2025

The early part of the year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Sudanese civil war, and the Gaza war.

In January, Israel and Hamas agreed to a three-phase ceasefire brokered by Egypt, the United States, and Qatar, with an eventual permanent ceasefire, the withdrawal of Israeli troops from key areas, and a reconstruction plan being major components of the deal.

Internal crises in Haiti, Somalia, Ecuador, Georgia, and South Korea continued into this year with the latter leading to a standoff between Yoon Suk Yeol's presidential security forces and the Corruption Investigation Office, leading to his eventual arrest in January.

In addition, a series of boycotts against retail stores took place in several Southeast European countries.

Laureates for Nobel Prizes in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace will be presumably announced in October, with the awards ceremony taking place on 10 December 2025.

Logo of Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union
Collapsed house in Tibet after an earthquake on January 7
Photo from the Palisades Fire , part of the January 2025 Southern California wildfires
Zoran Milanović is re-elected in the 2024–25 Croatian presidential election on January 12
Alexander Lukashenko is declared to be the winner in the 2025 Belarusian presidential election on January 26, securing his seventh term in a called sham election by international bodies. Lukashenko is the only president of Belarus since the office's creation in 1994.
On January 27, following the announcement and release of DeepSeek , a Chinese large language model and competitor to OpenAI 's ChatGPT , chip giant Nvidia loses almost $600 billion of its value, the biggest drop for a single company in U.S. stock market history.