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Armed conflicts and attacks

Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
  - At least 57 Palestinians are killed by Israeli bombardments in Rafah, Khan Younis, and Gaza City. (Reuters)
2024 Muscat mosque shooting
- The Islamic State claims responsibility for the shooting that killed six Shi'ite worshippers in Muscat, Oman, yesterday. This is the first attack carried out by the Islamic State in the country. (BBC News)
Hezbollah–Israel conflict
- Three Syrian children are killed by an Israeli airstrike on the village of Umm al-Tut in southern Lebanon. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

At least 23 people are killed and 13 others are injured when a bus veers off a cliff and crashes in Ayacucho Region, Peru. (Al Jazeera)
Heavy rainfall across the Midwestern United States causes a dam failure in Washington County, Illinois, prompting an immediate evacuation order in the nearby city of Nashville. (USA Today)
A malfunction causes an emergency shutdown of one of the four reactors at the Rostov Nuclear Power Plant in Rostov Oblast, Russia. Background radiation levels are reported as normal. (Reuters)

Health and environment

Ukrainian state electrical grid operator Ukrenergo begins emergency power shutdowns in seven eastern and central oblasts amid a record heat wave and equipment failures worsened by ongoing Russian attacks. (Reuters)
Romania approves the culling of 481 bears in the country, after a 19-year-old woman was killed by a bear last week in the Carpathian Mountains. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

Czech Republic–Ukraine relations
- The Czech Republic announces plans to facilitate Colt CZ Group assault rifle production and the construction of an ammunition factory in Ukraine. (RFE/RL)
Estonia–Russia relations, Latvia–Russia relations, Lithuania–Russia relations
- The Baltic states announce their exit from Russia's and Belarus's electricity grid along with plans to synchronize their grid with the continental Europe grid on February 9, 2025. (AP)

Law and crime

Kosovo War
- War crimes in the Kosovo War
  - The Kosovo Specialist Chambers criminal tribunal sentences former Liberation Army member Pjetër Shala to 18 years in prison for war crimes committed during the war. (Al Jazeera) (Koha Ditore)
Six people are found dead at the Grand Hyatt Erawan Bangkok hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, in a suspected poisoning incident. (AP)
American senator Bob Menendez is found guilty on all counts, including acting as a foreign agent, in a federal corruption trial. (ABC News)
Former governor of Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria, and director of the Adra Prison Samir Ousman al-Sheikh is arrested by the FBI in Los Angeles, California, United States. Al-Sheikh has been accused of torturing and killing political dissidents while serving as prison director and governor. (The New York Times)
German authorities in four states search the properties of management and shareholders of the right-wing extremist magazine Compact, seizing assets and evidence after the magazine was banned by the interior ministry. (Reuters)
Police in Paraguay seizes more than four tons of cocaine, worth $240 million, at a river port in Asunción, the largest cocaine seizure in the country's history. (AP)

Politics and elections