Portal:Current events/2022 January 29

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis
  • Russia–NATO relations, France–Romania relations
    • France announces that it will deploy "several hundred" troops to Romania in order to support NATO's eastern flank amid tensions with Russia. (Times of India)

Disasters and accidents

• 2021–22 European windstorm season
  • Storm Malik impacts the British Isles, killing two people, and causing widespread damage in Scotland and Northern England. (The Independent)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Russia
      • Russia reports a record for the ninth consecutive day of 113,122 new COVID-19 cases, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1.61 million. (The Moscow Times)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey
      • Turkey reports a record 94,783 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. (Reuters)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea
    • South Korea reports a record for the fourth consecutive day of 17,542 new COVID-19 cases, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 811,122. (The Korea Herald)

International relations

• 2022 Russian military exercise controversy
  • Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney announces that the Russian Minister of Defence has agreed to his request that the exercises would be moved outside the Irish Exclusive Economic Zone. (RTÉ)

Law and crime

• Freedom Convoy 2022
  • Participants in the convoy arrive at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada to protest vaccine mandates and other public health restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic. (CTV News Ottawa)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Italian presidential election
  • After seven inconclusive ballots, Sergio Mattarella is elected for a second term as President on the eighth ballot. (ANSA)

Sports

• 2022 Australian Open
  • Australian tennis player Ashleigh Barty defeats American Danielle Collins in two sets, 6–3, 7–6,^(7–2) to win the women's singles title at the Australian Open. Barty is the first home player to win the title since Chris O'Neil in 1978. (AFP via France 24)