Academic team current events

Current Events Fallbrook High School Academic Team: Current Events (01/06/2025-01/12/2025)

Monday (01/06/2025):

• 4th anniversary of the 2021 Capitol Riot.

• Three Israelis killed; 8 injured in mass shooting by Palestinian gunmen.

• Bijapur Naxal Attack: bomb blast kills 8 police officers and a driver.

• Russian drone attack on civilian bus injures 9, kills 1.

• US reports first death from H5N1 bird flu in Louisiana.

Tuesday (01/07/2025):

• 3 Pakistani soldiers and 19 Taliban insurgents killed in shootout.

• Argentina’s country risk index drops 444 points since 2018.

• Santa Ana winds trigger power outages and wildfires.

• Tibet Earthquake (magnitude 7.1) kills 128, injures a dozen.

• Swan River Seaplanes Cessna 208 crashes, killing pilot and 2 tourists, injuring 3.

• India confirms first HMPV cases.

• US proposals to purchase Greenland and Panama; accuses Rapid Support Forces of genocide in Sudan.

• Former Cambodian opposition lawmaker Lim Kimya shot dead.

• 2 killed, 1 injured in a German mass shooting.

• Venezuelan president arrests 7 foreigners before inauguration.

• Former president Jimmy Carter’s body arrives in Washington D.C.

• Meta Platforms ends third-party fact-checking program; shifts to X-like model.

Wednesday (01/08/2025):

• N’Djamena attack kills 18 insurgents, 1 security force member.

• Myanmar civil war results in 40 deaths, 12 injuries.

• 3,000 acres burned in Los Angeles County; 100,000 evacuated.

Thursday (01/09/2025):

• 6 deaths reported from Los Angeles wildfires.

• State funeral held for former US President Jimmy Carter.

Friday (01/10/2025):

• Red Sea Crisis: airstrike reported.

• Moldova faces energy crisis.

• Venezuelan border closed to Colombia.

• Prime Minister of Greenland expresses desire for independence.

• Venezuelan president inaugurated.

• Austrian president appoints Alexander Schallenberg as acting chancellor.

Saturday (01/11/2025):

• US calls for ceasefire in Israel-Hamas conflict.

• Puntland forces capture ISIL food storage cave.

• Tatmadaw airstrike on market kills 15 civilians, injures 10.

• 939 CDCR inmates deployed to fight Los Angeles County wildfires.

• Explosion at gas station in Yemen kills 15, injures 67.

• Lebanese PM meets Syrian de facto leader in Damascus.

Sunday (01/12/2025):

• Boko Haram attack kills 40 in Nigeria.

• Nigerian Air Force airstrike kills 16 civilians in Zamfara.

• Governor Newsom warns California wildfires may be worst natural disaster in US history.

• Landslides in Ipatinga result in 9 deaths and 1 missing.