Current events: 2025-02-06

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza war ceasefire
    • UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Thomas Fletcher reports that over 10,000 aid trucks have arrived in the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire took affect on January 19. (Arab News)
• Kivu conflict
  • M23 campaign
    • President of Malawi Lazarus Chakwera orders Malawian troops to withdraw from peacekeeping operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as the crisis escalates. Three Malawian soldiers have been killed in recent fighting in North Kivu. (BBC News)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • The Ukrainian Air Force receives the first shipment of Mirage 2000 fighter jets from France and more F-16 Fighting Falcons from the Netherlands. (DW)
• Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
  • Ten Nigerien soldiers are killed in an ambush by Islamic State fighters near the border with Burkina Faso. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Four people are killed after a U.S. military-contracted Beechcraft Super King Air 300 aircraft crashes in a paddy field in Ampatuan, Maguindanao del Sur, Philippines. (AP) (ABC News Australia)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Greek presidential election
  • In the third round of voting, the Hellenic Parliament fails to elect the new President of Greece. A fourth and final round is called for February 12. (To Vima)

Science and technology

• NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies says that the probablity of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth on 22 December 2032 has increased to 2.3%, or a (1-in-43) chance, following further observations of its trajectory. More observations are planned in the coming months to gather data on the asteroid before it moves too far away from Earth-based telescopes to be accurately observed. (The Guardian)

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