Portal:Current events/2019 January 17

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;Armed conflicts and attacks

;Disasters and accidents

  • In France, a fire at the University Lyon 1 injures three people. Investigators say that it is a result of an accidental gas bottle explosion. [https://www.euronews.com/2019/01/17/three-injured-as-fire-breaks-out-on-roof-of-lyon-university-after-gas-bottle-explosion (Euronews)]

;Law and crime

  • Gunmen on motorbikes shoot Ghanaian investigative journalist Ahmed Hussein-Suale to death in Accra. Ahmed was a member of the Tiger Eye Private Investigations team that exposed high-level corruption in the Ghana Football Association. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ghana-journalist/gunmen-kill-ghanaian-journalist-who-helped-expose-soccer-graft-idUSKCN1PB22K (Reuters)]

;Politics and elections

;Science and technology

  • Facebook removes alleged Russia-based accounts and pages as a part of a crackdown on misuse of its service. [https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-pulls-more-russia-linked-accounts-11547727235 (The Wall Street Journal)]

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