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Portal:Current events/2010 January 10

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;Armed conflicts and attacks

  • Three Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives are killed while firing mortars into Israel from Gaza. [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1262339444489&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull (The Jerusalem Post)]
  • The Sunday Mirror{{'}}s defence correspondent Rupert Hamer is killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, becoming the first British journalist to be killed there and the first to be killed in a war zone since 2003. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8450603.stm (BBC)] [http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/british+journalist+killed+in+afghanistan/3495347 (Channel 4 News)] [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6962850/Sunday-Mirror-journalist-Rupert-Hamer-killed-in-Afghanistan-explosion.html (The Daily Telegraph)]
  • Some more churches are attacked in Malaysia. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8450713.stm (BBC)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20100121162957/http://www.news24.com/Content/World/News/1073/78d0c2a010fa4628afd67f7cafa6acb5/10-01-2010-07-34/Malaysia_more_Allah_attacks (News24)]
  • 15 people are killed and 15 are injured, five seriously, when a bus and truck collide on a major highway in the Sahara Desert in Ghardaïa Province, Algeria. [http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115839§ionid=351020506 (Press TV)] [https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6091GO20100110 (Reuters)]

;Arts and culture

  • It is revealed that AHS Centaur, an Australian hospital ship dating from World War II, has been viewed for the first time since it was torpedoed by the Japanese in May 1943 killing 268 people. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8450511.stm (BBC)] [http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/10/2788961.htm (ABC News)] [http://www.news.com.au/national/first-photos-of-hospital-ship-centaur/story-e6frfkwr-1225817748786 (news.com.au)] [http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/shipwreck-hunters-find-centaurs-name-20100111-m0z1.html (The Sydney Morning Herald)]

;Business and economy

  • China overtakes Germany to become the world's largest exporter. [http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/10/content_12786073.htm (Xinhua)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8450434.stm (BBC)] [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/01/201011063031943295.html (Al Jazeera)]

;Disasters and accidents

;Law and crime

  • Sheikh Issa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, brother of the leader of the United Arab Emirates, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, is acquitted of beating a former business partner in a videotaped attack. [https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60911O20100110 (Reuters)] [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/unitedarabemirates/6962779/UAE-presidents-brother-acquitted-of-attack-on-businessman.html (The Daily Telegraph)] [http://www.albawaba.com/en/news/259121 (Al-Bawaba)]
  • Britain is set to ban a Muslim group, Al-Muhajiroun, also known as Islam4UK, that recently caused outrage by proposing a demonstration in the town that receives the bodies of British war dead killed abroad, the Home Office says. [http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/01/10/uk.islamist.ban/index.html (CNN)]
  • President of Sinn Féin Gerry Adams receives a death threat. [http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0110/adamsg.html (RTÉ)] [http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/ireland/adams-receives-death-threats-from-loyalists-441397.html (Ireland Online)]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} [http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0110/breaking28.htm (The Irish Times)]

;Politics and elections

;Sport

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