2023 Australian Open Aryna Sabalenka defeats Elena Rybakina in the final, 4–6, 6–3, 6–4, to win the women's singles tennis title at the 2023 Australian Open, winning her first major singles title.
2023 Czech presidential election The Czech Statistical Office reports that former NATO Military Committee chair Petr Pavel has been elected President of the Czech Republic, defeating former prime minister Andrej Babiš with 58 percent of the votes.
Mass shooting Three people are killed inside a vehicle and four others are injured on the street during a mass shooting in Beverly Crest, Los Angeles, California, United States.
Regional airline British regional airline Flybe collapses into administration with 277 job losses, and 75,000 customers having flights cancelled.
Israeli–Palestinian conflict Two Israelis are shot and critically injured by a 13-year-old Palestinian in East Jerusalem, in the West Bank. The teenager is later shot and injured.
Russo-Ukrainian War Russia says a Ukrainian HIMARS missile strike on a hospital in Novoaidar, Luhansk Oblast, has killed 14 people and wounded 24 others, including patients and medical staff.
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Greek wiretapping scandal of 2022 Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis survives a no-confidence vote called by former prime minister Alexis Tsipras over a wiretapping scandal.
2023 Czech presidential election Czechs head to the polls to vote in the second round of the presidential election.
Cannabis in Hong Kong 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.
Death of Tyre Nichols 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.
Western Australian radioactive capsule incident A radioactive capsule is missing along a 1,400-kilometre stretch of highway in Western Australia.
Rewilding 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.
Katowice Two people are killed and seven others are injured after a suspected gas explosion destroys half a house in Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.
Manado Five people are killed as a result of landslides and floods in Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Russia A Russian Mi-8 helicopter of the "Rossiya" special flight squad лётный отряд «Россия», 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.
Environmental issues in Pakistan At least 18 people have been killed in the past two weeks by toxic chemicals from factories in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
2023 North Island floods Three people are killed and another person is missing during severe flash flooding in New Zealand's largest city Auckland.
China–United States trade war European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton announces that the European Union will join the United States in blocking the sale of technology to China that would allow it to produce advanced semiconductor chips.
Syrian civil war The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons concludes with "reasonable grounds" that the Douma chemical attack that occurred on April 7, 2018, was carried out by the Syrian military.
Azerbaijan–Iran relations A guard is killed and two others are injured during a shooting at the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran, Iran. The perpetrator is arrested.
Israeli–Palestinian conflict Seven Israeli Jews are killed and three others are injured in a shooting attack at a synagogue in Jerusalem. The perpetrator is killed by police.
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.
Russo-Ukrainian War 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.
2023 Tokelauan general election Tokelauans head to the polls to elect the members of the General Fono.
Hong Kong–United States relations 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.
2022 Haitian crisis 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.
Israeli–Palestinian conflict Four Al-Qassam terrorists, 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.
Somali Civil War 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.
Russo-Ukrainian War 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.