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Current events of
January 30, 2016
(
2016-01-30
)
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Business and economics
Social networking service
Facebook
, and its
photo-sharing
subsidiary
Instagram
, ban private, person-to-person sales of guns via their services.
(CNBC)
(
The Christian Science Monitor
)
Disasters and accidents
2015–16 Australian region cyclone season
Western Australia
's
Pilbara
region braces for the impact of
Cyclone Stan
, which is expected to make landfall as a
Category Three
storm.
(ABC News Australia)
A helicopter fighting forest fires in
South Korea
's
North Jeolla Province
crashes near the
Geumsansa Temple
in
Gimje
. The 61-year-old pilot dies in the crash.
(Yonhap News)
European migrant crisis
Almost 40 people are killed and 75 are rescued after a boat carrying migrants sinks between
Turkey
and
Greece
.
(Reuters)
Health
Zika virus outbreak in the Americas (2015–present)
Jamaican
health officials confirm the country's first case of the
Zika virus
in a 4-year-old child who recently returned from a trip to
Texas
.
(USA TODAY)
More than 2,100 pregnant
Colombian
women are infected with the
mosquito-borne
Zika virus.
(Reuters)
International relations
Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present)
,
Edward Snowden
NSA
documents show the
US
and
UK
spied on
Israeli
military drones and fighter jets.
(CNN)
(The Verge)
Territorial disputes in the South China Sea
A
United States Navy
guided missile destroyer
,
USS Curtis Wilbur
(DDG-54), sails within 12 nautical miles of the disputed
Triton Island
.
The Pentagon
said that the mission aimed at countering the "excessive maritime claims of parties that claim the Paracel Islands", while China's
Ministry of Defense
said the
U.S.
action “severely violated the law."
(BBC)
,
(
The Washington Post
)
Law and crime
2015 FIFA corruption case
Reuters
reports that a million dollars in
FIFA
funding is missing from the accounts of the
National Football Federation of Guatemala
.
(Reuters)
Orange County Men's Central Jail escape
Two of the inmates who escaped from a jail in
Santa Ana, California
, were arrested in
San Francisco
.
(San Francisco Chronicle)
National Western Complex shooting
At least one person is killed and multiple others injured in a fight between two
outlaw motorcycle gangs
in the American city of
Denver, Colorado
.
(9 News)
Politics
An estimated half-million
Italians
protest in
Rome's
Circus Maximus
against pending legislation that would legalize same-sex unions. The legislation would extend to
civil unions
the same
rights
they would have under marriage, including
adoption of children
.
(AP via
The New York Times
)
(Reuters)
(NBC News)
(
The Local
)
Sports
2016 Australian Open
In tennis,
Angelique Kerber
of
Germany
tops (2–1) defending champion
Serena Williams
of the
United States
, 6-4, 3–6, 6–4, to win the
Women's Singles
. This is Kerber's first
Grand Slam
title.
(ABC News Australia)
,
(
The Guardian
)
South Korean
golfer Jang Ha-na makes first
albatross
on par-four in
LPGA
history.
(ABC)
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