Current events: 2023-01-31

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • French Armed Forces Minister Sébastien Lecornu announces that France will send 12 additional CAESAR self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine, and could also train Ukrainian Air Force pilots to operate French fighter jets as part of latest military support package. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Tanda Dam incident
  • The death toll from a boat capsize at the Tanda Dam in Kohat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, on January 29 increases to 51. (AFP via The Peninsula)

Health and environment

• The Namibian environment ministry announces that 61 black rhinoceros and 26 white rhinoceros were killed in the country in 2022 as a result of poaching, forty-six of whom were in Etosha National Park. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• Protests against Emmanuel Macron
  • 2023 French pension reform strikes
    • A second day of strikes and demonstrations occurs throughout France against the government's pension reform project, which proposes to raise the retirement age to 64. (BFMTV)
    • About 25% of teachers are on strike according to the Ministry of National Education. This figure is 55% according to the teachers' union SNES-fu. (TF1 Info)

Continue reading...