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Portal:Current events/2010 January 2

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;Armed conflicts and attacks

  • The Ugandan army announces it has killed Bok Abudema, a senior member of the Lord's Resistance Army, in the Central African Republic. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gTqD26AXUORJLz_8xPBR-F6P0xiQ (AFP)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8437886.stm (BBC)]
  • Piracy in Somalia
  • Somali pirates seize an Indonesian chemical tanker with 24 crew in the Gulf of Aden and a British cargo ship with 26 cars 620 miles off the Horn of Africa. [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Somali-pirates-hijack-India-bound-chemical-tanker/articleshow/5404159.cms (Times of India)] [http://www.rttnews.com/ArticleView.aspx?Id=1169169&SMap=1 (RTT News)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8437581.stm (BBC)]
  • The Israeli Air Force launches an attack against tunnels leading from Gaza into Israel in response to missile attacks and mortar fire. [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1139336.html (Haaretz)] [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/01/2010121275652585.html (Al Jazeera)]

;Arts and culture

  • 19-year-old Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is confirmed as the youngest-ever world number one in the official January 2010 FIDE rating list. [https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BT17H20091230 (Reuters)] [http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1948809,00.html (TIME)] [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g1QmAdxADzyQCWyLLzs2N63owZEA (AFP)] [http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6027 (Chessbase)]

;Discoveries

  • An Antarctic expedition finds remains of the first aeroplane brought to the continent, a single-propeller Vickers plane of explorer Douglas Mawson. [https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60104L20100102 (Reuters)]

;Law and crime

  • Police in Denmark shoot a 28-year-old male Somali after he breaks into the Viby J home of Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist at the centre of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy in 2005, and threatens his family with an axe. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8437433.stm (BBC)] [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6973706.ece (The Times)] [http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Danish-Police-Shoot-Man-At-House-Of-Cartoonist-Kurt-Westergaard-Who-Drew-Pictures-Of-Mohammed/Article/201001115513050?lpos=World_News_Top_Stories_Header_2&lid=ARTICLE_15513050_Danish_Police_Shoot_Man_At_House_Of_Cartoonist_Kurt_Westergaard_Who_Drew_Pictures_Of_Mohammed (Sky News)]

;Politics and elections

  • A quarter of voters in Iceland sign a petition asking President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson to veto a bill on repaying US$5 billion to foreign savers who lost their money when Icelandic banks collapsed. [http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9464814 (ABC News)] [http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16568&ew_0_a_id=355964 (Iceland Review)]
  • The Afghan Parliament rejects 17 out of 24 cabinet nominees proposed by President Hamid Karzai. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6924731/Blow-for-Afghan-President-Hamid-Karzai-as-MPs-reject-most-of-his-cabinet-nominees.html (The Daily Telegraph)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110723140916/http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=afghan-parliament-rejects-most-of-karzais-cabinet-nominees-2010-01-02 (Hürriyet)] [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/01/201012111935617946.html (Al Jazeera)]

;Religion

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