Trending on X, 10 AM: Colosseum and Barcelona unrest, Obama on Hormuz, garage tax, cold snap, The MongolZ, UFC 333

These are the topics Mongolian users discussed most on X between 05:50 and 10:26 on October 25, ranked by engagement. Activity was light on a Sunday morning, and only 6 topics could be checked against news sites, so we did not pad the list to 10. Topics from earlier roundups appear only when there is a new development. Posts with unverified information, or that accused named people without evidence, were left out. Engagement figures were taken at 10:26.

1. Youth unrest in Europe: protesters break into Rome's Colosseum, about 100 arrested in Barcelona

Protests against the rising cost of living, low wages and military spending continued in several Italian cities on October 24, and a video of a group of young people forcing their way into the Colosseum in Rome spread widely among Mongolian users. La Stampa reported that after an authorised march under the slogan "Italy out of the war" ended, about 100 young people broke away, forced the entrances and stayed inside the monument for a few minutes. Il Messaggero put the number who got in at about 20, said a member of staff at the archaeological park was injured, and reported that the group was stopped, identified and taken to police headquarters. In all, 96 people were taken to police headquarters in Rome that day. In Barcelona, El País reported that 500 to 600 young people who answered a call on social media looted 14 shops and set more than 30 fires in the city centre; about 100 people were arrested, a quarter of them minors. The author of the post also wrote that the unrest had spread to Belgium, which we could not independently verify.

2. Obama: Iran now has "veto power" over the Strait of Hormuz, driving up fuel prices

A Mongolian user translated and shared a clip of former US President Barack Obama speaking at a Democratic campaign rally in Cleveland, Ohio, on October 24, where he criticised the Trump administration's war with Iran. According to the BBC and The Independent, Obama said: "Iran now has veto power over the Strait of Hormuz, where oil goes through to the world market. This is the reason why the price of oil is up... the price of diesel is up." He said Iran did not have nuclear weapons because of the 2015 nuclear deal, adding, "I didn't have to fire a missile to do it." President Donald Trump has said oil prices are "temporarily high" and that pump prices will come down.

3. Petition to scrap the garage tax passes 93,000 signatures (new development)

A petition calling for one privately owned garage or parking space per citizen to be exempt from property tax is nearing its target, and posts on X again urged people to sign. According to e-zasag.mn, the petition launched by lawyer O.Batkhuu had 93,303 supporters as of this morning, 93% of its 100,000 target. Mpress.mn reported on October 24 that the count had reached 86,500; signatures are being collected until November 5. The petition proposes adding clause 7.1.7 to the Law on Immovable Property Tax to exempt one garage or parking space used by a citizen or their family.

4. Weather: colder next week, with nights down to -28°C in mountain areas

iSee.mn and GoGo.mn shared the forecast from the National Agency for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring on X. Light snow of 0.0–1.0 mm is falling today in some soums of Govi-Altai, Zavkhan, Khuvsgul and Umnugovi, with strong winds in the Gobi and steppe. Ulaanbaatar will see no snow, with temperatures around 0°C. From October 25 to 28, snow is expected in the Khangai, Khuvsgul and Khentii mountains, and on October 29, 0.0–2.0 mm of snow is forecast in parts of Zavkhan, Khuvsgul, Arkhangai, Bulgan, Selenge and Tuv and in the northern soums of Khentii and Dornod. On October 28–29, gusts of 18–20 metres per second with dust storms are expected in the Altai mountains and across the Gobi and steppe. Night temperatures will drop to -23 to -28°C in the Darkhad depression and at the headwaters of the Zavkhan, Zag and Baidrag rivers, and it will turn colder in the north of the central and eastern provinces on October 29.

5. The MongolZ face Vitality at 19:00 today, with Vitality playing without apEX (new development)

In the second round of the Swiss stage at PGL Masters Bucharest 2026, The MongolZ play Team Vitality in a best-of-three at 19:00 Ulaanbaatar time today. The new detail since our earlier roundup is that Vitality captain apEX is missing the tournament and jL is standing in for him; according to Vitality, apEX has stepped away for the birth of his child. Traders on the Polymarket prediction market give Vitality a 32% chance of winning the event, the highest of any team.

6. UFC 333: Petr Yan keeps his title and Volkanovski sets a record

Users shared the results of UFC 333 in Abu Dhabi through posts from DAZN. According to MMA Fighting and Bleacher Report, bantamweight champion Petr Yan beat Merab Dvalishvili by unanimous decision (48-47 on all three cards) in their trilogy fight to retain his title. According to the UFC, Alexander Volkanovski stopped Movsar Evloev by TKO at 4:54 of the second round at featherweight. DAZN noted that it was Volkanovski's ninth win in a UFC featherweight title fight, passing José Aldo's record.

Methodology: We ranked posts from about 200 major news and influential accounts found through X search, plus more than 50 keyword searches, by an engagement score (likes + 2× reposts + views/100), and checked the facts against news sites. Posts that could not be verified or that carried a risk of defamation were left out. Views expressed by individuals on X do not represent the position of egov.mn.