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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Colombian conflict
  • Catatumbo campaign
    • 2025 Catatumbo attacks
      • The National Liberation Army (ELN) launches a series of attacks across Colombia's Catatumbo region, killing at least 80 people and injuring hundreds of others, with an unknown number of people also reportedly being kidnapped. Thousands of people have fled their homes due to the fighting. The Colombian Army says that it has rescued dozens of people, while the government calls on the ELN to immediately cease their attacks. (CBS News)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis
    • The Gaza ceasefire agreement formally goes into effect, with the first hostages and prisoners freed as part of the deal. (CNN)
  • Israel announces that its troops have recovered the body of staff sergeant Oron Shaul, who was captured and killed by Hamas in 2014. (The Times of Israel)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 California wildfires
  • January 2025 Southern California wildfires
    • Cal Fire reports that the Palisades Fire is more than 50% contained, while the Eaton Fire is more than 80% contained. (Forbes)

Law and crime

• 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
  • Arrest of Yoon Suk Yeol
    • President of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol becomes the first sitting president of South Korea to be formally arrested, following his declaration of martial law in December. (Yonhap)
    • Following Yoon's arrest, pro-Yoon protesters raid the Seoul Western District Court, resulting in 41 injuries and property damage. (Yonhap)
• Capital punishment in Iran
  • An Iranian court sentences singer Amir Tataloo to death on appeal after Tataloo was convicted of insulting Muhammad. (Al Arabiya)

Politics and elections

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Three ministers of the Government of Israel belonging to Otzma Yehudit resign in protest of the approved Gaza ceasefire agreement. (The Times of Israel)

Science and technology

• Restrictions on TikTok in the United States
  • Social media platform TikTok suspends its services in the United States to comply with the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act after its owner ByteDance failed to sell its U.S. operations before January 19. However, despite the ban on TikTok, ByteDance later restores TikTok services in the United States, after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump stated that he would issue an executive order on Monday to delay the implementation of the ban. (Investor's Business Daily) (People.com)

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