Portal:Current events/2020 January 27
January 27, 2020 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian civil war
- The Syrian Army besieges the strategic rebel-held city of Ma'arrat al-Nu'man in the Idlib Governorate and cuts the M5 Highway between Ma'arrat al-Nu'man and Saraqib to the north. (Middle East Eye) (Reuters)
Arts and culture
- Albert II of Belgium acknowledges being Delphine Boël's biological father. (The Guardian)
Disasters and accidents
- 2020 United States Air Force E-11A crash
- A United States Air Force E-11A aircraft crashes and catches fire in Ghazni Province, eastern Afghanistan. All five people on board are killed. (BBC) (Voice of America)
- 2020 Brazilian floods and mudslides
- Widespread flooding and landslides in Brazil cause 50 deaths and force thousands to evacuate their homes. (Fox News)
- Caspian Airlines Flight 6936
- A Caspian Airlines passenger airliner crash lands on a runway and skids onto a major highway in Mahshahr, Iran, leaving 2 injured. (Sky News)
- A fire destroys at least 35 houseboats moored along the Tennessee River in Scottsboro, Alabama, United States, killing eight people. (Sky News)
Health and environment
- 2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak
- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visits Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, to direct epidemic prevention.(Reuters)
- Six travelers from China are denied entry and turned away from Samoa, following the island country's introduction of a ban on all travelers from China. They later arrive in Fiji, where they are quarantined with no symptoms. These strict regulations come after a measles outbreak ravaged Samoa last month. (RNZ)
Law and crime
- A court in Cairo, Egypt sentences 37 people to prison terms, including eight to life imprisonment for supporting or joining Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant affiliate in the Sinai Province. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Politics of Slovenia
- Slovenian Prime Minister Marjan Šarec submits his resignation after losing the parliamentary support of The Left party in November and calls for snap elections. (Reuters)