Current events: 2025-01-02

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Eleven people are killed, including a Hamas police chief, in an Israeli airstrike on a refugee camp in al-Mawasi, Gaza. (BBC News)
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office approves ceasefire talks in Doha, Qatar. (Reuters)
• Syrian civil war
  • US intervention in the Syrian civil war
    • According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, U.S. forces are deploying a new convoy to areas controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces in Ain Al-Arab District, Kobani, Aleppo Governorate, as part of operations to establish a new US military base in north-eastern Syria. (SOHR)
  • Israeli invasion of Syria
    • Israeli warplanes carries out strikes on defense factories and a research center in Al-Safira, Aleppo Governorate. (Xinhua)
• War in Somalia, War against the Islamic State
  • Puntland military offensives into ISIS
    • Puntland forces conducted airstrikes on ISIS hideouts in the mountainous Bari region, after it announced a military offensive against the ISIS and Al-Shabaab. (Idil News)(VOA)

Business and economy

• German economic crisis
  • The Handelsblatt Research Institute declares that the German economy is in its "greatest crisis in post-war history" after projecting that it will enter its third year of recession in 2025 with a 0.1% contraction, following dual 0.3% contractions in 2023 and 2024. (TVP World)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Fullerton plane crash
  • A light aircraft crashes through the roof of a commercial warehouse in Fullerton, California, causing a four-alarm fire and resulting in at least eleven injuries. (ABC7 Los Angeles) (AP)

Politics and elections

• Venezuelan political crisis
  • The government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is offering a $100,000 reward for the capture of exiled opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, who claims he is ready to take office as the legitimate president on January 10 in Caracas. (El Universal) (El País)

Science and technology

• 2025 in paleontology, Dinosaurs of the British Isles
  • The largest site of dinosaur footprints of the Cetiosaurus and Megalosaurus dating back to the Middle Jurassic Bathonian stage 166 million years ago is discovered at a quarry in Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom. (BBC News)

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