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2025 February 02

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War against the Islamic State
  • War in Somalia
    • American military intervention in Somalia, Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
      • The Puntland military spokesperson claims that U.S. airstrikes against ISIL have killed 46 fighters in the Cal Miskaad Mountains, a remote area in northeastern region Bari, Somalia. (Hiiraan Online)

Arts and culture

• 67th Annual Grammy Awards
  • The 67th Grammy Awards are held, with Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us” winning all five of the awards it was nominated for, including both Song of the Year and Record of the Year. Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter album wins Album of the Year, while Chappell Roan wins Best New Artist. (Los Angeles Times) (USA Today) (The Hollywood Reporter)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Queensland floods
  • Two people are killed and thousands are forced to evacuate their homes in over 1,000 millimetres (39 in) of flooding in North Queensland, Australia. (BBC News)
• A bus carrying pilgrims fell into a gorge near Saputara, Gujarat, India, killing five and injuring 35.(The Times of India)

International relations

• Panama–United States relations
  • U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio travels to Panama in his first foreign trip in the position and urges Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino to reduce Chinese influence in the Panama Canal. In response, Mulino said that his country won’t renew its contracts with China’s Belt and Road Initiative when they expire. (Latin Times)
• Saudi Arabia–Syria relations
  • Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa visits Saudi Arabia for his first trip since being named president to meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. (Al Jazeera)
• South Africa–Taiwan relations
  • South Africa orders Taiwan to relocate its liaison office from Pretoria by the end of March, citing diplomatic policies favoring China. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Protests against Donald Trump
  • 2025 United States protests against mass deportation
    • Thousands of demonstrators protest against immigration policies implemented by U.S. President Donald Trump in downtown Los Angeles, California, blocking the Hollywood Freeway. (KCBS-TV)

2025 February 01

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War against the Islamic State
  • War in Somalia
    • Al-Shabaab insurgency in Somalia
      • At least 50 combatants are killed after fighting between Al-Shabaab and the Somali National Army and allied Ma’awisley militias in the Hiiraan and Middle Shabelle regions of Hirshabelle state, Somalia. (Idil News) (Mepa News)
    • American military intervention in Somalia, Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
      • U.S. President Donald Trump orders the military to carry out airstrikes against Islamic State positions in Somalia, targeting a series of cave systems used by the group. (Idil News) (Garowe Online) (BBC News)
      • This airstrike is later confirmed to have killed ISIS leader Ahmed Maeleminine, a key recruiter and financier for the militant group. (Garowe Online) (FTL Somalia) (Horseed Media)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Battle of Khartoum
    • 2025 Omdurman market attack
      • At least 56 people are killed and 158 others are injured by Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shelling on the Sabrein Market in Omdurman, Khartoum State, Sudan. (Arab News Pakistan) (LBC Group)
    • The RSF are accused of stealing ambulances, food supplies, and other civilian equipment in Khartoum. (Middle East Monitor)
• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza war ceasefire, Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Hamas releases three Israeli hostages, including Yarden Bibas. At the same time, Israel releases 183 Palestinian prisoners, seven of which were transferred to Egypt prior to their deportation. (AP)
  • The Rafah Border Crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt is reopened for the first time since Israel captured it nearly nine months ago during the Rafah offensive. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A Russian missile strike on a residential building in Poltava, Ukraine, reportedly kills at least fourteen people and injures at least 17 others. A separate strike kills three police officers in Sumy Oblast. (Reuters)
• Syrian civil war
  • Western Syria clashes
    • Gunmen kill ten people in the Alawite village of Arzah in Hama Governorate, Syria. (Al Arabiya)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • Eighteen Pakistani paramilitary troops and 24 Baloch separatists are killed in clashes in Balochistan, Pakistan. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Second Trump tariffs
  • Canada–United States relations, Mexico–United States relations, 2025 United States–Canada–Mexico trade war
    • United States President Donald Trump signs an executive order imposing a 25% tariff on goods from Canada and Mexico. (NBC News)
    • Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces a retaliatory 25% tariff on all U.S. goods following Trump’s recent executive order. (NBC News)
    • In Canada, British Columbia Premier David Eby announces a ban on imports of alcoholic beverages from “red U.S. states”. Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston announces that the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation will remove all U.S. alcohol from its stores starting Tuesday. (CBC News) (CBC News)
    • Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announces a Plan B, which includes potential tariff measures to defend Mexico’s interests in response to Trump’s tariffs on the country. (CNN México)
  • China–United States relations, China–United States trade war
    • U.S. President Donald Trump announces 10% tariffs on goods imported from China. China vows to take the matter to the World Trade Organization. (NBC News) (Financial Post)

Disasters and accidents

• A fire at a retirement home in Bouffémont, Val-d’Oise, France, kills three people and leaves nine others injured. (AP)
• Two buses collided on the Benin–Ore–Sagamu Expressway in Odigbo, Nigeria before catching fire, killing 30 and injuring two.(PM News)

Law and crime

• In Kyrgyzstan, the ban on the Islamic niqāb takes effect, with women facing a fine of 20,000 som ($230 USD) if they wear it in public places. (RFE/RL)

2025 January 31

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Sudanese civil war
  • Battle of Khartoum
    • 2025 Bahri offensive
      • The Sudanese Armed Forces announce that they have nearly captured all of Bahri, Khartoum State, Sudan. (Radio Dabanga) (Sudan Tribune)
• Israeli invasion of Lebanon
  • 2024 Israel–Lebanon ceasefire agreement
    • Two people are killed and ten others are injured during Israeli airstrikes in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Kivu conflict
  • M23 offensive, Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
    • The Congolese military launches a counterattack against M23 rebels in South Kivu province with the assistance of the Burundian military. (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Odesa strikes
    • Russian forces launch ballistic missiles at the centre of Odesa and its port, severely damaging numerous civilian buildings, including the historic Bristol Hotel. At least two people are reportedly injured. (Reuters)
• Mexican drug war
  • An improvised explosive device left by cartel members detonates in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, killing two villagers and injuring a third. (El Sol de Tampico)
• Somali Civil War
  • Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre escape after security guards shoot down one of two drones hovering over Villa Somalia in Mogadishu, Somalia. The drones are believed to be used by ISIL and Al-Shabaab. This comes after previous Somali Civil Aviation Authority warnings. (Idil News) (Horn Observer)

Business and economy

• 2025 Yugosphere retail boycotts
  • Following boycotts in Croatia on January 24, and in conjunction with a follow-up boycott in the country, residents of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, and North Macedonia start a boycott of retail stores in response to rising prices. (Intellinews)
• Multinational telecoms company BT Group announces that it will layoff 55,000 employees across its global workforce citing a significant drop in revenue in 2024 and “challenges in international markets”. (Business Plus)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 California wildfires
  • January 2025 Southern California wildfires
    • The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection reports that the Palisades and Eaton fires are contained. (NBC News)
• Med Jets Flight 056
  • A Learjet 55 air ambulance crashes in Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, after departing from Northeast Philadelphia Airport, killing all six people onboard and damaging multiple homes and businesses. One person on the ground is also killed and 19 more injured. (AP)
• Five people are killed and two more injured in Aghjabadi, Azerbaijan, after a child accidentally detonates a discovered hand grenade in their house. (Xinhua)

International relations

• 2025 Philippine espionage case, Territorial disputes in the South China Sea
  • Philippine President Bongbong Marcos states that he is careful of possible surveillance of the country’s air and naval bases as well as the movement of vessels supplying Philippine garrisons in the South China Sea following a series of arrests of suspected Chinese spies in the Philippines. (CNA)

Law and crime

• United States–Venezuela relations
  • Venezuela frees six American hostages after U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Special Missions Richard Grenell meets with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. (The Hill)
• Myanmar’s ruling military junta extends the country’s state of emergency for another six months. (Reuters)
• Philippine National Bureau of Investigation agents arrest 100 people in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines, for allegedly running an online scam operation as offshore gaming operators are banned in the country. (Arab News)

Politics and elections

• 2024–2025 Belgian government formation
  • An agreement is reached among five Belgian political parties to form a new coalition government to be headed by future prime minister Bart De Wever. (Belga)
• 2025 Greek presidential election
  • The Hellenic Parliament fails to elect the new President of Greece in the second round, calling for a third round of voting on February 6. (Greek City Times)

2025 January 30

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kivu conflict
  • M23 offensive
    • 2025 Goma offensive
      • Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they will march on the Democratic Republic of the Congo capital city Kinshasa and install a new government as Congolese president Félix Tshisekedi calls for a mobilization of young males to reclaim lost territory. Congolese defence minister Guy Kabombo Muadiamvita says there will be no peace talks with the rebels. (AP)
      • After establishing a new administration in Goma, Congo River Alliance leader Corneille Nangaa confirms his forces now plan on overthrowing president Félix Tshisekedi. He also says services in the city will return to normal soon as the United Nations warns of a humanitarian crisis. (BBC News)
    • M23 forces advance into South Kivu, capturing several towns and villages, including Kalungu in Kalehe Territory. (MSN)
• Somali Civil War
  • Puntland–Somaliland dispute
    • Spillover of Las Anod conflict
      • SSC Khaatumo officials claim victory over Somaliland forces after heavy fighting erupted with undisclosed casualties early Thursday in the Shangeed area, located between Qoorlugud and Buuhoodle of Cayn,Somalia. (Hiiraan Online)
• 2023 Quran burnings in Sweden, Islam and blasphemy
  • Killing of Salwan Momika
    • Islam critic and Quran burner Salwan Momika is assassinated at his apartment in Södertälje, Sweden. (BBC News)
• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza war ceasefire, Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Hamas free eight hostages, three Israelis and five Thai nationals. (The Times of Israel)
    • Israel releases 110 Palestinian prisoners after initially delaying their release in protest of the chaotic scenes at the handover of several hostages in Khan Yunis, Gaza, earlier today, citing concerns for the hostages’ safety. (Reuters)
  • Hamas confirms that Israel killed Mohammed Deif along with Marwan Issa, Raed Thabet, Rafa Salama, Ayman Nofal and Ghazi Abu Tamaa. (Al Arabiya)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A Russian drone strikes a multi-storey apartment building in Sumy, Ukraine, killing nine people and injuring 13 others. (Reuters)
• French military withdrawal from West Africa
  • The French Armed Forces returns their last military base in Chad to the Chad National Army, bringing an end to French military presence in the country. (AP)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • A shootout between the Pakistan Army and Pakistani Taliban in North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, leaves two soldiers and six militants dead. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Potomac River mid-air collision
  • The District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department says no survivors are expected after the midair collision between an American Airlines aicraft and a military helicopter last night over Washington, D.C., United States, making it the deadliest aviation disaster in the U.S. since American Airlines Flight 587 in 2001. (CNN)

Health and environment

• Uganda confirms an outbreak of Ebola, with the first death, a nurse at Mulago National Specialised Hospital in Kampala, being confirmed yesterday. (Reuters)
• The United States Federal Drug Administration approves Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ new Journavx drug, a non-opioid analgesic used to treat acute pain and potentially eliminate the risks of opioid addiction and overdose. (AP) (FDA)

Law and crime

• FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
  • American fugitive Arnoldo Jimenez is arrested in Monterrey, Mexico, after over a decade on the run for the murder of his wife. (WMAQ-TV)

Politics and elections

• Following weeks of unsuccessful negotiations, the Centre Party withdraws from the Norwegian government over disagreements over the implementation of three directives in the European Union’s fourth energy package, with the Labour Party continuing as a single party minority government. (NRK)
• Thousands of people gather in Berlin, Germany, to protest against Chancellor-candidate Friedrich Merz and the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union parties after they collaborated with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party on a non-binding motion to restrict immigration. Members of the Bundestag debate on motions to ban the AfD, alleging that its beliefs and legal practices are unconstitutional. (DW) (Anadolu Ajansi)
• The Nicaraguan National Assembly votes unanimously to pass several constitutional reforms that grants the government influence over the media, extend the presidential term to 6 years, and makes President Daniel Ortega’s wife Rosario Murillo co-President. (Al Jazeera)

Science and technology

• Apollo-type asteroid 2024 YR4 triggers global planetary defence procedures for the first time and rises to the top of the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale after recent observations confirmed it has a 1-in-77 (1.3%) chance of impacting Earth on 22 December 2032. Follow up observations in 2028 will provide a more refined estimation of the likelihood of impact in 2032. (The Guardian)

2025 January 29

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kivu conflict
  • M23 offensive
    • 2025 Goma offensive
      • M23 rebels solidify control of Goma, North Kivu Province, and are confirmed to be holding captured Congolese troops and allied Wazalendo militants at the Stade de l’Unité. They also begin advancing on Bukavu, capital of the South Kivu Province, according to senior Congolese officials and a Rwandan diplomat. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
      • In an emergency address to the nation, Congolese president Félix Tshisekedi calls for calm and says “a vigorous and coordinated response against these terrorists and their sponsors is underway” by the armed forces, and also cancels participation in a regional summit with Rwandan president Paul Kagame. (Foreign Policy) (Le Monde)
    • Around 280 Romanian mercenaries fighting alongside the Congolese military in North Kivu surrender to the M23, according to the Rwandan military. They are now being transported to Kigali after being handed over to Rwandan authorities. (BBC News)
• War against the Islamic State
  • War in Somalia
    • Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
      • Puntland authorities deport around a thousand undocumented Ethiopians from the cities of Bosaso, Galkayo, Qardho, and the state’s capital, Garoowe, as part of an ongoing crackdown on foreigners without legal status, following the discovery of foreign fighters acting as Islamic State recruiters in the Cal Miskaad mountains of the Bari Region. (Hiiraan Online) (Idil News) (Horseed Media)
• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza war ceasefire
    • U.S. Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff visits the Gaza Strip and meets with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to assure that the ceasefire remains intact. (NPR)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Battle of Chasiv Yar
    • Russian forces capture the city of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, after a year of intense fighting for control of the front line city. (The Moscow Times)

Business and economy

• Expansion of Heathrow Airport
  • UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves approves the construction of a third runway at Greater London’s Heathrow Airport after decades of delays. (Sky News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Prayag Kumbh Mela
  • 2025 Prayag Maha Kumbh Mela crowd crush
    • At least 30 people are killed in a crowd crush at a Hindu festival in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India. (BBC News)
• 2025 Light Air Services Beechcraft 1900 crash
  • A Beechcraft 1900D carrying employees of an oil company crashes in Unity, South Sudan, killing 20 of the 21 people onboard, including one Indian and two Chinese nationals. (CNN) (Reuters)
• 2025 Potomac River mid-air collision
  • A PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ-700 operating as American Eagle Flight 5342 collides with a U.S. Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk over the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., United States, killing at least 28 people between both aircraft and causing a shutdown of flights in and out of the airport. (WUSA-9) (NBC NEWS)
• Thirteen artisanal miners, including three children, are killed when a tunnel at a gold mine floods after a reservoir spill in Kangaba, Koulikoro, Mali. (Reuters)
• Five people, four from Norway and one from Switzerland, are killed in two separate avalanches while off-piste skiing in the French Alps. (BBC)
• A Venezuelan Ministry of Interior, Justice and Peace Cessna Citation II aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda Air Base in Caracas, Venezuela, killing all three people on board. (Caraota Digital)

International relations

• Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger formally withdraw from the ECOWAS regional bloc. (BBC)

Law and crime

• First 100 days of the second Donald Trump presidency
  • U.S. President Donald Trump signs the Laken Riley Act into law, the first legislation of Trump’s second term. (NBC News)
  • President Trump announces plans to transform the United States detention facility in Cuba’s Guantánamo Bay into a holding center for undocumented immigrants, capable of hosting 30,000 people. (Al Jazeera)
• Police in Stuttgart, Germany, arrest 59 French fans of the Paris Saint-Germain football club for hooliganism before a match against German club VfB Stuttgart. (DW)
• Former U.S. Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey is sentenced to 11 years in prison, following his conviction on bribery and corruption charges. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• Second presidency of Donald Trump
  • 2025 United States federal government grant pause
    • The United States Office of Management and Budget rescinds a memo from Monday that would have paused federal financial assistance programs implicated by select executive orders of President Donald Trump, following a temporary block of the order on Tuesday by a federal judge. Following the rescission, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt states that the Trump administration will continue to pursue a freeze of federal funds. (BBC News)
• Syrian civil war
  • Ahmed al-Sharaa is declared the president of Syria during the transition period, a month after Bashar al-Assad was ousted by rebel forces. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2025 in sumo
  • Mongolian sumōtori Hōshōryū Tomokatsu becomes the 74th yokozuna. (NHK)

2025 January 28

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War against the Islamic State
  • Somali Civil War
    • Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
      • Puntland authorities ban illegal foreign entries and direct telecom firms to deactivate SIM cards linked to undocumented individuals and Islamic State operatives, aiming to disrupt the group’s financial networks amidst ongoing anti-IS offensives by Puntland forces. (VOA) (Garowe Online) (International Organization for Migration)
      • Puntland’s highest military court sentences two influencers to prison terms in absentia for promoting Islamic State propaganda and spreading disinformation intended at discrediting Puntland forces’ ongoing operations. (Hiiraan Online) (Idil News)
      • At least four civilians are killed in an airstrike by an unknown combat drone in the Sihan area of Qandala district in Puntland’s Bari region. (Garowe Online) (Hiiraan Online)
• Kivu conflict
  • M23 offensive
    • Battle of Goma
      • M23 rebels take full control of Goma International Airport in Goma, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to senior diplomatic and Congolese security officials. (Reuters)
      • Four more South African peacekeepers are killed after M23 forces launch a mortar attack on their position at Goma Airport, bringing the total number of foreign peacekeepers killed in recent clashes to 17. (Anadolu Ajansi)
      • Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe says Congolese president Félix Tshisekedi “will have to accept talks with M23 to end the situation once and for all”. (The Hill)
    • 2025 Kinshasa riots
      • Mass rioting takes place in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, amid public outrage over the loss of Goma to Rwandan-backed rebels. Multiple embassies are stormed and attacked by anti-government protesters, including the embassies of France, Rwanda, and Uganda. Widespread looting is also reported in the capital. (Reuters)
• Gaza war
  • Gaza humanitarian crisis
    • Israel announces it will cease all contact with the United Nations relief agency for Palestinians, UNRWA, after a ban on the organization’s work on Israeli territory goes into effect on January 30. (DW)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • Two Pakistan Army soldiers and five insurgents are killed in a shootout in Killa Abdullah District, Balochistan, Pakistan. (AP)
• Israeli invasion of Syria
  • Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announces that Israel Defense Forces will remain on the Syrian side of Mount Hermon indefinitely, apparently backtracking on repeated assurances from Israel that the move was temporary. (Times of Israel) (Middle East Eye)

Business and economy

• German economic crisis
  • Verdi, Germany’s second-largest trade union, calls for a one-day labor strike for workers at logistics and courier company DHL, which also manages Deutsche Post. (DW)

Disasters and accidents

• Air Busan Flight 391
  • Seven people are injured when an Air Busan Airbus A321-200 aircraft catches fire before taking off from Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea. All 169 people on board are evacuated from the aircraft. (Korea Herald)
• A United States Air Force F-35 pilot ejects during a crash at Eielson Air Force Base in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States. The aircraft is destroyed. (CBS News)

Law and crime

• 2025 Drents Museum heist
  • Following the heist of multiple Dacian artifacts last Saturday at the Drents Museum in Assen, Netherlands, Romanian Minister of Culture Lucian Romașcanu fires the director of the National History Museum of Romania in Bucharest. (NOS)
• Censorship in Pakistan
  • The Senate of Pakistan passes a bill to criminalize the spread of disinformation in Pakistan, with the possibility of up to 3 years imprisonment and fines of up to Rs. 2 million (US$7,121). (DW)
• Kyoto Animation arson attack
  • The Kyoto District Court finalizes the death sentence for Shinji Aoba, the perpetrator of the arson attack on a Kyoto Animation studio in 2019, after he withdraws his appeal to the court’s ruling. (The Japan Times)
• Three people, including the perpetrator, are killed and two police officers are injured in a mass shooting at a Martin’s Supermarket in Elkhart, Indiana, United States. (AP News)

Politics and elections

• Second presidency of Donald Trump
  • 2025 United States federal government grant pause
    • United States federal judge of the District Court of D.C. Loren AliKhan temporarily blocks President Donald Trump’s executive order to pause funding for federal assistance in the country. (DW) (AP)
  • The United States Office of Personnel Management offers a “deferred resignation” scheme to the 2 million federal government employees to announce their resignation by February 6, while stating that employees who resigned would still receive salary and benefits until September 30, 2025. (OPM)(OPM FAQ)(Reuters)(FNN)
• 2024–2025 Serbian anti-corruption protests
  • Serbian prime minister Miloš Vučević resigns following protests prompted by the Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse. (BBC)
• 2025 Ontario general election
  • Ontario Premier Doug Ford announces that a new general election in the Canadian province of Ontario will be held on February 27. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• 2025 in aviation
  • Boom Technology’s XB-1 supersonic demonstrator trijet becomes the first privately-funded jet-powered plane to break the sound barrier at Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, California, United States. (Reuters)
• Doomsday Clock
  • The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announces that the Doomsday Clock has been moved up to 89 seconds before midnight. (Reuters)
• Google confirms that it will rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on Google Maps for US users in line with the official position of the Trump administration. (The Guardian)
• Social media service Bluesky announces it has reached a milestone of 30 million users. (The Verge)

2025 January 27

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Colombian conflict
  • Catatumbo campaign
    • 2025 Catatumbo clashes
      • Local authorities of Teorama, Norte de Santander, Colombia, find the bodies of thirteen FARC combatants. (El Espectador)
• Kivu conflict, Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda tensions
  • M23 offensive
    • Battle of Goma
      • M23 rebels claim to have captured the city of Goma in North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The government says its troops still hold the Goma International Airport and other key locations, and that Rwandan army soldiers are present in Goma. Congolese and Rwandan forces exchange fire along the border. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (DW)

Business and economy

• A global technology stocks selloff on the Nasdaq Stock Market, prompted by the release of the Chinese DeepSeek-R1 model, leads to record losses in the market capitalizations of AI and computer hardware companies. (Reuters)

International relations

• China–India relations
  • Following the meeting between Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing, China and India agree to resume direct air travel between the two countries after a five-year hiatus. (CNA).

Law and crime

• Interpol Terrorism Watch List
  • A joint INTERPOL and AFRIPOL operation including eight East African nations leads to the arrest of 37 people and the seizure of small and heavy weapons in Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, and Tanzania. (INTERPOL)

Politics and elections

• Second presidency of Donald Trump
  • Executive Order 14186, Executive Order 14183
    • President Trump signs an executive order eliminating “gender radicalism in the military”, targeting transgender personnel in the military, and another executive order that mandates a process to develop an American Iron Dome. (France 24)
  • Second cabinet of Donald Trump
    • The United States Senate votes to confirm Scott Bessent as U.S. Treasury Secretary, making him the highest rank LGBTQ official to run the U.S. Treasury and the highest-ranking LGBTQ person in the United States. (TIME)
  • United States Office of Management and Budget acting director Matthew Vaeth orders federal government agencies to temporarily pause all federal financial assistance programs, with the exception of Medicare and Social Security, that could be implicated by select executive orders from President Donald Trump. (Politico)

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