The day
Thursday 16 January 2025
23 stories, biggest first.
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NewsIslamic State insurgency in Puntland
Thousands of families are displaced as the military campaign intensifies, forcing locals to flee their homes in Bari region of Puntland, Somalia.
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NewsUkraine–United Kingdom relations
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits Kyiv, Ukraine, to sign a 100-year agreement with Ukraine that will formalize British economic and military support for Ukraine.
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NewsIsraeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
Israeli airstrikes kill at least 82 people across the Gaza Strip, including 30 in Gaza City, hours after the announcement of a ceasefire agreement.
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NewsIslamic State insurgency in Puntland
The Puntland Security Force claims to have captured a training facility used by ISIL militants, with over forty ISIL fighters killed following heavy fighting.
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CrimeSpišská Stará Ves school stabbing
Two women are killed and a third is injured in a mass stabbing at a school in Spišská Stará Ves, Slovakia. The perpetrator is arrested.
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NewsRed Sea crisis
The leader of the Houthis Abdul-Malik al-Houthi announces that the group will monitor the implementation of the Israel–Hamas ceasefire agreement and continue its attacks on vessels and on Israel if the ceasefire is breached.
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NewsSudanese civil war
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctions the head of the Sudanese Armed Forces Abdel Fattah al-Burhan for "destabilizing Sudan and undermining the goal of a democratic transition" to a civilian-led government.
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Sport2025 in sumo
Shortly after withdrawing from the January 2025 Grand Sumo Tournament due to injuries, the 73rd yokozuna Terunofuji Haruo announces his retirement. If no other wrestler is promoted this tournament, his retirement leaves sumo without a yokozuna for the first time since 1993. Terunofuji also announced his intention to remain in the Japan Sumo Association as an oyakata.
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Politics2021–present Bulgarian political crisis
The Parliament of Bulgaria approves a coalition government consisting of the GERB-SDS, BSP – United Left, and There is Such a People parties, with GERB's Rosen Zhelyazkov becoming Prime Minister.
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Politics2024 French political crisis
The government of French Prime Minister François Bayrou survives a no-confidence motion by the opposition New Popular Front electoral alliance.
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News
A boat carrying migrants capsizes near Dakhla, Western Sahara on its way to Spain's Canary Islands, killing at least 50 people including 44 Pakistanis.
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News
Two deminers are killed in an explosion while attempting to remove a Cambodian Civil War-era anti-tank mine from a rice field in Oddar Meanchey province, Cambodia.
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NewsJanuary 2025 Southern California wildfires
It is reported that the Eaton Fire, which has burned over 14,000 acres and has killed 17 people, is 65% contained.
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NewsStilfontein mine deaths
The bodies of nine illegal miners trapped inside a gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, are recovered by police.
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Politics2025 Vanuatuan general election
Citizens of Vanuatu vote for the 52 members of Parliament.
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Science2025 in spaceflight
Blue Origin launches its New Glenn rocket for the first time from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States. The rocket's second stage, carrying a prototype Blue Ring spacecraft, successfully reaches a geocentric orbit, but its reusable first stage is lost during landing.
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Science2025 in spaceflight
The twin satellites SDX01 and SDX02 of the SpaDeX mission, launched in December by the Indian Space Research Organisation, successfully conduct India's first spacecraft docking, with India becoming the fourth country to successfully dock a spacecraft after the United States, Russia, and China.
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Science2025 in spaceflight
SpaceX launches its seventh test flight of the Starship launch vehicle, with an improved second stage, at Starbase in Texas, United States. The first stage is successfully caught by the launch tower but the second stage breaks up shortly before engine shutdown.
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Crime
Two homeless people are killed and two others are injured in a mass stabbing attack in Miami, Florida, United States. A 30-year-old suspect is arrested.
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CrimeCapital punishment in Taiwan
Taiwan carries out its first execution in five years on a man who was convicted of the 2013 murder of his former girlfriend and her mother.
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Crime
The Government of Cuba releases dissident and human rights activist José Daniel Ferrer from jail.
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Science
Nintendo officially reveals the Nintendo Switch 2 video game console, the successor to the Nintendo Switch.
Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 16 January 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.