Current events of January 1, 2012 (2012-01-01) (Sunday) |
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Current events of January 2, 2012 (2012-01-02) (Monday) |
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- Firefighters in Chile battle three large wildfires, which have reportedly killed at least one person. (CTV)
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Current events of January 3, 2012 (2012-01-03) (Tuesday) |
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Current events of January 4, 2012 (2012-01-04) (Wednesday) |
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Current events of January 5, 2012 (2012-01-05) (Thursday) |
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Current events of January 6, 2012 (2012-01-06) (Friday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2011–2012 Syrian uprising: According to Syrian state media, 26 people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus. The Syrian opposition blames the Syrian government for orchestrating the attack, and alleges that they have leaked information from security forces that Aleppo is next. (Al Arabiya) (CNN)
- Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq, the Iranian-backed Shiite militia that carried out deadly attacks on U.S. troops agrees to lay down its arms and join the political process in Iraq. (ABC News)
- Eight people are killed and 10 wounded in Kano, in the latest in a series of attacks on church in northern Nigeria. (VOA)(CNN)
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Current events of January 7, 2012 (2012-01-07) (Saturday) |
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Current events of January 8, 2012 (2012-01-08) (Sunday) |
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Current events of January 9, 2012 (2012-01-09) (Monday) |
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Current events of January 10, 2012 (2012-01-10) (Tuesday) |
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Current events of January 11, 2012 (2012-01-11) (Wednesday) |
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Current events of January 12, 2012 (2012-01-12) (Thursday) |
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- Shia insurgency in Yemen: at least 20 die in Sunni-Shia fighting in north Yemen. (AJE)
- 2010–2011 Burma border clashes: The Burmese government signs a ceasefire with Karen rebels. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- 2011–2012 Syrian uprising: The Arab League delays sending more observers to Syria; one of its observers also quits the mission. (BBC)
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Current events of January 13, 2012 (2012-01-13) (Friday) |
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- 2011-2012 Syrian uprising: Security forces kill at least 13 protesters, including three children, amid ongoing protests in Syria. (Al Jazeera)
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Current events of January 14, 2012 (2012-01-14) (Saturday) |
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- The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, proposes that Arab League troops be sent to Syria to end ongoing violence in the country. (VoA)
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Current events of January 15, 2012 (2012-01-15) (Sunday) |
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- A bomb detonates near a Shia Muslim procession in the Pakistani town of Khanpur, killing at least 18 people and wounding 30. (The Guardian)
- Insurgents trigger bombs and storm a police station in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, with six people reportedly killed and 14 injured. (BBC)
- Clashes continue between demonstrators and riot police in Romania, after thousands take to the streets for a third day of protests. (BBC)
- 2011–2012 Bahraini uprising: Opposition leaders and activists say reforms proposed by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa are "cosmetic" and will do little to stop the uprising. (Al Jazeera)
- 2011–2012 Syrian uprising:
- Business and economy
- The Russian tanker Renda, accompanied by the US Coast Guard icebreaker USCGC Healy, prepares to deliver fuel to Nome, Alaska. A fall storm had blocked an earlier fuel delivery, leaving the city facing fuel shortages. (AP via Google)
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- A fuel freighter, the Doola No. 3, explodes near the South Korean port city of Incheon, killing at least three crew members. (CNN) (Los Angeles Times) (MSNBC)
- Three trapped survivors are rescued from the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia, over 24 hours after it ran aground off the coast of Italy. Two corpses are also found, bringing the known death toll of the incident to five. (BBC)
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Current events of January 16, 2012 (2012-01-16) (Monday) |
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- European sovereign debt crisis:
- The online shoe retailer Zappos reports that up to 24 million customer accounts may have been accessed by hackers, and has warned its customers to change their passwords. (The Guardian)
- Seán Quinn, Ireland's richest person as recently as 2008, is declared bankrupt at the High Court. (RTÉ News)
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Current events of January 17, 2012 (2012-01-17) (Tuesday) |
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- Unknown assailants kill 2 Hungarians, 2 Germans and an Austrian in northeastern Ethiopia. (Al Jazeera)
- 2011–2012 Syrian uprising:
- Syria rejects calls for Arab troops to intervene in the country's conflict. (News24)
- 25 people are killed by Syrian security forces in the latest violence. (Voice of America)
- Officials in Burma order the military to stop offensives in ethnic minority areas. (Bangkok Post)
- 2011–2012 Yemeni uprising: Vice President Abdurabu Hadi says that presidential and parliamentary elections planned for next month will go ahead. (CNN)
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- India and China agree to establish a working mechanism to deal with border issues. (The Hindu)
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Current events of January 18, 2012 (2012-01-18) (Wednesday) |
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- Severed human hands and feet are found near the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles, California, close to where a man's severed head was recently discovered. Los Angeles police continue their search for more body parts connected with the case. (Huffington Post)
- Federal prosecutors in the United States charge seven people with insider trading in shares of computer firm Dell Inc., alleging that the ring made a criminal profit of nearly $62 million. (Reuters)
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Current events of January 19, 2012 (2012-01-19) (Thursday) |
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- 2011–2012 Syrian uprising: The Arab League observer mission ends, with its report to be reviewed at the weekend. (CBC)
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- Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke dies from complications of injuries she received in a skiing accident nine days earlier. (BBC)
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Current events of January 20, 2012 (2012-01-20) (Friday) |
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Current events of January 21, 2012 (2012-01-21) (Saturday) |
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- The death toll of a series of co-ordinated bombing attacks in Kano, Nigeria, rises to more than 140. The attacks, which targeted police stations across the city, are attributed to Islamist group Boko Haram. (The Guardian)
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- Leading international virologists agree to temporarily halt work on a more virulent strain of the H5N1 influenza virus, due to fears that an airborne strain of the lethal virus could be used by bioterrorists. (New Scientist)
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Current events of January 22, 2012 (2012-01-22) (Sunday) |
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- China reports the death of a second person this month to H5N1 bird flu. (AFP)
- At least 16 people drown after a passenger boat sinks off Iran's southern coast. (Al Jazeera)
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Current events of January 23, 2012 (2012-01-23) (Monday) |
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Current events of January 24, 2012 (2012-01-24) (Tuesday) |
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- Apple Inc. announces that the technology generated over $127 billion in revenue during 2011. Apple sold over 37 million iPhones and over 15 million iPads during the fourth quarter of 2011. (CNN)
- Disasters and accidents
- Floods in Mozambique cut off the country's main north-south motorway. (IOL)
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Current events of January 25, 2012 (2012-01-25) (Wednesday) |
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Current events of January 26, 2012 (2012-01-26) (Thursday) |
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- Illumina a U.S. based gene sequencing company, adopts a poison pill strategy to defend its independence against a hostile bid by Roche Holding. (Reuters)
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Current events of January 27, 2012 (2012-01-27) (Friday) |
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Current events of January 28, 2012 (2012-01-28) (Saturday) |
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- At least 20 people are killed in a fire at a drug rehabilitation centre in Lima. (BBC)
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Current events of January 29, 2012 (2012-01-29) (Sunday) |
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Current events of January 30, 2012 (2012-01-30) (Monday) |
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Current events of January 31, 2012 (2012-01-31) (Tuesday) |
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- Former Royal Bank of Scotland CEO Fred Goodwin loses his knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II as a result of the near collapse of the bank in 2008. (BBC)
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- Cambodia: Kang Kek Iew
- France: Jacques Chirac, John Galliano
- Germany: John Demjanjuk
- Italy: Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito
- Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir
- Netherlands: Geert Wilders
- Peru: Joran van der Sloot
- Russia: Bhagavad Gita
- Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko
- United Kingdom: Levi Bellfield, Robert Black, Vincent Tabak
- United States: Faisal Shahzad, Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Rod Blagojevich, Casey Anthony, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Conrad Murray
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- Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
- Canada: Russell Williams
- China: Organized crime in Chongqing
- France: Church of Scientology, Carlos the Jackal
- Germany: Heinrich Boere
- Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
- Iran: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani
- Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
- Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY)
- Palau: Tommy Remengesau
- Philippines: Andal Ampatuan, Jr.
- Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev
- Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
- Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
- South Africa: Chris Mahlangu
- Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
- Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
- Tunisia: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
- Turkey: Ergenekon network
- United States: Roger Clemens, Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Jared Lee Loughner, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout
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