Portal:Current events/2023 February 6

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Somali Civil War
  • Puntland–Somaliland dispute
    • At least 34 people are killed and 40 others are injured during clashes between Somalilander soldiers and anti-government fighters in Laascaanood, Sool, Somaliland. (Reuters)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Five Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades members are killed, three others are injured, and eight members are arrested during a raid by Israeli soldiers and subsequent gunbattle at a refugee camp near Jericho, in the West Bank. (BBC News)

Arts and culture

• Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church announces that the church will begin using the Gregorian calendar on September 1 for all but moveable feasts, following a decision by the Synod of Bishops. (UGCC)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake
  • At least 59,000 people are killed in Turkey and Syria as a magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes Gaziantep Province, Turkey. (BBC News)
  • A second earthquake of magnitude 7.5 occurs in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, nine hours after the first earthquake. (Bloomberg)
• 2023 Coulson Aviation crash
  • A Boeing 737-300 firefighting tanker crashes in Fitzgerald River National Park in Western Australia. Both pilots survive. (7 News)
• Landslides triggered by heavy rains causes mudslides across villages in the Camaná Province, Peru, killing 36 people. (AP)

Law and crime

• Hong Kong national security law
  • The trial of 47 pro-democracy activists begins, two years after their arrest. It is the largest trial yet held under the Hong Kong national security law. (DW)

Science and technology

• Censorship of Wikipedia, Internet censorship in Pakistan
  • Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif orders the ban on Wikipedia to be lifted, three days after the website was banned for alleged anti-Muslim and blasphemous content. (ProPakistani)