Current events: 2024-01-02

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2023 Israel–Hamas war
  • 2023 Israel–Lebanon border conflict
    • Assassination of Saleh al Arouri
      • Israel conducts an airstrike in the Dahieh neighborhood of Beirut, Lebanon, killing five people, including Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy chairman of Hamas' political bureau along with two other senior Hamas military officials. (Reuters) (Times of Israel)
• Spillover of the Afghan conflict
  • Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
    • Unidentified gunmen kill six people in Mir Ali, North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (ABC News)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russian strikes against infrastructure
    • 2 January 2024 Russian strikes on Ukraine
      • Four civilians are killed and almost 100 more injured by a Russian missile attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine. At least 27 civilians are injured in Kyiv, and more than 100 people were evacuated from a burning apartment block. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Haneda Airport runway collision
  • A Japan Airlines Airbus A350-900 collides with a Japan Coast Guard DHC-8 aircraft and bursts into flames at Tokyo's Haneda Airport. All 379 occupants aboard the Japan Airlines flight are evacuated; five of the six occupants aboard the Coast Guard aircraft are killed. (BBC News) (Reuters)
• A Ugandan People's Defence Force helicopter crashes in Nyamisigiri Village, {{ill|Kicwamba|ceb}} sub-county, Kabarole District, killing two people on board the helicopter and one on the ground. (KFM) (Aviation Safety Network)

Law and crime

• Stabbing of Lee Jae-myung
  • South Korean opposition politician Lee Jae-myung is stabbed in the neck in Gadeokdo, Busan. (The New York Times)
• A man shoots out a window and holds a security guard at gunpoint at the Colorado Supreme Court building before being detained by police. (Colorado Public Radio)

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