Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- Gaza peace plan
- The United States and the Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation announce it will permanently wind down operations, after closing its distribution sites six weeks ago. (AP)
- Gaza peace plan
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- 2025 Federal Constabulary headquarters attack
- A Jamaat-ul-Ahrar suicide bomber blows himself up outside the Federal Constabulary headquarters in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, killing three people and wounding two others. Two more armed attackers attempt to enter the camp and open fire, wounding nine other people, before being killed in a shootout. (Dawn)
- 2025 Federal Constabulary headquarters attack
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israeli forces kill a Palestinian militant that killed two Kfir Brigade soldiers during a vehicle-ramming attack in May 2024 and arrest several others in Nablus, West Bank. (The Jerusalem Post)
- Moro conflict
- Seven militants, including a field commander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), are killed in an encounter in Cotabato, Philippines, involving MILF factions caught in a clan feud. (PNA via Manila Bulletin)
- Western DR Congo clashes
- At least 14 people are killed in conflict between rival ethnic militias in Kwamouth, Mai-Ndombe Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)
- Yemeni civil war
- At least seven people are killed, including two attackers, and two others are injured in a mass shooting when unidentified gunmen opened fire on the governor of Taiz’s motorcade on a road linking the southwestern city to the rest of Yemen. (MSN)
Disasters and accidents
- Seven people are killed and more than 30 others are injured after two private buses collided head-on in Tenkasi district, Tamil Nadu, India. (The Independent) (The Hindu)
- Five people are killed and 13 others are injured after a bus carrying pilgrims overturns and plunges into a gorge in Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India. (The Indian Express)
- Two climbers are killed after falling from a ridge on Aoraki / Mount Cook in New Zealand during a guided ascent. (Reuters)
International relations
- Myanmar–United States relations
- The United States announces the end of temporary protected status for approximately 4,000 Myanmar nationals in January 2026, with the Department of Homeland Security citing changes in Myanmar’s political and security climate, particularly the upcoming election, for the policy change. (Reuters)
- United States–Venezuela relations, War on drugs
- The United States formally declares Cartel of the Suns, an umbrella designation for Venezuelan Armed Forces officials allegedly involved in the drug trade, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. (AP via KUOW)
Law and crime
- Arrest of Jair Bolsonaro
- A panel of Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court upholds an order to keep former president Jair Bolsonaro in police custody after he allegedly tampered with his ankle monitor while appealing a 27-year prison sentence for plotting a coup. (Reuters)
- Capital punishment in Sri Lanka
- A court in Embilipitiya, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka, sentences ten people, including three women, to death for the murder of a man in October 2011. Sri Lanka has an unofficial moratorium in place, with the last execution taking place in 1976. (OnLanka) (Mirror Sri Lanka)
- Prosecution of James Comey, Prosecution of Letitia James
- Judge Cameron McGowan Currie rules that the appointment of Lindsey Halligan as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was illegal, dismissing the indictments against James Comey and Letitia James without prejudice. (NBC News)
- One person is killed and ten others are injured when a man rammed a stolen car into pedestrians in Tokyo, Japan. The perpetrator is arrested by police at the scene. (The Independent) (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Egyptian parliamentary election
- Egyptians vote in the second round to elect parliament members after the National Elections Authority annulled votes in 19 of the 70 constituencies due to various violations. (AP)
- India–Israel relations
- The Israeli government approves a plan jointly-coordinated with the Indian government to admit 5,800 members of the India-based Bnei Menashe ethnic group to Israel under Aliyah laws and will settle them to the Galilee region. (DW)
- Pauline Hanson’s burqa incidents
- The Australian Senate censures and suspends Queensland senator Pauline Hanson for a week after she wore a burqa in the chamber to push for a burqa ban in Australia. (AFP via CBS News)
- Unions in Belgium begin a three-day general strike across the country to protest Prime Minister Bart de Wever’s government of “social dismantling” through budget cuts in their savings program. (DW)