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Revision as of 04:38, 2 January 2025
January 1, 2025 (2025-01-01) (Wednesday)Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip kill at least 26 Palestinians, including four children. At least ten others are missing and believed to be buried under rubble. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- 2025 New Orleans truck attack
- A man kills 15 people and injures 35 others, including two police officers, in a vehicle-ramming and shooting attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, before being shot dead. The FBI says that it found an Islamic State flag in the suspect's vehicle. (Reuters)
- Somali Civil War
- The African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission replaces the African Union Transition Mission as the African Union's peacekeeping mission in Somalia. (Voice of Nigeria)
Arts and culture
- Public Domain Day
- The novel A Farewell to Arms and the cartoon characters Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in the United States. (Rolling Stone)
Business and economy
- 2022–2023 Russia–European Union gas dispute
- Russia's gas firm Gazprom suspends exports of Russian natural gas through Ukrainian pipelines after Ukraine refused to renew a transit agreement. However, Hungary will continue receiving Russian natural gas via the TurkStream pipeline. (Reuters)
- Foreign relations of Mexico
- Mexico's Tax Administration Service implements new tariffs, including a 19% duty on goods from countries without international trade agreements with Mexico and a 17% duty on goods from Canada and the United States under certain value thresholds. (Reuters)
International relations
- French military withdrawal from West Africa, France–Ivory Coast relations
- Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara announces the planned expulsion of the French military from the nation, ending decades of military presence and joining former French colonies Senegal, Chad, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso in doing so. (Al Jazeera) (The New York Times)
Law and crime
- 2024–2025 German New Year's Eve pyrotechnics incidents
- Five people are killed, several others are injured, and at least 330 people are arrested due to mishandling of pyrotechnics during New Year's celebrations in Germany. (RNZ) (DW)
- 2025 Cetinje shootings
- Ten people are killed and four others are injured in a shooting spree in Cetinje, Montenegro. The perpetrator later commits suicide. (Reuters) (France24)
- Al Jazeera controversies and criticism
- The Palestinian Authority suspends Al Jazeera's broadcasts and operations in Palestine, accusing the network of interfering in internal affairs and spreading incitement and misinformation. (Reuters)
- LGBTQ rights in Liechtenstein
- Liechtenstein becomes the 39th country to legalize same-sex marriage. (GCN)
- Trump International Hotel Las Vegas Tesla Cybertruck explosion
- A Tesla Cybertruck explodes outside the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas in Paradise, Nevada, United States, killing the driver and slightly injuring seven other people. Police are currently investigating whether the fireworks that the truck was carrying were part of a terrorist plot. (ABC News)
- Five people are killed in a familicide mass stabbing when a son kills his four sisters and mother in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. (The Hindu)
- A police officer is killed and four other people are injured in a vehicle-ramming attack during a patrol in Nelson, New Zealand. A 32-year-old suspect is arrested. (AP)
- FBI agents announce the seizure of more than 150 homemade pipe bombs and other explosive devices from a home in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, United States, "the largest seizure by number of finished explosive devices in FBI history". (AP)
Politics and elections
- Bulgaria and Romania finalize the process of joining the Schengen Area and lift their land border controls. (AP)
- Karin Keller-Sutter is sworn in as President of Switzerland. (Le News)