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<blockquote data-quote="Wikipedia Current Events" data-source="post: 153158" data-attributes="member: 524">Armed conflicts and attacks<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency_in_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa" target="_blank">Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</a><ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Three <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_Army" target="_blank">Pakistani soldiers</a> and 19 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistani_Taliban" target="_blank">Pakistani Taliban</a> insurgents are killed in shootouts in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa" target="_blank">Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan" target="_blank">Pakistan</a>. <a href="https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-shootouts-soldiers-militants-killed-northwest-541ad3bf572096f0e6c3578987dfad67" target="_blank">(AP)</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>Business and economy<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">International flights resume from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria" target="_blank">Syria</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_International_Airport" target="_blank">Damascus International Airport</a> for the first time since the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Assad_regime" target="_blank">fall of the Assad regime</a>. <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250107-international-flights-resume-at-damascus-airport" target="_blank">(France 24)</a></li>
</ul>Disasters and accidents<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Tibet_earthquake" target="_blank">2025 Tibet earthquake</a><ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">At least 126 people are killed and dozens injured when a magnitude {{M|w|7.1}} ({{M|s|6.8}}) earthquake strikes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigatse" target="_blank">Shigatse</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet_Autonomous_Region" target="_blank">Tibet Autonomous Region</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" target="_blank">China</a>. <a href="https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2934602/china-reports-6-9-magnitude-earthquake-in-tibets-shigatse-city" target="_blank">(Bangkok Post)</a> <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/7/earthquake-hits-tibets-shigatse-city-tremors-felt-in-nepals-kathmandu" target="_blank">(Al Jazeera)</a> <a href="https://apnews.com/article/china-nepal-tibet-earthquake-himalayas-ca21bd4848209370b9eebcaf107208df" target="_blank">(AP)</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>Health and environment<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMPV_outbreak_in_Northeast_Asia_%282024%E2%80%93present%29" target="_blank">HMPV outbreak in Northeast Asia</a><ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" target="_blank">India</a> confirms their first cases of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_metapneumovirus" target="_blank">Human metapneumovirus</a> disease. <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hmpv-human-metapneumovirus-india-cases-confirmed-symptoms/" target="_blank">(CBS News)</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>International relations<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark%E2%80%93United_States_relations" target="_blank">Denmark–United States relations</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_the_United_States_to_purchase_Greenland" target="_blank">Proposals for the United States to purchase Greenland</a><ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President-elect_of_the_United_States" target="_blank">U.S. president-elect</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a> refuses to rule out using <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces" target="_blank">military</a> force to take control of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland" target="_blank">Greenland</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal" target="_blank">Panama Canal</a>, declaring U.S. control of both to be &quot;vital to American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security" target="_blank">national security</a>&quot;. <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden-offshore-drilling-gulf-of-america-fa66f8d072eb39c00a8128a8941ede75" target="_blank">(AP)</a></li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_Jr." target="_blank">Donald Trump Jr.</a> makes a personal visit to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_Realm" target="_blank">Danish dependency</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland" target="_blank">Greenland</a> weeks after his father U.S. president-elect <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a> announcing that &quot;ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity&quot;. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Denmark" target="_blank">Danish prime minister</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mette_Frederiksen" target="_blank">Mette Frederiksen</a> responds that &quot;Greenland belongs to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenlanders" target="_blank">Greenlanders</a>&quot;. <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yv10knyd9o" target="_blank">(BBC News)</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan%E2%80%93United_States_relations" target="_blank">Sudan–United States relations</a><ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" target="_blank">United States</a> accuses the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Support_Forces" target="_blank">Rapid Support Forces</a> of committing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide" target="_blank">genocide</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan" target="_blank">Sudan</a> during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_civil_war_%282023%E2%80%93present%29" target="_blank">ongoing civil war</a>, and imposes sanctions on the group's leader, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemedti" target="_blank">Hemedti</a>. <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-sudan-genocide-7a0d20f857af3fd428750cf2dfd231ae" target="_blank">(AP)</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>Law and crime<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius" target="_blank">Mauritius</a> issues an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_warrant" target="_blank">arrest warrant</a> for former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Finance_and_Economic_Development_%28Mauritius%29" target="_blank">finance minister</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renganaden_Padayachy" target="_blank">Renganaden Padayachy</a> over alleged <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embezzlement" target="_blank">embezzlement</a> involving the disbursement of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritian_rupee" target="_blank">Rs.</a> 45 million (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar" target="_blank">US$</a>1 million) from the Mauritius Investment Corporation to a company. <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/mauritius-issues-arrest-order-against-former-finance-minister-local-newspaper-2025-01-07/" target="_blank">(Reuters)</a></li>
</ul>Politics and elections<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_state_funeral_of_Jimmy_Carter" target="_blank">Death and state funeral of Jimmy Carter</a><ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The body of former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" target="_blank">U.S. President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" target="_blank">Jimmy Carter</a> arrives in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%2C_D.C." target="_blank">Washington DC</a> for a three-day mourning period, including a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lying_in_state" target="_blank">lying in state</a> at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Capitol" target="_blank">Capitol</a>. <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/jimmy-carter-lie-state-us-capitol-before-funeral-2025-01-07/" target="_blank">(Reuters)</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Ghana" target="_blank">President</a>-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Ghanaian_general_election" target="_blank">elect</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mahama" target="_blank">John Mahama</a> takes office for a second four-year term in office as President of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana" target="_blank">Ghana</a>, following his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_presidency_of_John_Mahama" target="_blank">first tenure</a> in 2012–2017. <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ghanas-mahama-returns-president-facing-old-problems-2025-01-07/" target="_blank">(Reuters)</a></li>
</ul>Science and technology<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Platforms" target="_blank">Meta Platforms</a> announces an end to its third-party fact-checking program and a transition to a crowd-sourced model similar to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter" target="_blank">Twitter</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Notes" target="_blank">Community Notes</a>. <a href="https://apnews.com/article/meta-facts-trump-musk-community-notes-413b8495939a058ff2d25fd23f2e0f43" target="_blank">(AP)</a></li>
</ul><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/2025_January_7" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wikipedia Current Events, post: 153158, member: 524"] [B]Armed conflicts and attacks[/B] [LIST] [*][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency_in_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa']Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa[/URL] [LIST] [*]Three [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_Army']Pakistani soldiers[/URL] and 19 [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistani_Taliban']Pakistani Taliban[/URL] insurgents are killed in shootouts in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa']Khyber Pakhtunkhwa[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan']Pakistan[/URL]. [URL='https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-shootouts-soldiers-militants-killed-northwest-541ad3bf572096f0e6c3578987dfad67'](AP)[/URL] [/LIST] [/LIST] [B]Business and economy[/B] [LIST] [*]International flights resume from [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria']Syria[/URL]'s [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_International_Airport']Damascus International Airport[/URL] for the first time since the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Assad_regime']fall of the Assad regime[/URL]. [URL='https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250107-international-flights-resume-at-damascus-airport'](France 24)[/URL] [/LIST] [B]Disasters and accidents[/B] [LIST] [*][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Tibet_earthquake']2025 Tibet earthquake[/URL] [LIST] [*]At least 126 people are killed and dozens injured when a magnitude {{M|w|7.1}} ({{M|s|6.8}}) earthquake strikes [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigatse']Shigatse[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet_Autonomous_Region']Tibet Autonomous Region[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China']China[/URL]. [URL='https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2934602/china-reports-6-9-magnitude-earthquake-in-tibets-shigatse-city']([I]Bangkok Post[/I])[/URL] [URL='https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/7/earthquake-hits-tibets-shigatse-city-tremors-felt-in-nepals-kathmandu'](Al Jazeera)[/URL] [URL='https://apnews.com/article/china-nepal-tibet-earthquake-himalayas-ca21bd4848209370b9eebcaf107208df'](AP)[/URL] [/LIST] [/LIST] [B]Health and environment[/B] [LIST] [*][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMPV_outbreak_in_Northeast_Asia_%282024%E2%80%93present%29']HMPV outbreak in Northeast Asia[/URL] [LIST] [*][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India']India[/URL] confirms their first cases of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_metapneumovirus']Human metapneumovirus[/URL] disease. [URL='https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hmpv-human-metapneumovirus-india-cases-confirmed-symptoms/'](CBS News)[/URL] [/LIST] [/LIST] [B]International relations[/B] [LIST] [*][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark%E2%80%93United_States_relations']Denmark–United States relations[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_the_United_States_to_purchase_Greenland']Proposals for the United States to purchase Greenland[/URL] [LIST] [*][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President-elect_of_the_United_States']U.S. president-elect[/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump']Donald Trump[/URL] refuses to rule out using [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces']military[/URL] force to take control of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland']Greenland[/URL] and the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal']Panama Canal[/URL], declaring U.S. control of both to be "vital to American [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security']national security[/URL]". [URL='https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden-offshore-drilling-gulf-of-america-fa66f8d072eb39c00a8128a8941ede75'](AP)[/URL] [*][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_Jr.']Donald Trump Jr.[/URL] makes a personal visit to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_Realm']Danish dependency[/URL] of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland']Greenland[/URL] weeks after his father U.S. president-elect [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump']Donald Trump[/URL] announcing that "ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity". [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Denmark']Danish prime minister[/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mette_Frederiksen']Mette Frederiksen[/URL] responds that "Greenland belongs to the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenlanders']Greenlanders[/URL]". [URL='https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yv10knyd9o'](BBC News)[/URL] [/LIST] [*][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan%E2%80%93United_States_relations']Sudan–United States relations[/URL] [LIST] [*]The [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States']United States[/URL] accuses the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Support_Forces']Rapid Support Forces[/URL] of committing [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide']genocide[/URL] in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan']Sudan[/URL] during the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_civil_war_%282023%E2%80%93present%29']ongoing civil war[/URL], and imposes sanctions on the group's leader, [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemedti']Hemedti[/URL]. [URL='https://apnews.com/article/biden-sudan-genocide-7a0d20f857af3fd428750cf2dfd231ae'](AP)[/URL] [/LIST] [/LIST] [B]Law and crime[/B] [LIST] [*][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius']Mauritius[/URL] issues an [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_warrant']arrest warrant[/URL] for former [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Finance_and_Economic_Development_%28Mauritius%29']finance minister[/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renganaden_Padayachy']Renganaden Padayachy[/URL] over alleged [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embezzlement']embezzlement[/URL] involving the disbursement of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritian_rupee']Rs.[/URL] 45 million ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar']US$[/URL]1 million) from the Mauritius Investment Corporation to a company. [URL='https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/mauritius-issues-arrest-order-against-former-finance-minister-local-newspaper-2025-01-07/'](Reuters)[/URL] [/LIST] [B]Politics and elections[/B] [LIST] [*][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_state_funeral_of_Jimmy_Carter']Death and state funeral of Jimmy Carter[/URL] [LIST] [*]The body of former [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States']U.S. President[/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter']Jimmy Carter[/URL] arrives in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%2C_D.C.']Washington DC[/URL] for a three-day mourning period, including a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lying_in_state']lying in state[/URL] at the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Capitol']Capitol[/URL]. [URL='https://www.reuters.com/world/us/jimmy-carter-lie-state-us-capitol-before-funeral-2025-01-07/'](Reuters)[/URL] [/LIST] [*][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Ghana']President[/URL]-[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Ghanaian_general_election']elect[/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mahama']John Mahama[/URL] takes office for a second four-year term in office as President of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana']Ghana[/URL], following his [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_presidency_of_John_Mahama']first tenure[/URL] in 2012–2017. [URL='https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ghanas-mahama-returns-president-facing-old-problems-2025-01-07/'](Reuters)[/URL] [/LIST] [B]Science and technology[/B] [LIST] [*][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Platforms']Meta Platforms[/URL] announces an end to its third-party fact-checking program and a transition to a crowd-sourced model similar to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter']Twitter[/URL]'s [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Notes']Community Notes[/URL]. [URL='https://apnews.com/article/meta-facts-trump-musk-community-notes-413b8495939a058ff2d25fd23f2e0f43'](AP)[/URL] [/LIST] [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/2025_January_7"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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