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7 January 2025 – Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Three Pakistani soldiers and 19 Pakistani Taliban insurgents are killed in shootouts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
7 January 2025 –
International flights resume from Syria's Damascus International Airport for the first time since the fall of the Assad regime. (France 24)
7 January 2025 – 2025 Tibet earthquake
At least 126 people are killed and dozens injured when a magnitude Mw 7.1 (Ms 6.8) earthquake strikes Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. (Bangkok Post) (Al Jazeera) (AP)
7 January 2025 – HMPV outbreak in Northeast Asia
India confirms their first cases of the Human metapneumovirus disease. (CBS News)
6 January 2025 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Israel–Hamas war, Israeli incursions in the West Bank
Three Israelis are killed and eight others are injured in a mass shooting attack by Palestinian gunmen firing at a bus and two vehicles on Highway 55 in Al-Funduq in the West Bank. (BBC News)

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