The Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia donated 428 documents related to the Holocaust to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation in Warsaw. This was reported by dpa. Previously, these documents were planned to be auctioned, but were abandoned after a massive negative reaction. “I am grateful that we were able to transfer the documents to the archives of the relevant memorial sites.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has approved a new list of diseases, the presence of which cannot sign a contract for military service during the period of mobilization. The corresponding order, signed on December 20, appeared on the portal of legal acts the day before. The new list includes, in particular, diabetes mellitus and the consequences of a number of fractures. The list was expanded from 26 to 35 diseases, notes the RBC publication.

Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 30 people. Among them are several children. This was reported by the Associated Press with reference to data from local medical institutions. This number is several times higher than the average daily death toll since the ceasefire agreement.

The US Department of Justice has published a new array of materials related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. More than 3 million pages of documents, over 2 thousand videos and about 180 thousand images have been made publicly available. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche made the announcement Friday.

Gold and silver prices experienced a sharp drop on Friday, January 30th. If shortly before this, precious metals reached their maximum values ​​at auction, prices have now fallen. For silver, this is a record intraday price drop in history. Bloomberg writes about this. During trading on Friday, gold fell by 12%. The price dropped below $5,000 per ounce. For gold, this was the biggest intraday drop since the early 1980s - that is, in more than 40 years.

At least 227 people were killed by rubble following a collapse at the Rubaya mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This mine produces about 15% of the world's coltan, an ore used in electronics and instrument making. Reuters reports this. The mine collapse occurred on Wednesday, January 28. The cause was heavy rains, which triggered a landslide. More than 200 people are listed as dead.

Blue Origin, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced Friday that it is freezing its New Shepard space tourism program for a couple of years. Instead, the company will refocus its efforts on preparing for missions to the Moon to win the race with SpaceX to provide NASA with a lander for a future landing. Since 2021, New Shepard's reusable rockets have made dozens of flights, bringing celebrities and participants in research experiments to the Carman Line .

In the first month of 2026, at least four Russian aerial bombs fell unplanned on the Belgorod region, Astra calculated . The last such incident occurred on January 19 in the village of Pervoye Tseplyaevo in the Shebekinsky district. An air bomb fell near a residential building, authorities evacuated almost 50 residents of neighboring houses, no one was injured.

King cobras, which live in the interior of the Indian state of Goa and are an endangered species, are endangered by rail traffic when the snakes crawl onto trains, which transport them long distances to regions with unsuitable conditions where the animals can easily die. This hypothesis was put forward by a group of Indian scientists in an article in the journal Biotropica, cited by Der Spiegel.

Some facilities in Murmansk and Severomorsk were again left without electricity on the morning of January 31, said the governor of the Murmansk region, Andrei Chibis. Cities were again left without electricity and heat after a large-scale blackout a week ago. A repeated “technological violation” was recorded on a new section of the power line, Rosseti North-West reported .

World number five Elena Rybakina won the Australian Open Grand Slam tournament in women's singles. She represented Kazakhstan at the tournament; before Rybakina competed under the Russian flag. The tennis match lasted just over two hours and ended with a score of 6:4, 4:6, 6:4 in favor of Rybakina. The athlete representing Kazakhstan beat world number one Arina Sabalenka from Belarus in the Australian Open final. Rybakina herself ranks fifth in the WTA (Women's Tennis Association) rankings.

A number of regions of Ukraine were left without electricity on January 31 - emergency power outages affected the capital, Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa and Kiev regions. Due to problems in the Ukrainian energy system, part of neighboring Moldova was also left without electricity. The infrastructure in the Chernihiv and Zhytomyr regions has also been switched to emergency power supplies, writes RBC-Ukraine; power outages are being recorded in the Sumy region and Kharkov .

Information about the arrest of 16-year-old Artem A., accused of murdering Roskomnadzor employee Alexei Belyaev, never appeared on the websites of Moscow courts. At the same time, as The Insider learned, the teenager is already in one of the Moscow pre-trial detention centers. The card of the court hearing on the choice of a preventive measure in the form of detention is not on any of the websites of the Moscow courts that could consider this issue.

Poland's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) has issued a report blaming Russian hackers for a December 29 cyberattack on several energy facilities, including a thermal power plant that supplies heat to nearly 500,000 customers. Reuters reports this. Investigators link the attacks to a group of hackers controlled by the 16th FSB Center (the unit responsible for electronic intelligence). The group is also known under the names Berserk Bear and Dragonfly.

Director Alexander Sokurov was expelled from the Government Council for the Development of Cinematography of Russia, who earlier at a meeting of the Human Rights Council (HRC) criticized the law on “foreign agents” and censorship. This follows from the order signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, published on the portal of legal acts the day before, January 30.