Portal:Current events/2025 January 26

January 26, 2025 (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Business and economy

The Syrian newspaper Enab Baladi announces it will return to Syria after a decade in exile following the beginning of the Syrian civil war. (The New Arab)

International relations

Colombia–United States relations, Mass deportation of immigrants in the second presidency of Donald Trump
- Colombian President Gustavo Petro blocks two U.S. military aircraft carrying deported Colombians as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown from landing in his country. (The Guardian)
- In response to President Gustavo Petro's refusal, U.S. President Donald Trump enacts a 25% tariff on all goods traded to the U.S. from Colombia, which will be raised to 50% in one week. Hours after Trump's announcement, President Petro orders the commerce ministry to raise tariffs on U.S. imports by 25%. (CNN)
- The dispute is settled with an agreement to use the Colombian presidential plane to fly the deportees from the U.S. to Colombia. (AP) (The Hill)
Belarus–United States relations
- U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces the release of American citizen Anastasia Nufer from a prison in Belarus. (RFE/RL)
Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda tensions
- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges Rwanda to end its support for rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and withdraw Rwandan soldiers from Congolese territory. (Al Jazeera)
- Congolese Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner calls Rwanda's military support for M23 rebels a "declaration of war". (DW)

Law and crime

2024 South Korean martial law crisis
- South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is formally indicted on insurrection charges over his declaration of martial law in December 2024. (The Washington Post)
Two people, including the perpetrator, are killed and six others are injured in a vehicle-ramming attack in Tampa, Florida, United States. (NPR)

Politics and elections

2025 Belarusian presidential election
- A vote is held in Belarus for president, with President Alexander Lukashenko expected to extend his rule in an election that the Belarusian opposition, the United States, and the European Parliament have called a sham election. (Al Jazeera)
- A protest in Warsaw, Poland, is organized by Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya after Lukashenko's rule was extended to a 7th term. (Balkan Insight)

Sports