Current events: 2026-01-23

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Operation Southern Spear
  • United States strikes on alleged drug traffickers during Operation Southern Spear
    • Two people are killed and another is captured in an American airstrike on a boat in the Pacific Ocean, according to the United States Southern Command. (CNN)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Seven people are killed and 25 more injured in a suicide bombing at a wedding in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2026 Indonesia Air Transport ATR 42 crash
  • Indonesian search and rescue teams discover the remaining bodies from the January 17 crash of a Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries ATR 42-500 aircraft on a mountain near Maros Regency, South Sulawesi. (ABC News Australia)
• Nine people are killed in an avalanche in Chitral District, Pakistan, while eleven people are killed in a snowstorm in six provinces of Afghanistan. (AP)
• A Singapore-flagged cargo ship crewed by 21 Filipinos capsizes in the South China Sea, leaving two dead and two others missing. The China Coast Guard rescues 17 crew members, while search and rescue operations for the remaining crew are ongoing. (AP via ABC News) (RTHK)

International relations

• Scam centers in Cambodia, Cambodia–South Korea relations
  • South Korea repatriates 73 nationals suspected of participating in fraud operations in scam centers in Cambodia. (DW)

Politics and elections

• 2026 Ugandan general election
  • 2026 Ugandan protests
    • At least 30 people from the opposition National Unity Platform are killed and 2,000 other people are arrested in protests disputing the results of the general election in Uganda last week. (Hallmark News)
• 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam
  • Vietnam's top leader Tô Lâm is re-elected as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the most powerful position in the one-party state. (AP)
• 2026 Japanese general election
  • The Japanese House of Representatives is dissolved on the first day of the plenary session ahead of the general election. (Yomiuri Shimbun)
• December 2025 Kosovan parliamentary election
  • Kosovan prosecutors detain 109 election commissioners over alleged vote manipulation in the recent parliamentary election, prompting a nationwide recount that could delay government formation. (Reuters)
• Iliana Iotova becomes the first female President of Bulgaria after the resignation of Rumen Radev. (Reuters)

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