Current events: 2025-01-30

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kivu conflict
  • M23 offensive
    • 2025 Goma offensive
      • Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they will march on the DRC capital Kinshasa and install a new government as Congolese president Félix Tshisekedi calls for a mobilization of young males to reclaim lost territory. Congolese Defence Minister Guy Kabombo Muadiamvita says there will be no peace talks with the rebels. (AP)
      • After establishing a new administration in Goma, Congo River Alliance leader Corneille Nangaa confirms his forces now plan on overthrowing president Félix Tshisekedi. He also says services in the city will return to normal soon as the United Nations warns of a humanitarian crisis. (BBC News)
• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza war ceasefire, Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Hamas free eight hostages, three Israelis and five Thai nationals. (The Times of Israel)
    • Israel says it will delay the release of Palestinian prisoners until the safety of future releases can be guaranteed in protest of the chaotic scenes at the handover of several hostages in Khan Yunis, Gaza, earlier today. (The Times of Israel)
  • Hamas confirms that Israel killed Mohammed Deif along with Marwan Issa, Raed Thabet, Rafa Salama, Ayman Nofal and Ghazi Abu Tamaa. (Al Arabiya)
• 2023 Quran burnings in Sweden
  • Murder of Salwan Momika
    • Islam critic and Quran burner Salwan Momika is assassinated at his apartment in Södertälje, Sweden. (BBC News)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • A shootout between the Pakistan Army and Pakistani Taliban in North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, leaves two soldiers and six militants dead. (AP)
• French military withdrawal from West Africa
  • The French Armed Forces returns their last military base in Chad to the Chad National Army, bringing an end to French military presence in the country. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Potomac River mid-air collision
  • The District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department says no survivors are expected after the midair collision between an American Airlines airliner and a military helicopter last night over Washington, D.C., United States, making it the deadliest aviation disaster in the U.S. since American Airlines Flight 587 in 2001. (CNN)

Health and environment

• Uganda confirms an outbreak of Ebola, with the first death, a nurse at Mulago National Specialised Hospital in Kampala, being confirmed yesterday. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Following weeks of unsuccessful negotiations, the Centre Party withdraws from the Norwegian government over disagreements over the implementation of three directives in the European Union's fourth energy package, with the Labour Party continuing as a single party minority government. (NRK)

Science and technology

• Apollo-type asteroid 2024 YR4 triggers global planetary defence procedures for the first time and rises to the top of the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale after recent observations confirmed it has a 1-in-77 (1.3%) chance of impacting Earth on 22 December, 2032. Follow up observations in 2028 will provide a more refined estimation of the likelihood of impact in 2032. (The Guardian)

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