The edition of
Saturday 8 February 2025
9 stories, section by section, the most important first.
International
International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan becomes the first person to have economic and travel sanctions placed on him by the U.S. government following an executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump intended to target the war crimes tribunal over investigations of U.S. citizens or allies.
A crisis summit is held involving the regional blocs SADC and the EAC, along with Rwandan President Paul Kagame. The DR Congo is represented by Prime Minister Judith Suminwa, while President Félix Tshisekedi attends virtually. The blocs call for a ceasefire and negotiations involving the M23 movement, while the Congolese do not comment.
The Afghanistan Freedom Front claims responsibility for a attack on a Taliban convoy in the Afghanistan province of Takhar, killing three people and injuring two.
Four people are killed in border clashes between Syrian Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham and Lebanese clans.
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania disconnect from the IPS/UPS synchronous transmission grid in order to synchronize with the Continental Europe grid.
Politics
A new government is formed in Lebanon, with former International Court of Justice president Nawaf Salam as the new prime minister, following two years of the country under a caretaker government.
Environment
At least 41 people are killed when a bus collides with a semi-trailer truck in Escárcega, Campeche, Mexico.
A 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes the Caribbean Sea southwest of the Cayman Islands.
Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 8 February 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.