Portal:Current events/2025 January 9
January 9, 2025 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip kill at least 22 people. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
Disasters and accidents
International relations
- Azerbaijan–Russia relations
- Russia refuses to take responsibility for the downing of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 despite calls by Azerbaijan to do so. (The Straits Times)
- Armenia–European Union relations
- The Armenian government approves a bill to launch a bid for the country to join the European Union. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- 2024 Venezuelan political crisis
- Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, in her reappearance after 133 days in hiding, is briefly arrested when her convoy was intercepted by security forces as it departed an anti-government protest in Caracas. The incident occurs the day before the ruling party-controlled National Assembly is scheduled to swear in Nicolás Maduro to a third presidential term. (AP) (The Guardian)
Politics and elections
- 2022–2025 Lebanese presidential election
- Lebanese military commander Joseph Aoun is elected as the President of Lebanon, ending the power vacuum that has lasted over two years. (AP News)
- Death and state funeral of Jimmy Carter
- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's state funeral is held at the Washington National Cathedral in DC. All five living presidents, including outgoing president Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump, attend the funeral. (CBS News)
- The President of São Tomé and Príncipe, Carlos Vila Nova, rejects the proposal by his own party, Independent Democratic Action, to elect Hélio Vaz de Almeida as Prime Minister. (RFI)