Portal:Current events/2024 January 13

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2024 missile strikes in Yemen
  • The U.S. Navy conducts additional strikes targeting Houthi-held territory in Yemen. (Reuters)
• Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • Turkey launches airstrikes against Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria, a day after nine Turkish soldiers were killed in a shooting in Iraq. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 El Carmen de Atrato landslide
  • A landslide in El Carmen de Atrato, Chocó, Colombia, kills 37 people and injures at least 35 others. (AP)
• At least 21 miners are killed and several others are trapped following a collapse at a gold mine in Simiyu Region, Tanzania. (Xinhua)

Law and Crime

• A familicide in Richmond, Texas, United States kills five people including the gunman, 46-year-old Alrick Alphanso Barrett. (GVA)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Taiwanese general election
  • 2024 Taiwanese legislative election
    • The opposition Nationalist Party of China wins the most seats in the Legislative Yuan but no party receives an absolute majority. (Taiwan News)
  • 2024 Taiwanese presidential election
    • Vice President Lai Ching-te of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party is elected president of Taiwan. (The Guardian)