Portal:Current events/2014 January 11

Current events of January 11, 2014 (2014-01-11) (Saturday)

Attacks and conflicts Aitizaz Hassan, a Pakistani boy who died after trying to stop a suicide bomber, is nominated for an award by Nawaz Sharif. (CNN) Syrian Civil War 500 people are killed in inter-factional fighting between an alliance of secular rebels and moderate Islamists against radical Islamists. (BBC) Central African Republic crisis African migrants are to be evacuated as violence continues in the country. (CNN) 2013 Thai political crisis 7 people are injured after protesters are attacked by gunfire. (Voice of America) Euromaidan Yuri Lutsenko, one of the leaders of the protests, is injured during clashes with the police. (Los Angeles Times) War in Afghanistan A four-year-old Afghan boy is killed by U.S. troops. (Business Standard) Somali Civil War The United States is to deploy military advisers more than twenty years after the Black Hawk down incident. (Sydney Morning Herald) Business and economy Total S.A. is to invest in shale gas exploration in the United Kingdom. (The Guardian) Disasters and accidents A district in the ancient town of Dukezong in Shangri-La County, Yunnan, China, burns down. (ABC News) A chemical leak in West Virginia morphs into a crisis after the contamination of a portion of the state's water supply. (CNN) Cyclone Ian strikes Tonga with damage to buildings reported. (Fox News) Law and crime United States Attorney General Eric Holder says that same-sex marriages conducted in Utah are recognized as legal under federal law. The state of Utah however, does not recognize the marriages under state laws. (The Washington Post) The United States Air Force expands an illegal drugs investigation involving ten officers in six military bases in the United States and the United Kingdom. (Reuters) A ten-year-old servant girl is tortured to death in Punjab raising concerns about human rights in Pakistan. (BBC News) About 110,000 people march peacefully through Bilbao, demanding Basque independence and freedom for more than 600 ETA prisoners. (BBC News) (Reuters) Science and technology X-ray astronomers find evidence of a black hole at the center of a dwarf galaxy gobbling up a star; this is the first such event ever filmed. (Astronomy) Politics and elections Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon dies at the age of 85 after spending eight years in a coma following a stroke. (BBC News) (ABC NEWS) (International Business Times) India says that it has "no stand-off" with the United States even after the Devyani Khobragade incident. (BBC) French President François Hollande is under pressure after photos of him and actress Julie Gayet appear in a magazine. (BBC) Sport British footballer Ian Redford is found dead in the woods of Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland. (The Independent) 2014 Winter Olympics The United States State Department issues a warning to those going to the host city of Sochi, informing that local medical facilities are "untested" and that there are threats of terrorist activity. (The Hollywood Reporter)