Israeli court bans media from Pegasus spyware case trials
Israeli company NSO exports the Pegasus spyware, which has been used by governments across the world against opposition activists and journalists, including in India
Canadian federal police restrict access to Wet’suwet’en Indigenous land
The move is the latest repressive measure in order to push forward the construction of the Coastal GasLink oil pipeline and silence Indigenous opposition
House submits articles of impeachment against Trump to the Senate
The Republican-controlled Senate will now have to decide the form of the trial which will set the stage for the impeachment process against US president Donald Trump who stands accused of abuse of power
Anti-fascists protest far-right manifestations in Austrian universities
Hundreds of protesters blocked a lecture by the far-right historian, Lothar Höbelt, at Vienna University on January 14
New US sanctions on North Korea threaten to jeopardize Korean peace process
The US has sanctioned two companies based in China for employing North Korean citizens overseas. The US claims that it is implementing UN-backed sanctions
Protest forces Israel to relocate adult overseers with Palestinian minor prisoners
33 minor prisoners who had been transferred from the Ofer military camp and prison to solitary confinement in the Damon prison will be reunited with their adult caretakers
Soviet army liberates Warsaw from Nazi forces
The operation was part of the Vistula–Oder Offensive, which was a successful Red Army operation on the Eastern Front in the European Theatre of World War II in January 1945.
Assassination of Congolese independence leader and revolutionary Patrice Lumumba
The United States and Belgium led counter revolutionary forces carried out the assassination.