Portal:Current events/2024 January 27
January 27, 2024
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2024-01-27
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Insurgency in Balochistan
Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency
,
2024 Iran–Pakistan border skirmishes
2024 Saravan killings
Three gunmen kill nine
Pakistani
labourers
in
Saravan
,
Sistan and Baluchistan province
, near the
Iran–Pakistan border
.
(Reuters)
Red Sea crisis
Marlin Luanda
missile strike
Houthis missiles hit a British Trafigura oil tanker missing CENTCOM USS Carney near Aden.
(CNN)
The
USS
Carney
shoots down a Houthi missile which had been fired at the
warship
in the Gulf of Aden.
(CBS News)
Israel–Hamas war
UNRWA October 7 controversy
The United Kingdom,
United States
,
Australia
,
Italy
,
Canada
,
Finland
, the
Netherlands
,
Switzerland
, and
Germany
suspend
humanitarian aid
to
UNRWA
over allegations that some UNRWA staff members were involved in the
Hamas
-led
attack
on
Israel
.
(BBC News)
(CBS News)
Kivu conflict
M23 offensive
Fighting between
FARDC
and aligned
Wazalendo
groups against Rwandan-backed
M23
fighters continue in Mweso and Karuba,
North Kivu
,
DRC
.
(Actualite)
Abyei border conflict
Gunmen
open fire
against villagers over a suspected land dispute in the disputed area of
Abyei
, between
South Sudan
and
Sudan
, killing 52 people and injuring 64 others.
(AP)
Business and economy
Icon of the Seas
, the world's
largest
cruise ship
, makes its maiden voyage at the
PortMiami
in
Miami
,
Florida
, U.S.
(Sky News)
Politics and elections
2024 Tuvaluan general election
Incumbent
prime minister
Kausea Natano
loses his seat in parliament.
(Reuters)
Venezuela's Supreme Court
ratifies a ban from seeking any political office for 15 years on
María Corina Machado
, opposition leader backed by the
United States
.
(Le Monde)
(The Economist)
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