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On 28 Jan 2026 Ajit Pawar’s Learjet 45 slammed short of Baramati’s Runway 11 during a second approach in marginal visibility, killing all five aboard and triggering an AAIB probe into VIP-flight safety at India’s non-instrumented airstrips.
On 27 Jan 2026 Washington moved the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier group into Middle-East waters and launched a regional Air Force drill, giving President Trump ready strike options against Tehran’s protest crackdown.
On 28 Jan 2026, six-time Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, 66, and four others died when their Mumbai-to-Baramati Learjet 45 overshot the runway and exploded, leading the state to declare three days of official mourning.
Over the 24–27 January weekend, a coast-to-coast blizzard/ice storm evolved into a lethal cold snap, raising confirmed deaths to roughly 30 and leaving more than half-a-million customers—mainly in Tennessee and Mississippi—without electricity as sub-zero air lingered.
Zelenskyy announced in Vilnius that a bilateral U.S. security-guarantee agreement for Ukraine has been finalized and now awaits only the date and place for signature after the inaugural Ukraine-Russia-U.S. negotiating round in Abu Dhabi produced limited but continuing dialogue.
On 26 Jan 2026 the USS Abraham Lincoln and its escorts officially entered U.S. Central Command waters, the first carrier in the Gulf region since Oct 2025, giving President Trump an immediate strike option while he publicly claims Tehran "wants to talk."
On 26 Jan 2026 the IDF recovered and repatriated police officer Ran Gvili’s body—the last of 251 Oct-7 hostages—thus completing phase-one of the U.S.-brokered truce and removing Israel’s stated block on reopening Gaza’s Rafah crossing.
On 23-24 Jan 2026, Ukrainian, Russian and U.S. military-diplomatic teams met face-to-face in Abu Dhabi for the first time since the 2022 invasion, sketched provisional cease-fire parameters and agreed to reconvene on 1 Feb 2026.
On 24-25 Jan 2026 Beijing announced corruption probes into CMC vice-chair Zhang Youxia and Joint Staff chief Liu Zhenli, abruptly stripping the PLA’s top body to just two members and ending Zhang’s decades-long dominance.
On 22 Jan 2026 the United States’ one-year notice matured, formally severing its membership and funding to the World Health Organization and forcing WHO governance bodies to open legal and budgetary reviews next month.
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