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January 27, 2015 (Tuesday)

Libyan Civil War (2014–present)
- Five gunmen at the Libyan Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli attack with at least ten dead. The hotel was previously the location in 2013 where a former prime minister was abducted. (AP)
Israeli–Lebanese conflict
- Israeli security forces claim that Hezbollah and forces loyal to the President of Syria Bashar al-Assad are responsible for firing rockets from Syrian territory onto the Golan Heights into the mount Hermon sky resort. (Xinhua)

The death toll from the January 26 crash of a Hellenic Air Force F-16 fighter jet in southern Spain rises to eleven. (AP)
January 2015 nor'easter
- New England sees the worst of the blizzard with Boston, Massachusetts covered in two feet of snow. (AP)

American 1964 Nobel Prize-winning physicist Charles Hard Townes, who helped invent the now-ubiquitous laser, dies at the age of 99. (AP)

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 *[[January 2015 nor'easter]]
 **[[New England]] sees the worst of the blizzard with [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]] covered in two feet of snow. [http://bigstory.ap.org/article/4bca019430084bd1aab3dceac2c59dfa/millions-hunker-down-northeast-storm-totals-downgraded (AP)]
-;Law and crime
-*[[Death of Jennifer Laude]]
-**A [[Philippine]] court rejects a request by [[United States]] [[United States Marine Corps|Marine]] to drop case of [[murder]] charged against him which is due to the death of a [[transgender]] [[Filipino people|Filipina]]. [http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/27/us-marine-drop-philippine-murder-case-rejected-joseph-pemberton-jennifer-laude (''The Guardian'')]
 ;Science and technology