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Revision as of 22:35, 16 January 2025 by The Kip (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) January 16, 2025 (2025-01-16) (Thursday) MonthJanuary 2025Previous dayJanuary 15Next dayJanuary 17Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- Israeli airstrikes kill at least 82 people across the Gaza Strip, including 30 in Gaza City, hours after the announcement of the forthcoming ceasefire agreement. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- Red Sea crisis
- The leader of the Houthis, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, announces that the group will monitor the implementation of the Hamas-Israel ceasefire agreement and continue its attacks on vessels or Israel if the truce is breached. (Middle East Monitor)
- Sudanese civil war
- The United States Department of the Treasury sanctions the head of the Sudanese Armed Forces, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, for "destabilizing Sudan and undermining the goal of a democratic transition" to a civilian-led government. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- Stilfontein mine deaths
- Nine more bodies of illegal miners trapped inside a gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, are recovered by police. (CTV News)
- Two Cambodian deminers are killed in an explosion while attempting to remove an anti-tank mine from a rice field left over from the Cambodian Civil War in Oddar Meanchey province, Cambodia. (AP)
International relations
- Ukraine–United Kingdom relations
- British Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits Kyiv to sign a 100-year agreement with Ukraine that will formalize British economic and military support for Ukraine for the next century. (Sky News) (BBC News)
Law and crime
- Spiššská Stará Ves school stabbing
- Two women are killed and a third is injured in a mass stabbing at a school in Spišská Stará Ves, Slovakia. The perpetrator is arrested. (BBC News) (Devdiscourse)
- Two homeless people are killed and two others are injured in a mass stabbing attack in Miami, United States. A 30-year-old suspect is arrested. (NBC News)
- The Government of Cuba releases dissident and human rights activist José Daniel Ferrer from jail. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Vanuatuan general election
- Citizens of Vanuatu vote to elect the 52 members of parliament. (RNZ)
- 2024 French political crisis
- The government of Prime Minister François Bayrou survives a no-confidence motion by the opposition New Popular Front after a member of the NPF's Socialist Party refuses to vote against Bayrou. (Euronews)
Science and technology
- 2025 in spaceflight
- Blue Origin launches its New Glenn rocket for the first time from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States. The rocket's second stage, carrying a prototype Blue Ring spacecraft, successfully reaches a geocentric orbit, but its reusable first stage is lost during landing. (CNN)
- The twin satellites SDX01 and SDX02 of SpaDeX mission, launched in December 2024 by the Indian Space Research Organisation, successfully conduct India's first spacecraft docking, with India becoming the fourth country to successfully do so after the United States, Russia, and China. (BBC News)
- Nintendo officially reveals the Nintendo Switch 2 video game console, the ninth-generation successor to the Nintendo Switch. (Nintendo)