This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.(January 2023)
Events pertaining to world affairs in 2023, national politics, public policy, government, world economics, and international business, that took place in various nations, regions, organizations, around the world in 2023.
January
January 1
All works published in 1927, except for some sound recordings, entered the
public domain in the United States.[1][2]
2023 French pension reform strikes: Mass protests and strikes break out in France after the government proposed raising the retirement age from 62 to 64.
January 20
Gabon's foreign minister,
Michaël Moussa Adamo, dies, after suffering a heart attack in a cabinet meeting.[6]
January 24
Israeli Interior and Health Minister,
Aryeh Deri, is dismissed after the
Supreme Court invalidates his appointment.
A deadly
head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight carrier train on the
Athens-Thessaloniki Main line in Tempi, near Larissa, in Greece. Fifty seven people were killed and 85 others were injured.
Impeachment hearing begins in Ecuador against President
Guillermo Lasso: Lasso could trigger the ‘two-way death’ clause in Ecuador’s constitution, dissolving both the legislature and ending his presidency.
July
July 3
The death of a teenager in a Paris suburb sparks unrest across France, resulting in numerous arrests. Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old of Algerian descent, is fatally shot by a police officer in Nanterre earlier in the week. The incident triggered a wave of protests, with violent clashes occurring for five consecutive nights..
This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.(January 2023)
Events pertaining to world affairs in 2023, national politics, public policy, government, world economics, and international business, that took place in various nations, regions, organizations, around the world in 2023.
January
January 1
All works published in 1927, except for some sound recordings, entered the
public domain in the United States.[1][2]
2023 French pension reform strikes: Mass protests and strikes break out in France after the government proposed raising the retirement age from 62 to 64.
January 20
Gabon's foreign minister,
Michaël Moussa Adamo, dies, after suffering a heart attack in a cabinet meeting.[6]
January 24
Israeli Interior and Health Minister,
Aryeh Deri, is dismissed after the
Supreme Court invalidates his appointment.
A deadly
head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight carrier train on the
Athens-Thessaloniki Main line in Tempi, near Larissa, in Greece. Fifty seven people were killed and 85 others were injured.
Impeachment hearing begins in Ecuador against President
Guillermo Lasso: Lasso could trigger the ‘two-way death’ clause in Ecuador’s constitution, dissolving both the legislature and ending his presidency.
July
July 3
The death of a teenager in a Paris suburb sparks unrest across France, resulting in numerous arrests. Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old of Algerian descent, is fatally shot by a police officer in Nanterre earlier in the week. The incident triggered a wave of protests, with violent clashes occurring for five consecutive nights..