Current events: 2024-01-23

Wikipedia Current Events · Jan 23, 2024

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  - At least 18 civilians are killed and at least 130 others are injured by Russian missile strikes in Kyiv and Kharkiv. Ukraine says that it shot down 21 of 41 missiles. (AP) (BBC News)
- Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
  - Germany announces that it will donate six SH-3 Sea King helicopters to the Ukrainian Air Force to help it patrol the Black Sea. (Reuters)
Israel–Hamas war
- Battle of Khan Yunis
  - Twenty-one Israeli soldiers are killed in an explosion and subsequent building collapse in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, making it the deadliest day for the Israel Defense Forces since the ground invasion began. (Sky News)

Arts and culture

Disasters and accidents

2024 Uqturpan earthquake
- A magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes Uqturpan County, Xinjiang, China, killing three people and injuring five others. Tremors are felt in the nearby Kazakhstan, where 67 people are injured in Almaty. Forty-seven buildings in China collapse, while a further 78 are damaged. (AP) (Nur.kz)

International relations

Law and crime

2024 German anti-extremism protests
- Germany's Federal Constitutional Court rules that the National Democratic Party of Germany is to be barred from receiving funding as an extremist organisation, the first time the constitutional provision has been enforced since its 2017 establishment. Minister-President of Bavaria Markus Söder praises the ruling, describing it as an example to the Alternative for Germany party. (Politico)
A woman is killed while her husband and their daughter are injured when a car crashes into a roadblock in Pamiers, Occitania, France, at a protest for better pay and against excessive regulation. (AP)
The National Telecommunications Commission of the Philippines orders the indefinite suspension of the broadcast operations of Sonshine Media Network International citing the network's failure to comply with an earlier suspension order. (Rappler)
The Senate of the Philippines' committee on women conducts a public hearing regarding the alleged abuses within the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. Three women, two Ukrainian nationals and one Filipino, accuse church leader Apollo Quiboloy of sexually abusing them. (CNN Philippines)

Politics and elections