Portal:Current events/2008 January 16

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• The proposed lyrics for the Spanish national anthem are withdrawn. [http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/01/16/europe/EU-GEN-Spain-Anthem-Controversy-Domingo.php (AP via The International Herald Tribune)]
• The discovery of Tahina spectabilis, a palm in northern Madagascar that dies after flowering, is announced. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7193161.stm (BBC News)]
• Three United States Army soldiers are killed and another two wounded by small arms fire in the northern Salahuddin province of Iraq. [https://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSCOL66602220080116 (Reuters)]
• War in Somalia (2006–2009): A huge blast in Mogadishu targeted an Ethiopian army convoy as it drove through a major intersection, killing seven soldiers on board, witnesses reported. [http://www.garoweonline.com/artman2/publish/Somalia_27/Somalia_7_Ethiopian_soldiers_killed_in_roadside_bomb.shtml (Garowe Online)]
• War in Pakistan (2004–present); Sararogha Fort raid: Islamic militants overrun and capture a Pakistani military outpost, Sararogha Fort, close to the Afghan border in a battle that kills seven Pakistani soldiers and leaves 20 missing. The Pakistani military claims 50 attackers also died. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080126105854/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jIE0IUn4WIiaMBpjG8SI_6H5RXzgD8U6V8783 (AP via Google News)]
• Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister, resigns from the Cabinet of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with 10 party colleagues resigning from the government as well. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080127140333/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j2H-d4ScEsfg5vI3tAyKwUQXxxOg (AFP via Google News)]
• The Israel Defense Forces are dispatched to evacuate two settlements on the West Bank. [http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ijDA5bgxiHlTvS_r-SSjskS1Tq1wD8U6RFS02 (AP via Google News)]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• A roadside bomb hits a bus in Buttala in southeastern Sri Lanka killing at least 23 people and injuring 67 others. [https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_on_re_as/sri_lanka_bombing (AP via Yahoo! News)] [http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/15/srilanka.blast/index.html (CNN)]
• Sun Microsystems announces the acquisition of MySQL AB, a leading open source relational database management system vendor, for US$1 billion. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080119101742/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gBphtwc5ZhkRHmUBQAj_6yJmvLpAD8U722UO0 (AP via Google News)]

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