Friday,  January 27th, 2023 

A radioactive capsule is missing along a 1,400-kilometre stretch of highway in Western Australia. (ABC News Australia) 

Authorities in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, release footage of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols being violently assaulted by multiple Memphis Police Department officers during a traffic stop on January 7. (AP) 

Ukraine says that “fierce fighting” is underway in the east and northeast of the country as Russian troops try to break through Ukrainian defensive lines in Kharkiv, Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts. (Reuters) 

A Russian Mi-8 helicopter of the “Rossiya” special flight squad [ru], which transports members of the government and armed forces, crashes at the Vnukovo Airport in Moscow. According to some reports there are injuries, with TASS reporting that pilot error is the main cause of the helicopter crash. (RTVI) 

Israeli Air Force jets launch airstrikes on an underground rocket manufacturing site, and a military base used by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in response to rockets fired by Palestinian militants into southern Israel. (Reuters) 

Seven Israeli Jews are killed and three others are injured in a shooting at a synagogue in Jerusalem. The perpetrator is killed by police. (BBC News) 

A guard is killed and two others are injured during a shooting at the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran, Iran. The perpetrator is arrested. (Al Jazeera) 

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons concludes with “reasonable grounds” that the Douma chemical attack that occurred in 2018, was carried out by the Syrian military. (Al Jazeera) 

Two people are killed and seven others are injured after a suspected gas explosion destroys half a house in Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. (AP) 

South Africa agrees to send twelve cheetahs to India each year for the next eight to ten years to help secure a viable wild population. The Asiatic cheetah went extinct in India in the 1940s due to overhunting and habitat destruction. (BBC News) 

Hong Kong‘s Customs and Excise Department announces that all products containing cannabidiol will be banned as of February 1 and that the chemical will be classified in the same category as heroin and cocaine. (South China Morning Post) 

Czechs head to the polls to vote in the second round of the presidential election. (BBC News) 

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis survives a no-confidence vote called by former prime minister Alexis Tsipras over a wiretapping scandal. (AFP via The Sun) 

It is announced that at least 18 people have been killed in the past two weeks by toxic chemicals from factories in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera) 

A Russian Mi-8 helicopter of the “Rossiya” special flight squad [ru], which transports members of the government and armed forces, crashes at Vnukovo airport. According to some reports there are injuries, with TASS reporting that pilot error is the main cause of the helicopter crash. (RTVI) 

Thursday, January 26th, 2023 

Russia launches a wave of cruise missile and Shahed 129 drone strikes across Ukraine, targeting major cities and critical infrastructure, killing at least 11 people and injuring 11 others. Ukrainian general Valerii Zaluzhnyi says that at least 20 missiles have been intercepted over the capital Kyiv. (The Guardian) 

A U.S. military raid in northern Somalia kills senior Islamic State member Bilal al-Sudani and ten other insurgents. No U.S. military casualties are reported in the operation, which was ordered by U.S. President Joe Biden. (NBC News) 

Four Al-Qassam militants, three Islamic Jihad members and two Palestinian civilians are killed and 20 others are injured during a raid and subsequent gunfight by Israeli soldiers in Jenin, in the West Bank. In a separate raid in Al-Ram, a Palestinian man is killed and two others are injured by Israeli soldiers. (AP) 

Ten police officers are killed, one is critically injured and another is missing during a series of attacks in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, by the Gan Grif gang. (Al Jazeera) 

U.S. President Joe Biden grants a two-year extension to the Deferred Enforced Departure immigration status of Hong Kong residents, citing increasing tensions between Hong Kong and mainland China. (AFP via GMA News Online) 

Tokelauans head to the polls to elect the members of the General Fono. (RNZ) 

The End