Current events: 2025-01-12

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israel–United States relations, Calls for a ceasefire during the Israel–Hamas war
    • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Joe Biden discuss efforts to reach a deal to solve the hostage crisis as well as a ceasefire to end the war. (USA Today)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 California wildfires
  • January 2025 Southern California wildfires
    • California Governor Gavin Newsom states that the ongoing wildfires impacting Los Angeles County could become the worst natural disaster in American history "in terms of the scale and scope", amid current estimated damages of more than US$135 billion. (The Independent) (NBC News)
    • The death toll from the wildfires increases to 16. (Al Jazeera)
    • Officials say that the Kenneth Fire has been contained. (KCAL-TV)
• Seven people are killed and four others are missing in landslides caused by heavy rains in Ipatinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil. (G1)
• Three people are killed and two others are injured in an avalanche in Trasquera, Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Italy. (Rai News)

Health and environment

• HMPV seasonal outbreak in China
  • The Bangladeshi IEDCR reports the country's first case of HMPV in Bhairab, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh. (New Age)

International relations

• Germany–Syria relations
  • German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock pledges €50 million in food, emergency shelters, and medical care to Syria following talks with the Syrian transitional government in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (DW)
• Foreign ministers and senior officers of Arab countries, the European Union, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States hold a series of diplomatic meetings focused on Syria in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Saudi Gazette)

Law and crime

• 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
  • The lawyer for suspended South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol says that Yoon will not attend the first hearing of his impeachment trial, scheduled for January 14, due to alleged safety concerns. (Xinhua)

Politics and elections

• 2024–25 Croatian presidential election
  • Croatians vote in the second round to elect the president between incumbent Zoran Milanović and former science and education minister Dragan Primorac. (The Dubrovnik Times) (Sarajevo Times)
• 2025 Comorian parliamentary election
  • Voters in Comoros elect the 33 members of the Assembly of the Union. (Reuters)
• Ilza Amado Vaz unexpectedly resigns as Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe three days after being appointed Prime Minister, with the ruling Independent Democratic Action party proposing to appoint Adelino Pereira to replace Vaz. (Xinhua)

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