The edition of
Wednesday 28 January 2026
15 stories, section by section, the most important first.
International
Three people are killed and three others are injured in overnight Russian strikes on the Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Odesa oblasts of Ukraine.
Two militants are killed in a shootout with police in Karabudakhkentsky District, Dagestan, Russia.
Guinea is unsuspended from ECOWAS following the 2025 Guinean presidential election.
Politics
Ecuador's prosecutor's office raids the homes of politicians from the Citizen Revolution party, including presidential candidate Luisa González, as part of an investigation into alleged illicit Venezuelan money used to finance their 2023 campaign.
The Law
The Turkish National Intelligence Organization arrest six people, including an Iranian national, who are suspected of spying for Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, including at the NATO Incirlik Air Base in Adana.
A court in Seoul, South Korea, sentences former first lady Kim Keon Hee to 20 months in prison for corruption.
Science
The Hague district court orders the Dutch government to create a legally binding plan to protect Bonaire from climate change, including setting enforceable emissions-reduction targets aligned with the Paris Agreement, after ruling that existing measures fail to safeguard residents from rising seas and extreme weather.
Environment
Five people, including Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, are killed after a Learjet 45 aircraft crashes and explodes at Baramati Airport in Pune district, Maharashtra, India.
A SATENA Beechcraft 1900 crashes near Cúcuta in North Santander, Colombia, killing all 15 people on board.
At least 200 people are killed and several others are injured when a landslide collapses several of the Rubaya mines in Masisi Territory, North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Five people are killed and severe damage is caused by Storm Kristin in Portugal.
Five people are killed, including three children, in a house fire in Sakha Republic, Russia.
Arts
Sarah Mullally is confirmed as the first female archbishop of Canterbury and primate of the Church of England.
Sport
In association football, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) fines the Senegal Football Federation US$615,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct during the final match against Morocco, fines Senegalese coach Pape Thiaw $100,000, and bans him for five 2027 AFCON qualifying matches. Senegalese players Iliman Ndiaye and Ismaila Sarr are also banned from the first two qualifier matches.
The CAF also fines the Royal Moroccan Football Federation $315,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct and interfering with referees. Moroccan captain Achraf Hakimi is banned for two games and player Ismael Saibari is banned for three.
Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 28 January 2026, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.