Saturday, January 18th, 2025

TikTok warns that it could “go dark” on Sunday without assistance from outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden and his administration. (Politico) 

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump announces that his upcoming second inauguration will be held indoors at the United States Capitol rotunda due to cold temperatures forecasts. Trump also announces that the inaugural parade will be held indoors at Capital One Arena in Washington D.C. (Reuters) 

The Women’s March holds a protest rebranded as the People’s March in Washington, D.C. against U.S. President-elect Donald Trump ahead of his inauguration on Monday. Women’s March protests are also held in several cities in the United Kingdom. (Reuters) 

Two judges are killed and a third judge and a bodyguard are injured in a mass shooting at the Supreme Court of Iran in Tehran, Iran. The perpetrator subsequently kills himself. (DW) 

The Government of Israel approves the proposed Gaza ceasefire agreement, which had previously been approved by the Security Cabinet of Israel. (CNN) 

A Palestinian man from Tulkarm in the West Bank illegally enters Israel and stabs and seriously injures a man in central Tel Aviv. An armed civilian subsequently shoots and kills the man. (The Times of Israel) 

Four people are killed and 14 others are injured in a Russian ballistic missile strike on Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, according to the Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Serhiy Lysak. (Euronews) 

At least four people are killed in Russian missile and drone attacks on Kyiv, Ukraine. (Al Jazeera) 

At least 77 people are killed and several others are injured when a fuel tanker overturns on a highway in Suleja, Niger State, Nigeria, and later explodes when people gather to collect the spilled fuel.  (The Straight Times) 

Ten people are injured, including two in serious condition, when a chairlift falls at the Astún ski resort in Aragon, Spain. (BBC News) 

Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Healthcare reports the country’s first case of mpox in a 22-year-old patient who had recently travelled abroad. (Reuters) 

More than 70 people are arrested at a pro-Palestine protest in London, England, United Kingdom for violating protest regulations. (BBC News) 

The U.S. Treasury Department sanctions a cybersecurity company and hacker, both with ties to China‘s Ministry of State Security, for their alleged roles in hacking American telecommunications companies. (Reuters) 

The United States Supreme Court upholds a law that could ban TikTok in the United States on January 19 unless the social media platform is sold by its Chinese parent company ByteDance. (AP) 

Three people are killed and seven others are injured in clashes with security forces in Juba and Aweil, South Sudan, with three Sudanese-owned houses set on fire in Aweil. This comes after videos emerged allegedly showing Sudanese soldiers killing South Sudanese civilians in Wad Madani, Sudan. (BBC News) 

A judge in Bolivia orders the arrest of former Bolivian President Evo Morales on statutory rape charges. (The Guardian) 

Brazilian police raid a ranch in Ponta Grossa, South Region, Brazil, in an operation to dismantle a gang planning large-scale bank heists, killing six suspects and seizing weapons, including a .50-caliber machine gun and explosives. (AP) 

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Three people are killed and seven others are injured in clashes with security forces in Juba and Aweil, South Sudan, with three Sudanese-owned houses set on fire in Aweil. This comes after videos emerged allegedly showing Sudanese soldiers killing South Sudanese civilians in Wad Madani, Sudan. (BBC News) 

The U.S. Treasury Department sanctions a cybersecurity company and hacker, both with ties to China’s Ministry of State Security, for their alleged roles in hacking American telecommunications

Friday,  January 17th, 2025 

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. (Kyodo News) (Nikkan Sports) 

2025 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. (CNN) 

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. (BBC News) 

Nintendo officially reveals the Nintendo Switch 2 video game console, the tenth-generation successor to the Nintendo Switch. (Nintendo) 

Twelve Naxalites are killed during a police raid in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India. (Al Jazeera) 

The Iranian–Russian Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership is signed by Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian and Russian president Vladimir Putin. The 20-year deal will see cooperation in multiple areas, including nuclear energy, counterterrorism, and environmental issues. (Middle East Eye) 

The Security Cabinet of Israel approves a ceasefire agreement in Gaza. (The Guardian) 

BP announces that it is laying-off 4,700 employees and a further 3,000 contractors across its global workforce as part of a cost-cutting drive. (AP) 

Colombian President Gustavo Petro suspends dialogue with the National Liberation Army following accusations of war crimes against the leftist guerrilla. (Reuters) 

Thursday, January 16th, 2025 

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. (CNBC) 

The Israeli and Hamas negotiating teams sign the hostage release and ceasefire deal in Doha, Qatar. (The Times of Israel) 

Israeli airstrikes kill at least 82 people across the Gaza Strip, including 30 in Gaza City, hours after the announcement of a ceasefire agreement. (Al Jazeera) 

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. (Middle East Monitor) 

The Puntland Security Force claims to have captured a training facility used by ISIS militants, with over forty ISIS fighters killed following heavy fighting. (The Eastleigh Voice) 

Thousands of families are displaced as the military campaign intensifies, forcing locals to flee their homes in Bari region of Puntland, Somalia. (Idil News)  

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. (BBC News) 

The bodies of nine illegal miners trapped inside a gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, are recovered by police. (CTV 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. (AP) 

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. (Sky News) (BBC News) 

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. (Yahoo! News) 

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. (BBC News)

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. (NBC News) 

The Government of Cuba releases dissident and human rights activist José Daniel Ferrer from jail. (Reuters) 

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. (Euronews) 

The government of French Prime Minister François Bayrou survives a no-confidence motion by the opposition New Popular Front electoral alliance. (Euronews) 

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. (BBC News)

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