Portal:Current events/2026 January 6

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Communal conflicts in Nigeria
  • Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
    • Five farmers are killed in a shooting attack by herders in Kwande, Benue State, Nigeria. (Daily Post)
  • Nigerian bandit conflict
    • At least five Old Oyo National Park security personnel are killed and others injured in a bandit attack in Orire, Oyo State, Nigeria. (The Guardian)
• Syrian conflict
  • SDF–Syrian transitional government clashes
    • Seven people are killed and several others are wounded in Aleppo, Syria after clashes between the Syrian Armed Forces and the Syrian Democratic Forces. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
• 2026 United States strikes in Venezuela
  • Venezuela confirms that 23 members of its military were among the 80 people killed during the American airstrikes on the country, including its capital Caracas, three days ago. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 22 people are killed and 65 others are injured after a truck (lorry) carrying migrant workers overturns in Semera, Afar Region, Ethiopia. (BBC News)
• Six people are killed and 46 others are injured after a bus and a trailer collide head-on in Kericho County, Kenya. (Capital News)
• One person is killed and three others are injured after a bus collides with protesters in Jerusalem, Israel. (The Times of Israel)

Health and environment

• The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raises the alert level of the Mayon volcano in Luzon to three, citing signs of magma intrusion and possible explosive activity, and orders evacuations within a six-kilometer danger zone. (Reuters)

International relations

• China–Japan relations
  • 2025–2026 China–Japan diplomatic crisis
    • China tightens export controls on dual-use technology to Japan, banning shipments that could support the Japanese military, following diplomatic tensions over remarks related to Taiwan. (AFP via The Sun)

Law and crime

• Afghanistan–China relations
  • Three locals and a company employee are killed and five others are wounded in clashes between residents and employees of a Chinese company contracted for ore washing by the Afghan Ministry of Mining at a gold extraction site in Chah Ab District, Takhar Province, Afghanistan. The company's operations are later suspended pending a probe into the incident. (AP) (Tolo)
• Freedom of religion in China
  • Chinese police detain six members of the unregistered Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, Sichuan, including its current leader, as part of ongoing actions against house churches. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Communications in Palestine
  • Israel authorizes Palestinian mobile operators Jawwal and Ooredoo to begin upgrading to 4G services in the West Bank after they sign management contracts with the Swedish telecommunications firm Ericsson. (Reuters)
• Sexual deepfake generation on X
  • Coimisiún na Meán says it is engaging with the European Commission on the generation of sexualised images of women and minors as the sharing of non-consensual intimate imagery and generation of child sexual abuse imagery is illegal and platforms are illegal and platforms are legally obliged to act on reports of illegal media content. (RTÉ)
  • Ofcom announced that it had contacted X over complaints that the sites' AI took Grok was generating fake images of children being sexually abused. (RTÉ)