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- Russo-Ukrainian war
- Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
- French military withdrawal from West Africa
- President of France Emmanuel Macron states that France was right to intervene militarily in the African Sahel against Islamist militants, and states that he is still waiting for the Sahel states to "thank" France while denying that the French military was forced out of the region. (Reuters)
- French military withdrawal from West Africa
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israel–Hamas war spillover in the West Bank
- Three Israelis are killed and eight others are injured in a mass shooting attack by Palestinian gunmen firing upon a bus and two vehicles on Highway 55, Al-Funduq, in the northern end of the West Bank near the Israeli border. (BBC News)
- Israel–Hamas war spillover in the West Bank
- Terrorism in Germany
- 2024 Magdeburg car attack
- The death toll in a vehicle-ramming attack at the Magdeburg Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, rises to six after a 52-year-old woman dies from her injuries sustained in the attack. (BBC News)
- 2024 Magdeburg car attack
- North Korean missile tests
- South Korea military reports that North Korea has fired what appears to be an intermediate-range ballistic missile towards the Sea of Japan, in what would be Pyongyang's first missile launch in two months. The launch comes as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits Seoul for talks with South Korea's leaders. (BBC News)
Business and economy
- 2022–2023 Russia–European Union gas dispute
- According to Slovakia, a meeting between Slovak, Ukrainian and European Commission officials over gas supplies scheduled for Tuesday has been cancelled because Ukraine refuses to participate. (Reuters)
- BRICS
- The Brazilian government states that Indonesia will formally become a full member of the BRICS trade bloc. (Reuters)
International relations
- Paraguay–Venezuela relations
- The Venezuelan government breaks diplomatic relations with Paraguay, after President Santiago Peña's decision to recognize Edmundo González as president-elect of Venezuela. Reuters
- Twitter diplomacy, Views of Elon Musk
- In separate statements, Germany's Olaf Scholz, Britain's Keir Starmer, France's Emmanuel Macron and Norway's Jonas Gahr Støre criticise or decry the recent series of posts shared by Elon Musk on his social media platform X in which he slammed the German and British governments and their policies. (Die Welt)
Law and crime
- Volksverhetzung
- Germany reports a significant rise in far-right crime primarily from increasing online expression offenses and hate speech, and due to increased Israel–Hamas war-related resentment. (Reuters)
- Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello says that 125 foreign citizens have been arrested on suspicion of serving as United States mercenaries with the aim of causing a coup in the country. (The Times of Israel)
Politics and elections
- 2024–2025 Austrian government formation
- Austrian president Alexander van der Bellen gives a mandate to form the new post-election government to the FPÖ leader, Herbert Kickl, after the ÖVP failed to do so, but is still expected to rule now within a coalition of the two parties. (DW)
- Second presidential transition of Donald Trump
- The U.S. Congress certifies results of the 2024 presidential election. U.S. Vice President and Trump's opponent in the 2024 presidential election Kamala Harris presides over the ceremony, and certifies her defeat, officially making Donald Trump the President-elect and JD Vance the Vice President-elect. Trump and Vance are scheduled to be sworn-in on January 20. (ABC News)
- Resignation of Justin Trudeau
- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces his resignation as Prime Minister and as leader of the Liberal Party. He says that he will stay on as PM until a new Liberal Party leader is chosen. (BBC News)
- Pope Francis appoints Sister Simona Brambilla as Prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life; Brambilla thus becomes the Vatican's first female prefect of the Roman Curia. (Vatican News)
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