Portal:Current events/2023 January 25

January 25, 2023 (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- United States and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  - President of the United States Joe Biden announces that the United States will send 31 M1 Abrams main battle tanks to Ukraine. (CNBC)
Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
- Forty people are killed by an airstrike against Fulani people in Rukubi, Nasarawa State, Nigeria. The massacre is blamed on the army. (Africa News)
2022–2023 Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda tensions
- A DRC Air Force Sukhoi Su-25 is hit by anti-aircraft fire over the Rwandan border. The Rwandan government says that its forces took "defensive measures" against a plane that had "violated its airspace". (BBC News)
Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
- France agrees to withdraw its 400 special forces personnel from Burkina Faso, following Saturday's mandate from the ruling military junta that France withdraw within one month. (BBC News)
Algeciras church attacks
- One person is killed and four others are injured when a man wielding a machete breaks into two churches in Algeciras, Andalusia, Spain. A 25-year-old Moroccan man is arrested. (El Mundo)
Twelve people are injured when a bomb explodes in a market in Beni, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, (AP)

Arts and culture

UNESCO places the ruins of the Kingdom of Saba in modern-day Yemen, the historic center of Odesa, Ukraine, and the Rachid Karameh International Fair in Tripoli, Lebanon, on its list of World Heritage Sites in Danger. UNESCO cites ongoing conflicts and lack of funding due to the Lebanese liquidity crisis as the reasons for their inclusion. (NPR)

Business and economy

Disasters and accidents

A Hong Kong-registered ship carrying 22 people capsizes off the coast of Japan. Eight crew members are dead, 13 are rescued and two others still missing. (AFP via Barron's)
A Philippine Air Force SF.260 training flight from Sangley Point Airport in Cavite City, Philippines, crashes into a paddy field in Pilar, Bataan, killing two people on board. (Rappler)

Health and environment

NK News reports that the North Korean government has imposed a five-day lockdown in Pyongyang due to the spread of an unspecified respiratory infection. (AFP via ABS-CBN News)

International relations

Iran and weapons of mass destruction
- Nuclear program of Iran
  - International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi says that Iran has now amassed enough material for "several nuclear weapons", and calls for new diplomatic efforts in order to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear bomb. (CNN)
Iran–European Union relations, Iran–United Kingdom relations
- Iran places sanctions on more than 30 UK and EU-affiliated individuals in a tit-for-tat response to a new round of sanctions by the European Union over the Mahsa Amini protests. Sanctioned individuals include UK Attorney General Victoria Prentis, UK Army Chief of Staff Sir Patrick Sanders, and three staff members of Charlie Hebdo. (RFE/RL)

Law and crime

Brokstedt stabbing
- Two people are killed and seven others are injured in a mass stabbing on a passenger train in Brokstedt, Steinburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. (ITV)
Human rights in Russia
- The Moscow City Court orders the closure of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Russia's oldest human rights organization. (RFE/RL)

Politics and elections

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