January 14, 2024 (Sunday)

All 178 prison employees who were held hostage in at least seven prisons are released.

Around 120,000 people attend the start of a 24-hour rally in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square to mark 100 days since hostages were kidnapped into Gaza during the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7.

The Reykjanes volcano erupts near the town of Grindavík, Iceland, with one fissure forming inside the town limits.

Five migrants die after their small boat overturns while attempting to cross the English Channel. Dozens more are rescued, according to the French Maritime Prefecture.

The Maldives calls for the complete withdrawal of the Indian Armed Forces from its territory by March 15 amid a diplomatic dispute between the two countries. India currently has around 80 troops stationed on the archipelago.

Frederik X is proclaimed King of Denmark following his mother's abdication.

In Guatemala, the Constitutional Court aligns itself with the outgoing ruling party and denies legal recourse to Semilla, affirming that Semilla's elected members of Congress must assume office as "independents", thereby disqualifying them from running for the presidency of the Congress. The legislature of the outgoing Congress subsequently announces a delay in the investiture of the incoming legislature, as well as in the presidential investiture of Bernardo Arévalo.

Despite the Constitutional Court's ruling, Samuel Pérez Álvarez, a member of Semilla, is elected President of the Congress with 92 votes.

The Comoros hold the first round of presidential elections.