Politics & News - 2025 III

1. In November 2025, Canadian-born Hungarian-British writer, David Szalay is awarded the Booker Prize for his novel _____, a rags-to-riches story about a young Hungarian man named István who goes from living with his mother in a Hungarian housing project to becoming a rich married socialite in London.

2. On 6th November 2025, American molecular biologist James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of ______ alongside Francis Crick, dies at the age of 97.

3. On 4th November 2025, UPS Airlines Flight 2976 crashes after takeoff from ______________ United States, killing 14 people.

4. In early November 2025, Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves more than 240 people dead in the what country?

5. In November 2025, in the UK, Adnan Hussain, an independent MP involved in the founding of Jeremy Corbyn's new left-wing party, announced he is leaving the project. He announced would be "stepping away" from the steering group of the movement currently operating under the name ________- citing a "toxic" culture particularly towards "Muslim men".

6. On 11th November 2025, protesters, mainly indigenous peoples, carrying signs and chanting things like "our forests are not for sale" broke through security lines of the COP30 climate talks being held in what city?

7. In November 2025, Italy, prosecutors announced they would be investigating alleged 'sniper tourism' that took place in the 1990s, where allegations of wealthy Italians and Germans paying upwards of 90,000 Euros to shoot at civilians during the siege of what city during the Bosnian war?

8. On 27th October 2025, widespread rapes and killings took place when the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took the city of ____ in Western Sudan, an estimated 2,500 have been killed and more than 60,000 people have fled the city.

9. During the siege of the above city, a former Sudanese MP and community leader __________ was killed while conducting humanitarian work in the city. She was elected as a member of parliament in 2016, becoming the youngest person to be elected in the history of Sudan.

10. In Early November 2025, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says there will be an investigation into the "mysterious" arrival of a chartered plane carrying 153 people from ____ into the country.

11. In November 2025, Ahmed al-Sharaa, once branded a terrorist by the US, became the first leader of ____ to visit the White House . _____ will join the international coalition to combat the Islamic State group, marking a shift in US foreign policy in the Middle East, a senior Trump administration official has confirmed.

12. In November, the US introduced a load of new sanctions on North Korea, why?

13. On November 12, Trump signed a bill ending the longest US government shutdown in history ended, the shutdown lasted ____ days.