Armed conflicts and attacks

• Cambodia–Thailand relations
  • 2025 Cambodian–Thai border crisis, Cambodian–Thai border dispute
    • Cambodian prime minister Hun Manet accuses Thailand of shooting and killing a Cambodian villager near the border, two days after a Thai soldier was injured by a land mine in the area, increasing tensions and threatening the ceasefire that put an end to the conflict in July. (AP)

• Six people are killed in a stampede during a military recruitment event in Accra, Ghana. (ABC News)

• 119th United States Congress
  • 2025 Arizona's 7th congressional district special election
    • Adelita Grijalva is sworn into the United States House of Representatives by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson after a 50-day wait, the longest in the 21st century. (CNN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Pokrovsk offensive
    • Hundreds of Russian troops enter the city of Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast with heavy street-to-street fighting underway. (Reuters)
• 2025 Islamabad suicide bombing
  • Twelve people are killed and 27 injured in a suicide bombing outside a court in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)

• 2025 Turkish Air Force Lockheed C-130 crash
  • Twenty people are killed when a Turkish Air Force C-130 Hercules cargo plane crashes near the Azerbaijan–Georgia border. (Euronews) (AP)
• Electricity sector in the Dominican Republic
  • The Dominican Republic experiences a rare countrywide blackout, which officials blame on a failure in the power transmission grid. (AP)
• Twenty people are injured when three Sarmiento trains derail in Liniers, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Todos Noticias in Spanish)

• Colombia–United States relations, 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
  • Colombian president Gustavo Petro orders public forces to halt intelligence sharing with the United States Intelligence Community until the U.S. ceases its military strikes on vessels in the Caribbean Sea. (Reuters)
• Japan–Russia relations, International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Russia indefinitely bans 30 Japanese nationals, including a foreign ministry official, from entering the country in response to Japan's sanctions on Russian entities over the war in Ukraine. (Reuters)

• 2006 Noida serial murders
  • The Supreme Court of India acquits Surendra Koli of all remaining charges in the series of child murders and rapes which occurred between 2005 and 2006 in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and ordering his immediate release. Koli was originally sentenced to death and was serving a life sentence for the remaining cases. (The Hindu)
• 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
  • A high court in Seoul, South Korea, issues an arrest warrant for former National Intelligence Service director Cho Tae-yong for allegedly tampering with evidence regarding former president Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration of martial law, among other charges. (Reuters)
• 2025 Turkish football betting scandal
  • A court in Istanbul, Turkey, issues arrest warrants for eight suspects involved in an investigation into alleged illegal sports betting by Turkish Football Federation referees, club presidents, and players. (DW)
• Anti-war protests in Russia
  • A court in Saint Petersburg, Russia, extends street musician Diana Loginova's detention for 13 days for allegedly violating public order during an October performance that included anti-war songs, marking her third consecutive sentence since mid-October. (AP)
• Corruption in Ukraine
  • The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine starts investigating a large-scale corruption scheme in the country’s energy sector, involving the state nuclear power operator Energoatom. (EuroNews)
• A Gabonese court sentences former first lady Sylvia Bongo Ondimba and her son, Noureddin Bongo Valentin, to 20 years in prison each for receiving and embezzling public funds, among other charges. Both were tried in absentia as they live in exile. (AFP via Barron's)
• The Southwark Crown Court in London, United Kingdom, sentences Chinese fraudster Qian Zhimin to 11 years and eight months in prison for running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded over 128,000 investors and laundered the proceeds into Bitcoin, resulting in the recovery of about ₿61,000 in the country's largest cryptocurrency seizure. (AP)
• Former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas is transfered to the newly opened El Encuentro maximum security prison. (El Universo)

• 2025 Iraqi parliamentary election
  • Iraqis vote to elect the 329 members of the Council of Representatives, who will elect the country's president and approve the president's appointment of a prime minister. (AFP via Barron's)
• 2025 Irish presidential election
  • Catherine Connolly is sworn in as the 10th president of Ireland. (BBC News)
• Gun law in New Zealand
  • New Zealand announces the transfer of gun licensing responsibilities from the police to an independent Firearms Safety Authority reporting directly to the government. (AP)
• Polish president Karol Nawrocki and at least 100,000 people participate in a nationalist march celebrating the National Independence Day in Warsaw, Poland. (PolskieRadio24 in Polish) (The Guardian)
• Thousands of people protest in Belgrade, Serbia, against the proposed re-development of the former Yugoslav People's Army General Staff Building, which was delisted as a cultural asset last year. (DW)

• The Sun emits a X5.1-class solar flare from sunspot AR4274, the most intense since October 2024. (Space)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Colombian conflict
  • The Colombian military conducts airstrikes in the Amazon region following failed peace talks, killing 19 FARC splinter group fighters. (AFP via CTV News)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • At least two militants are killed during an attack by the Pakistani Taliban on a cadet college in South Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (APP via Dawn)

• 2025 Booker Prize
  • British–Hungarian writer David Szalay wins the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel Flesh. (AFP via Bangkok Post)

• A court declares Brazilian telecommunications company Oi bankrupt, the largest bankruptcy in the country's history. (O Estado de S. Paulo in Brazilian Portuguese) (Reuters)

• 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Two people are killed when a Beechcraft King Air plane carrying Hurricane Melissa relief supplies for Jamaica crashes into a pond in Coral Springs, Florida, United States. (CNN) (The Palm Beach Post)
• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from Typhoon Fung-wong's impact on Luzon, Philippines, rises to 25, with more than 1.4 million others displaced. (AP)
• The death toll from a Rohingya boat sinking near Langkawi, Malaysia, rises to 21 as authorities in Malaysia and Thailand continue their search and rescue operations, with 13 survivors having been rescued and detained for immigration investigations. (Reuters)
• Four people are killed, including three officials from the national registry, when a passenger Cessna 206 plane crashes in a jungle in Colombia. (Todo Noticias in Spanish)

• The Pan American Health Organization rescinds Canada's measles elimination status after more than a year of continuous transmission and over 5,000 confirmed cases across most provinces, declaring that the Americas region as a whole no longer meets elimination criteria. (Reuters)

• Cambodia–Thailand relations
  • 2025 Cambodian–Thai border crisis
    • Thailand suspends the implementation of a peace agreement with Cambodia after a land mine explosion injures two Thai soldiers in Sisaket province. (AFP via CNA)

• 2020 United States presidential election
  • Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election, Trump fake electors plot
    • United States president Donald Trump grants pardons to 77 people, including political allies who are accused of electoral fraud-related charges from the 2020 presidential election, including several who have pled guilty. (NPR)
• 2025 Delhi car explosion
  • Thirteen people are killed and over 20 others are injured in a suspected car bombing near the Red Fort in New Delhi, India. (Al Jazeera)
• 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
  • Former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol, former defense minister Kim Yong-hyun, and former Defense Counterintelligence Command leader Yeo In-hyung are indicted on additional charges related to Yoon's attempt to invoke martial law last December alleging that they ordered surveillance drones to be sent into North Korea to stoke tensions and justify their plans. (DW) (The Chosun Ilbo)
• Corruption in Nigeria
  • Nigeria's anti-graft agency issues an arrest warrant for former petroleum minister Timipre Sylva on charges of conspiracy and fraud of US$14.85 million allocated by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board for a refinery project. (Reuters)
• Ecuadorian security crisis
  • Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa transfers 300 high-risk inmates, including former vice president Jorge Glas, to a new maximum-security prison in Santa Elena as part of a security strategy targeting gang activity inside overcrowded prisons. (Reuters)
• A court of appeals in Paris, France, releases former president Nicolas Sarkozy from prison under judicial supervision conditions, less than three weeks after he began to serve a five-year sentence for criminal conspiracy over his 2007 election campaign funds. (AP)
• Lebanon grants a US$900,000 bail to Hannibal Gaddafi, the son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, ending his nearly 10-year detention in a case involving the 1978 disappearance of Shia Muslim cleric Musa al-Sadr, for which Gaddafi was accused of withholding information but never tried. (AFP via Arab News)
• A Thai court orders the extradition of convicted kingpin She Zhijiang to China to face charges related to operating cybercrime and illegal gambling networks across Asia. (AP)

• 2025 Egyptian parliamentary election
  • Egyptians begin voting to elect 568 of the 596 members of the House of Representatives. (Reuters)
• 2025 United States federal government shutdown
  • The United States Senate votes 60–40 to a bill to end the 41-day government shutdown and extend funding for the U.S. government until January 30, 2026, sending the bill to the House of Representatives for a vote. (NPR) (Reuters)
• Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto posthumously grants the title of National Hero to former president Suharto, despite criticism by activists and civil society due to his New Order military dictatorship. (CNN Indonesia) (Reuters)
• Pakistan's Senate approves a constitutional amendment that expands Army Chief Asim Munir's powers by creating the position of Chief of Defence Forces with command over all military branches, while also limiting the Supreme Court's authority. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Boko Haram insurgency
  • Battle of Lake Chad
    • Around 200 fighters are killed in clashes between Boko Haram and ISWAP near Lake Chad in Nigeria. (AFP via Al-Ahram)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Twenty Pakistani Taliban insurgents are killed in raids on hideouts in North Waziristan District and Darra Adam Khel, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (MSN)

• China–United States relations
  • China–United States trade war
    • China's commerce ministry suspends a ban on the export of gallium, germanium, antimony, and other materials used in the semiconductor industry, to the United States. (CNBC)
• 2025 BBC editorial bias allegations
  • Tim Davie, Director-General of the BBC, and Deborah Turness, CEO of BBC News, resign over the controversy. (The Guardian)

• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • At least two people are killed as Typhoon Fung-wong makes landfall over Luzon, Philippines. Over 900,000 people are evacuated and rescue operations for victims of the previous Typhoon Kalmaegi are suspended. (BBC News) (Reuters)
• At least seven people are killed, thirteen are rescued, and 280 others are reported missing when a boat carrying hundreds of Rohingya refugees sinks near Langkawi, Malaysia. (Reuters)

• Belgium–United Kingdom relations
  • The United Kingdom announces it is deploying its military to Belgium to help protect its airports amid a series of drone incursions over the country's airspace. (BBC News)

• Ecuadorian security crisis
  • Four inmates are killed and 30 others are injured during a prison riot in Machala, El Oro, Ecuador. (AP)
  • Following the riot, 27 inmates at the Machala prison commit suicide by asphyxiation, with investigations ongoing to determine the circumstances of the deaths. (AFP via Al Arabiya)
• Maldives–Sri Lanka relations
  • Sri Lankan foreign minister Ananda Wijepala says that police and navy officers have been sent to the Maldives to cooperate with local authorities after the Maldivian military seized a Sri Lankan ship with over 300 kilograms of heroin on Friday. (Xinhua News) (Hiru News)

• Israel confirms that it received the remains of soldier Hadar Goldin, who was killed in Gaza two hours after the ceasefire that ended the 2014 Gaza War between Palestinian militants and Israel. (AP)

• 2025 League of Legends World Championship
  • In League of Legends esports, T1 of the League of Legends Champions Korea become the first team to win three consecutive world titles after defeating fellow South Korean representatives KT Rolster, 3–2, in the final in Chengdu, China. T1's Gumayusi is named the most valuable player. (AFP via France 24)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • Afghanistan's Taliban government states that peace talks with Pakistan in Istanbul, Turkey, have failed, while the ceasefire holds. (AFP via France 24)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war, Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • Russia launches over 450 bomber drones and 45 missiles on critical infrastructure and residential areas across Ukraine, killing at least seven people and injuring 12 others in Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia, as well as damaging energy plants in the oblasts of Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Poltava. (BBC News) (Reuters)

• Embargo of Russian oil during the Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Bulgaria's parliament approves legal amendments giving a state-appointed manager expanded authority over Lukoil's refinery in Burgas, including operational control and the power to sell shares, to prevent a shutdown when U.S. sanctions on the refinery's Russian owner take effect. (AP)

• Six people are killed and four others are injured, including one critically, in a fire at a perfume warehouse in Dilovası, Kocaeli Province, Turkey. (BBC News)
• Three people are killed and 15 others are injured by storm surges amid rough seas off the coast of Tenerife, Spain. (AP) (Reuters)

• 2025 G20 Johannesburg summit, South Africa–United States relations
  • The United States announces that it will send no delegates to the 2025 G20 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, citing accusations of persecution of the Afrikaner minority. (AP)
• Bolivia–United States relations
  • Bolivia and the United States announce that they will restore diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level after 17 years. (AFP via New Straits Times)

• Police in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, arrest a man suspected of participating in the 1994 assassination of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, and takes him to a maximum security prison in central Mexico. (AP)

• 2025 Bolivian general election
  • Rodrigo Paz is sworn in as the new president of Bolivia, succeeding Luis Arce. (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 Guinean presidential election
  • Guinea's supreme court publishes a provisional list of nine presidential candidates for the upcoming election, including junta leader Mamady Doumbouya, while excluding former prime minister Lansana Kouyaté on procedural grounds. (AP)
• 2025 Tanzanian election protests
  • Tanzanian authorities charge hundreds of people with treason over protests linked to the disputed elections, including opposition officials such as Chadema secretary-general John Mnyika, while additional arrest warrants are issued for others, including Kawe MP Josephat Gwajima. (AP)
• 2026 Djiboutian presidential election
  • Incumbent Djiboutian president Ismaïl Omar Guelleh accepts his party's nomination to seek a sixth term in next year's election after parliament lifted the constitutional age limit for presidential candidates. (AFP via Le Monde)
• Kenya–Uganda relations
  • Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni confirms that two Kenyan activists were detained after attending an opposition rally and accuses them of working with rival political groups; both men are released to Kenyan authorities following diplomatic discussions. (AP)

• 2025 WTA Tour
  • 2025 WTA Finals
    • In tennis, Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan becomes the first Asian player to win a WTA Finals title after defeating Aryna Sabalenka, 6–3, 7–6^(7–0) to win the singles title at the 2025 WTA Finals. By winning the title undefeated, Rybakina wins US$5.235 million in prize money, breaking the previous year's record for the largest prize money earned by a female tennis player at a single event. (BBC Sports)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Terrorism in Indonesia
  • Jakarta School bombing
    • Ninety-six people are injured, some critically, in a bombing at a mosque inside a school in Jakarta, Indonesia. A 17-year-old male is identified as the perpetrator and later recovered at a hospital, right-wing terrorism is suspected. (Reuters) (BBC News)

• Serbia's parliament passes a law to expedite construction of Trump Tower Belgrade on the former Yugoslav defence ministry site in Savski Venac, Belgrade, despite protests from opponents who want the damaged buildings preserved. (Reuters)

• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi's impact on the Philippines rises to at least 188, with at least 135 others missing. (BBC News)
  • Typhoon Kalmaegi makes landfall in central Vietnam, killing at least five people in Daklak and Gia Lai and leaving three others missing in Quảng Ngãi. (AP via ABC News)
• 2025 Rio Bonito do Iguaçu tornado
  • A tornado, rated F3 on the Fujita scale, strikes Rio Bonito do Iguaçu, Brazil, killing at least six people and injuring 432 others. (O Globo) (Paraná)
• 2025 Dagestan Kamov Ka-226 crash
  • Five people are killed and two others are injured when a Kamov Ka-226 passenger helicopter crashes in Achi-Su, Dagestan, Russia. (ASN)

• 2020–2025 H5N1 outbreak
  • 2025 Canadian ostrich culling controversy
    • Canada's food inspection agency confirms that a marksman has culled all 300–330 ostriches at a farm in Edgewood, British Columbia, under a bird flu containment order, following a Supreme Court decision allowing the cull to proceed. (BBC News)

• Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda relations
  • 2025 Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda peace agreement
    • The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda state that they have agreed on a Regional Economic Integration Framework in Washington, D.C., United States, to expand economic cooperation and subject to conditions including the withdrawal of Rwandan forces from eastern Congo and operations against the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda. (Reuters)
• Australia–Nauru relations, Nauru Regional Processing Centre
  • Australia begins to deport hundreds of non-citizens to Nauru, as part of a bilateral agreement between both countries, in which Australia will pay Nauru A$2.5 billion (US$1.6 billion) over 30 years in exchange for Nauru issuing visas to these individuals deported from Australia. (RNZ)
• China–Japan relations, Discharge of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
  • Japan reports that seafood exports to China have resumed for the first time since China imposed a ban in August 2023 over treated wastewater releases from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. However, China maintains restrictions on products from Fukushima and surrounding prefectures. (AP)
• Hungary–United States relations
  • The United States grants Hungary a one-year exemption from sanctions on Russian oil and gas, with Hungary agreeing to purchase U.S. liquefied natural gas. (Reuters)
• Indonesia–United Kingdom relations, Capital punishment in Indonesia
  • Indonesia repatriates British nationals Lindsay Sandiford, sentenced to death for smuggling cocaine into Bali in 2013, and Shahab Shahabadi, who was serving a life sentence for drug offences, following a bilateral agreement on humanitarian grounds. Both are transferred to the United Kingdom to serve the remainder of their sentences under UK law. (Reuters)
• Russia–European Union relations, Government and intergovernmental reactions to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • The European Union ends the issuance of multiple-entry Schengen visas to Russian citizens, citing security concerns linked to the Russo-Ukrainian war, alleged sabotage, and visa misuse, while allowing exceptions for dissidents, journalists, human rights defenders, and close family members of EU citizens. (AP)

• 2025 Tanzanian election protests
  • Prosecutors in Tanzania charge 98 people with treason over their alleged participation in violent protests against the re-election of President Samia Suluhu Hassan last week. (Reuters)
• Poland's Sejm removes former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro's immunity, clearing the way for prosecutors to charge him with 26 offences, including abuse of power and misuse of public funds from the Justice Fund. (Reuters)
• Police in Spain arrest 13 alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in a coordinated operation in five cities. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Sudanese civil war
  • Darfur campaign
    • The Rapid Support Forces state that they accept a humanitarian ceasefire proposed by international mediators after capturing El Fasher in Darfur, while the Sudanese army signals plans to continue the conflict. (AFP via Courthouse News Service)
• 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers, War on drugs
  • Three people are killed in a United States airstrike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea. (Al Jazeera)

• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi's impact on the Philippines rises to at least 142, with 127 others missing. The storm has left the country's territory and made landfall in central Vietnam. (Al Jazeera)
  • Philippine president Bongbong Marcos declares a national state of calamity in relation to the devastation caused by Typhoon Kalmaegi and in anticipation of the upcoming tropical cyclone Fung-wong. (ABS-CBN News)
• At least three people are killed, two others are missing and two are presumed dead when a large structure being prepared for demolition at a power plant collapses in Ulsan, South Korea. (Reuters)

• 2020–2025 H5N1 outbreak
  • 2025 Canadian ostrich culling controversy
    • Canada's Supreme Court rejects an appeal by Universal Ostrich Farm, allowing the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to carry out a full cull of nearly 400 ostriches in Edgewood, British Columbia, under bird flu containment rules aligned with WHO guidelines. (AA)

• International sanctions against Syria
  • The United Nations Security Council votes to lift sanctions on Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa and interior minister Anas Khattab through a United States-drafted resolution. (Reuters)
• Israel–Kazakhstan relations
  • Kazakhstan formally joins the Abraham Accords, with the aim to enhance bilateral cooperation with Israel. (AP)
• Mexico–Peru relations
  • Peru's Congress declares Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum a persona non grata after Peru cut diplomatic ties with Mexico for granting asylum to former prime minister Betssy Chávez, who faces conspiracy charges related to former president Pedro Castillo's attempt to dissolve Congress. (Reuters)
• Khaled El-Enany is elected director-general of UNESCO by the General Conference held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, succeeding Audrey Azoulay. (UNESCO)

• 2019 Bolivian political crisis
  • Former Bolivian president Jeanine Áñez is freed from prison after the Supreme Court annulled her sentence the previous day. (AP)
• Crime in Germany
  • The Hesse State Police announce an investigation in Hanau after swastikas made of human blood are found painted on dozens of buildings and cars. (AP via ABC News)
• International Criminal Court investigation in Uganda
  • The International Criminal Court confirms 39 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against fugitive Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony in absentia, including murder, rape, sexual slavery, forced pregnancy, and the use of child soldiers. The court rules that he can stand trial once arrested, upholding the 2005 arrest warrant. (Reuters)
• Murder of Agnes Wanjiru
  • A former British soldier, Robert James Purkiss, is arrested on a Kenyan extradition warrant related to Agnes Wanjiru's 2012 murder near a UK military training facility in Nanyuki, Laikipia County. (Al Jazeera)
• War crimes in the Russo-Ukrainian war
  • A court in Russian-occupied Donetsk sentences two Colombians to 13 years in prison for fighting with Ukraine's armed forces, after they were detained while traveling home through Venezuela and transferred into Russian custody. (AFP via Kyiv Post)
  • A court in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, finds a Russian soldier guilty of killing a surrendered Ukrainian soldier in January 2024 and sentences him to life imprisonment, marking the first conviction of a Russian soldier for killing a captured Ukrainian since the war began. (CNN)