Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • The Volgograd refinery in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, is ablaze with multiple explosions reported after being attacked overnight by Ukrainian drones. Volgograd International Airport is closed in response to the attack. (The Kyiv Indpendent) (RBC-Ukraine)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza war
    • Five Palestinians are killed from Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip. (RTÉ News)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Two people are killed in a Russian airstrike on Sloviansk, Ukraine. (The Kyiv Independent)
• War on terror
  • Boko Haram insurgency
    • A U.S. military official confirms that the U.S. will deploy 200 soldiers to Nigeria to help train the Nigerian Armed Forces and provide logistical support against Boko Haram and other Islamic terrorist groups. (The Wall Street Journal)
• Syrian conflict
  • Four people are killed and eight others are wounded after their vehicle strikes a land mine in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria. In a separate incident, a tractor triggers a land mine in the village of Taanah, Aleppo Governorate, killing one person. (The New Arab)

• Ireland launches a permanent basic-income programme for the arts that pays 2,000 creative workers €325 (US$387) per week for three years, following a government trial that began in 2022, and which culture minister Patrick O'Donovan describes as the first permanent scheme of its kind worldwide. (Reuters)

• United States embargo against Cuba
  • Mexico confirms it has suspended all shipments of fuel to Cuba to avoid punitive tariffs by the United States which is enforcing a near total blockade of the island, while vowing to continue shipments of humanitarian aid. (AA)
  • Canadian airline WestJet suspends all flights to Cuba amid a shortage of fuel for commercial aviation, and says efforts are underway to return Canadians stranded on the island. (CBC)
• Connections of Jeffrey Epstein
  • Canadian pensions giant La Caisse suspends all future ventures with multinational logistics company DP World following the disclosure that its CEO Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem had close ties with Jeffrey Epstein. (Financial Times)

• A Starsky Aviation Fokker 50 aircraft veers off a runway at Aden Adde International Airport to a nearby beach in Mogadishu, Somalia, due to a technical error. All 55 people on board survive. (AP) (BBC News)

• Corruption in Malaysia
  • The Malaysian federal court reinstates the bribery conviction and six-year prison sentence of former Federal Land Development Authority chairperson Mohd Isa Abdul Samad after overturning a 2024 acquittal on nine corruption counts linked to a hotel purchase. (Reuters)
• Recognition of same-sex unions in the Philippines
  • The Philippine supreme court rules that same-sex partners may qualify as co-owners of property under the Family Code when both contribute to its acquisition, reversing lower-court decisions in a dispute between two former partners in Metro Manila. (BBC News)
• At least one shooter is dead and a number of other victims are reported after a school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada. ](The Globe and Mail) (CBC News)
• Europol says it has dismantled a drug trafficking network that was smuggling cocaine into Iceland, resulting in the arrests of 24 people. (Reuters)

• Elections in Zimbabwe
  • Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa's cabinet approves draft constitutional amendments that extend presidential term limits from five to seven years and replace direct presidential elections with parliamentary selection, which would allow Mnangagwa to remain in office until 2030 if adopted by parliament. (Reuters)
• Corruption in Albania
  • Protesters clash with riot police in the Albanian capital Tirana amid protests over corruption allegations involving Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku. At least sixteen people are injured while police say thirteen people have been arrested. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Arab–Israeli conflict
  • Gaza war
    • An Israeli airstrike destroys a residential building in Gaza City, Palestine, killing four people and injuring dozens of others. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israeli–Lebanese conflict
    • An Israeli drone strikes a car in Yanouh, South Governorate, Lebanon, killing three people, including a 3-year-old child. (AP)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Kupiansk offensive
    • Russian troops launch a mechanised assault east of the city of Kupiansk, capturing the towns of Petropavlivka and Stepova Novoselivka. (ISW)
  • Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Russian forces launch a large-scale attack on Ukraine using drones and ballistic missiles, killing at least six people, including a 10-year-old boy and his mother in Kharkiv, and injuring dozens of others. (The Independent)

• United States embargo against Cuba
  • Air Canada suspends all flights to Cuba and deploys empty aircraft to repatriate stranded passengers after the country's fuel supply was exhausted due to the U.S. blockade and the end of fuel supplies from Venezuela. (Reuters)
  • Mexico deploys two navy vessels, including the ARM Papaloapan, carrying more than 800 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Cuba amid critical shortages on the island. (Mexico News Daily)
  • Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla condemns the ongoing U.S. blockade as "cruel", accusing U.S. president Donald Trump of trying to "break the political will" of the Cuban people. Russia also calls for an immediate end to the blockade to avoid a humanitarian crisis, and says it will explore ways to help the country. (Al Jazeera)

• Armenia–United States relations
  • Armenia–Azerbaijan peace agreement
    • United States vice president JD Vance visits Armenia, becoming the highest ranking U.S. official to have visited Armenia in its history. Vance meets with prime minister Nikol Pashinyan to discuss implementing a peace agreement to end the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. (AP)
  • Armenia and the United States reach a nuclear deal, outlining a Section 123 Agreement and up to US$9 billion in total exports to Armenia related to nuclear energy. (Reuters)
• Allied Command Transformation
  • The United States Armed Forces announces the transfer of two major NATO command and control centres over to European military forces in Naples, Italy, and Norfolk, Virginia, as part of a gradual shift to European countries taking a leading role in the military alliance. (Reuters)
• Australia–Israel relations, Gaza war protests in Australia
  • Protests against Israeli president Isaac Herzog's state visit, following the 2025 Bondi Beach shooting, are held in cities across Australia. In Sydney, protests occurred amid a ban by the state government on hate speech grounds, resulting in police making 27 arrests and deploying pepper spray. (ABC News Australia)

• 2025–2026 Iranian protests
  • Iranian police arrest several senior figures from the Reformists Front, including Mohsen Aminzadeh, Ebrahim Asgharzadeh, and Azar Mansouri, while additional members receive summonses to appear before prosecutors, with no formal charges publicly disclosed. (Reuters)
• 2026 political prisoner release in Venezuela
  • The Public Ministry of Venezuela says Juan Pablo Guanipa, who was released and later abducted on Sunday, broke his parole's terms and that a request has been made to place Guanipa under house arrest, while not specifying if the government has him in custody. (Reuters)
• HKSAR v Lai Chee Ying & Others
  • Hong Kong opposition figure Jimmy Lai is sentenced to 20 years in prison for violating a national security law following a two-year trial. Eight others, including six former Apple Daily executives and two pro-democracy activists, are also sentenced to more than 10 years in prison. (HKFP) (Reuters)
• Missing persons in Mexico
  • Three employees abducted from a mining facility in Sinaloa, Mexico, are found dead after being taken on January 23, while authorities continue searching for the remaining seven missing workers. (AFP via France 24)

• Immigration to Sweden
  • Swedish migration minister Johan Forssell announces the implementation of stricter naturalization requirements from June 6, extending the residency period from five years to eight, imposing a minimum income threshold of 20,000 kr (US$2,225), requiring language and civic knowledge tests, and lengthening waiting times for applicants with criminal records. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • A 65-year-old man accused of shooting and critically injuring lieutenant general Vladimir Alekseyev on February 6 is detained in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is deported to Moscow, Russia. (Sky News)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • One person is killed in a shooting attack by heavily armed bandits in a community in Kwara State, Nigeria. (The Punch)

• United States embargo against Cuba
  • Cuba suspends refueling for airliners at its airports, including José Martí International Airport, saying it has exhausted the country's fuel supply due to the U.S. blockade of the island and the end of fuel supplies from Venezuela. (First Post)

• More than 30 people are killed and many others are seriously injured in a traffic accident in Gezawa, Kano State, Nigeria. (The Punch)
• Fifteen people are killed and eight others are injured when two adjoining five-story residential buildings collapse in Tripoli, Lebanon. (Reuters)
• Five people are killed and three others are injured when their truck crashes into a fence in Valencia, Bukidnon, Northern Mindanao, Philippines. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

• Cuba–Nicaragua relations
  • Nicaragua terminates visa-free entry for Cubans, revoking a policy that previously allowed thousands to transit through the country on their way to the United States. (Reuters)

• 2026 political prisoner release in Venezuela
  • Venezuelan opposition politician Juan Pablo Guanipa is released from prison after more than eight months of incarceration in Caracas. (AP) Several hours later he is kidnapped by heavily armed men in civilian clothing.
• Censorship in Iran
  • An Iranian court sentences 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to seven years and six months in prison and two years of internal exile in South Khorasan for collusion and propaganda-related charges, with the penalties running concurrently. (AFP via GMA News)
• Human trafficking in Senegal
  • Senegalese gendarmerie arrest 14 people in Dakar and Kaolack who are allegedly involved in a human trafficking network run by a French national. (AP)

• Epstein files
  • Relationship of Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein
    • Morgan McSweeney, the chief of staff to British prime minister Keir Starmer, resigns over his role in Peter Mandelson's appointment as ambassador to the U.S. (The Guardian)
  • Mona Juul, Norway's ambassador to Iraq and Jordan, resigns after the foreign ministry opened an inquiry into her past contacts with Jeffrey Epstein, amid media reports that Epstein left money to her children. (AFP via Daily Tribune)
• 2026 Spanish regional elections
  • 2026 Aragonese regional election
    • In Aragon, Spain, the ruling People's Party wins the election, albeit without a majority and losing two seats, while the Socialists' Party comes second matching its worst result ever and the far-right Vox party doubles its votes and seats. (elDiario.es)
• 2025–26 Republika Srpska presidential election
  • Independent Social Democrat candidate Siniša Karan wins a partial rerun of the Republika Srpska presidential election held after irregularities in the November vote, defeating Serb Democratic Party candidate Branko Blanuša in balloting limited to 136 polling stations. (Reuters)
• 2026 Japanese general election
  • Japanese citizens vote to elect all 465 seats in the House of Representatives, with the conservative ruling Liberal Democratic Party winning an overwhelming majority. (AP)
• 2026 Portuguese presidential election
  • Socialist Party candidate António José Seguro is elected President of Portugal, defeating CHEGA leader André Ventura in the second round. (Reuters)
  • The postponement of elections in some municipalities are expected due to recent windstorms, including impacts from Storm Kristin. (AFP via RFI) (Politico)
• 2026 Thai general election, 2026 Thai constitutional referendum
  • Thai citizens vote to elect all 500 seats in the House of Representatives, with the conservative Bhumjaithai Party winning the most seats. Voters also approved the beginning of a multi-stage drafting process to replace the current constitution. (AP) (DW)
• Politics of Australia
  • The Liberal–National Coalition of Australia reforms in Opposition following its second split in the span of a year. (The Guardian)

• Super Bowl LX
  • In American football, the Seattle Seahawks defeat the New England Patriots, 29–13, to win their second Super Bowl, and their first in 12 years. Seahawks running back (RB) Kenneth Walker III is awarded MVP, the first RB to receive the award in 28 years. (ABC News) (NFL)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza war
    • An Israeli airstrike destroys a residential building outside the areas controlled by Israel in Zaytun Quarter, Gaza Strip, Palestine. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israeli settler violence
    • Three Palestinians are injured when Israeli settlers attack residents in the northern Jordan Valley. (Al Jazeera)
• Kivu conflict
  • Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
    • The Allied Democratic Forces attack a village in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing at least 20 people. (AP)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure, Ukrainian energy crisis
    • Ukraine schedules emergency power outages across the country citing Russian attacks on thermal power stations. (The Kyiv Independent)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Kordofan Campaign
    • At least 24 people are killed, including eight children, in a drone strike by the Rapid Support Forces on a vehicle carrying displaced families near Er Rahad, North Kordofan, Sudan. (CTV News)
• 2026 Islamabad mosque bombing
  • Pakistani security forces arrest four people allegedly associated with the Khorasan Islamic State, accusing them of bombing the Shia mosque in Islamabad yesterday. (AP)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • Armed men kill three people and kidnap eleven others, including a Catholic priest, in Kaduna State, Nigeria. (AP)

• Saudi Arabia–Syria relations
  • Saudi Arabia and Syria sign agreements covering a joint low-cost carrier, a new international airport in Aleppo, and a US$1 billion telecommunications project as part of broader investment efforts following the lifting of U.S. sanctions on Syria. (AFP via The Straits Times)

• Fifteen people are killed after a minibus veers off a road and crashes into a valley near Badakhshan province, Afghanistan. (The Express Tribune)
• Eight people are killed in an explosion at a biotechnology factory in Shanyin County, Shanxi, China. (Xinhua)
• Seven people are killed in a mining accident at a gold mine in Zhaoyuan, Shandong, China. (Xinhua)
• Six people are killed and three are injured after a truck rams into a bus on the Yamuna Expressway, Uttar Pradesh, India. (The Hindu)
• Two people killed, nine others are injured, and several are trapped, including students, when a three-story restaurant collapses in Kota, Rajasthan, India. (The Times of India) (CNN-News18)
• Three skiers are killed in avalanches in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Lombardy, Italy. (Reuters)
• The bodies of six men killed in a coal mine explosion in Colombia are recovered. (ABC News)

• Algeria–United Arab Emirates relations
  • Algeria begins formal procedures to terminate its 2013 air transport agreement with the United Arab Emirates. (Reuters)

• 2026 Winter Olympics
  • Suspected saboteurs damage rail infrastructure in different locations near Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, disrupting journeys on the first full day of the Winter Olympics. (CBC News)
  • Anti-Olympics protestors and police clash in Milan, Italy, with officers and their vans being targeted with fireworks and firecrackers. (CNN)
• Bashkir State Medical University attack, Neo-Nazism in Russia
  • Seven people are injured, including the perpetrator and four Indian nationals, in a mass stabbing at the Bashkir State Medical University in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia. (The Hindu)
• Police arrest a woman and seize over 10,500 blasting gelatin sticks, wires, and detonators from a lorry carrying onions parked at a bricks manufacturing unit in Chemmad, Kerala, India. (PTI)
• Police detain 313 people involved in a raid on the Aristotle University campus in Thessaloniki, Greece, after they attacked a group of riot police. (AP)

• Haitian crisis
  • The mandate for the Transitional Presidential Council in Haiti expires, with the powers of the presidency transferred to Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, who survived a removal attempt by the council two weeks ago. (AFP via RFI) (The New York Times)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • An Israeli airstrike hits a building in Gaza City, Palestine. (Al Arabiya English)
  • Iraqi insurgency
    • The Iraqi Air Force carries out airstrikes on Islamic State hideouts near Hatra in northern Nineveh Governorate, Iraq, using F-16 fighter jets, killing four militants and destroying logistical facilities. (Shafaqna)
    • An Islamic State suicide bomber detonates explosives at a hideout in Al-Qa'im District, Iraq, during an attempted arrest, killing himself and injuring two security officers. (AP)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • The deputy head of Russian military intelligence, lieutenant general Vladimir Alekseyev, is shot and critically injured in Moscow, Russia. (BBC News)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Kordofan Campaign
    • One person is killed and three others are injured in drone strikes by the Rapid Support Forces on a humanitarian convoy of the World Food Programme in Allah Karim near El-Obeid, North Kordofan, Sudan. (AA)
• 2026 Islamabad mosque bombing
  • Thirty-two people are killed and 170 others are wounded in a suicide bombing at a Shia mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan. The Islamic State – Pakistan Province claims responsibility. (Al Jazeera)

• 2026 Agape Flights Embraer EMB 110 crash
  • The wreckage of an Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante operating a cargo flight for Agape Flights that went missing yesterday is found in Jérémie, Grand'Anse, Haiti. Both pilots were killed. (BAAA-ACRO) (Miami Herald)
• At least 53 people are killed or missing, including two babies, and two others are rescued when a rubber boat capsizes north of Zuwarah, Tripolitania, Libya. (Al Jazeera)
• Three men, including the pilot, are killed when a light aircraft crashes into the ocean off Goolwa South, South Australia. (Reuters)

• Greenland crisis
  • Canada–Denmark relations, Denmark–France relations, Foreign relations of Greenland
    • Canada and France open consulates in Nuuk, Greenland, to reinforce support for the Danish Realm against United States president Donald Trump's threats to unilaterally annex the territory. (DW)
• Iran–United States relations, International sanctions against Iran
  • The United States Department of State issues sanctions on 14 oil tankers that are used to transport oil to Iran. (The New Arab)

• 2012 Benghazi attack
  • One of the "key participants" behind the 2012 attack on two United States government facilities in Benghazi, Libya, that killed ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, is arrested, charged with murder, arson and terrorism and brought to the United States. (Al Jazeera)
• Cannabis in North Macedonia
  • North Macedonian police seize 28 tonnes of cannabis, the largest such haul in the country, from former industrial sites in Skopje and Strumica, link the operation to a recent five-tonne seizure in Serbia, and state that the material originated from licensed medicinal-growing facilities but was diverted for unauthorized use. (Reuters)
• Capital punishment in North Korea, Mass media in North Korea
  • Amnesty International reports that North Koreans are being executed for watching the South Korean series Squid Game and listening to K-pop. (Sky News)
• Deaths and misconduct in Mother and Baby homes in the Republic of Ireland
  • A further 22 sets of infant remains are recovered from the former site of the Tuam Mother and Baby home in County Galway, Ireland, bringing the total to 33 sets of remains. (RTÉ)
• Ipswich serial murders
  • English serial killer Steven Wright, who killed five women in 2006, receives another life sentence after he admitted to murdering a 17-year-old girl in 1999. (Reuters via CTV News)
• Organized crime in France
  • At least six people, including a child, are injured in a grenade attack at a beauty salon in Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. (Xinhua News Agency) (Le Parisien in French)
• Schellenberg smuggling incident
  • China overturns the death sentence of Canadian citizen Robert Lloyd Schellenberg after he was detained on drug trafficking charges in 2014. (AFP via CTV News)
• TikTok controversies
  • The European Commission, in a preliminary statement regarding their ongoing investigation into TikTok, finds evidence of "addictive design" in its app, which could affect children and vulnerable adults, in possible violation of the European Union's Digital Services Act. (RTÉ)
• Bodies and remains are found in an area where search and rescue operations are ongoing for 10 missing workers kidnapped from a Canadian gold and silver mine in Sinaloa, Mexico, on January 28. Four people are arrested. (CP24)
• A funeral home owner is sentenced to 40 years in prison for abusing 189 corpses and giving their families fake ashes in Penrose, Colorado, United States. (The Guardian)

• Corruption in China
  • Former vice president of the Bank of China Lin Jingzhen is expelled from the Chinese Communist Party following an investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection that found "serious violations of discipline and laws". (Reuters)

• 2026 Winter Olympics
  • The opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, is held. (NBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Sudanese civil war
  • Kordofan Campaign
    • At least 22 people are killed and eight others are injured in a bombing by the Rapid Support Forces at a military hospital in South Kordofan, Sudan. (AA)
• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy seizes two foreign oil tankers allegedly smuggling fuel in the Persian Gulf. Fifteen crew members onboard both tankers are taken into custody. (The Canadian Press via MSN)
• United States strikes on alleged drug traffickers during Operation Southern Spear
  • The United States Navy strikes a boat suspected of transporting illegal narcotics in the Eastern Pacific, killing two people. (Reuters)

• 2026 Pacific typhoon season
  • At least eight people are killed and more than 28,000 are displaced after Tropical Storm Penha makes landfall in the southern Philippines. (AP)
• An explosion at an illegal coal mine in East Jaintia Hills district, Meghalaya, India, kills at least 25 people. (Hindustan Times) (AP)
• Thirteen people are killed and 34 others are injured after a bus carrying wedding guests falls down a 200-meter slope near Kathmandu, Nepal. (AP)
• Ten people are killed and several others injured after a bus falls down a 100-meter ravine in Eliodoro Camacho Province, Bolivia. (Reuters)
• At least three people are killed and seven others are injured when a car crashes into a 99 Ranch Market in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, United States. (KGO-TV)
• One person is killed and three others are injured when a double-decker bus strikes pedestrians in Dublin, Ireland. (Sky News)

• English Channel illegal migrant crossings
  • Angola, Namibia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo agree to take back foreign offenders and illegal migrants from the United Kingdom after Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood threatened them with visa penalties. Around 3,000 people are expected to be returned following the deal. (BBC News)
• International sanctions against North Korea, United Nations and North Korea
  • The UN Security Council Sanctions Committee on North Korea approves exemptions for 17 humanitarian projects in North Korea, allowing international organizations and non-governmental groups to deliver humanitarian aid despite existing restrictions linked to the country's nuclear program. (Reuters)
• Russia–United States relations
  • New START, the last treaty on limiting strategic nuclear weapons between Russia and the United States, expires. (BBC News) (swissinfo)
  • Russia and the United States agree to re-establish high-level military communication for the first time since it was suspended in 2021 under the Biden administration. (AP)
• The Moldovan parliament ratifies the United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty. (Parliament of Moldova)

• Kidnapping in Nigeria
  • The remaining 89 people kidnapped from three churches in Kaduna State, Nigeria, by criminal gangs on January 18, are released. (Africanews via MSN)
• Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
  • An Azerbaijani military court sentences 13 former Nagorno-Karabakh officials, including ex-leader Arayik Harutyunyan, to penalties ranging from 15 years to life imprisonment after convicting them of offences such as war crimes, crimes against humanity, terrorism, genocide, and attempting to seize power by force. (Reuters)
• Mexican drug war
  • The mayor of Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico, is arrested on charges of alleged extortion and organized crime. (Reuters)

• SpaceX deactivates Starlink terminals in Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, preventing their use by Russian forces following pressure from Ukraine. (Reuters) (CNN)

• 2026 Winter Olympics
  • The match between Finland and Canada in the women's ice hockey tournament at the Winter Olympics is postponed to February 12 after a norovirus outbreak affected 13 members of the Finnish team. (NBC)