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

Sectarianism in Pakistan
- At least 20 people are killed and 50 injured 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
- Peace talks between the Government of Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists due to be held in Minsk are called off. (Reuters)

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)