Current events: 2025-02-07

Wikipedia Current Events · Feb 7, 2025

Armed conflicts and attacks

Somali Civil War
- Al-Shabaab insurgency in South Somalia
  - The Somali National Army, supported by local Ma'awisley clan militias, kills dozens of Al-Shabaab fighters during heavy clashes which erupted after allied forces launch an offensive targeting Al-Shabaab stronghold positions in the Jicibow area of Shebelle River, Hiiraan, Somalia. (Hiiraan Online)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Battle of Toretsk
  - Russia says its forces have taken full control of Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast, after months of urban warfare. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

A Beechcraft King Air F90 crashes in Barra Funda, São Paulo, Brazil, killing the two people on board and wounding two on the ground. (AP)

Health and environment

2020–2025 H5N1 outbreak
- New York City officials order the closure of all live poultry markets in the city as well as in the surrounding suburban counties of Westchester, Suffolk, and Nassau due to an increase in cases of avian influenza. (DW)

Law and crime

2025 Brussels shootings
- A fourth shooting takes place in Brussels, Belgium within a few days. The shooting is related to two of the other shootings. As a result, the six separate police zones in Brussels will start working under one command. (VRT) (NOS)
Seventy-nine countries jointly speak out in a statement against the sanctions imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump on the International Criminal Court officials. (NOS)
German Federal Police detains 16 Indian nationals found in a van in Aachen, North Rhine Westphalia, including 15 passengers and the driver, as they attempt to enter the country without valid documents. (DW)

Politics and elections

Science and technology