Friday, January 27, 2023 • Legible News

Armed conflicts and attacks

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

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 ten more are injured in a mass shooting at a synagogue in Jerusalem. The perpetrator is killed by police. (Israel National 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 on 7 April 2018 was carried out by the Syrian military. (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)

At least two people have died after severe flash flooding broke out across New Zealand's largest city Auckland. (NZ Herarld)

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

South Africa agrees to send 12 cheetahs to India a year for the next eight to ten years to help establish a "viable and secure cheetah population" in the wild. The Asiatic cheetah became extinct in India in the 1940s due to hunting and habitat destruction. (BBC News)

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