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Current events of
January 9, 2013
(
2013-01-09
)
(Wednesday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Syrian civil war
:
Forty-eight
Iranians
who were kidnapped by
Free Syrian Army
rebels in the capital
Damascus
in August 2012 are released in exchange for 2,130 prisoners held by the
Syrian government
.
(BBC)
Business and economy
James M. Buchanan
, who won the
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
in 1986 for his role in developing
public choice theory
, dies aged 93 in the American town of
Blacksburg, Virginia
.
(AAP via News Limited)
AIG
announces that it will not join a lawsuit against the
U.S.
government
over the 2008
bailout
.
(CNN)
Disasters and accidents
A
SeaStreak
ferry
travelling to
Lower Manhattan
,
New York City
, crashes into the dock, injuring 85 people.
(CNN)
Law and crime
Retired
British
businessman
Christopher Tappin
is sentenced to 33 months in prison by a
U.S.
court after pleading guilty to selling weapon parts to
Iran
.
(BBC)
Despite international protest,
Sri-Lankan
maid
Rizana Nafeek
is
executed
in
Saudi Arabia
for killing an
infant
in her care.
(BBC)
(
Daily Mirror
)
Politics and elections
U.S. Secretary of Labor
Hilda Solis
announces her resignation from the position, and is expected to step down some time around the
presidential inauguration
in late January.
(CNN)
The
Venezuelan
Supreme Tribunal of Justice
rules that the latest inauguration of
President
Hugo Chávez
can be deferred while his recovery continues from a cancer operation.
(Reuters)
Sport
In
baseball
, no candidates were
elected
to the
National Baseball Hall of Fame
for the first time since
1996
, with some candidates such as
Barry Bonds
and
Roger Clemens
performing poorly due to allegations of
steroid
use
.
(
The New York Times
)
In
ice hockey
, the Board of Governors of the
National Hockey League
unanimously approves the new
CBA
between the league and the
National Hockey League Players' Association
. Pending approval of the CBA by the players' association, the league will play a shortened 48-game
2012–13 NHL season
beginning January 19.
(ESPN)
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