Portal:Current events/2023 January 6

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Battle of Donbas, 2023 Russian Christmas truce proposal
      • Russian forces shell the front line city of Kramatorsk, damaging at least fourteen homes, according to the city's mayor, with no reports of casualties. Meanwhile, Donetsk People's Republic officials accuse Ukraine of shelling Donetsk with artillery. (Reuters via The Straits Times) (BBC News)
    • Southern Ukraine campaign
      • A Russian missile strike near a fire station in Kherson, kills one person and injures four others, according to regional official Yaroslav Yanushevych. (Ukrinform)
• Mexican drug war
  • 2023 Sinaloa unrest
    • Mexico's secretary of defense Luis Cresencio Sandoval reports that a total of 29 people, 19 gang members and ten military personnel, were killed during the operation which ended in the arrest of Ovidio Guzmán. (Reuters)
• Somali Civil War
  • At least 20 people are killed and many more injured during an ambush by Al-Shabaab insurgents at a government base at the Hilowle Gaab village. (Horn Observer)
  • Al-Shabaab gunmen storm a village in Hirshabelle State that was captured from the jihadist group last week, killing at least six people. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• 2021–2023 inflation surge
  • 2022–2023 food crises
    • The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization reports that international food prices reached a record high in 2022 amid ongoing concerns of food shortages. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 16 people are killed and 21 others are injured when a bus crashes while travelling from Kampala to Gulu in northern Uganda. (Daily Monitor via The East African)
• One person is killed and two others are injured when a crane collapses in Melhus, Trøndelag, Norway. (DW)

International relations

• Afghanistan–China relations
  • The Taliban and the Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Company of China agree to a 25-year deal to allow the Chinese firm to drill for oil in the Amu Darya basin. It is Afghanistan's first major energy extraction agreement with a foreign firm since the Taliban returned to power in 2021. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Censorship in Saudi Arabia, Censorship of Wikipedia
  • Saudi Arabia sentences two Wikipedia administrators to 32 and 8 years in prison, respectively, in relation to their activities on the website. (AFP via The Guardian)
• Toxic cough syrup
  • State security police in Uzbekistan arrest four people over the deaths of 19 children who consumed a cough syrup product manufactured by Indian drug manufacturer Marion Biotech last week. (RFE/RL)
• Mali War
  • Interim president Assimi Goïta pardons 49 Ivorian soldiers who were arrested in July and convicted of "undermining state security". (AFP via VOA)
• Incarceration of Ana Montes
  • After serving 20 years in prison, Ana Montes, a former senior analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency in the United States, who spied on behalf of the Cuban government for 17 years, is released from the FMC Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas. (CNN)