Portal:Current events/2023 January 7
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Boko Haram insurgency
- Thirty-five Islamic State members are killed during a fight with Boko Haram militants in Lake Chad, resulting in the dislodgement of Islamic State from two of its enclaves. (Punch)
Disasters and accidents
- Five people are killed and 23 others are injured in a bus crash in Diyarbakır, Turkey. (Armenpress)
- Five people are killed and ten others are missing after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the coast of Tunisia. (Al Jazeera)
- 2023 Mexico City Metro train crash
- One person is killed and 57 others are injured when two trains crash on Line 3 of the Mexico City Metro in Mexico City. (The Guardian) (Excélsior in Spanish)
- Two people are killed and another person is injured when a roof collapses in Alexandria, Egypt. (The Washington Post)
- Twenty-one people are killed and 49 others are injured when a bus heading for Nairobi, Kenya, crashes after crossing the border from Uganda. (AFP via Barron's)
Law and crime
- One person is killed and 60 others are injured in a prison riot in Pathein, Myanmar. (AFP via Hindustan Times)
- President Salva Kiir Mayardit that went viral internationally in December. (AP via ABC News Australia)
Politics and elections
- 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election
- Kevin McCarthy is elected speaker of the United States House of Representatives after fifteen rounds of voting, the most rounds since 1860. (BBC News)