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Current events of January 30, 2015 (2015-01-30) (Friday)

Sectarianism in Pakistan
- Sunni militants linked to the Pakistani Taliban kill at least 20 people and injure 50 in a bombing at a Shiite mosque in the Shikarpur District of Pakistan's Sindh province. (BBC)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
- Islamic State fighters kill Kurdish commander Brigadier General Shirko Rauf and five other peshmerga soldiers in heavy fighting in Iraq's Kirkuk province. (AFP via The Guardian)
2014–15 Russian military intervention in Ukraine
- The Government of Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists call off peace talks that were to be held in Minsk. (Reuters)

A judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia upholds the conviction of five men in connection with the Srebrenica massacre. (BBC)
American hip hop mogul Suge Knight is arrested on suspicion for murder in relation to a hit and run accident yesterday in Compton, California. (CNN)
South African apartheid-era death squad commander Eugene de Kock, nicknamed "Prime Evil", is granted parole after 20 years for killing activists. (BBC)

Two balloonists, Troy Bradley of the United States and Leonid Tiukhtyaev of Russia, become the first people to cross the Pacific Ocean in a gas balloon and break the distance record. They are set to land in Mexico on Saturday. (BBC)
The German Chemical Society's Angewandte Chemie International Edition publishes research from chemist Donald Fleming of the University of British Columbia announcing the confirmational discovery of a new form of chemical bond, the vibrational bond. (Scientific American)