Current events: 2025-01-11

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • The Russian Army says it has gained control of the settlement of Shevchenko south of Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Anadolu Ajansi)
  • Kursk offensive, North Korean involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announces that Ukraine has captured two live North Korean soldiers in Kursk Oblast, Russia, the first time since North Korea entered the war. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israel–United States relations, Calls for a ceasefire during the Israel–Hamas war
    • Incoming U.S. Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a effort to secure a ceasefire deal in Gaza before January 20th. (Sky News)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Battle of Wad Madani
    • The Sudanese Armed Forces say that they liberated Wad Madani, the capital of Gezira State, from the Rapid Support Forces. (Al Arabiya)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 California wildfires
  • January 2025 Southern California wildfires
    • At least 939 CDCR inmates are deployed to firefight the wildfires in southern California, United States. (BBC News)
• France puts the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte on red alert due to approaching Tropical Cyclone Dikeledi, roughly one month after the overseas department experienced the destructive passage of Cyclone Chido. (Reuters)
• Two people are killed and eleven others are injured when a bus crashes on its side on an exit of the A11 Highway in Berlin, Germany. (CTV News)
• At least fifty people are injured when two trams collide in a tunnel in Strasbourg, Grand Est, France. (DW)

International relations

• Ethiopia–Somalia relations
  • The Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed Ali, and the President of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, meet in Addis Ababa as part of a Turkey-brokered rapprochement to restore bilateral relations after a yearlong dispute due to the 2024 Ethiopia–Somaliland memorandum of understanding. (Bloomberg)
• Lebanon–Syria relations
  • The Prime Minister of Lebanon, Najib Mikati, and the Syrian de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, hold a meeting in Damascus, the first meeting of such nature since before civil war started in 2011. (24 Digital) (MTV)

Politics and elections

• At least 12,000 people gather in Riesa, Saxony, Germany, to protest an Alternative for Germany convention and the party's far-right views. (Al Jazeera)

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