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• Russo-Ukrainian War
□ 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
☆ Battle of Donbas
○ Russia says that a Ukrainian HIMARS missile strike on a
hospital in Novoaidar, Luhansk Oblast, has killed 14 people and
injured 24 others, including patients and medical staff.
(Reuters)
☆ Attacks on civilians in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
○ The Russian Air Force launches an airstrike on the city of
Seredyna-Buda in Sumy Oblast, destroying a kindergarten and
damaging nearby residential buildings. No casualties have been
reported. The towns of Esman and Shalyhyne are also damaged by
cross-border shelling. (Ukrinform)
• 2023 Iran explosions
□ The Iranian Defence Ministry says that a drone attack on a military
plant in Isfahan, Iran, was "unsuccessful" with at least one drone shot
down by air defenses. No casualties have been reported. (Reuters)
□ Explosions are reported at military sites and factories across Iran,
including near the capital Tehran. Videos on social media appear to
show explosions and large fires in the cities of Karaj, Dezful, and
Tabriz. (Iran International)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
□ Two Israelis are shot and critically injured by a 13-year-old
Palestinian in East Jerusalem, in the West Bank. The teenager is later
shot and injured. (Al Jazeera)
• British regional airline Flybe collapses into administration with 277 job
losses, while 75,000 customers are affected by flight cancellations. (BBC
News)
• 2022–2023 West Azerbaijan earthquakes
□ Seven people are killed and 580 others are injured by a magnitude 5.9
earthquake in Khoy, West Azerbaijan province, Iran. (Hindustan Times)
(FarsNews)
• Six people are killed and three others are injured in a collision between a
bus and a truck in Louisville, New York, United States. (NBC News)
• 24 people are killed when a bus plunges off a cliff in the El Alto District
of Peru. (Reuters)
• Three people are killed and four others are injured in a mass shooting in
the Beverly Crest neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.
(AP)
• 2023 Czech presidential election
□ The Czech Statistical Office reports that former NATO Military
Committee chair Petr Pavel has been elected President of the Czech
Republic, defeating former prime minister Andrej Babiš with 58 percent
of the votes. (AFP via France 24)
• 2023 Australian Open
□ Aryna Sabalenka defeats Elena Rybakina in the final, 4–6, 6–3, 6–4, to
win the women's singles tennis title at the 2023 Australian Open in
Melbourne, winning her first major singles title. (AFP via Deccan
Herald)
• Russo-Ukrainian War
□ 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
☆ Eastern Ukraine campaign
○ Ukraine says that "fierce fighting" is underway in the east and
northeast of the country as Russian troops try to break through
Ukrainian defensive lines in Kharkiv, Donetsk, Luhansk and
Zaporizhzhia Oblasts. (Reuters)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
□ Gaza–Israel conflict
☆ Israeli Air Force jets launch airstrikes on an underground rocket
manufacturing site, and a military base used by Hamas in the Gaza
Strip, in response to rockets fired by Palestinian militants into
southern Israel. (Reuters)
□ 2023 East Jerusalem synagogue shooting
☆ Seven Israeli Jews are killed and three others are injured in a
shooting attack at a synagogue in Jerusalem. The perpetrator is
killed by police. (BBC News)
• Azerbaijan–Iran relations, Terrorism in Iran
□ Attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran
☆ A guard is killed and two others are injured during a shooting at
the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran, Iran. The perpetrator is
arrested. (Al Jazeera)
• Syrian civil war
□ Use of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war
☆ The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons concludes
with "reasonable grounds" that the Douma chemical attack that
occurred on April 7, 2018, was carried out by the Syrian military.
(Al Jazeera)
• China–United States trade war
□ European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton announces that
the European Union will join the United States in blocking the sale of
technology to China that would allow it to produce advanced
semiconductor chips. (South China Morning Post)
• 2023 North Island floods
□ Three people are killed and another person is missing during severe
flash flooding in New Zealand's largest city Auckland. (Stuff)
• Environmental issues in Pakistan
□ At least 18 people have been killed in the past two weeks by toxic
chemicals from factories in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
• A Russian Mi-8 helicopter of the "Rossiya" special flight squad [ru], which
transports members of the government and armed forces, crashes at the
Vnukovo Airport in Moscow. According to some reports there are injuries,
with TASS reporting that pilot error is the main cause of the helicopter
crash. (RTVI)
• Five people are killed as a result of landslides and floods in Manado,
North Sulawesi, Indonesia. (CNN Indonesia)
• Two people are killed and seven others are injured after a suspected gas
explosion destroys half a house in Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.
(AP)
• Rewilding
□ Cheetah reintroduction in India
☆ South Africa agrees to send twelve cheetahs to India each year for
the next eight to ten years to help secure a viable wild
population. The Asiatic cheetah went extinct in India in the 1940s
due to overhunting and habitat destruction. (BBC News)
• Western Australian radioactive capsule incident
□ A radioactive capsule is missing along a 1,400-kilometre stretch of
highway in Western Australia. (ABC News Australia)
• Death of Tyre Nichols
□ Tyre Nichols protests
☆ Authorities in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, release footage
of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols being violently assaulted by multiple
Memphis Police Department officers during a traffic stop on January
7. (AP)
• Cannabis in Hong Kong
□ Hong Kong's Customs and Excise Department announces that all products
containing cannabidiol will be banned as of February 1 and that the
chemical will be classified in the same category as heroin and cocaine.
(South China Morning Post)
• 2023 Czech presidential election
□ Czechs head to the polls to vote in the second round of the
presidential election. (BBC News)
• Greek wiretapping scandal of 2022
□ Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis survives a no-confidence vote called
by former prime minister Alexis Tsipras over a wiretapping scandal.
(AFP via The Sun)