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Current events of
January 22, 2012
(
2012-01-22
)
(Sunday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
2011–2012 Syrian uprising
:
Arab League
ministers meet in
Cairo
,
Egypt
, to discuss the extension of its monitoring mission in
Syria
.
(BBC)
War in Somalia (2009–)
:
A senior foreign commander is killed in a
drone
strike south of the
Somali
capital
Mogadishu
.
(
New York Times
)
Egyptian
police shoot two
African
migrants dead as they attempt to cross the border into
Israel
.
(UPI)
Arts and culture
Sri Lanka
orders 161 foreign clerics from the
Tablighi Jamaat
movement to leave the country for breaking the terms of their tourist visas.
(
Times of India
)
Disasters and accidents
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)
Law and crime
Police in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
recapture
Bosnian Serb
fugitive
Radovan Stanković
after he escaped from prison five years ago.
(RIA Novosti)
Politics and elections
The party of former
Madagascan
President
Marc Ravalomanana
suspends its role in the unity government after the plane carrying him home from exile was turned away.
(Voice of America)
A
referendum on EU accession
takes place in Croatia, with 66% voting to join the EU, and 33% against.
(BBC)
Representative
Gabrielle Giffords
of
Arizona
announces her resignation from office to focus on her recovery after surviving an
attempted assassination
in 2011.
(
Washington Post
)
The first round of the
Presidential election
takes place in Finland.
(CNN)
Yemeni
President
Ali Abdullah Saleh
announces that he is to leave for treatment in the
United States
.
(Reuters)
Sports
The
New York Giants
and
New England Patriots
advance to
Super Bowl XLVI
.
(New York Daily News)
Former
Penn State
football coach
Joe Paterno
dies from complications associated with
lung cancer
.
(ESPN)
End and Closing ceremony of the
2012 Winter Youth Olympics
in
Innsbruck
,
Austria
, showing
Germany
receiving the most medals at the
Medal table
, followed by
China
and
Austria
.
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