Current events: 2025-01-09

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War in Somalia
  • War against the Islamic State
    • Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
      • Puntland forces carried out third drone airstrikes across Islamic State hideouts in Bari region, targeting IL and Camayra of Cal Miskaad mountain areas near Balidhidin district. Claimed several militants were killed and key bases were destroyed. The operation also captured four foreign fighters from Ethiopia, Yemen and Tanzania adding to Puntland's Counterterrorism Unit intercepted explosive-laden drones. (Idil News) (VOA)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip kill at least 22 people. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russian artillery strikes kill two people in Siversk, Donetsk Oblast, and two people in Kamianka-Dniprovska, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024–25 European winter
  • Two people are killed and 20 others are injured during a snowstorm in northern France. (AP)

International relations

• Azerbaijan–Russia relations
  • Russia refuses to take responsibility for the downing of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 despite calls by Azerbaijan to do so. (The Straits Times)
• Armenia–European Union relations
  • The Armenian government approves a bill to launch a bid for the country to join the European Union. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2024 Venezuelan political crisis
  • Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, in her reappearance after 133 days in hiding, is briefly arrested when her convoy was intercepted by security forces as it departed an anti-government protest in Caracas. The incident occurs the day before the ruling party-controlled National Assembly is scheduled to swear in Nicolás Maduro to a third presidential term. (AP) (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

• 2022–2025 Lebanese presidential election
  • Lebanese military commander Joseph Aoun is elected as the President of Lebanon, ending the power vacuum that has lasted over two years. (AP News)
• Death and state funeral of Jimmy Carter
  • Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's state funeral is held at the Washington National Cathedral in DC. All five living presidents, including outgoing president Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump, attend the funeral. (CBS News)
• The President of São Tomé and Príncipe, Carlos Vila Nova, rejects the proposal by his own party, Independent Democratic Action, to elect Hélio Vaz de Almeida as Prime Minister. (RFI)

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