Current events: 2025-01-08

Wikipedia Current Events · 2025-01-08T19:49:55-0500

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israel–Hamas war
  - Israeli airstrikes across Gaza kill at least 22 people. (Arab News)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Zaporizhzhia strikes, Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  - Russian forces attack an industrial facility in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, killing 13 people and injuring 18 others. (Ukrainska Pravda)
  - Some hours later, Russian forces again strike Zaporizhzhia with guided aerial bombs which explode near the administrative building of an infrastructure facility and a roadway, killing 13 more people and injuring 32 others. (Ukrainska Pravda)
Boko Haram insurgency
- 2025 N'Djamena attack
  - Gunfire and military vehicles are reported near the Presidential Palace of N'Djamena, Chad. The Chadian government accuses Boko Haram of being behind the attack. (Devdiscourse) (Deutsche Welle)

Disasters and accidents

2025 California wildfires
- January 2025 Southern California wildfires
  - Palisades Fire, Eaton Fire
    - More than 100,000 people are evacuated from encroaching wildfires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena, California, United States, that have burnt more than 3,000 acres, aggravated by an ongoing extreme windstorm and drought conditions. Five people are killed, dozens suffer burn injuries and about 1,000 structures are destroyed. (AP) (The Independent) (NBC News) (Reuters)
Six people are kiiled and dozens more are injured in a stampede at a Hindu temple in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India. (AP)

International relations

Law and crime

The British government freezes the assets of neo-Nazi music network Blood & Honour, becoming the first far-right group in the UK to have sanctions imposed by the government. (BBC News)