Portal:Current events/2024 January 16

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Red Sea crisis
  • 2024 missile strikes in Yemen
    • A Greek-owned bulk carrier is hit by a missile launched from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen with minor damage reported. Separately, the United States launches more airstrikes on Houthi positions, destroying four anti-ship missiles that were being prepared for launch. (BBC News)
    • British multinational oil and gas company Shell suspends all Red Sea shipments indefinitely amid Houthi attacks on commerical vessels. (Fox Business)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Bombing of Kharkiv
    • Seventeen people are injured in a Russian missile strike on a residential area in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• 2024 Iran–Pakistan border skirmishes
  • 2024 Iranian missile strikes in Pakistan
    • Iran launches ballistic missiles at Balochistan, Pakistan, targeting what it claims are Jaish ul-Adl terrorist sites, killing two children and injuring three other people. Pakistan calls the action an "unprovoked violation" of its airspace. (AP)
• Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda tensions
  • A Congolese soldier is killed and two others are arrested by the Rwandan Army in a cross-border incident in Rubavu District, Rwanda. (AP)
• Somali Civil War
  • An al-Shabaab suicide bomber kills three people and wounds two others outside of the Mayor of Mogadishu's office in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Anadolu Agency)

International relations

• War in Sudan
  • Sudan suspends its membership in the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) after accusing it of inviting Rapid Support Forces official Hemedti to an upcoming summit in Kampala, Uganda. (AP)

Law and crime

• Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases
  • A lawsuit is filed against Madison Square Garden Entertainment chairman James L. Dolan, accusing him of pressuring a woman into having unwanted sex in 2014. The woman also files a lawsuit against film producer Harvey Weinstein, accusing him of sexually assaulting her. (The New York Times)
• A drive-by shooting kills five people in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. Authorities say the killings are likely connected to drug trafficking. (ABC News)
• The Iranian government extends Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi's jail term of 12 years for "spreading propaganda". (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2024 United States presidential election
  • Asa Hutchinson 2024 presidential campaign
    • Former Governor of Arkansas Asa Hutchinson withdraws from the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries. (AP)
• Rwanda asylum plan
  • UK Conservative Party deputy chairmen Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith resign to join 60 other Conservative MPs in voting to back an amendment to the Asylum and Immigration Bill, making it more strict. The amendment later fails to pass. (BBC News)