January 25, 2024 (Thursday)

The United States Department of Commerce issues a $15 million bounty for information on Hossein Hatefi Ardakani, an Iranian businessman accused of procuring parts for drones assembled by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that were later sold to Russia.

Four police officers are killed in an ambush on a highway near Celaya, Guanajuato.

Nine Dawlah Islamiyah militants are killed while four soldiers are injured during a shootout in the village of Taporug near Piagapo town in Lanao del Sur, Philippines. Two of the killed were suspected of being involved in the December 2023 Mindanao bombing; six other militants are on the run.

A Piper PA-24 Comanche crashes in the forest region between Rio Grande da Serra and Ribeirão Pires, in Greater São Paulo, Brazil. Two people were killed.

A court in Japan sentences Shinji Aoba to death for a 2019 arson attack on a Kyoto Animation studio in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, which killed 36 people.

South Korean politician Bae Hyun-jin is attacked and hospitalized in Seoul.

A court in Russia sentences Darya Trepova to 27 years in prison for the assassination of Vladlen Tatarsky in April 2023.

The state of Alabama executes convicted murderer Kenneth Smith using nitrogen hypoxia, the first time the technique is used.

Taiwan officially begins extending its compulsory military service from four months to one year, amid increased tensions with China.

NASA announces the retirement of Mars Helicopter Ingenuity after the vehicle sustained damage to one of its rotors.