Portal:Current events/2024 January 5
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January 5, 2024
(Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Korean conflict
- North Korea fires 200 artillery shells near South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island, prompting evacuations. (CNBC)
Disasters and accidents
- Two passenger trains collide near Cicalengka railway station in Bandung Regency, West Java, Indonesia, killing at least four people and injuring others. (AP)
- Four people are killed and others are injured during a fire at a hospital in Uelzen, Germany. (AP)
International relations
- Foreign relations of Nepal
- Nepal stops issuing 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
- Former South African 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)