Portal:Current events/2024 January 23

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Six civilians are killed and at least 77 others are injured by Russian missile strikes in Kyiv and Kharkiv. Ukraine says that it shot down 21 of 41 missiles. (AP) (BBC News)
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • Germany announces that it will donate six SH-3 Sea King helicopters to the Ukrainian Air Force to help it patrol the Black Sea. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Siege of Khan Yunis
    • Twenty-one Israeli soldiers are killed in an explosion and subsequent building collapse in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, making it the deadliest day for the Israel Defense Forces since the ground invasion began. (Sky News)
• M23 rebellion
  • Nineteen people are killed and 26 more injured during the explosions of mortar bombs in the town of Mweso in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The March 23 Movement is blamed for the attack. (AP)

Arts and culture

• North Korea demolishes the Arch of Reunification in Pyongyang after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ruled out peaceful reunification with South Korea. (NDTV)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Uqturpan earthquake
  • A magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes Uqturpan County, China, killing three people and injuring five more. Tremors are felt in the nearby Kazakhstan, in which 67 people have been injured in Almaty. Forty-seven buildings in China collapsed, while a further 78 are damaged. (AP) (Nur.kz)
• A small passenger plane carrying workers to Rio Tinto Alcan's Diavik Diamond Mine, in Canada's Northwest Territories, crashes in the town of Fort Smith, killing six people and wounding another. (CBS News)
• Three people are killed and 11 are injured when a gas truck collides with a car in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. (ABC)

International relations

• Enlargement of NATO
  • Sweden–NATO relations
    • Turkey's Grand National Assembly approves Sweden's NATO membership bid. (CNN)

Law and crime

• 2024 German anti-extremism protests
  • Germany's Federal Constitutional Court rules that the National Democratic Party of Germany will be prohibited from receiving funding as an extremist organisation, the first time the constitutional provision has been enforced since its establishment in 2017. (Politico)
• A woman is killed while her husband and their daughter, all FNSEA members, are injured after a car crashes into a roadblock in Pamiers, France, at a protest for better pay and against excessive regulation. (AP)
• The National Telecommunications Commission of the Philippines orders the indefinite suspension of the broadcast operations of Sonshine Media Network International citing the network's failure to comply with an earlier suspension order. (Rappler)
• The Senate of the Philippines' committee on women conducts a public hearing regarding the alleged abuses within the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. Three women, two Ukrainian nationals and one Filipino, accuse church leader Apollo Quiboloy of sexually abusing them. (CNN Philippines)
• A mass shooting in a deserted area in Adelanto, California, United States kills six people. Five suspects were arrested. (LA Times)

Politics and elections

• 2024 United States presidential election
  • 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries
    • The 2024 New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary is held. Joe Biden's name does not appear on the ballot due to a scheduling dispute between the Democratic National Committee and the state government. (CBS News)
  • 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries
    • The 2024 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary is held. Donald Trump is projected to win the primary by the Associated Press, NBC News, and The New York Times. (CNN) (Fox News) (AP) (NBC News) (The New York Times)