in Houthi-controlled Yemen, destroying the last operational plane of Yemenia Airlines at Sanaa International Airport. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• Miss Grand International 2024
  • The reigning Miss Grand International, Rachel Gupta, resigns from her title, citing "mistreatment and a toxic environment". Concurrently, the Miss Grand International Organization announces Gupta's termination from the title, citing her failure to fulfill assigned duties and her engagement in external projects without prior approval. (Manila Bulletin)

Disasters and accidents

• Four people are killed and damage is reported in a crowd crush and shooting after hundreds of Palestinians stormed a United Nations food warehouse in an attempt to get food in Gaza City, Palestine. (PBS News)
• A landslide destroys almost all of the village of Blatten, Switzerland, resulting in one person going missing. (Le Nouvelliste)

Law and crime

• Corruption in Albania
  • Former Albanian president Ilir Meta is formally charged with corruption, money laundering, tax evasion, and concealing property from authorities. The charges were detailed in a report from anti-corruption prosecutors. Meta was arrested in October. (AP)
• Pamplona massacre
  • The Constitutional Government of Timor-Leste announces that expelled former Philippine lawmaker Arnolfo Teves Jr., the main suspect in the assassination of Negros Oriental governor Roel Degamo in 2023, will be deported back to the Philippines after his arrest by Immigration Service of Timor-Leste. (Rappler)
• Patnagarh bombing
  • A court in Odisha, India, sentences a man to life in prison for a 2018 bombing at a wedding that killed two people. (BBC News)

• Five people are killed, including the perpetrator, and four others are injured, including one critically, when a drunk 17-year-old goes on a mass stabbing rampage before killing himself in an arson attack at a house during a birthday party in Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. (The Moscow Times)

Politics and elections

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • The United States Court of International Trade rules that President Donald Trump cannot enact sweeping tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. (AP)
• 2025 Australian federal election
  • The National Party rejoins the Opposition Coalition one week after moving to the crossbench. (The Guardian Australia)
• 2025 People's Justice Party leadership election
  • Following their defeats in the People's Justice Party leadership election, ministers Rafizi Ramli and Nik Nazmi announce their intention to resign from the Cabinet of Malaysia. (CNA)

Sports

• 2024–25 UEFA Conference League
  • In association football, Chelsea F.C. defeat Real Betis 4–1 in the final at the Wrocław Stadium in Wrocław, Poland, becoming the first club to win all four current major UEFA competition trophies. (BBC Sport)
• 2025 in sumo
  • Ōnosato Daiki is promoted and becomes the sport's 75th yokozuna. Ōnosato reached the highest rank of yokozuna faster than anyone in the modern history of sumo, achieving the promotion in 13 tournaments and never posting a losing record during a tournament. (Kyodo News)