Top Headlines Related to Country in News 2025: Latest Current Affairs

Stay updated with the Top Headlines Related to Country in News 2025 to boost your current affairs preparation! This blog covers the most important news about countries that made headlines in 2025. These topics are very important for exams like SSC, Banking, RRB NTPC, UPSC, and State-level competitive exams.

Knowing which country was in the news and why helps you score better in the General Awareness section. This post is written in simple language so you can understand and remember easily. Let’s look at the latest updates from around the world that you must not miss!

Country in News 2025, January to December

March 2025

• 🇩🇰 Denmark has launched the Green Transition Alliance India (GTAI) initiative to strengthen sustainable energy collaboration with India.

• 🇦🇪 UAE has launched the first phase of its 10-year ‘Blue Visa’ programme for individuals contributing to environmental protection.

• 🇯🇵 India and Japan have renewed the $75 billion bilateral currency swap agreement to enhance financial cooperation.

• 🇩🇰 Denmark has discovered a 4,000-year-old Neolithic wooden circle, resembling Stonehenge.

• 🇫🇷 Cyclone Garance made landfall on La Réunion Island, an overseas territory of France.

• The United States President has signed an executive order declaring English as the official language of the country.

• 🇵🇰 🇦🇫 Gunfire was reported at the Torkham border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

• 🇧🇮 🇹🇿 🇿🇲 🇨🇩 A $14.5 million biodiversity project was launched for the Lake Tanganyika Basin; Namibia is not a part of it.

• 🇸🇪 Sweden ranked first globally as the best country to be a working woman in The Economist’s 2025 glass-ceiling index.

• 🇺🇦 Ukraine became the world’s largest importer of major arms during the period 2020–24, as per SIPRI.

• 🇱🇹 Lithuania has withdrawn from the Convention on Cluster Munitions, distancing itself from the global treaty.

• 🇬🇧 The UK government, in collaboration with Odisha’s Energy Dept. and GRIDCO, hosted a workshop on ‘Net-Zero Vision for Bhubaneswar’.

• 🇮🇹 Italian scientists have made light behave like a “supersolid” for the first time in scientific history.

February 2025

• UAE declared 2025 as the “Year of Community” to promote unity and inclusion.

• China developed DEMENTIA, a multi-task learning framework for early Alzheimer’s detection.

• Niger became the first African country to eliminate onchocerciasis.

• Guinea eradicated Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) as a public health issue.

• India secured the highest Digital Well-Being Index score for the third consecutive year.

• The United Kingdom is set to become the first country to ban AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

• Uganda, with the WHO, launched the world’s first clinical trial for a Sudan species Ebola vaccine.

• Panama became the first Latin American country to formally exit China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

• Australia successfully created the first-ever kangaroo embryos using IVF.

• India & Egypt conducted “Cyclone 2025”, a joint military exercise in Rajasthan.

• Iran commissioned its first drone carrier, Shahid Bagheri (C110-4).

• Bangladesh launched a large-scale security operation called “Operation Devil Hunt”.

• Albania discovered the world’s largest underground thermal lake, named Neuron.

• China approved a deep-sea research facility in the South China Sea.

• Chad concluded “Operation Haskanite”, a military campaign against Boko Haram.

• Brazil approved its membership in OPEC+.

• Egypt announced the discovery of a pharaoh’s tomb for the first time in over 100 years.

• Vietnam published a new map defining its baseline claim in the Gulf of Tonkin.

• Indonesia launched a sovereign wealth fund, Daya Anagata Nusantara (Danantara), managing over $900 billion in state assets.

January 2025

• China unveils its first Type 076 amphibious assault ship, ‘Sichuan’.

• China introduces CR450, the world’s fastest high-speed train prototype, with test speeds of 450 km/h.

• Indonesia becomes a full member of BRICS.

• Hundreds of dinosaur footprints from the Middle Jurassic Period were discovered in the UK, earning the site the nickname “dinosaur highway”.

• India and Spain to commemorate 2026 as a ‘dual year’ focusing on culture, tourism, and AI advancements.

• China develops new technology. achieving a 95% rare earth recovery rate while reducing mining time by 70%.

• China successfully launches ‘Shijian-25’ satellite into Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) aboard a Long March 3B rocket.

• India is developing the world’s most powerful hydrogen train engine with a capacity of 1,200 horsepower.

• Nigeria becomes the ninth partner country of BRICS.

• Uttarakhand government collaborates with Iceland to explore geothermal energy resources.

• Satellite images reveal a near-complete airstrip on Abd al-Kuri Island, Yemen.

• China completes the construction of the Tianshan Shengli Tunnel, the world’s longest expressway tunnel.

• Thailand becomes the first Southeast Asian nation to legalize same-sex marriage.

• China’s ‘artificial sun’ (EAST) achieves a milestone by maintaining super-hot plasma for over 1,000 seconds.

• Georgia is officially certified as malaria-free by WHO.

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