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- Insurgency in Balochistan
- Baloch Liberation Army forces launch a multipronged attack dubbed "Operation Dara-e-Bolan" on Pakistani security forces, capturing checkpoints and Pakistani bases in Machh, and attacking other areas in Kolpur and Pinjra Pull. (The Balochistan Post)
- Capital punishment in Iran; Iran–Israel proxy conflict
- Four men are executed in Iran after being convicted of planning a bomb attack ordered by Israel’s Mossad on a factory making military equipment. (Al Jazeera)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russia claims control of the village of Tabaivka in Kharkiv Oblast, but this is denied by Ukraine. (Kyiv Independent)
Law and crime
- 1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing
- The man who claimed he is the fugitive Satoshi Kirishima, a former member of the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front who was wanted for his role in a series of bombings in the 1970s and was arrested by Japanese police on January 25, 2024 (with the arrest announced the next day) after telling hospital staff during treatment for terminal cancer that he was Kirishima, has died in a Tokyo hospital of the terminal cancer that lead him to seek treatment in the first place. A DNA test to confirm if he is indeed Kirishima was not yet completed at the time of his death. (NHK World)
Business and economy
- Chinese property sector crisis
- The High Court of Hong Kong orders Evergrande Group into liquidation after the real estate developer fails to restructure a debt amount in excess of {{$|USD}}300 billion. (Associated Press)
Politics and elections
- 2024 South African general election
- Former Prime Minister of South Africa Jacob Zuma is suspended from the African National Congress, the party which he lead from 2007 to 2017. (BBC News)
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