Portal:Current events

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Kupiansk offensive
    • Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov announces that Russian forces have captured the city of Kupiansk, the administrative centre of Kupiansk Raion, Kharkiv Oblast. The Ukrainian military denies this information. (Reuters)
  • Peace negotiations in the Russo-Ukrainian war, United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The United States outlines a new 28-point peace proposal to end the war in Ukraine, including a casus foederis guarantee for Ukraine and the cession of Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia. (Axios)
    • U.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 support. Russian president Vladimir Putin confirms he has formally received the proposal from the White House. (BBC News)
  • Zaporizhzhia strikes
    • Five people are killed and three others are injured in a Russian glide bomb strike on a high-rise apartment block in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. (Euronews)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
    • Two Palestinian teenagers, aged 16 and 18, are killed by Israeli soldiers during a raid in East Jerusalem, in the West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
• Kidnapping in Nigeria, Religious violence in Nigeria
  • One person is shot and 227 people, including 12 teachers and 215 schoolchildren, are abducted in an attack on a Catholic school in Agwara, Niger State, Nigeria. (DW)

Arts and culture

• Miss Universe 2025
  • Fátima Bosch of Mexico is crowned Miss Universe in Nonthaburi, Thailand, becoming the fourth Mexican woman to win the title. (ABS-CBN News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Bangladesh earthquake
  • A M_w 5.5 earthquake strikes central Bangladesh, killing ten people and wounding over 350 more. (AA) (Jamuna Television)
• 2025 HAL Tejas Dubai Air Show crash
  • An Indian Air Force HAL Tejas crashes at the Dubai Airshow in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, killing the pilot. (AP)
• At least 18 people are killed and 21 others injured in an explosion at a glue factory in Faisalabad, Pakistan. (AP) (Al Jazeera)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Five Palestinians are killed in two Israeli attacks in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
  • Israeli forces and tanks move 300 m (980 ft) beyond the Yellow Line in Gaza City, violating the ceasefire. (Al Jazeera)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Two police officers are killed and four more injured after a bomb explodes near their armoured personnel carrier in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Pakistan Today)

Arts and culture

• Frida Kahlo's 1940 self-portrait El sueño (La cama) sells for US$54.66 million at Sotheby's in New York City, United States, setting a new auction record for the most expensive painting by a woman, surpassing the previous high set by Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed. (AFP via France 24)

Business and economy

• American telecommunications company Verizon announces it will lay off over 13,000 employees, nearly 20% of its management workforce, in a restructuring. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Czech train collision
  • Two trains collide near České Budějovice, Czech Republic, injuring at least 57 people, including five seriously. (Euronews) (AP)
• Sixteen people are killed and 24 are injured when a tourist bus plunges off from a bridge into a river in Santuk district, Kampong Thom province, Cambodia. (Xinhua)
• The toll from the floods and landslides in Vietnam since the last four days increases to 41 people killed and nine missing. (Al Jazeera)
• The toll from the landslides in Cilacap Regency, Indonesia, seven days ago, increases to 18 people killed and 34 others missing. (AP)
• Nearly 100 people are rescued when a ferry develops a leak while traveling in the Gulf of Thailand. (AP)
• A grizzly bear attacks a group of schoolchildren and teachers on a walking trail in Bella Coola, British Columbia, Canada, injuring 11 people, two of them critically. (AP)

Health and environment

• 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Brazil–Germany relations
  • At COP30, Brazilian environment minister Marina Silva announces that Germany has committed to donate €1 billion (US$1.5 billion) towards Brazil's rainforest blended-finance mechanism over the next decade. (DW)
  • The conference is temporarily suspended after a fire breaks out in a venue. (BBC News)
• At least 170 mountain climbers are evacuated when Mount Semeru on Java, Indonesia, suddenly erupts. (AP)

International relations

• Belarus–Lithuania relations, Belarus–European Union border crisis
  • Lithuania reopens its Medininkai and Šalčininkai border checkpoints with Belarus after closing them over security concerns involving weather balloons used for smuggling. (TVP World)

Law and crime

• 2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests
  • Clashes erupt across Nepal between supporters of ousted prime minister K. P. Sharma Oli and supporters of interim prime minister Sushila Karki. A curfew is imposed in various districts. (NDTV)
• Human trafficking in the Philippines
  • A Philippine regional trial court sentences former de facto Bamban mayor Alice Guo to life imprisonment after finding her guilty of human trafficking for a scam center in her town. (Bloomberg) (BBC News)
• Insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria
  • A Nigerian court sentences Biafran separatist Nnamdi Kanu to life imprisonment on seven terrorism charges over his leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra militant group. (AP)
• Spain's Supreme Court sentences Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz to two years of disqualification and a fine for revealing secrets about a tax fraud case involving Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso's partner. (RTVE)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Tongan general election
  • Tongans vote to elect 26 of the 30 members of the Legislative Assembly. Members of the country's nobility elect nine representatives, while the rest of the voting population elect 17 MPs. (RNZ)
• Brazilian 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 Barroso vacated, pending Senate confirmation. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • At least 28 Palestinians are killed and 77 more are injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City and Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip after Israel accused Hamas of firing at Israeli troops. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
  • Israel–Hezbollah conflict
    • One person is killed in an Israeli airstrike attack against a vehicle in Bint Jbeil, Lebanon. Several students are also wounded on a bus passing in the area. (Al Jazeera)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Dozens of people are killed in a series of Russian missile and drone strikes across Ukraine, including 31 people killed and more than 100 others injured in a ballistic missile strike on a nine-story residential building in Ternopil. Many more remain missing with search and rescue operations underway. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera) (The Kyiv Independent)
• Rojava conflict
  • Two Syrian soldiers are killed in a shootout with Syrian Democratic Forces militants in Raqqa. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Twenty-three Pakistani Taliban militants are killed in two army's raids in Kurram District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
• Islamist insurgency in Niger
  • At least 10 Niger Armed Forces soldiers are killed in an attack by Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin in Garbougna, Tillabéri Region, Niger. (MSN)
• Religious violence in Nigeria
  • Gunmen target a church in Eruku, Kwara state, Nigeria, killing two people and kidnapping the pastor and some worshippers. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• 2025 National Book Awards
  • At the 76th National Book Awards, Rabih Alameddine wins the Fiction prize for his novel The True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), while Omar El Akkad wins the Nonfiction prize for his book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This about the Gaza war. (NPR)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Ōita fire
  • One person is killed and another injured in a large-scale fire in Ōita, Japan. At least 170 homes are damaged and another 260 households remain without electricity. (NPR)
• Sixty-four people are missing when a barge capsizes on the Sankuru River in Kasaï Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)

Health and environment

• Cambodian conservation groups release two captive-bred greater adjutants into the Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary for the first time, fitting them with GPS trackers as part of efforts to restore the species' wild population. (Reuters)
• A suspected outbreak of tuberculosis kills ten inmates at a prison in Guayaquil, Ecuador. (Reuters)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Iran, Foreign relations of the Marshall Islands
  • Iran releases a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker and its 21 crew after seizing it without explanation last Friday in the Strait of Hormuz. (AP)
• Russia–United Kingdom relations
  • Russian Navy spy ship Yantar uses lasers to disrupt Royal Air Force aircraft monitoring the vessel in the North Sea for the first time. The ship was being followed by a Royal Navy frigate with Poseidon P-8 planes deployed to track its movements. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Epstein Files Transparency Act
  • United 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. (Al Jazeera)
• Human trafficking in Myanmar, Trafficking of Chinese nationals to scam centers abroad
  • The Tatmadaw conducts a raid on the scam center compound in Shwe Kokko, Myawaddy District, Myanmar, and detains 346 foreigners and confiscates nearly 10,000 mobile devices. (AP)
• Koldo Case
  • Spain's Supreme Court orders the provisional release of former Socialist Party official Santos Cerdán, who is under investigation for alleged involvement in a criminal organization, bribery, and influence peddling in public works contracting, stating that the risk of evidence tampering has been reduced. The court requires him to surrender his passport. (Reuters)
• Nord Stream pipelines sabotage
  • Italy's Supreme Court of Cassation approves a Ukrainian national's extradition to Germany, where he faces charges related to alleged involvement in the Nord Stream pipelines explosions in 2022. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Operation Midas
  • Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada dismisses energy minister Svitlana Hrynchuk and justice minister German Galushchenko after an anti-corruption investigation into alleged misconduct at the state nuclear agency implicated them, among other officials. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Ford Motor Co. issues a recall of over 200,000 Bronco and Bronco Sport vehicles due to a possible dashboard failure. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
  • 2021 Cabo Delgado offensive
    • The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) accuses French energy and petroleum company TotalEnergies of committing war crimes through a joint task force deployed to protect natural gas sites in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. The ECCHR alleges that the joint task force illegally imprisoned, beat, tortured, and killed over 220 civilians. (DW)
• Palestinian political violence
  • 2025 Gush Etzion Junction attack
    • At least three people are killed, including both perpetrators, and three others are injured, including a woman mistakenly shot by soldiers, in a vehicle-ramming attack and stabbing attack in Gush Etzion Junction, West Bank. (The Times of Israel) (CNN)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • A 17-year-old girl is killed, and nine other people are injured in overnight Russian missile strikes on Berestyn, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. (RBC-Ukraine)
• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • 2025 Sidon airstrike
      • Thirteen people are killed and several others are wounded in an Israeli airstrike in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon District, Lebanon. (MENA via The New Arab)
  • Israel–Hezbollah conflict
    • Two people are killed in two separate Israeli airstrikes on vehicles in Bint Jbeil and Marjayoun, Lebanon. (L'Orient Today)

Business and economy

• The United Kingdom announces it will ban above-face-value ticket resale for concerts, shows, and sports events, citing rampant price gouging on ticket sale sites. (DW) (CNBC)

International relations

• Saudi Arabia–United States relations
  • Saudi Arabia and the United States ratify a joint declaration on civil nuclear energy, and the U.S. approves a defense sale that includes future deliveries of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. (AFP via NDTV)
  • U.S. president Donald Trump announces the designation of Saudi Arabia as a major non-NATO ally. (AFP via The Economic Times)

Law and crime

• Gaza Strip under Hamas, Blockade of the Gaza Strip
  • Hamas arrests a staff member of local water provider, Abdul Salam Yassin Company, supplying water to nearly half of the Gaza Strip, causing the company to suspend its operations. (Reuters)
• Trial for the 2022–2023 Brazilian coup plot
  • Brazil'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 to kill then-president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and other officials to prevent the 2023 transfer of power. The court rules that the group helped plan the broader coup attempt linked to former president Jair Bolsonaro, who was previously convicted in the same case. (AFP via Barron's)
• An Argentine court orders the seizure of 20 properties owned by former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her family in connection with her fraud conviction involving public works contracts. (Reuters)
• Poland annuls former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro's diplomatic passport at the request of prosecutors, who seek his arrest on charges that include leading an organized criminal group and misusing public funds. (Reuters)
• War on drugs, crime in Spain
  • The Spanish National Police Corps, in coordination with the US Drug Enforcement Administration, dismantle a Jalisco New Generation Cartel logistics office in Spain, arresting 20 people including two members of the Italian Camorra organization. (El País)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Danish local elections
  • Denmark holds local elections, with the ruling Social Democrats suffering large losses, including the mayoralty of Copenhagen, which they had held since 1903. (Politico EU)
• 2025 Texas redistricting
  • A United States district court bars Texas from using a newly drawn congressional map in next year's midterm elections, ruling that it is likely an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. (CNN)
• Terrorism in the United States
  • Texas governor Greg Abbott declares the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as terrorist organizations and bans them from owning land in Texas, United States. (CBS News)
• The Polish Sejm elects Włodzimierz Czarzasty as Marshal, replacing Szymon Hołownia, who becomes Deputy Marshal. (Sejm in Polish)

Science and technology

• A major outage of Cloudflare causes global disruptions to numerous apps and websites. Cloudflare says the outage occurred after a configuration file designed to handle threat traffic malfunctioned and triggered a crash in its software handling traffic for its wider services. (BBC News)

Sports

• 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification
  • In association football, Curaçao qualifies for the 2026 FIFA World Cup after winning Group B of the third round of CONCACAF qualifiers for the World Cup. In its first World Cup appearance, Curaçao becomes the smallest nation by both population and area to qualify for the tournament. (Azerbaijan)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Thirty-eight Pakistani Taliban militants are killed by the army in a series of raids since yesterday in Dera Ismail Khan, North Waziristan, Bannu and Bajaur, in Pakistan. (AP)
• Gaza war
  • German support for Israel in the Gaza war, Germany–Israel relations
    • Germany expects to lift its restrictions on military equipment exports to Israel from November 24, which were banned in August due to the siege of Gaza City. (AP)
  • Gaza peace plan
    • The United Nations Security Council votes in favor of a US-drafted resolution endorsing the peace plan, including the establishment of the International Stabilization Force (ISF) and Board of Peace. (BBC News)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • A Russian missile strike on a residential area in Balakliia, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, kills three people and injures 10 others. (Reuters)
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian war, France–Ukraine relations
    • Ukraine signs an agreement with France to receive up to 100 Rafale fighter jets, along with anti-aircraft warfare, munitions, and drones. Both governments say the proposed use of frozen Russian assets will partly finance it. (CNN)
• Druze insurgency in Southern Syria
  • An investigative committee in Syria detains members of the country's military and security forces in an investigation into sectarian violence in Sweida in July involving the Druze. (AP)
• Nigerian bandit conflict, Kidnapping in Nigeria
  • Gunmen kidnap 25 female students from and kill the vice principal of a secondary school in Maga, Kebbi State, Nigeria. (DW) (BBC News)

Business and economy

• Spanish transport minister Óscar Puente announces the AV350 project, which will upgrade the Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line to a maximum operating speed of 350 km/h (220 mph) and make it one of the world's fastest trains. Puente says work is scheduled to begin next year and is expected to take three years. (Reuters)
• At the Dubai Airshow, UAE flagship airline Emirates announces a deal to buy 65 Boeing 777-9 aircraft worth US$38 billion, with deliveries starting in 2027. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Medina bus crash
  • A bus carrying Indian Umrah pilgrims collides with a tank truck near Medina, Saudi Arabia, killing 45 people. (Hindustan Times)
• The toll from yesterday's bus crash in Simiatug, Tungurahua Province, Ecuador, increases to 21 people killed and 40 others injured. (Reuters)
• Six people are killed and 19 others are injured when a landslide triggered by heavy rain strikes a bus carrying 32 passengers in Khánh Vĩnh district, Khánh Hòa province, Vietnam. (Reuters)
• Five tourists are killed in a blizzard in Torres del Paine National Park in Chilean Patagonia, where military and police rescue four others and continue search and rescue operations. (AFP via France 24)
• An Embraer ERJ-145 operating as AirJet Angola Flight 100 carrying 29 members of a Ministry of Mines [fr] delegation crashes while attempting to land at Kolwezi Airport in Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. No casualties are reported. (ASN) (Israel Hayom)

Health and environment

• Polio eradication, Health in Pakistan
  • Polio in Pakistan
    • Pakistan launches an initiative to vaccinate 34.5 million children against measles and rubella and 23.3 million against polio. (AP)
• Health in Ethiopia
  • Ethiopia confirms three deaths from a Marburg virus disease declared on Friday in West Omo Zone. (Euronews)
• At least 71 schools in Australia and New Zealand close as authorities investigate recalled children's play sand products from Kmart and Target after testing detected asbestos in some samples. (Reuters)

International relations

• Nicaragua–United States relations, Immigration policy of the second Trump administration
  • The United States imposes visa restrictions and revokes some existing visas for Nicaraguans, including owners of transportation and travel companies, who it says facilitate illegal immigration to the U.S. under Nicaragua's migration policies. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Bangladesh, Trial of Sheikh Hasina
  • A domestic tribunal in Bangladesh sentences former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan to death in absentia over crimes against humanity committed during the quota reform protests in 2024. (AP) (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Chilean presidential election
  • Due to no candidates receiving 50% of the vote in the presidential election, a runoff occurs between left-wing candidate Jeannette Jara of the Unity for Chile coalition and right-wing candidate José Antonio Kast of the Change for Chile coalition, with the vote set for December 14. (DW)
• 2025 Iraqi parliamentary election
  • The Independent High Electoral Commission releases the seat distribution from Iraq's recent election as prime minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani's Coordination Framework alliance declares that it will form the majority bloc and will nominate the next prime minister. (Reuters)
• Flood control projects controversy in the Philippines
  • Philippine executive secretary Lucas Bersamin and budget secretary Amenah Pangandaman resign over their alleged involvement in flood control corruption. Finance secretary Ralph Recto replaces Bersamin as the executive secretary. (Gulf News)
• Opposition to Vladimir Putin in Russia
  • Russia's Rosfinmonitoring adds former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov and London Business School dean Sergei Guriev to its list of extremists and terrorists. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2025 Delhi car explosion
  • The National Investigation Agency of India states that the recent car explosion in Delhi was a suicide attack and report the arrest of a suspect accused of helping acquire and prepare the vehicle used in the blast. (AFP via CNA)

Disasters and accidents

• At least twelve people are killed and ten others are injured when a bus crashes in Tungurahua Province, Ecuador. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• War on drugs in Ecuador
  • Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa announces that Spanish police have captured Los Lobos leader Wilmer Chavarría, who faked his own death and changed his identity, in Málaga, Andalusia. (BBC News)
• Broken railway line in the area of Życzyn, Garwolin County, in east central Poland under police investigation could be an act of possible sabotage. Two Ukrainian citizens have been identified as the suspects. (TVP World)(BBC)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Chilean general election
  • 2025 Chilean presidential election
    • Chileans vote to elect their president, who will succeed the term-limited incumbent Gabriel Boric. (CNN)
    • Preliminary results indicate a second round between Jeannette Jara and José Antonio Kast on 13 December. (El País in Spanish)
  • Also for election is the whole Chamber of Deputies and half of the Senate. (Radio ADN in Spanish)
• 2025 Ecuadorian referendum [es; fr]
  • Ecuadorians vote on a constitutional referendum, on foreign military bases, on public financing of political parties and the number of assemblymembers, and on a popular consultation about the convocation of an constituent assembly. All 4 were rejected. (El País in Spanish)

• Nuclear program of Iran
  • Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi says that Iran is no longer enriching uranium due, in part, to the damage at nuclear facilities following the Iran–Israel war and the US strikes on nuclear sites in Iran. (AP)

Sports

• 2025 ATP Tour
  • 2025 ATP Finals
    • In tennis, Jannik Sinner defeats his rival Carlos Alcaraz in the final, 7–6^(7–4), 7–5, to successfully defend his singles title at the 2025 ATP Finals. (AFP via Cebu Daily News)
• 2025 CFL season
  • 112th Grey Cup
    • In Canadian football, the Saskatchewan Roughriders defeat the Montreal Alouettes 25–17 to win their fifth Grey Cup. (TSN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War on drugs, 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
  • Three people are killed in an American airstrike against a boat in the Pacific Ocean. (CBS News)
• Kivu conflict
  • The Democratic Republic of the Congo and the M23 rebels sign a framework agreement in Doha, Qatar, for a peace treaty to end the conflict in Kivu. (Reuters)
• Syrian conflict
  • Four people are killed, including the mayor of Wady Al-Mawla, and another is severely injured in a mass shooting by unidentified gunmen at a coffeehouse in Talkalakh, Homs Governorate, Syria. (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights) (SANA)
  • Three people are injured, including two critically, in a drive-by shooting by unidentified gunmen in Abu Jarin, Aleppo Governorate, Syria. (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)

Arts and culture

• Canada–Holy See relations
  • The Holy See transfers 62 indigenous artifacts to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops for repatriation to the communities of origin after their removal for a 1925 missionary exhibition in Rome, Italy. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025–26 European windstorm season
  • Storm Claudia makes landfall in Western Europe, killing at least three people and injuring dozens of others in southern Portugal. (Sky News Australia)
• At least 32 informal miners are killed when a makeshift bridge collapses at a flooded cobalt mine in Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Authorities state that unauthorized miners entered the area despite a ban due to landslide risks. (AFP via Daily Sabah)
• A landslide triggered by heavy rain kills at least 11 people and leaves 12 others missing in Central Java, Indonesia. (Reuters)
• Nine people are killed and others are injured in an explosion at a firecracker manufacturing unit in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan. (Dawn)

Law and crime

• 2025 Mexican protests
  • At least 120 people are injured, including 100 police officers, and 20 others are arrested in clashes with police during protests across Mexico after the assassination of Uruapan mayor Carlos Manzo earlier this month. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Modern immigration to the United Kingdom
  • British home secretary Shabana Mahmood announces plans to reduce the length of refugee status, extend the required period before applying for long-term residency, and end automatic state benefits for asylum seekers as part of a broad reform of its asylum system. (AFP via CBS News)
• Benin's National Assembly, by a 99–19 vote, approves a constitutional amendment that extends presidential and parliamentary term limits from five to seven years and establishes a new senate, pending review by the Constitutional Court. The reform would take effect after the April presidential election. (AP)