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Armed conflicts and attacks

• War on drugs,Operation Southern Spear
  • 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
    • TheUnited States Southern Command says theU.S. Navy has carried outairstrikes on three allegeddrug smuggling vessels ininternational waters of theEastern Pacific, killing at least eight people.(Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Ten people are killed when aCessna Citation III aircraft flying fromAcapulco toToluca crashes near a football field inSan Mateo Atenco,Edomex,Mexico.(UNO TVin Spanish)(AP)

International relations

• Laos–South Korea relations
  • Laos andSouth Korea agree to upgrade their bilateral relations to acomprehensive partnership.(Reuters)
• Laos–Thailand relations,2025 Cambodia–Thailand conflict
  • Thailand'smilitary stopsfuel shipments throughits border crossing with Laos inChong Mek,Ubon Ratchathani province, afterintelligence indicates that supplies are being diverted toCambodianforces amid an ongoing conflict between Cambodia and Thailand.(Reuters)
• Trinidad and Tobago–Venezuela relations
  • TheVenezuelan government accusesTrinidad and Tobago of participating in theUnited States seizure of the oil tankerSkipper and suspends all oil trade agreements and contracts between the two countries.(The Guardian)

Law and crime

• 2024 anti-tourism protests in Spain
  • TheSpanish government fineshomestay companyAirbnb€63.9 million (US$75 million) for advertising unlicensed tourist rentals as protests blaming companies like Airbnb andBooking.com for driving upproperty prices for residents acrossthe country continue.(AP)
• Capital punishment in Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia records a new annual high inexecutions, carrying out 340 executions to date afterauthorities execute three additional individuals, exceeding the previous record of 338 executions in 2024.(AFP via CTV News)
• Terrorism in the United States
  • Five individuals associated with thefar-leftTurtle Island Liberation Front are arrested for allegedly plotting a series of bombings acrossSouthern California,United States, onNew Year's Eve.(BBC News)
• Hong Kong'sHigh Court convictspro-democracy activist and media entrepreneurJimmy Lai of conspiracy tocollude with foreign forces and to publishseditious material under thenational security law.(Reuters)
• Acourt inMoscow,Russia, designatesprotest music groupPussy Riot as anextremist group, banning its activities within Russia.(Reuters)
• Danske Bank completes its three-year corporateprobation with theUnited States Department of Justice, concluding all regulatory proceedings related to suspicious transactions at its formerEstonian branch, after pleading guilty tobank fraudconspiracy and forfeiting US$2 billion as part of a 2022 settlement.(Reuters)
• A judge in theDominican Republic sentences seven formergovernment officials to over a year inpreventative detention in a US$250 millioncorruption case involving thehealth ministry.(AP)