Portal:Current events/2009 January 6

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• United States President-elect Barack Obama offers CNN medical correspondent and neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta the position of Surgeon General. [http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2009/01/06/obama_wants_journalist_for_sur.html (Washington Post)]
• Russia's Gazprom alleges that Ukraine has blocked three key gas pipelines to Europe, making natural gas delivery there impossible. [https://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSBAT00259220090106 (Reuters)]
• Israeli artillery strikes near a United Nations school in Gaza City, killing at least 40 people. [http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/06/israel.gaza/index.html (CNN)]
• Kathmandu University students protest against the Nepali government's decision to replace Indian head priests at Pashupatinath Temple with Nepalis. [http://ibnlive.in.com/news/nepalese-students-protest-temple-appointments/82024-2.html?from=rssfeed (CNN-IBN)]
• The Indian Army continues to battle Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed militants in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch District. [http://ibnlive.in.com/news/four-terrorists-dead-poonch-encounter-far-from-over/82012-3.html?from=rssfeed (CNN-IBN)]

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