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- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Three Pakistani soldiers and 19 Pakistani Taliban insurgents are killed in shootouts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
Business and economy
- International flights resume from Syria's Damascus International Airport for the first time since the fall of the Assad regime. (France 24)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Tibet earthquake
- At least 126 people are killed and dozens injured when a magnitude {{M|w|7.1}} ({{M|s|6.8}}) earthquake strikes Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. (Bangkok Post) (Al Jazeera) (AP)
Health and environment
- HMPV outbreak in Northeast Asia
- India confirms their first cases of the Human metapneumovirus disease. (CBS News)
International relations
- Denmark–United States relations, Proposals for the United States to purchase Greenland
- U.S. president-elect Donald Trump refuses to rule out using military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal, declaring U.S. control of both to be "vital to American national security". (AP)
- Donald Trump Jr. makes a personal visit to Danish dependency of Greenland weeks after his father U.S. president-elect Donald Trump announcing that "ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity". Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen responds that "Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders". (BBC News)
- Sudan–United States relations
- The United States accuses the Rapid Support Forces of committing genocide in Sudan during the ongoing civil war, and imposes sanctions on the group's leader, Hemedti. (AP)
Law and crime
- Mauritius issues an arrest warrant for former finance minister Renganaden Padayachy over alleged embezzlement involving the disbursement of Rs. 45 million (US$1 million) from the Mauritius Investment Corporation to a company. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Death and state funeral of Jimmy Carter
- The body of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter arrives in Washington DC for a three-day mourning period, including a lying in state at the Capitol. (Reuters)
- President-elect John Mahama takes office for a second four-year term in office as President of Ghana, following his first tenure in 2012–2017. (Reuters)
Science and technology
- Meta Platforms announces an end to its third-party fact-checking program and a transition to a crowd-sourced model similar to Twitter's Community Notes. (AP)
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