Portal:Current events/2015 January 27

January 27, 2015 (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Libyan Civil War (2014–present)
- Five gunmen at the Libyan Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli attack with at least ten dead. The hotel was previously the location in 2013 where a former prime minister was abducted. (AP)
Israeli–Lebanese conflict
- Israeli security forces claim that Hezbollah and forces loyal to the President of Syria Bashar al-Assad are responsible for firing rockets from Syrian territory onto the Golan Heights into the mount Hermon sky resort. (Xinhua)

Arts and culture

Pope Francis holds a private meeting with a transsexual man and his fiancée at the Vatican. (The Daily Mail)

Disasters and accidents

The death toll from the January 26 crash of a Hellenic Air Force F-16 fighter jet in southern Spain rises to eleven. (AP)
January 2015 nor'easter
- New England sees the worst of the blizzard with Boston, Massachusetts covered in two feet of snow. (AP)

Science and technology

American 1964 Nobel Prize-winning physicist Charles Hard Townes, who helped invent the now-ubiquitous laser, dies at the age of 99. (AP)

Sports

2015 AFC Asian Cup
- Australia wins 2–0 against United Arab Emirates to advance to the 2015 AFC Asian Cup Final for the second consecutive time. (Daily Mail)

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