Portal:Current events/2019 January 22

January 22, 2019 (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- A Hamas militant is killed and two others are injured when an Israeli tank fires into the Gaza Strip after a protest turned violent. The Israel Defense Forces action is retaliation for a shooting which lightly injured an officer, and for the brief incursion of two Palestinians into Israel. (Reuters)
2019 Venezuelan protests
- A 16-year-old boy is shot and killed at around midnight on Tuesday evening/Wednesday morning during protests in the Venezuelan capital Caracas. Three others are killed in overnight protests in Estado Bolívar. (The Washington Post), (Business Standard)

Arts and culture

The nominees for the 91st Academy Awards, honoring the best in cinema in 2018 are announced, with Roma and The Favourite leading with 10 nominations each. (The New York Times)

Disasters and accidents

2019 Piper PA-46 Malibu disappearance
- In the Channel Islands, a multinational search and rescue operation for a missing aircraft carrying Cardiff City F.C. footballer Emiliano Sala resumes, after fading light and deteriorating weather conditions caused the search to be called off the previous day. (BBC)
A bus caught fire after it crashed with a truck in Lasbela, Pakistan, killing 28 people and wounding others. (Creatiview)
Five foreign demining experts, identified as two South Africans, one Croatian, one Bosnian and one Kosovar, are killed in an accidental explosion in Yemen. (BBC)
A Tupolev Tu-22M3 supersonic strike bomber crashes in Russia's northwestern Murmansk region while attempting landing during a storm. Three of its four crewmen are killed. (Reuters)

International relations

Kuril Islands dispute, Japan–Russia relations
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Moscow to discuss a peace treaty and the Kuril Islands dispute. (TASS) (Al Jazeera)
An Israeli spokesman says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has cancelled Wednesday's Qatari aid of $15 million to Gaza Strip. (Reuters)

Law and crime

American singer Chris Brown and two associates are briefly detained in Paris after being accused of aggravated rape and drug offenses. (NBC News)
Transgender personnel in the United States military
- The U.S. Supreme Court allows, by a 5–4 vote, the Trump administration to begin implementing the policy that prohibits transgender persons who require or have undergone gender transition from serving. Unresolved challenges remain in lower courts. (BBC)

Politics and elections

2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election
- North Carolina Superior Court judge Paul Ridgeway rejects the bid to certify Republican Mark Harris as the winner of the country's last undecided congressional race until there's a final decision in the investigation into possible illegal tactics. (Reuters) (WSOC-TV)

Sports

2019 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
- The National Baseball Hall of Fame announces the results of voting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) to determine players to be formally inducted in July 2019. Roy Halladay, Edgar Martínez, Mike Mussina, and Mariano Rivera are elected and will join Harold Baines and Lee Smith, elected by a Hall committee in December 2018, at the induction ceremonies in Cooperstown, New York. Rivera is the first player ever to be elected unanimously by the BBWAA. (ESPN)