Portal:Current events/2010 January 25

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Live Nation and Ticketmaster complete their merger, following an agreement with the United States Department of Justice to divest some interests. [https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60O4E520100126 (Reuters)]
Police in the Venezuelan capital Caracas disperse an opposition student protest over the closure of several television stations. Meanwhile, Vice President Ramón Carrizales resigns. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hLJXSS2bg90lNF6FXmzQcghAovog (AFP)] [http://english.eluniversal.com/2010/01/25/en_pol_esp_student-demonstratio_25A3337855.shtml (El Universal)]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Houthi fighters in northern Yemen offer to leave Saudi Arabia after three months of fighting on the border. [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/01/201012517527990120.html (Al Jazeera)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8479495.stm (BBC)] [http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=117035§ionid=351020206 (Press TV)]
Representatives of the Dalai Lama head to Beijing for the first discussions with Chinese authorities in 15 months. [http://beta.thehindu.com/news/international/article94833.ece (The Hindu)] [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gZdB0EB5TYIvdjR5dBg6O8unqvYA (AFP)] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/25/dalai-lama-tibet-talks-beijing (The Guardian)]
Voters in Saint Kitts and Nevis go to the polls in the 2010 general election. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/25/AR2010012501673.html (Washington Post)]
New traces of melamine in milk products are discovered in China, more than a year after thousands of children became ill from a previous incident. [http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-01/25/content_9368721.htm (China Daily)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8478195.stm (BBC)]
The European Union agrees to send a team to train up to 2,000 Somali troops to help fight insurgents in the country, as intense gun battles take place in the capital Mogadishu. [http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE60O0HA20100125 (Reuters South Africa)] [http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2010/01/25/Heavy-fighting-reported-in-Mogadishu/UPI-44721264439114/ (UPI)]
Environment ministers from the G4 bloc (IBSA Dialogue Forum & China) meet in New Delhi, India, to agree a common position ahead of future climate change talks, such as the 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference ("COP-16") at Cancún, Mexico, to be held from 29 November 2010 to 10 December 2010 [http://unfccc.int/files/meetings/cop_15/application/pdf/cop15_dv_auv.pdf]. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ipBLfSe9uNUB7zCXqO8ezdVGWV7w (AFP)] [http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=123258 (The Daily Star)]
Dutch football club HFC Haarlem, national champion in 1946, is declared bankrupt, becoming the first Dutch professional club to be disestablished since FC Wageningen and VCV Zeeland in 1992. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100128035907/http://www.telegraaf.nl/telesport/voetbal/5874865/__VOETBALCLUB_HAARLEM_FAILLIET__.html?p=1,1 (Telegraaf)]
Iraq:
Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali", is executed. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8479115.stm (BBC News)]
Three car bomb explosions in central Baghdad kill 36 people. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8478916.stm (BBC)]
Burma's Home Minister General Maung Oo says Aung San Suu Kyi will be released by November this year. [https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60O0J020100125 (Reuters)] [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/01/201012554845308917.html (Al Jazeera)]
The United States will reportedly "reconsider" Algeria's placement on its terror watch list, which requires Algerian citizens to undergo extra security screening. [http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-1/25/c_13149511.htm (Xinhua)]
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409, with 85 passengers on board, crashes into the Mediterranean Sea after taking off from Beirut Airport, Lebanon. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/8478060.stm (BBC)] [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/01/20101252742591787.html (Al Jazeera)]
A Qantas terminal at an airport in Perth, Western Australia, is evacuated after police locate a "suspicious item". [http://www.theage.com.au/national/qantas-terminal-evacuated-after-suspicious-bag-found-20100125-mtxb.html (The Age)]
An inquest into the deaths of five Afghan asylum seekers opens in Australia. [http://www.theage.com.au/national/navy-under-fire-over-deadly-asylum-boat-blast-20100125-mtsk.html (The Sydney Morning Herald)]
A record-breaking half a million Australians take extra time off work "sick" as Australia Day approaches. [http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/record-sickies-before-australia-day-20100125-mtxk.html (The Age)]
A senior Chinese Internet official says his country is now the largest victim of cyber attacks in the world. [http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2010-01/25/content_9369226.htm (China Daily)]
Taoiseach Brian Cowen and Prime Minister Gordon Brown meet at Downing Street to discuss the devolution deadlock in Northern Ireland. [http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0124/northpolitics.html (RTÉ)] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/24/northern-ireland-brown-cowen-powersharing (The Guardian)] [http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0124/breaking13.htm (The Irish Times)]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the opening of an exhibition of Auschwitz concentration camp blueprints in Yad Vashem. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/24/AR2010012401507.html (The Washington Post)]
Gordon Park, convicted murderer in the Lady in the Lake trial, is found hanged in his prison cell in Garth prison, Lancashire, England, in an apparent suicide. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/8478717.stm (BBC)]

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