Portal:Current events/2023 January 27

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 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 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 in 2018, was carried out by the Syrian military. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 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, 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)

Health and environment

• 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)

Law and crime

• Killing 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)

Politics and elections

• 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)