Portal:Current events/2024 January 15

January 15, 2024 (Monday)

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)