Current events: 2025-01-04

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • At least 27 Palestinians are killed and 14 others are missing after Israeli airstrikes target various areas in Gaza City and Khan Younis, Gaza. (Middle East Monitor)
• Kivu conflict
  • M23 offensive
    • M23 rebels capture the strategic town of Katale in Masisi Territory, North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Chimp Reports)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A war correspondent for Russian newspaper Izvestia is killed in a Ukrainian drone strike in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
  • Moscow claims to have shot down eight American ATACMS missiles fired by Ukraine and vows retaliation. (CNN)
• Anglophone Crisis
  • Gunmen from Nigeria kill at least five Cameroonian soldiers and wound several others in the village of Bakinjaw on the border with Cameroon. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Syrian authorities announce that Syria is set to resume international flights to and from Damascus International Airport from January 7, for the first time since the fall of the Assad regime. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Black Sea oil spill
  • The Government of Russia declares a regional state of emergency in the annexed Republic of Crimea, as workers cleared tons of contaminated sand and earth on either side of the Kerch Strait. (Reuters)
• At least eight people are killed and 15 others are wounded in a fire at a market in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, China. (Al Jazeera)
• The Taiwanese Coast Guard intercepts a Cameroon-registered container ship with a Chinese name, Shunxin39, after it was suspected of damaging an undersea cable north of Taiwan yesterday. (Taiwan News)

Law and crime

• Myanmar state media reports that the ruling military junta will release 5,864 prisoners, including 180 foreigners, under an amnesty marking the country's national independence day. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2024–2025 Georgian protests, 2024–2025 Georgian constitutional crisis
  • Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs announces the expulsion of 91 foreign citizens, twenty-five of whom participated in anti-Georgian Dream, pro-EU protests. (TVP World)
• The Federal Chancellor of Austria, Karl Nehammer, announces his resignation after talks on forming the new post-election coalition government collapsed. (Euronews)

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