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Revision as of 20:04, 20 January 2025 by ArionStar (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) January 20, 2025 (2025-01-20) (Monday)Armed conflicts and attacks
- Colombian conflict
- Catatumbo campaign
- 2025 Catatumbo attacks
- The death toll from fighting in the Catatumbo region rises to more than 100 as the National Liberation Army (ELN) launches more attacks. The Colombian government vows "war" against the ELN with Colombian president Gustavo Petro saying the group has "chosen the path of war, and a war they will have". (The Guardian)
- More than 11,000 people flee across the border into Venezuela as ELN fighters clash with FARC dissidents. (France 24)
- 2025 Catatumbo attacks
- Catatumbo campaign
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ukrainian drones attack industrial facilities in Tatarstan, Russia, prompting the Federal Air Transport Agency to temporarily suspend flights from Kazan International Airport and Begishevo Airport. (ABC News)
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Law and crime
- 2024 Kolkata rape and murder
- 2024 Southport stabbing
- Axel Rudakubana pleads guilty to all 16 charges - including three of murder - in relation to the mass stabbing he committed in Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom in July. He is due to be sentenced on Thursday. (ITV News)
- Capital punishment in China
- China executes the perpetrators of the 2024 Zhuhai car attack and the 2024 Wuxi stabbing attack. (Al Jazeera)
- Presidency of Joe Biden
- U.S. president Joe Biden issues pre-emptive pardons for his siblings, former Chief Medical Advisor Anthony Fauci, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley and members of the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack before president-elect Donald Trump takes office. (BBC News)
- Biden also offered clemency to 49-year Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier. (HuffPost)
- Eight people are killed and seven more are injured in an arson attack at a nursing home in Barajevo, Belgrade, Serbia. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Second presidency of Donald Trump
- Second inauguration of Donald Trump
- Donald Trump and JD Vance are inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States and 50th Vice President of the United States in Washington, D.C.. Trump becomes the first president since Grover Cleveland to serve nonconsecutive terms. (AP)
- The inauguration is held indoors due to cold temperatures, making it the first inauguration since the 1985 inauguration of Ronald Reagan to be held indoors. (Today.com)
- Second inauguration of Donald Trump