Current events: 2024-01-13

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2024 missile strikes in Yemen
  • The U.S. Navy conducts additional strikes targeting Houthi-held territory in Yemen. (Reuters)
• Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • Turkey launches airstrikes against Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria, a day after nine Turkish soldiers were killed in a shooting in Iraq. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• A landslide in El Carmen de Atrato, Chocó, Colombia, kills 33 people and injures at least 35 others. (AP)
• At least 21 miners are killed and others are trapped following a collapse at a gold mine in Simiyu Region, Tanzania. (Xinhua)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Taiwanese presidential election, 2024 Taiwanese legislative election
  • Voters in Taiwan elect a new president and members of the Legislative Yuan. (Reuters)
  • Vice President Lai Ching-te of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party is elected president. (The Guardian)

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