Current events: 2024-01-15

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria
  • 2024 Erbil attack
    • Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) kills four people and wounds five others in a ballistic missile and drone attack on Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. This leads to an assassination of a CEO of a real estate developer. The IRGC says they also launched a missile at a target in Aleppo Governorate, Syria. (Reuters) (Rudaw)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 2023 Israel–Hamas war
    • 2024 Ra'anana attack
      • A woman is killed and 18 are severely injured in a stabbing and vehicle-ramming attack by two Palestinian illegal workers from Hebron in Ra'anana, Central Israel. (Haaretz)
    • Houthi involvement in the Israel–Hamas war
      • The Houthis launch a missile against the Marshall Islands-flagged, United States-owned and operated bulk carrier Gibraltar Eagle in the Gulf of Aden. (AP)
    • Israel–Hezbollah conflict
      • An Israeli woman and her son are killed by an anti-tank missile penetrating their home in Yuval in Galilee near the Israel-Lebanon border in Northern Israel. (BBC News)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Southern Ukraine campaign
    • Ukraine claims it has shot down a Russian Beriev A-50 airborne early warning and control aircraft and an Ilyushin Il-22 airborne control center over the Sea of Azov. (CNN)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023–24 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
  • Cyclone Belal hits the Indian Ocean with flooding affecting Réunion and Mauritius. (BBC News)
• Heavy rains cause flooding, killing 11 people, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Taiwan, One-China policy
  • Nauru withdraws recognition of Taiwan and establishes formal relations with China. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Ecuadorian security crisis
  • Forty-three prisoners are at large after escaping a prison in Esmeraldas, Ecuador. (Reuters)
• In Belarus a fourth political prisoner died in prison since 2022 according to Viasna Human Rights Centre. (NOS), ("A Country to Live in" foundation)

Politics and elections

• 2024 United States presidential election
  • The 2024 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses are held. (CNN)

Sports

• 2023–24 Premier League
  • Everton and Nottingham Forest are both charged with breaking financial fairplay-rules by the Premier League. Everton are already appealing against a 10-point deduction from a previous charge. (BBC Sport)

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