Portal:Current events/2024 January 29

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • Baloch Liberation Army forces launch a multipronged attack dubbed "Operation Dara-e-Bolan" on Pakistani security forces, capturing checkpoints and Pakistani bases in Machh, and attacking other areas, including Kolpur. (The Balochistan Post)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russia claims control of the village of Tabaivka, but this is denied by Ukraine. (Kyiv Independent)

Business and economy

• Chinese property sector crisis
  • The High Court of Hong Kong orders Evergrande Group into liquidation after the real estate developer fails to restructure a debt amount in excess of US$300 billion. (AP)
• Amazon terminates its proposed US$1.7 billion acquisition of consumer robot manufacturer iRobot Corporation after facing antitrust scrutiny from the European Commission. (AP)
• CNN Philippines announces cessation of operations starting January 31, after broadcasting for nine years, due to financial losses by its parent company Nine Media Corporation. (Nikkei Asia)

Law and crime

• Iran–Israel proxy conflict
  • Four men are executed in Iran after being convicted of planning a bomb attack ordered by Israel’s Mossad agency on a factory making military equipment. (Al Jazeera)
  • The man who claimed that he is the fugitive Satoshi Kirishima, a former member of the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front who was wanted for his role in a series of bombings in the 1970s and who was arrested by Japanese police on January 25, dies of cancer in a hospital in Tokyo, Japan. However, it has not been confirmed if the man was actually Kirishima. (NHK World)
• Police arrest five people for the deaths of six people found in the desert near El Mirage, California, United States, allegedly over an illegal marijuana trade. The victims were shot dead, with the bodies of four of them being burned. (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

• 2024 South African general election
  • Former President Jacob Zuma is suspended from the African National Congress, the party he led from 2007 to 2017. (BBC News)

Science and technology

• American neurotechnology company Neuralink announces it has implanted its brain–computer interface in a human brain for the first time, and that the person is "recovering well" with "initial results showing promising neuron spike detection". (The Guardian)