Portal:Current events/2025 February 6
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)