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Current events of
January 7, 2014
(
2014-01-07
)
(Tuesday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Syrian opposition–Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant conflict
Both belligerents mass execute dozens of their combatant prisoners.
(BBC)
Disasters and accidents
Four killed in
US Air Force
HH-60 Pave Hawk
crash in England's
Norfolk
coast.
(
The Independent
)
(BBC)
(
The Daily Telegraph
)
Law and crime
Infanta Cristina
, the youngest daughter of the
King of Spain
,
Juan Carlos I
, is charged by a magistrate with
tax evasion
and
money laundering
.
(Euronews)
Five members of the
Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI
, who in 1971 stole documents from the US
Federal Bureau of Investigation
and gave them to journalists, come forth. The leak exposed
COINTELPRO
, a program of surveillance and blackmail against American leftists including
Martin Luther King, Jr.
(
New York Times
)
(
The Guardian
)
(
New York Magazine
)
Sports
United States gold winning Olympic athlete
Lindsey Vonn
announces she is pulling out of her run for the
2014 Winter Olympics
in
Sochi
due to a re-injured right knee.
(
Washington Post
)
(ESPN)
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