Current events of January 1, 2010 (2010-01-01) (Friday) |
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Current events of January 3, 2010 (2010-01-03) (Sunday) |
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- A 5.1 magnitude earthquake leaves 20,000 homeless and causes US$1.5 million in damage in eastern Tajikistan. (CNN) (UPI) (RIA Novosti)
- The death toll as a result of recent mudslides which have hit Brazil rises to more than 85, including at least 29 in a hotel collapse, and two nuclear power stations are intended to be shut down as a precaution. (ABC News)(BBC)
- The Eritrean military claims at least 10 Ethiopian soldiers were killed and 2 captured when Ethiopia launched an armed incursion into Eritrea. The Ethiopian military claims 25 Eritrean soldiers were killed while attacking Ethiopian positions. (TVNZ) (AFP)
- At least 47 people are killed during heavy fighting in the Somali town of Dhuusa Mareeb. (BBC) (Gulf Times)
- A fire destroys one of Africa's most popular markets in Kumasi, Ghana. (My Joy Online) (BBC) (UPI)
- Remains of the first plane taken to Antarctica in 1912 are discovered by Australian researchers. (The Independent) (BBC) (AFP)
- More than 1,000 people are evacuated after days of flooding in New South Wales, Australia. (ABC News Australia) (BBC)
- The United States and United Kingdom close their embassies in Yemen, citing threats from Al-Qaeda. (CNN) (euronews)
- The Supreme Court of Peru upholds a 25 year prison sentence for former President Alberto Fujimori, convicted of mass human rights violations. (Andina) (AFP) (RTT News)
- Mexican police arrest alleged drug lord Carlos Beltrán Leyva in Culiacán, Sinaloa. (The Guardian) (People's Daily) (CNN)
- Japan doubles a state-sponsored credit line to troubled airline Japan Airlines to Y200bn (US$2.2bn). (Financial Times) (AFP)
- Hundreds of people attempt to control a large diesel leak into a major tributary of the Yellow River, the Wei River, in Shaanxi, China. (Al Jazeera) (AFP) (China Daily)
- Two trains collide near the city of Bilecik in northwestern Turkey, killing one and injuring at least four others. (Hürriyet) (CNN)
- Several British Muslim writers speak out about Prime Suspect writer Lynda La Plante's complaint against the BBC regarding how much more difficult it is to have her scripts commissioned than it would be for a "little Muslim boy". (The Independent) (Scotland on Sunday)
- At least seven Iranian police and two drug traffickers die in a shootout between Iranian police and drug traffickers in South Khorasan Province. (BBC) (INO News) (Islamic Republic News Agency)(RIA Novosti)
- The Colombian volcano Galeras erupts, forcing the evacuation of 8,000 people. (Colombia Reports) (TVNZ)
- Mount Nyamuragira in the Democratic Republic of the Congo erupts, threatening rare wildlife in the Virunga National Park. (France 24) (BBC)
- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announces that full body scanners will be introduced at UK airports following the failed attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day. (BBC)
- Lowly League One team Leeds United defeated Manchester United, 1-0 at Old Trafford, thanks to a great goal by Jermaine Beckford, scored at the Stretford End to knock Manchester United out of the FA Cup in the Third Round. (The Guardian)
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Current events of January 4, 2010 (2010-01-04) (Monday) |
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- Johan Ferrier, first President of Suriname and the world's oldest living former head of state, dies in the Netherlands at the age of 99. (Radio Netherlands Worldwide) (Winnipeg Free Press)
- NASA's Kepler telescope detects its first five exoplanets. (BBC) (National Geographic) (New Scientist)
- Egyptian archaeologists discover the largest tomb yet discovered in the ancient Saqqara necropolis. (Discovery News) (AFP) (Xinhua)
- 52 unmarried couples in Malaysia face charges of sexual misconduct and possible imprisonment after being caught alone in hotel rooms by the country's Islamic morality police. (BBC)(Las Vegas Sun)
- American media report that the attacker who killed eight people at a CIA base in Afghanistan was a Jordanian triple agent. (MSNBC) (AFP)
- The Burj Khalifa, the tallest structure ever built, opens to the public in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Al Jazeera) (WAM Emirates News Agency)
- South African President Jacob Zuma marries his fifth and currently third wife. (Times LIVE) (Reuters) (BBC)
- Burmese military junta leader General Than Shwe urges people to make the "correct choices" in elections later this year. (Bernama) (BBC)
- At least 500 homes are damaged after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hits the Solomon Islands. (AFP) (Washington Post)
- A diesel fuel leak in Shaanxi, China reaches the Yellow River, a water source for millions of people. (China.org.cn) (Reuters)
- The Government of Serbia sues Croatia for genocide before the International Court of Justice with historical account of the Holocaust. (B92) (BusinessWeek)
- Large parts of northern China and South Korea are affected by the heaviest snowfall in 60 years, causing widespread disruption. (People's Daily) (BBC) (Korea Times)
- Met Éireann says Ireland is experiencing its most extreme cold spell of weather since 1963. (RTÉ)
- Police search for a mystery man who goes missing after sparking a security alert at Newark Liberty International Airport in the United States, causing the airport to be completely locked down. (BBC) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- A representation of President of the United States Barack Obama is found hanging by a noose with the epitaph "Plains, Georgia. Home of Jimmy Carter, our 39th President". (BBC)
- A gunman opens fire in the lobby of the Lloyd D. George Federal District Courthouse in Las Vegas, Nevada, containing the offices of Senators Harry Reid and John Ensign. A court security officer was killed and a U.S. Marshal injured before the assailant was shot dead. (NY Daily News) (KRSO)
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Current events of January 5, 2010 (2010-01-05) (Tuesday) |
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- As many as 1,000 people in the Solomon Islands are reportedly homeless following the two major earthquakes and tsunami which struck the country earlier this week. (Time Magazine)
- At least seven people are killed and 20 missing after a bridge collapse in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. (Latin American Herald Tribune) (China Daily) (IOL)
- The Yemeni government launches campaigns in three provinces to battle Al-Qaeda fighters. (Al Jazeera) (Times of India)
- Slovakia admits responsibility for a major bomb alert on Dorset Street in Dublin, Ireland, after planting explosives on a civilian as a test. (RTÉ) (The Belfast Telegraph) (BBC)
- Iran bans its citizens from contact with 60 international organisations and media outlets over claims they conspired against the country. (Press TV) (Global Times) (The Times)
- The President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson announces a referendum during a live televised speech. (BBC) (RTÉ) (Iceland Review)
- Facebook blocks a social network suicide website. (France 24) (The Guardian) (IOL)
- Andal Ampatuan, Jr., charged with 41 counts of murder in the Maguindanao massacre in November, pleads not guilty at the beginning of his trial in the Philippines. (Philippine Inquirer) (CNN) (AFP)
- Opposition parties in Nigeria raise their concerns over "missing" President Umaru Yar'Adua who has been at a hospital in Saudi Arabia for six weeks. (BBC) (Nigeria Guardian) (Afrique en ligne)
- The World Food Programme suspends its operations in southern Somalia due to rising instability in the region. (Bloomberg) (Xinhua)
- The US State Department announces that they are revamping how foreign delegations are handled, in response to a Secret Service report that a third man had crashed the state dinner for the Prime Minister of India. (Reuters)(Associated Press)
- The suicide bomber from Jordan, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, who killed seven CIA agents in Afghanistan, is reported to be an al-Qaeda triple agent. (BBC) (The Guardian)
- The United States reopens its embassy in Yemen after strikes on al-Qaeda. (CNN) (BBC)
- The United Kingdom is once again deluged by heavy snowfall as the country endures its worst cold snap since 1979. (BBC)
- A Learjet cargo plane on approach to Chicago Executive Airport crashes into the Des Plaines River in Wheeling, Illinois. (Chicago Tribune)
- Warren Buffett who through Berkshire Hathaway controls a significant block of the shares of Kraft came out in opposition to Kraft's proposal to float 370 million shares in order to fund its bid for the UK based confectioner Cadbury. (Washington Post)
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Current events of January 6, 2010 (2010-01-06) (Wednesday) |
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- Sea Shepherd claims that the Japanese Whaling Fleet's Shōnan Maru delibrately ram and sunk their ship; the Ady Gil.(euronews) (AFP)
- Algerian US ambassador Abdellah Baali and Nigerian Information Minister Dora Akunyili are upset at the decision of the United States to subject Algerians and Nigerians to tougher than usual security tests at airports, saying it is "discrimination" and "risks ties". Both have officially complained. (BBC)
- Extreme weather across Europe leads to dozens of deaths, including at least 122 in Poland and at least 7 as a result of an avalanche in Switzerland. (BBC)
- At least 25 people are killed and at least three others are trapped in a mine fire in Xiangtan County in Hunan. (Xinhua) (Reuters Africa) (Press TV) (Times of India)
- Iris Robinson, the wife of Northern Ireland's First Minister, admits having previously attempted suicide. Her husband Peter Robinson gives an emotional interview in which he speaks of being "deeply hurt" after learning of her extramarital affair. (BBC) (RTÉ) (RTÉ)
- Yemen arrests three suspected Al-Qaeda members, including one leader, northwest of the capital Sana'a. (Yemen News Agency) (AFP)
- 50-year-old Chinese journalist Li Junqi is imprisoned for 16 years after accepting bribes for his part in a mass three-month cover-up of a coal mine disaster in Hebei in which 35 people, including a rescue worker, were killed prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. (China Daily) (Press Trust of India)
- The Dauletabad – Salyp Yar gas pipeline between Turkmenistan and Iran is opened. (Press TV) (Channel News Asia)
- Three soldiers are killed and 11 wounded in a bomb attack in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. (Press Trust of India) (Associated Press of Pakistan) (Xinhua)
- At least six police officers are killed and another 16 injured in a suicide car bomb attack in Dagestan, southern Russia. (Al Jazeera) (RIA Novosti) (BBC)
- Palestinians kill an Egyptian border guard and 50 people are injured in clashes between pro-Palestinian activists and Egyptian police as a Viva Palestina convoy nears the border with Gaza. (BBC) (Jerusalem Post)
- Japanese Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii resigns at the age of 77 due to ill health. (BBC) (Kyodo)
- The U.S. government lowers the threshold for information deemed important enough to put suspicious individuals on a watch list or no-fly list, or have their visa revoked. (CNN)
- China becomes the largest exporting country, pushing Germany from first place. (The Wall Street Journal)
- Ex-Cabinet Ministers Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt call for a secret ballot to settle the debate over the leadership of the Labour Party of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. (BBC)
- China's tourism revenue hits USD 185 billion in 2009. (Xinhua)
- Computer scientist Fabrice Bellard claims he has computed π to almost 2.7 trillion digits. (BBC) (The Times of India) (The Daily Telegraph)
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Current events of January 7, 2010 (2010-01-07) (Thursday) |
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- The Xinhua news agency responds to claims by The Guardian newspaper that China had tried “hijack” the Copenhagen summit's Accord by claiming that the Chinese premier Wen Jiabao was not invited to secret US-initiated talks on December 17. (China Dialogue)
- A weekend killing in Australia has prompted the Indian government to issue an advisory for its college students studying in that country. (CNN) (Indian Express)
- Extreme weather in Europe kills nine people in Germany, traps a Eurostar train in the Channel Tunnel, disrupts flights at international airports in Amsterdam, Dublin, Knock and Paris, shuts hundreds of schools in Ireland and disrupts Norway's bus service in Oslo. (BBC)
- An ABB employee commits suicide after shooting eight people, three fatally, at the ABB Power building in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States. (CNN)
- James Cameron's film Avatar is expected to become the second-highest grossing movie of all time, just passing The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. (MTV)
- The BBC's Spotlight programme reveals that Iris Robinson, former UK MP and wife of the First Minister of Northern Ireland, helped a 19 year old male who she was having a relationship with receive funding for a business project. (BBC) (The Guardian)
- A Burmese court sentences two officials to death and one to imprisonment for leaking details of secret government visits to North Korea and Russia. (BBC)
- The governments of Australia and New Zealand announce an investigation into an incident where a boat belonging to the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society was damaged in a confrontation with a Japanese ship in the Southern Ocean. (Reuters)
- Kenya deports to Gambia a radical Jamaican Muslim cleric who is on a global terror watch list. (KBC) (AFP) (AllAfrica.com)
- Palestinians fire mortars and Katyusha rocket from Gaza, causing widespread panic in Ashkelon, Israel, in the first such rocket attack on Israel in a year. (The Jerusalem Post)
- Guinea's interim leader, General Sékouba Konaté, proposes a unity government led by a Prime Minister from the opposition. (The Guardian) (African Press Agency)
- At least four militants are dead after a 23-hour gun battle at a hotel in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. (Sify) (New York Times) (Indian Express)
- The United States approves arms sales to Taiwan, amid opposition from China. (Radio Taiwan International) (BBC) (AFP)
- Aid agencies warn of renewed violence in Southern Sudan unless there are attempts to save the 2005 peace agreement, as 140 people are killed in ethnic clashes. (BBC) (Xinhua) (Khaleej Times)
- At least six Coptic Christians are killed in a drive-by shooting at a church in Nag Hammadi, southern Egypt, with clashes later taking place between police and Copts. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (CNN)
- Nepal begins discharging child soldiers who fought for the Maoists as part of a process of national reconciliation. (Reuters) (The Rising Nepal) (The Guardian)
- United Nations Special Rapporteur Philip Alston says three independent experts have confirmed that mobile phone video footage showing extra-judicial killings by the Sri Lankan military is authentic. (BBC) (Channel 4 News)
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Current events of January 8, 2010 (2010-01-08) (Friday) |
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Current events of January 9, 2010 (2010-01-09) (Saturday) |
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Current events of January 10, 2010 (2010-01-10) (Sunday) |
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- Three Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives are killed while firing mortars into Israel from Gaza. (The Jerusalem Post)
- Winter of 2009–2010 in Europe: More than 160 people are trapped in vehicles overnight in Germany, dozens of flights are cancelled, Berlin and Leipzig are buried under 30cm of snow, parts of Schleswig-Holstein remain unreachable. The electricity of 80,000 people is cut off by snow in Poland. Eurostar services are affected in Belgium, Britain and France. (BBC)
- Ivo Josipović wins in the second round of the presidential election, and is elected third President of Croatia. (Deutsche Welle) (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
- Sheikh Issa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, brother of the leader of the United Arab Emirates, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, is acquitted of beating a former business partner in a videotaped attack. (Reuters) (The Daily Telegraph) (Al-Bawaba)
- China overtakes Germany to become the world's largest exporter. (Xinhua) (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- Ahead of the Iraqi parliamentary election, 2010, the De-Ba'athification Commission recommends banning the leaders of the Iraqi National Dialogue Front, the Coalition for Iraqi National Unity and 13 other parties for links to Saddam Hussein's banned Ba'ath Party. (The Washington Post)
- With the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations due to get underway in Angola, confusion surrounds the participation of Togo following the fatal attack on their team bus. Their Prime Minister Gilbert Houngbo sends a plane to bring them home. (BBC)
- The Sunday Mirror's defence correspondent Rupert Hamer is killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, becoming the first British journalist to be killed there and the first to be killed in a war zone since 2003. (BBC) (Channel 4 News) (The Daily Telegraph)
- Britain is set to ban a Muslim group, Al-Muhajiroun, also known as Islam4UK, that recently caused outrage by proposing a demonstration in the town that receives the bodies of British war dead killed abroad, the Home Office says. (CNN)
- President of Sinn Féin Gerry Adams receives a death threat. (RTÉ) (Ireland Online) (The Irish Times)
- It is revealed that AHS Centaur, an Australian hospital ship dating from World War II, has been viewed for the first time since it was torpedoed by the Japanese in May 1943 killing 268 people. (BBC) (ABC News) (news.com.au) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Some more churches are attacked in Malaysia. (BBC) (News24)
- 15 people are killed and 15 are injured, five seriously, when a bus and truck collide on a major highway in the Sahara Desert in Ghardaïa Province, Algeria. (Press TV) (Reuters)
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Current events of January 11, 2010 (2010-01-11) (Monday) |
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- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon outlines seven priorities for 2010 and urges a renewed focus on sustainable development, ending poverty, disease and hunger. (UN News Centre) (Sudan Tribune)
- The People's Republic of China conducts a land-based high-altitude anti-ballistic missile test. (SINA News) (Yahoo! News)
- Perry v. Schwarzenegger, a challenge to California Proposition 8 and likely a landmark case regarding same-sex marriage rights in the United States, begins in San Francisco. (The Associated Press)
- Hundreds of prisoners are transferred from the Ignacio Allende prison in Veracruz, Mexico, in preparation for a controversial Mel Gibson film shoot. Protests from relatives of the prisoners are ignored. (BBC) (Hindustan Times) (CBC News)
- Wolfgang Wodarg, the Council of Europe's head of health affairs, claims that the 2009 flu pandemic was a "false pandemic" orchestrated by the pharmaceutical industry to sell vaccines. (The Sun)
- Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson temporarily hands over his position to Arlene Foster in the wake of the ongoing political scandal surrounding his wife and fellow politician Iris Robinson.
- North Korea proposes a peace treaty, replacing the Korean War armistice. (Yonhap) (AFP)
- The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences reports that more than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age will be without spouses by the end of the decade, citing an uneven birth rate. (Global Times) (BBC)
- Thousands of supporters of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra gather outside the home of a royal adviser accused of involvment in the 2006 coup that ousted the Prime Minister. (Thai News Agency) (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
- Angola makes two arrests over an attack on the Togo national football team in Cabinda Province. (Angola Press)(CNN) (Xinhua)
- The 2010 African Cup of Nations continues without Togo as Malawi unexpectedly beat World Cup qualifiers Algeria by three goals. (BBC) (The Times) (Al Jazeera)
- Tombs discovered near Egypt's great pyramids reinforce the theory they were built by free workers rather than slaves. (BBC News)
- People in 16 countries in 44 cities from Adelaide to Zürich cause "scenes of chaos and joy in public places" by removing their trousers in public, with 3,000 people doing it in New York alone. (BBC) (The Independent) (Ottawa Citizen)
- The New York City Health Department seeks national reduction of salt in food. (CNN)
- The United Nations seeks to virtually eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Michel Sidibé visited Sauri in western Kenya, which is a village of the Millennium Villages Project. (UN News Centre)
- The Low Couch diplomatic spat between Israel and Turkey. Turkey demands Israeli apology.
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Current events of January 12, 2010 (2010-01-12) (Tuesday) |
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- The European Court of Human Rights rules that powers contained in the UK Terrorism Act 2000 violate the European Convention on Human Rights. (The Guardian) (BBC)
- The United Kingdom bans the Islamist organisation Al-Muhajiroun and an offshoot group, Islam4UK. (VOA)
- A severe 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Haiti. Tsunami watches issued across the Caribbean. (CTV) (USGS) (BBC)
- Google says it may end its operations in China as it is no longer willing to continue censoring its search results. (Reuters) (BBC) (Google blog) (The Guardian)
- U.S. talk show host Conan O'Brien announces his intention to quit The Tonight Show if NBC goes forward with their plan to move the show from its long standing 11:35pm timeslot to 12:05am in favor of The Jay Leno Show. (AP)
- A gunman kills two people at a bar in Habikino, Japan, before turning the gun on himself. (Kyodo) (AFP) (BBC) (The Times of India)
- Five Thai policemen are charged with murder over the disappearance of a Saudi businessman 20 years ago that was linked to the theft of Saudi royal jewellery. (Bangkok Post) (AFP) (BBC)
- Australia experiences its hottest night since 1902, as a heat wave grips the country. (BBC) (Xinhua) (IBN Live)
- The "bizarre behaviour" of a nocturnal raspy cricket pollinating a flower is caught on camera on the island of Réunion, contradicting the image of crickets destroying flowers. (BBC) (New Scientist)
- Four men feature in the first Crown Court criminal trial to be held without a jury in England and Wales for more than 350 years. (The Daily Telegraph) (BBC) (Ealing Times)
- Police in Kent, UK, admit the unlawful searching of two 11-year-old children who were left "crying and shaking" after being targeted at a demonstration near Hoo. (BBC) (The Guardian)
- A United Nations investigation clears Guatemalan President Álvaro Colom in the murder of lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano, and rules that Rosenberg plotted his own murder. (BBC) (Al-Jazeera) (CNN)
- A bomb blast damages the Mozdok – Makhachkala – Kazi Magomed pipeline in Russia's Republic of Dagestan, leaving eleven towns in the republic without gas supply. (ITAR-TASS)
- Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa announces that Tamils will be given greater say in matters of governance, proposing power sharing agreements. (The Hindu) (AFP)
- The first map in Chinese to show the Americas, created by Matteo Ricci at the request of the Wanli Emperor, goes on public display. (ABC News) (IOL)
- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is ‘encouraged’ by recent developments in Guinean politics, and states the UN will continue working with the African Union (AU), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and other partners. (UN News Centre)
- Chile becomes the first South American country to be admitted to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. (Santiago Times) (Al Jazeera)
- China's top search engine Baidu is allegedly attacked by Iranian hackers, sparking a retaliatory attack by Chinese hackers on Iranian sites. (The Guardian) (People's Daily) (AFP)
- Masoud Alimohammadi, an Iranian nuclear physics professor, is killed in a bomb attack in the capital Tehran; Iran state media accuses Israel and the United States of involvement. (Press TV) (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua gives his first interview since going into hospital in Saudi Arabia to the BBC, saying he hopes to return home soon as protests in the capital Abuja demand an end to the political situation. (BBC) (Vanguard)
- The 1980s Welsh popstar Michael Barrett (Shakin' Stevens) is convicted of assault and criminal damage at a court in Ballymena, Northern Ireland. (BBC) (RTÉ) (The Belfast Telegraph)
- Mexican authorities report the capture of Teodoro García Simental, one of the country's most notorious drug lords, in a raid in La Paz, Baja California Sur. (New York Daily News)
- The Confederation of African Football officially "disqualifies" and plans to punish the Togo national football team for failing to take part in the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, despite the fatal machine gun attack on their team bus. (The Times) (The Daily Telegraph)
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Current events of January 13, 2010 (2010-01-13) (Wednesday) |
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Current events of January 14, 2010 (2010-01-14) (Thursday) |
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Current events of January 15, 2010 (2010-01-15) (Friday) |
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- Johnson & Johnson recalls more than 53 million bottles of over-the-counter products, including Tylenol, Motrin and Rolaids, from the Americas, the United Arab Emirates and Fiji. (Reuters)
- President Faure Gnassingbé and national team captain Emmanuel Adebayor are among dignitaries to attend a funeral ceremony held in Lomé for the two football officials killed during the Togo national football team attack in Angola. (BBC)
- At least five people die and dozens are injured in Nairobi, Kenya, when police clash with protesters demanding the release of Jamaican Muslim cleric Abdullah al-Faisal. (Xinhua) (Al Jazeera)
- President of Tunisia Zine El Abidine Ben Ali reshuffles his government, making 11 ministerial changes including the appointment of new finance, defence, tourism and foreign affairs ministers, and sends his condolences to Haiti. (IOL) (Reuters Africa) (Middle East Online) (Xinhua)
- Muslim fundamentalists kill two people, an army colonel and the military commander of Béjaïa in northern Algeria. (IOL)
- 23 security guards are detained after clashing over the care of a taxi rank in Sundumbili, KwaZulu-Natal. (IOL)
- Spain's government sees a video showing three aid workers who have been held hostage by Al-Qaeda in Mali since November 2009. (IOL)
- In the Kamsar area, north of Muzaffarabad, Kashmir, a Chinese road-building firm digs up a van containing 17 decomposed corpses which went missing during a 2005 earthquake. (BBC)
- Mr Gay China, said to be the first gay Chinese pageant, is shut down by police an hour before opening. (BBC) (The Times) (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
- Russia ratifies key European Court of Human Rights reform. Russia was the last of the 47 Council of Europe member-states to ratify Protocol 14. (Al Jazeera) (RT) (NY Times) (BBC) (ITAR-TASS) (FT) (RFERL)
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Current events of January 16, 2010 (2010-01-16) (Saturday) |
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Current events of January 17, 2010 (2010-01-17) (Sunday) |
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- A teacher and a student from Chung Ling High School were killed and four others were missing in the dragon boat tragedy in Penang. The Star
- Computer modelling shows that the Pine Island Glacier and Thwaites Glacier, once described as a major "tipping point" for the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the embayment of the Amundsen Sea, has reached their own tipping points for eventual collapse, likely to lead to a sea level rise of up to 52 cm over the next century. New Scientist
- Aftermath of 2010 Haiti earthquake: Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade offers "voluntary repatriation" to each of his Haitian "sons and daughters of Africa". (BBC)
- Indian communist patriarch Jyoti Basu, the longest-serving Chief Minister of West Bengal who declined the post of Prime Minister in 1996, dies at the age of 95. (Reuters) (Indian Express) (The Hindu) (Hindustan Times) (The Canadian Press) (BBC)
- Iran suspends pilgrimages to holy sites in Saudi Arabia after it called on the Saudi religious police to stop their "appalling behaviour" towards Iranian Shiite pilgrims. (Times of India) (Ennahar)
- Former Iraqi minister Ali Hassan al-Majid, also known as Chemical Ali, is sentenced to death for the Halabja poison gas attack. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- Pope Benedict XVI makes a controversial visit to the Great Synagogue of Rome. (BBC)
- Ukrainian voters go to the polls to elect a new president. (Kyiv Post) (BBC)
- Sebastián Piñera is elected President of Chile in the second round of the presidential election. (BBC) (UPI)
- Former Northern Irish First Minister Peter Robinson, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, tells The Sunday Times that the conduct of his wife, politician Iris Robinson, with her young lover has led him to shake hands with deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness (Sinn Féin) for the first time. (BBC) (Ireland Online) (RTÉ)
- Prince William of Wales arrives in New Zealand for a three-day tour, including the opening of its new Supreme Court building, his first official overseas trip representing Elizabeth II. (BBC) (The Independent) (The Daily Telegraph)
- A U.S. drone attack kills 15 alleged militants in the Pakistani region of South Waziristan. (BBC)
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Current events of January 18, 2010 (2010-01-18) (Monday) |
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- The 2010 Islamic Solidarity Games, scheduled to take place this April in Tehran, are canceled due to a dispute regarding the name of the Persian Gulf. (BBC)
- North Korea says sanctions against the country should be lifted before it returns to the six-party talks over its nuclear program. (Thai News Agency) (Joongang Daily) (BBC)
- Indian and Pakistani forces exchange fire over the border. (UPI) (Reuters)
- Mehmet Ali Ağca, the man who shot Pope John Paul II in May 1981, is released from a Turkish prison after almost 30 years behind bars. (Hong Kong Standard) (CNN) (Today's Zaman)
- Somalia sends a letter of protest to Kenya after the arrest of MPs and other officials, including Muslim leader Al-Amin Kimathi, over recent riots. (BBC) (Angola Press) (Africa News)
- Two dozen Afghan Taliban insurgents launch coordinated attacks against the presidential palace and other buildings in central Kabul on the day a new government is to be sworn in. (Washington Post)
- A 3.4 Mw earthquake hits Guizhou Province, China, and kills seven people. (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Burma's Supreme Court hears a last appeal against the house arrest of detained National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (ABS-CBN News)
- Ten Tibetans arrested after crossing into Nepal are handed over to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Kathmandu, reversing an earlier decision to deport them back to China. (Taiwan News) (Republica)
- Fidel Castro reports activities of 500 Cuban-trained doctors in Haiti. (Granma)
- China commences surveillance of text messages, with customers from the country's two largest operators being blocked for lewd messages. Meanwhile, text messaging returns to Xinjiang, after riots last July. (The Sydney Morning Herald) (Al Jazeera)
- Maria Sharapova crashes out of the 2010 Australian Open, losing in the first round against compatriot Maria Kirilenko, 6–7 (4–7), 6–3, 4–6. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Current events of January 24, 2010 (2010-01-24) (Sunday) |
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- Aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake:
- In the National Football League, the Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints win playoff games to advance to Super Bowl XLIV. (AP)
- One person is killed and three more are injured when an explosion occurs at a thermo-electric plant near Gryfino, Poland. (Ynetnews) (The Irish Times)
- The Chinese government denies state involvement in the cyber attacks on Google, while the state-run China Daily newspaper accuses the United States of hypocrisy. (BBC) (China Daily)
- A flight operated by Kolavia on behalf of Taban Air crashes on landing at Mashhad International Airport, Iran, injuring at least 46 people. (Press TV) (BBC) (The New York Times)
- The Venezuelan government takes six cable television channels off the air, including RCTV, after they refused to transmit government messages. (BBC) (The New York Times)
- Osama Bin Laden claims responsibility for the failed Christmas day bombing attempt in Detroit, USA, last year. (BBC) (The New York Times) (VOA)
- Afghanistan postpones its upcoming parliamentary elections to 18 September due to lack of funds and security concerns. (The Guardian) (The New York Times)
- North Korea says any attempt by South Korea to launch pre-emptive strikes against its nuclear facilities will be considered a declaration of war. (Yonhap) (BBC) (The New York Times)
- At the NRJ Music Awards in Cannes, France, hip hop band Black Eyed Peas are mistakenly presented with an award for best international group which was intended for Tokio Hotel, while Rihanna falls off the stage during a live performance of "Russian Roulette". (BBC)
- Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds wins the top prize at the 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards, with Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock winning best actors. (BBC) (The New York Times)
- A spokesman for U.S. President Barack Obama expresses the administration's support for a second term for the incumbent Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, and says lawmakers would send a bad message by "playing politics in any way" with Bernanke's confirmation. (ABC News)
- Sri Lankan opposition candidate General Sarath Fonseka receives the support of former President Chandrika Kumaratunga in the 2010 presidential election. (BBC)
- The citizens of Nago, Okinawa, elect mayor Susumu Inamine, an opponent of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, which is crucial for Japan – United States relations. (The New York Times) (BBC News)
- Authorities in Wales arrest two people in connection with the abandonment at the cathedral in Carlow, Ireland of an 8-month-old baby taken from Nottinghamshire, England. (RTÉ) (Sunday Independent) (BBC)
- Ghana eliminate the hosts of the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations Angola following accusations of "intimidatory" tactics carried out by the country's security forces. (France24)
- James Cameron's Avatar becomes (not accounting for inflation) the second highest grossing movie in the United States and Canada and the best selling movie overseas. (Variety) (BoxOfficeMojo)(Reuters) (HollywoodReporter)
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- Live Nation and Ticketmaster complete their merger, following an agreement with the United States Department of Justice to divest some interests. (Reuters)
- Police in the Venezuelan capital Caracas disperse an opposition student protest over the closure of several television stations. Meanwhile, Vice President Ramón Carrizales resigns. (AFP) (El Universal)
- Houthi fighters in northern Yemen offer to leave Saudi Arabia after three months of fighting on the border. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (Press TV)
- Representatives of the Dalai Lama head to Beijing for the first discussions with Chinese authorities in 15 months. (The Hindu) (AFP) (The Guardian)
- Voters in Saint Kitts and Nevis go to the polls in the 2010 general election. (Washington Post)
- New traces of melamine in milk products are discovered in China, more than a year after thousands of children became ill from a previous incident. (China Daily) (BBC)
- The European Union agrees to send a team to train up to 2,000 Somali troops to help fight insurgents in the country, as intense gun battles take place in the capital Mogadishu. (Reuters South Africa) (UPI)
- Environment ministers from the G4 bloc (IBSA Dialogue Forum & China) meet in New Delhi, India, to agree a common position ahead of future climate change talks, such as the 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference ("COP-16") at Cancún, Mexico, to be held from 29 November 2010 to 10 December 2010 . (AFP) (The Daily Star)
- Dutch football club HFC Haarlem, national champion in 1946, is declared bankrupt, becoming the first Dutch professional club to be disestablished since FC Wageningen and VCV Zeeland in 1992. (Telegraaf)
- Iraq:
- Burma's Home Minister General Maung Oo says Aung San Suu Kyi will be released by November this year. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
- The United States will reportedly "reconsider" Algeria's placement on its terror watch list, which requires Algerian citizens to undergo extra security screening. (Xinhua)
- Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409, with 85 passengers on board, crashes into the Mediterranean Sea after taking off from Beirut Airport, Lebanon. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- A Qantas terminal at an airport in Perth, Western Australia, is evacuated after police locate a "suspicious item". (The Age)
- An inquest into the deaths of five Afghan asylum seekers opens in Australia. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- A record-breaking half a million Australians take extra time off work "sick" as Australia Day approaches. (The Age)
- A senior Chinese Internet official says his country is now the largest victim of cyber attacks in the world. (China Daily)
- Taoiseach Brian Cowen and Prime Minister Gordon Brown meet at Downing Street to discuss the devolution deadlock in Northern Ireland. (RTÉ) (The Guardian) (The Irish Times)
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the opening of an exhibition of Auschwitz concentration camp blueprints in Yad Vashem. (The Washington Post)
- Gordon Park, convicted murderer in the Lady in the Lake trial, is found hanged in his prison cell in Garth prison, Lancashire, England, in an apparent suicide. (BBC)
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Current events of January 26, 2010 (2010-01-26) (Tuesday) |
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Current events of January 27, 2010 (2010-01-27) (Wednesday) |
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- At least 20 people are injured after a five-storey apartment building collapses following a gas explosion in Liège, Belgium. (The Daily Telegraph) (The Canadian Press) (RTÉ)
- Machu Picchu mudslides:
- Aftermath of 2010 Haiti earthquake:
- Incumbent President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa is declared the winner of Sunday's presidential election, defeating opposition candidate Sarath Fonseka. (BBC)
- North Korea fires artillery shots into the sea near the disputed Northern Limit Line maritime border, with South Korea returning fire. (Yonhap) (BBC) (Times of India)
- Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Taoiseach Brian Cowen leave Northern Ireland after three days spent discussing its future. (RTÉ) (BBC)
- The highest surface wind gust ever recorded of 220 kt at Barrow Island, Australia in 1996 is ratified by the WMO. (Arizona State University) (WMO).
- Ireland is hit by two earthquakes over a 24-hour period, described as "unusual" by experts. (RTÉ) (BBC) (The Irish Times)
- The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom overturns two Orders in Council that froze the assets of unconvicted suspects in terrorism cases. (BBC News)
- The Secretary of the Treasury of the U.S., Timothy Geithner, appears before a committee of the United States House of Representatives to discuss his actions in 2008, when he was the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in the rescue of troubled insurance industry giant AIG. (New York Times)
- Steve Jobs unveils the Apple iPad, a tablet PC at a press conference in San Francisco. (Engadget)
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Current events of January 28, 2010 (2010-01-28) (Thursday) |
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Current events of January 30, 2010 (2010-01-30) (Saturday) |
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- Extreme weather, including snow and wind, leads to "chaos" and as many as three deaths in Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia. (Deutsche Welle) (BBC) (The Hindu) (Press TV)
- The Togo national football team is banned for two tournaments and fined $50,000 for withdrawing from the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations after the fatal attack on their team bus in Angola. The Government of Angola and Confederation of African Football are both to be sued by the families of the dead. (BBC) (Xinhua)
- Aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake:
- Tunisian journalist Taoufik Ben Brik, who criticised the country's leader and who is, according to Amnesty International, a "prisoner of conscience", loses his appeal against a six-month prison sentence for assault. (BBC) (France 24) (Taiwan News)
- Authorities in China arrest two people after an incident on board a flight from Xinjiang bound for Wuhan in which a passenger set fire to some toilet paper which forced the plane to turn around. (Reuters)
- The leader of the Shia Houthi rebel group in northern Yemen, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, says they will accept a ceasefire if government actions against them cease. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (AFP)
- Judges across Italy stage a walk out over Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's proposed judicial reforms. (Reuters) (euronews) (BBC)
- 12 people drown and least 20 others are missing after a boat accident in West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh in India. (The Hindu) (RTÉ) (Sky News) (Taiwan News)
- The President of the Central Bank of Argentina resigns after a row with the country's President, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. (Buenos Aires Herald) (The Financial Times)
- China suspends military exchanges and reviews cooperation on issues with the United States after the latter agreed to a proposed weapons sale to Taiwan. (The Hindu) (Xinhua) (BBC)
- Google begins to phase out its support for Internet Explorer 6 after it was identified as a weak link in cyber attacks on the search engine. (BBC) (CNET)
- Honda recalls 650,000 of the Honda Fit (also known as Honda Jazz) vehicles worldwide over potential electrical faults. (The Guardian)
- Publishing company MacMillan said that on-line retailer Amazon.com, Inc. has removed all MacMillan print and e-books from its site due to a dispute over the pricing of books sold through Amazon's Kindle reader. (Wall Street Journal)
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