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Current events of
January 24, 2013
(
2013-01-24
)
(Thursday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Insurgency in the North Caucasus
:
Russian police
announces that 13 rebels, including
Khuseyn Gakayev
and his brother, are killed in fighting in the
Vedeno District
,
Chechnya
.
(Reuters)
Senkaku Islands dispute
:
A
Japan Coast Guard
ship
engages
a
Taiwanese
ship carrying activists bound for the
Senkaku Islands
.
(CNN)
(
China Daily
)
(
The Asahi Shimbun
)
Northern Mali conflict
:
The
Malian army
says it is investigating allegations that soldiers have carried out summary executions in the
Islamist
-controlled north of
Mali
.
(BBC)
Libyan factional fighting
:
The
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
urges
British nationals
to leave the
Libyan
city of
Benghazi
immediately due to a "specific and imminent" threat to
Westerners
.
(BBC)
(Sky News)
Business and economy
The
government
of
Ukraine
signs a major $10 billion
shale gas
deal with
Royal Dutch Shell
to reduce its dependency on
Russian
gas imports
.
(BBC)
Disasters and accidents
Seventeen people are killed and 34 others are injured in a bus crash near the town of Taperas,
Bolivia
, along a newly built
highway
to
Brazil
.
(AP via
Washington Post
)
(EFE via
La Prensa
)
Law and crime
David Headley
is sentenced to 35 years in prison for his role in the
2008 Mumbai attacks
.
(BBC)
(AP via ABC News)
(NDTV)
(
Chicago Tribune
)
Politics and elections
North Korea
authorities announce a new
nuclear weapon
and
long range missile
test, threatening their publicly manifested arch-enemy, the
United States
, as their primary target.
(BBC)
(
The New York Times
)
(AP via CBS News)
Prime Minister
of
Poland
Donald Tusk
is hospitalized with an acute
infection
of the
respiratory tract
.
(AP via
Washington Post
)
Science and technology
Scientists from the
European Bioinformatics Institute
in
Hinxton
,
England
, successfully use
DNA
as a means of
data storage
.
(
Nature
)
(
The Wall Street Journal
)
Sport
French football
is reported to be stunned at yesterday evening's
red card
for
Chelsea
midfielder
Eden Hazard
, who violently kicked a
ball boy
in the
midriff
during the
2012–13 Football League Cup
game in
Wales
. The
Belgian
midfielder, who previously played in
Ligue 1
, was thought to have had an exemplary disciplinary record before the assault.
(
The Guardian
)
El Clásico
:
Barcelona
are to play
Real Madrid
in the
2012–13 Copa del Rey
semifinal after the
Catalan
club defeated
Málaga CF
4–2.
(CNN)
(ESPN)
In
tennis
,
Li Na
will face
Victoria Azarenka
in the
women's final
at the
2013 Australian Open
after her straight-set victory over
Maria Sharapova
in the semifinal.
(BBC)
(ESPN)
NBA
team
New Orleans Hornets
announce it will change its name to the Pelicans after the
current season
, the new team logo is officially released.
(
USA Today
)
(ESPN)
(Bleacher Report)
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