Portal:Current events/2016 October 25

October 25, 2016 (Tuesday)

2016 Quetta police station attack
- Gunmen attack a Pakistani police training academy in the southwestern city of Quetta, leaving at least 59 people dead and 117 others injured. ISIL - Khorasan Province claims responsibility for the attack.(CNN) (Reuters), (AP via Yahoo!), (Al Jazeera Media Network) (BBC), (Dawn)
War in Somalia (2009–present)
- A militant from Al-Shabaab shoots dead an intelligence officer in Mogadishu. (Reuters)
A shooting in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, leaves two security officers dead. (Reuters)
Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for an attack on a hotel in Kenya, killing at least 12 people. (BBC), (Reuters)
2016 Uri attack
- Pakistan-based terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba claims responsibility for the attack on the Uri military camp in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. (The Times of India)

Paul Beatty becomes the first American author to win the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sellout. (ABC)
The Catholic Church announces that cremated remains must be kept in consecrated land, rather than scattered about or kept at home. The Church first permitted cremation in 1963, but currently, strongly favors burial. (BBC)

Illegally stored explosives cause an explosion in a house in northwestern China that kills at least 14 people and injures 147 others in the town of Xinmin in Shaanxi province. (Reuters)
A fire breaks out in the ICU ward and Maternity ward of Hospital Sultanah Aminah, Johor, Malaysia, killing six patients and injured two others. All of the patients killed were dependent on ventilators in the ICU ward. (Mediacorp News Group)
An accident on board the Thunder River Rapids Ride at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, leaves four people dead. (News Limited)

Ontario Provincial Police charge a former Canadian nurse, Elizabeth Tracy Mae Wettlaufer, in Woodstock, Ontario, with killing eight elderly patients between August 2007 and August 2014 at two Caressant Care Nursing and Retirement Homes facilities. (CBC)
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco approves German automaker Volkswagen $14.7 billion settlement with federal and California regulators and the owners of the 475,000 polluting diesel vehicles over diesel emissions cheating scandal. Volkswagen still faces billions of dollars more in fines and litigation. (Reuters)