Current events: 2025-01-24

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Colombian conflict
  • Catatumbo campaign
    • 2025 Catatumbo attacks
      • The Colombian National Army and National Police begin offensive operations across eleven municipios of the Catatumbo region. (El Tiempo)
• War in Somalia
  • War against the Islamic State
    • Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
      • At least Thirteen ISIS militant fighters were killed in heavy fighting as Puntland forces claimed they successfully took over the towns of Turmasaale and Janno-Jiifta in the Bari region of Puntland, Somalia. (The Somali Digest) (Idil News)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A Ukrainian drone strike targets an oil refinery in Ryazan Oblast, Russia, in one of the largest Ukrainian drone attacks inside Russia of the conflict to date. The Russian military says it shot down at least 121 drones over 13 regions overnight. (BBC News)
  • Kyiv strikes
    • A Russian drone strikes a ten-storey apartment building in Fastiv, Kyiv Oblast, killing at least three people. (Euronews)
  • Mobilization in Ukraine
    • Ukraine finalizes military reforms aimed at recruiting 18- to 25-year-olds to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, penalizing draft dodgers, and bringing down the minimum compulsory military service age to 25 from 27. (Kyiv Independent)
  • The Ukrainian Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War announces that, with assistance from the International Committee of the Red Cross, the bodies of 757 Ukrainian soldiers have been returned to Ukraine. (The Kyiv Independent)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Hamas confirms that an Israeli airstrike last summer killed Rawhi Mushtaha, the de facto prime minister of the Gaza Strip, along with Sameh al-Siraj, who held the security portfolio in Hamas’s political bureau, and Sami Odeh, the head of Hamas’s “general security mechanism". (Al Sharq AlAwsat)

Business and economy

• Saudi Arabia–United States relations
  • Saudi Arabia announces that it will invest {{USD}}600 billion in the United States economy. (Al Arabiya)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024–25 European windstorm season
  • Storm Éowyn
    • A wind gust provisionally measured at {{conv|183|km/h|abbr=on}} was recorded in Connemara in County Galway, Ireland, which would surpass the country's record of 182 km/h set in 1945. A mean wind speed of {{conv|135|km/h|abbr=on}} was also measured, which would surpass Ireland's sustained wind record also set in 1945. (The Irish Times)
    • A man is killed in County Donegal, Ireland, after high winds cause a tree to fall on his car. (BBC News)
• Environmental issues in Somalia, Climate change in Somalia
  • At least 140 dolphins are found stranded on the shores of Mareero Beach near Bosaso, Puntland, Somalia, with 60 confirmed dead and 30 returned to the sea. (Idil News) (Reuters) (Horn Observer)

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