Portal:Current events/2024 January 5

January 5, 2024 (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Myanmar civil war
- Operation 1027
  - Battle of Laukkai
    - The MNDAA gain full control of Laukkai, capital of the Kokang Self-Administered Zone, following the mass surrender of the last junta forces and officials within the city. (Myanmar-Now)
Iraqi conflict
- U.S. drone strikes in Iraq and Syria
  - Prime Minister of Iraq Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani announces that the Iraqi government is beginning the process to remove the U.S.-led international military coalition from the country after a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad yesterday killed a militia leader. (Reuters)
Korean conflict
- North Korea fires 200 artillery shells near South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island, prompting evacuations. (CNBC)

Disasters and accidents

2024 Noto earthquake
- The death toll from the magnitude 7.6 earthquake in the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, on January 1, increases to 94 people. At least 222 others are still missing. (AP)
Alaska Airlines Flight 1282
- An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft loses a door section of its fuselage mid-air and makes an emergency landing in Portland, Oregon, United States, with no major injuries reported. The Federal Aviation Administration subsequently orders a temporary grounding of all 737 Max 9 aircraft in response to the incident. (The Guardian) (BBC News) (CNN)
2024 Cicalengka station railway collision
- Two passenger trains collide near Cicalengka railway station in Bandung Regency, West Java, Indonesia, killing at least four people and injuring several others. (AP)

International relations

Foreign relations of Nepal, Russo-Ukrainian War
- Nepal suspends the issuance of permits to its citizens to work in Russia and Ukraine after 10 Nepalis are killed while serving in the Russian Army. (Reuters)

Law and crime

South African former Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius is released on parole after serving eight and a half years in prison for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. (France 24)

Politics and elections