Portal:Current events/2014 January 24

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;Armed conflicts and attacks

• Post-coup unrest in Egypt:
• Three bombs explode in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, killing about five people. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25874370 (BBC News)]
• Heavy gunfire erupts in Central African Republic's capital Bangui. [http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/prominent-muslim-leader-slain-car-capital-21652651 (ABC News)]

;Law and crime

• Prominent conservative political pundit Dinesh D'Souza pleads "not guilty" to charges that he violated U.S. election financing laws. [https://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/24/us-usa-politics-dsouza-idUSBREA0N1KI20140124 (Reuters)]

;Politics and elections

• Euromaidan:
• Unrest in the Ukraine spreads to the cities of Khmelnitsky, Zhytomyr, Cherkasy, Lviv (Lvov), Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lutsk, Rivne and Chernivtsi. In Rivne and Lviv, the offices of the governors were broken into; the Lviv regional governor was forced to sign a letter of resignation. [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/25/world/europe/ukraine-protests.html?_r=0 (The New York Times)] [http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/01/23/ukraine-protesters-storm-office-and-force-regional-governor-to-resign-as-demonstrations-continue-in-smouldering-kyiv/ (National Post)]

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