Portal:Current events/2024 January 27

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency, 2024 Iran–Pakistan border skirmishes
    • 2024 Saravan killings
      • Three gunmen kill nine Pakistani labourers in Saravan, Sistan and Baluchistan province, near the Iran–Pakistan border. (Reuters)
• Red Sea crisis
  • Marlin Luanda missile strike
  • Houthis missiles hit a British Trafigura oil tanker missing CENTCOM USS Carney near Aden. (CNN)
  • The USS Carney shoots down a Houthi missile which had been fired at the warship in the Gulf of Aden. (CBS News)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • UNRWA October 7 controversy
    • The United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Italy, Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Germany suspend humanitarian aid to UNRWA over allegations that some UNRWA staff members were involved in the Hamas-led attack on Israel. (BBC News) (CBS News)
• Kivu conflict
  • M23 offensive
    • Fighting between FARDC and aligned Wazalendo groups against Rwandan-backed M23 fighters continue in Mweso and Karuba, North Kivu, DRC. (Actualite)
• Abyei border conflict
  • Gunmen open fire against villagers over a suspected land dispute in the disputed area of Abyei, between South Sudan and Sudan, killing 52 people and injuring 64 others. (AP)

Business and economy

• Icon of the Seas, the world's largest cruise ship, makes its maiden voyage at the PortMiami in Miami, Florida, U.S. (Sky News)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Tuvaluan general election
  • Incumbent prime minister Kausea Natano loses his seat in parliament. (Reuters)
• Venezuela's Supreme Court ratifies a ban from seeking any political office for 15 years on María Corina Machado, opposition leader backed by the United States. (Le Monde) (The Economist)