Portal:Current events/2024 January 17

January 17, 2024 (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Red Sea crisis
- 2024 missile strikes in Yemen
  - The United States Central Command says another round of U.S. strikes has destroyed 14 anti-ship missiles in Yemen that were being prepared to launch at merchant vessels and U.S. Navy ships in the region. (Reuters)
- Operation Prosperity Guardian
  - The United States redesignates the Yemen-based Houthis as a terrorist organization in response to continuing attacks in the Red Sea. (Reuters) (Archive)
2024 Iran–Pakistan border skirmishes
- 2024 Iranian missile strikes in Pakistan
  - Pakistan recalls its ambassador to Iran in response to the missile attack on its territory that killed two civilians. (The Washington Post)
2024 Ecuadorian conflict
- Public prosecutor César Suárez [es], who was investigating the takeover of the TC Televisión newsroom by armed men, is killed in Guayaquil, Ecuador. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

At least 19 people are killed and three others are missing in an explosion at a fireworks factory in Suphan Buri, Thailand. (AP)
Three people are killed and 77 others are injured in an explosion caused by explosives stored for use in illegal mining operations at several buildings in Ibadan, Nigeria. (AP)
Three people are killed when a power line falls on a car during a major winter storm in Portland, Oregon, United States. (AP)

Law and crime

2024 Bashkortostan protests
- Thousands of people protest the trial of Bashkir activist Fail Alsynov in Baymak, Bashkortostan, Russia. Clashes with police are reported. (RFE/RL)
Lèse-majesté in Thailand
- Thai activist Arnon Nampa is sentenced to four years in prison for posting a royal insult on social media in 2021. (CNA)
Three people are killed and five others injured during a mass shooting against a group of men outdoors in Morvant, Trinidad and Tobago. (AP)
Former Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei is barred from entering the U.S. after the State Department accuses him of "significant corruption". (Reuters)
UK Home Secretary James Cleverly announces a ban on Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamic fundamentalist movement, for its support of Hamas and "violently antisemitic rhetoric". (The Algemeiner)