Portal:Current events/2025 March 25

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The United States says that Russia and Ukraine agree to cease all military attacks in the Black Sea to ensure safe passage for commercial shipping, while Russia says that it needs guarantees and an order from the U.S. to Ukraine to respect such a deal. (BBC News) (Reuters)
• Syrian civil war
  • 2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites
    • The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) announces that it has documented the names of 1,628 mainly-Alawite Syrian civilians who were killed in sectarian massacres by pro-Syrian government forces, in addition to several more missing civilians and bodies. (SOHR)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Darfur campaign
    • At least 54 people are killed in a Sudanese military airstrike on a market in Tora village, Darfur, Sudan. (CTV News)

Disasters and accidents

• March 2025 South Korea wildfires
  • A wildfire in Uiseong County, South Korea, spreads uncontrollably to the north and east, resulting in at least 16 deaths and forcing tens of thousands of civilians to evacuate. (Yonhap) (AP)
• Aviation accidents and incidents
  • Three people are injured when two Alpha Jet planes from the French Air and Space Force aerobatics team Patrouille de France crash after a mid-air collision during rehearsals. (France 24)
• A 6.7 magnitude earthquake hits New Zealand causing a tsunami warning to be issued. A tsunami was then spotted in Fiordland. ^[1]

Law and crime

• 2025 Turkish protests
  • Over 1,400 Turkish civilians, including several journalists, are detained for participating in anti-government protests. (CNN)
• Criticism of Unification Church in Japan
  • The Tokyo District Court orders the Unification Church to dissolve as a religious organization in Japan. It is the first religious group to be given a revocation order in modern Japanese history. (DW) (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Belarusian presidential election
  • Incumbent Alexander Lukashenko is sworn in for his 7th term as the President of Belarus after winning 85.7% of the votes in the presidential election in January. (AP) (The New York Times)
• 2025 Gazan anti-Hamas protests
  • Thousands of Palestinian men in northern Gaza Strip take part in the largest anti-Hamas protests since the start of the Gaza war, chanting slogans criticizing Hamas and calling for the war's end. (CNN)