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- In American football, the Philadelphia Eagles defeat the Kansas City Chiefs to win the Super Bowl.
- Former president of Namibia Sam Nujoma (pictured) dies at the age of 95.
- A series of boycotts against retail stores expands to several countries in Southeast Europe.
- The 49th imam of Nizari Isma'ilism, Aga Khan IV, dies at the age of 88 and is succeeded by his son, Aga Khan V.
- Eleven people are killed in a mass shooting at an adult education centre in Örebro, Sweden.
February 12, 2025 (Wednesday)
February 11, 2025 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War against the Islamic State
- Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
- Puntland counter-terrorism operations
- At least 27 Puntland soldiers and more than 70 ISIL militants are killed or wounded in fighting around the Togga Jacel area of the Cal Miskaad mountains in Puntland’s Bari Region. This is the deadliest attack since Puntland launched an offensive in December 2024 against Islamic State in Somalia hiding in the Golis Mountains. (Horseed) (Reuters) (Garowe Online)
- Puntland counter-terrorism operations
- Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
- Kivu conflict
- M23 campaign
- 2025 Bukavu offensive
- M23 rebel forces, backed by Rwanda, initiate advances towards Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu in the eastern DRC, following a two-day unilateral ceasefire. (Al Jazeera)
- 2025 Bukavu offensive
- M23 campaign
- Gaza War
- 2025 Gaza war ceasefire, Gaza war hostage crisis
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that if Hamas does not release Israeli hostages by noon on Saturday, the ceasefire will end and the IDF will resume offensive operations in the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
- 2025 Gaza war ceasefire, Gaza war hostage crisis
- Islamic State–Taliban conflict
- Five Taliban members are killed and seven others are injured during a suicide bombing outside New Kabul Bank in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Arab News)
- Ituri conflict
- CODECO insurgents kill at least 52 people and injure eight others in attacks across Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. At least 30 civilian homes were burned down during the attacks, according to Radio Okapi. (Anadolu Ajansi)
Arts and culture
- The accession ceremony is held for Prince Rahim al-Hussaini as the 50th Imam of Nizari Isma'ilism, succeeding his late father. (Islamabad Post)
Disasters and accidents
- Twelve people are injured, including two critically, when an Intercity Express train collides with a semi-trailer truck in Hamburg, Germany. (AP)
International relations
- Jordan–United States relations
- King Abdullah II of Jordan meets U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington D.C. for talks focusing on the president's proposal for the removal of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, threatening to withold aid from Jordan and Egypt if they do not agree with U.S. ownership of it. (ABC News)
- Russia–United States relations
- Russia releases U.S. citizen Marc Fogel, after talks with Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff. (The New York Times)
- Foreign relations of South Korea, Foreign relations of Syria
- The South Korean Foreign Ministry announces that the country will move to establish diplomatic relations with Syria. (Korea Herald)
Law and crime
- Belarus–European Union border crisis
- The European Court of Human Rights says it will consider three cases involving irregular migrants allegedly having been pushed back across the border into Belarus from EU countries. (Forbes)
- Italian police arrest around 150 people in the biggest raid against the mafia since 1984. (The Guardian)
Politics and elections
- Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States announce sanctions on a Russian bulletproof hosting services provider that is allegedly ignoring law enforcement requests, along with two Russians who are operating the network. (AP)
- The Government of Spain announces it will grant residency and work permits to up to 25,000 immigrants affected by the floods in the Valencian Community in 2024. (AP)
Sports
- 2025 Asian Winter Games
- South Korea at the 2025 Asian Winter Games
- Biathlete Ekaterina Avvakumova wins the first gold medal for South Korea in biathlon at the Asian Winter Games. (Korea JoongAng Daily)
- South Korea at the 2025 Asian Winter Games
February 10, 2025 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War against the Islamic State
- Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
- Puntland counter-terrorism operations
- Puntland forces announce that, over the past 24 hours, airstrikes targeting Islamic State hideouts have killed more than 13 foreign militants in the Dhasaq area of Bari Region, Puntland. (Anadolu Agency)
- Puntland counter-terrorism operations
- Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
- Gaza War
- United States support for Israel in the Gaza war, Gaza war hostage crisis
- U.S. President Donald Trump issues an ultimatum to Hamas saying that if all remaining hostages are not released by Saturday then "all hell will break loose" in the Middle East. Earlier Hamas said it will delay the release of more hostages and accused Israel of violating their ceasefire deal. (Sky News)
- United States support for Israel in the Gaza war, Gaza war hostage crisis
Business and economy
- Second Trump tariffs
- United States President Donald Trump signs an executive order imposing a 25% tariff on all aluminium and steel imports. (NBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Guatemala City bus crash
- A bus veers off a bridge and falls into a ravine in Guatemala City, Guatemala, killing 56 people and seriously wounding others. The government declares three days of national mourning. (CBS News) (Prensa Libre)
- One person is killed and four others are injured when a Learjet 35A aircraft veers off the runway and crashes into a Gulfstream G200 aircraft at Scottsdale Airport in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States. (The Arizona Republic) (KNXV-TV)
International relations
- North Korea–South Korea relations, Korean conflict
- South Korea opposition leader Lee Jae-myung calls for renewed dialogue talks with North Korea and emphasizes the need to maintain strong military readiness amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula. (NK News)
Law and crime
- 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
- Police in Bangladesh arrest over 1,300 people amid riots and pro-Sheikh Hasina protests. (DW)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Romanian presidential election
- Romanian President Klaus Iohannis announces his resignation. (DW)
- Artificial Intelligence Cold War, 2025 in artificial intelligence
- French President Emmanuel Macron tells major world leaders gathered at an AI summit in Paris that France is "back in the AI race". His remarks came following the announcement that the country would be receiving AI private investments worth a total of €109 billion (US$112 billion) over the coming years. (France 24) (The New York Times) (AP)
February 9, 2025 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- 2024–25 Tyre airstrikes
- Six people are killed and two others are wounded in Israeli airstrikes near Jannata, South Governorate, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
- 2024–25 Tyre airstrikes
- Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza war ceasefire
- According to ceasefire terms, the Israel Defense Forces fully withdraw from the Netzarim Corridor as Palestinians return to northern Gaza. (DW)
- Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
- Two women are killed by Israeli forces in the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm Governorate, West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
- 2025 Gaza war ceasefire
- Libyan crisis
- Authorities uncover two mass graves containing nearly 50 bodies of refugees in Kufra, Libya. (Al Jazeera)
- Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
- Thirty-one Maoist militants and two security forces are killed during a shootout around Indravati River in Chhattisgarh, India. (Al Jazeera)
- Mexican drug war
- At least five bodies are abandoned under a bridge near Cárdenas, Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico. A banner allegedly signed by the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel was found at the crime scene. (Milenio Noticias)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Sri Lanka blackouts
- A nationwide blackout occurs in Sri Lanka. Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody says a monkey triggered the mass power outage after "coming into contact" with a grid transformer at a substation near Colombo. (BBC News)
- One person is killed and at least 28 others are missing in a landslide in a village near Yibin, Sichuan, China. (Al Jazeera) (Miami Herald)
- Five people are injured when a Green Line train collided with an out-of-service train in Somerville, Massachusetts, causing both trains to derail. (WWLP)
International relations
- Baltic states synchronization with CESA
- Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania join the Continental Europe Synchronous Area, one day after disconnecting from the IPS/UPS. (BBC News)
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Egypt announces it will host an emergency summit of the Arab League on 27 February to address U.S. President Donald Trump's proposal to resettle all Palestinians from Gaza. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Ecuadorian general election
- Citizens of Ecuador vote to elect a president and the members of the National Assembly amidst the country's security crisis. With around 44% of the popular vote each in the presidential race, incumbent Daniel Noboa and challenger Luisa González will compete in a run-off vote on 13 April. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News)
- 2025 Kosovan parliamentary election
- Citizens of Kosovo vote to elect the members of the Kuvendi. (BBC News)
- 2025 Liechtenstein general election
- Citizens of Liechtenstein vote to elect the members of the Landtag, with the Patriotic Union winning the most votes and its leader Brigitte Haas expected to become the country's first female head of government. (SRF)
Sports
- Super Bowl LIX
- In American football, the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Kansas City Chiefs, 40–22, to win their second Super Bowl, thereby denying the Chiefs of a three-peat. (WCAU-TV)
February 8, 2025 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza war ceasefire, Gaza war hostage crisis
- Three more Israeli hostages are freed by Hamas as part of the January 19 ceasefire deal. (Saudi Gazette)
- 2025 Gaza war ceasefire, Gaza war hostage crisis
- Syrian civil war
- Hezbollah–Syria clashes
- Four people are killed in border clashes between Syrian Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham and Lebanese clans. (Al-Monitor)
- Hezbollah–Syria clashes
- Afghan conflict
- Republican insurgency in Afghanistan
- The Afghanistan Freedom Front claims responsibility for a attack on a Taliban convoy in the Afghanistan province of Takhar, killing three people and injuring two. (Afghanistan International)
- Republican insurgency in Afghanistan
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Escárcega bus crash
- At least 41 people are killed when a bus collides with a semi-trailer truck in Escárcega, Campeche, Mexico. (Noticieros Televisa) (Reuters)
- A 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes the Caribbean Sea southwest of the Cayman Islands. (CNN)
International relations
- Baltic states synchronization with CESA
- Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania disconnect from the IPS/UPS synchronous transmission grid in order to synchronize with the Continental Europe grid. (BBC News)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
- A crisis summit is held involving the regional blocs SADC and the EAC, along with Rwandan President Paul Kagame. The DR Congo is represented by Prime Minister Judith Suminwa, while President Félix Tshisekedi attends virtually. The blocs call for a ceasefire and negotiations involving the M23 movement, while the Congolese do not comment. (BBC News) (CNN)
- United States and the International Criminal Court, Executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump
- International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan becomes the first person to have economic and travel sanctions placed on him by the U.S. government following an executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump intended to target the war crimes tribunal over investigations of U.S. citizens or allies. (The Times of Israel)
Politics and elections
- A new government is formed in Lebanon, with former International Court of Justice president Nawaf Salam as the new prime minister, following two years of the country under a caretaker government. (AP)
February 7, 2025 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Kivu conflict
- M23 campaign
- 2025 Goma offensive
- The United Nations and the Democratic Republic of the Congo communications minister Patrick Muyaya recognize that most of the 165 female prisoners of the Goma prison in North Kivu who were raped by escaping male inmates a week ago died in the ensuing fire. (CNN) (The Guardian)
- 2025 Goma offensive
- M23 campaign
- 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)
- Battle of Toretsk
- Mali War
- Twenty-five civilians are killed after an ambush by Islamic State gunmen against a convoy of buses in Gao, Mali. (AP)
- Somali Civil War
- The Somali National Army, supported by local Ma'awisley clan militias, kills dozens of al-Shabaab insurgents 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)
Disasters and accidents
- Bering Air Flight 445
- The wreckage of the Bering Air Cessna 208B Grand Caravan that went missing while flying over the Norton Sound in Alaska, United States, yesterday is found crashed 34 miles (55 km) from Nome with no survivors. (VOA) (ABC News Australia)
- A Beechcraft King Air F90 crashes in Barra Funda, São Paulo, Brazil, killing the two people on board and wounding six on the ground. (CNN)
- Two tourists die in Colombo, Sri Lanka, when their hostel room is fumigated with a pesticide for bedbugs. (CNN)
Health and environment
- 2020–2025 H5N1 outbreak
- Officials in New York City, United States, 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)
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that influenza in the United States is at its highest peak since the 2009 swine flu pandemic. (CBS News)
International relations
- South Africa–United States relations, Racism in South Africa
- U.S. President Donald Trump orders a freeze on all foreign aid to South Africa citing a South African law that allegedly allows land to be forcibly seized from white farmers. Trump also calls for the U.S. to accept Afrikaner refugees to protect them from "government-sponsored race-based discrimination". (NDTV)
Law and crime
- A person is killed as a fourth shooting takes place in Brussels, Belgium, within a few days. The murder is related to the other three non-fatal shootings. As a result, the six separate police zones in Brussels will start working under one command. (AP)
- 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)
- Three people, including the perpetrator, are killed and three others are injured in a mass shooting familicide when a military police officer opens fire at a house in Prey Ampok Commune, Cambodia. (Khmer Times)
Politics and elections
- Second presidency of Donald Trump
- Executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump
- United States federal judge of the D.C. District Court Carl J. Nichols temporarily blocks President Donald Trump's executive order to place over 2,200 USAID employees on paid leave. (AP)
- Executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump
Science and technology
- Restrictions on TikTok in the United States
- U.S. Vice President JD Vance and National Security Advisor Michael Waltz are announced to be in charge of a potential TikTok sale. (The Hill)
February 6, 2025 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza war ceasefire
- United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Thomas Fletcher reports that over 10,000 aid trucks have arrived in the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire took effect on January 19. (Arab News)
- Italian foreign minister Antonio Tajani announces that Italy will stop working with UNRWA after the mother of a freed hostage said that her daughter had been held at a UNRWA facility in Gaza. (The Times of Israel)
- 2025 Gaza war ceasefire
- Kivu conflict
- M23 campaign
- Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera orders Malawian troops to withdraw from peacekeeping operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as the crisis escalates. Three Malawian soldiers have been killed in recent fighting in North Kivu. (BBC News)
- M23 campaign
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks on civilians during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Three people are killed in a Russian guided bomb attack that destroyed a residential building in Myropillia, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine, according to Ukrainian officials. (Reuters)
- Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- The Ukrainian Air Force receives the first shipment of Mirage 2000 fighter jets from France and more F-16 Fighting Falcons from the Netherlands. (DW)
- Attacks on civilians during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
- Ten Nigerien soldiers are killed in an ambush by Islamic State fighters near the border with Burkina Faso. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- Bering Air Flight 445
- A Cessna 208B Grand Caravan carrying ten people goes missing on a flight from Unalakleet, Alaska, United States, to Nome. A search and rescue operation is underway. (KTUU-TV)
- Four people are killed after a U.S. military-contracted Beechcraft Super King Air 300 surveillance aircraft crashes in a paddy field in Ampatuan, Maguindanao del Sur, Philippines. (AP) (ABC News Australia)
International relations
- Moldova–European Union relations
- 2025 Moldovan energy crisis
- Moldova Prime Minister Dorin Recean calls for the breakaway state of Transnistria to take steps to avoid a new gas crisis. (Reuters)
- 2025 Moldovan energy crisis
- Azerbaijan–Russia relations
- Azerbaijan authorities announce that they will close their local Rossotrudnichestvo (House of Russia) branch in Baku. (Trend)
- United States and the International Criminal Court, Executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump
- U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court officials that assist investigations into U.S. citizens or those of its allies, namely Israel. (Reuters) (NBC News) (AP)
- United States–Venezuela relations
- In an operation led by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the U.S. formally seizes a Venezuelan government airplane in the Dominican Republic. (CNN)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Greek presidential election
- In the third round of voting, the Hellenic Parliament fails to elect the new President of Greece. A fourth and final round is called for February 12. (To Vima)
Science and technology
- NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies says that the probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth on 22 December 2032 has increased to 2.3%, or a (1-in-43) chance, following further observations of its trajectory. More observations are planned in the coming months to gather data on the asteroid before it moves too far away from Earth-based telescopes to be accurately observed. (The Guardian)
Sports
- FIFA suspends the Republic of the Congo and Pakistan from official international competitions for violations of its statutes, citing third-party interference in the Congolese Football Federation and the Pakistan Football Federation's failure to implement constitutional reforms ensuring fair elections. (Reuters)
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