Current events: 2025-01-10

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Red Sea crisis
  • The Israeli Air Force launch airstrikes on a power station and two ports in Houthi-controlled Yemen in retaliation for Houthi drone and missile attacks on Israel, with pro-Houthi media reporting at least three people injured. (Al Arabiya)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 California wildfires
  • January 2025 Southern California wildfires
    • While firefighters try to contain multiple active blazes, Los Angeles County authorities impose curfew hours and announce the deployment of the California National Guard to protect homes from looting in evacuated areas. (NBC Los Angeles)
    • The United States Department of Health and Human Services issues a public health emergency for California in response to several injuries and mental health impacts caused by multiple wildfires impacting Los Angeles County. (CNN)
• Three of the twelve miners that went missing yesterday in an explosion at a coal mine in Singidi, Balochistan Province, Pakistan, are found dead by rescue workers. (CTV News)
• Three women are killed and five children are injured in a stampede at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria. (Reuters)
• Three people on the ground are killed and three others are injured when a Cessna 172 aircraft crashes into a road in Malindi, Kenya. (AP)

Health and environment

• 2024 in climate change
  • The Copernicus Climate Change Service confirms that 2024 was the warmest calendar year since records began in 1850, with an average global temperature reaching 1.6 °C above pre-industrial levels, surpassing the 1.5 °C warming benchmark set by the Paris Agreement for the first time. (C3S) (Politico) (BBC)

International relations

• Colombia–Venezuela relations
  • The government of Venezuela closes the border with Colombia ahead of the swearing-in of Nicolás Maduro for his third term as President of Venezuela. (Le Monde)
• International sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia–United States relations
  • The United States government imposes a new package of sanctions targeting Russia's oil and gas revenues through a so-called shadow fleet of cargo vessels and third traders. (CNN)

Law and crime

• Indictments against Donald Trump
  • Prosecution of Donald Trump in New York
    • At the sentencing of US President-elect Donald Trump, who was convicted of felonies in May 2024, Manhattan judge Juan Merchan declines to impose punishment, reasoning imprisonment or fines would cause Trump to later overturn the convictions. (AP)
• International reactions to the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election, United States–Venezuela relations, Sanctions during the Venezuelan crisis
  • U.S. authorities announce an increased $25 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on the day he is sworn in for a third term in office. (BBC News)
• Vince McMahon sex trafficking scandal
  • The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announces that Vince McMahon, the former chairman of the board of the WWE, agrees to pay a $400,000 fine and reimburse $1.3 million to WWE as part of a settlement to drop his false accounting charges. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Venezuelan political crisis
  • Nicolás Maduro is sworn in for a third six-year term as President of Venezuela in Caracas. The ceremony takes place under heavy security measures with the boycott and protests of the country's opposition, which insists that the legitimate president-elect is Edmundo González Urrutia, and the unrecognition of part of the international community, which considers the July 2024 elections as fraudulent. (CNN)
• 2024 Austrian legislative election
  • The president of Austria, Alexander Van der Bellen, appoints foreign minister Alexander Schallenberg as acting chancellor to succeed Karl Nehammer, who resigned six days ago. In the meantime, Herbert Kickl is in the process of forming a new government. (Reuters)

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