Current events: 2024-01-18

Wikipedia Current Events · Jan 18, 2024

Armed conflicts and attacks

Insurgency in Balochistan
- 2024 Iranian missile strikes in Pakistan, Operation Marg Bar Sarmachar, 2024 Iran–Pakistan border skirmishes
  - The Pakistan Air Force launches "precision airstrikes" on Baloch separatist targets inside Iran a day after Iranian airstrikes against Baloch separatist militants in Balochistan, Pakistan, killed at least two civilians. Camps belonging to the Baluch Liberation Front and Balochistan Liberation Army are reportedly hit. Explosions are reported in the city of Saravan. Nine people are killed in the strikes, all of whom are foreign nationals. (Al Jazeera)
2024 Ecuadorian conflict
- Public prosecutor {{ill|César Suárez (Ecuadorian prosecutor)|es|César Suárez Pilay|lt=César Suárez}}, who was investigating the TC Televisión newsroom takeover by armed men, is killed. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

Disasters and accidents

At least seven people are killed and ten others are missing due to landslides caused by heavy rains in Davao de Oro, Philippines. (Reuters)

International relations

Law and crime

Corruption in Singapore
- Singaporean Transport Minister S. Iswaran resigns both as cabinet minister, member of parliament of West Coast GRC and as a member of the PAP after being charged with 27 counts of corruption and receiving gratification as a public servant by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB). It is considered as the highest-profile graft involving a cabinet minister in 38 years. (AP)

Science and technology

Water on Mars
- The European Space Agency probe Mars Express finds huge deposits of dusty ice beneath the equator of Mars, with the discovery being the largest amount of water ice found near the planet's equator. (Space.com)