Portal:Current events/2024 January 15

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israel–Hamas war
    • Red Sea crisis
      • Houthi militants launch a missile at the Marshall Islands-flagged, United States-owned and operated bulk carrier Gibraltar Eagle in the Gulf of Aden. (AP)
    • Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present)
      • An Israeli woman and her son are killed by an anti-tank missile which penetrated their home in Yuval in the Galilee near the Israel-Lebanon border. (BBC News)
  • 2024 Ra'anana attack
    • • A woman is killed and 18 are severely injured in a stabbing and vehicle-ramming attack by two Palestinian illegal workers from Hebron in Ra'anana, Israel. (Haaretz)
• Attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria (2023–present)
  • 2024 Erbil attack
    • 4 were killed and 5 wounded in a missile and drone attack attributed to Iran on Erbil. This also leads to an assassination of a CEO of a real estate developer. (Reuters) (Rudaw)
• Myanmar civil war
  • Operation 1027
    • The Arakan Army captured the town of Paletwa in Chin State following fighting since November 13, 2023. (Irrawaddy)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Southern Ukraine campaign
    • Ukraine claims it shot down a Russian Beriev A-50 airborne early warning and control aircraft and an Ilyushin Il-22 airborne control center over the Sea of Azov. (CNN)
• War in Sudan
  • Battle of Khartoum
    • Clashes in Khartoum State kill thirteen civilians as the Sudanese Armed Forces continue their offensive in Omdurman. (Radio Dabanga)
• Central African Republic Civil War
  • A Cameroonian peacekeeper in MINUSCA is killed and five others are injured in an explosion in Mbindale, Lim-Pendé, Central African Republic. (AA)(Atlas News)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • Bandits attack Nigerian forces at a military base in Nahuta, Katsina State, Nigeria. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023–24 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
  • Cyclone Belal hits the Indian Ocean with flooding reported in Réunion and Mauritius. (BBC News)
• Heavy rains kill 11 people in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Al Jazeera)
• Four people are killed and another person is injured in a hot air balloon crash in Eloy, Arizona, United States. (Reuters)
• A firefighting plane crashes into a highway near Talca, Chile, killing the pilot and injuring four people in the ground. (Newsweek)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Nauru, Foreign relations of Taiwan, One China
  • Nauru withdraws diplomatic recognition of Taiwan and establishes formal diplomatic relations with China. (Reuters)
• North Korea–South Korea relations
  • North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un says that Korean reunification is "no longer possible" and dissolves three organizations involved in reunification efforts and inter-Korean tourism. He also asks the Supreme People's Assembly to amend the constitution to recognize South Korea as a "primary foe and invariable principal enemy" and distinguish between North Korean and South Korean territory. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• In Belarus a fourth political prisoner died in prison since 2022 according to Viasna Human Rights Centre. (NOS), ("A Country to Live in" foundation)
• Ecuadorian security crisis
  • Forty-three prisoners are at large after escaping a prison in Esmeraldas, Ecuador. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2024 United States presidential election
  • 2024 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses
    • Former U.S. President Donald Trump wins the Iowa caucus. Vivek Ramaswamy drops out of the race and endorses Trump. (The Guardian) (The New York Times)

Sports

• 2023–24 Premier League
  • English association football clubs Everton and Nottingham Forest are both charged by the Premier League with breaking financial fairplay rules. Everton are currently appealing a 10-point deduction from a previous charge. (BBC Sport)