Current events: 2025-02-05

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Somali Civil War
  • Jubaland crisis
    • Somali federal government-appointed commissioner of Bardhere District Mohamed Ilyas Caagane is killed after Somali National Army forces are defeated by Jubaland forces in Gedo, Somalia. (Garowe Online) (Hiiraan Online)

Business and economy

• Second Trump tariffs, China–United States trade war
  • The United States Postal Service says it is temporarily refusing inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong, but reverses this policy hours later. (The Guardian) (NBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Grenfell Tower fire
  • UK Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner announces that Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, London, will be demolished following a meeting with bereaved relatives and survivors of the 2017 fire. (BBC News)
• A fire at an Islamic school in Kaura Namoda, Zamfara State, Nigeria, kills at least 17 people. (BBC News)

International relations

• Argentina annnounces that it will withdraw from the World Health Organization citing "deep differences" with the organization's leaders. (Reuters)
• Israel withdraws from the United Nations Human Rights Council, accusing the UN body of "obsessively demonizing" and discriminating against Israel. (Ynet news)

Politics and elections

• Protests against Donald Trump
  • Protests against the second presidency of Donald Trump
    • Demonstrators in the United States gather in cities across the United States to protest against the policies of U.S. President Donald Trump, his second administration, Elon Musk and Project 2025. (AP)
• Impeachment of Sara Duterte, Impeachment in the Philippines
  • The House of Representatives of the Philippines impeaches Vice President Sara Duterte. The Senate is now set to conduct a trial. (ABS-CBN News) (Bloomberg)

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