Portal:Current events/2007 January 20
January 20, 2007 (Saturday)
- U.S. election 2008: Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) officially announces her presidential bid with an exploratory committee. (BBC) (Clinton Website) (CNN) (Reuters)
- A man named Ogün Samast is arrested in Samsun by Turkish authorities for killing Armenian-Turkish writer Hrant Dink. (BBC)
- War in Somalia: Somali gunmen attacks government and Ethiopian troops in a crowded market, killing 4 people. (Reuters)
- Iraq War: The U.S. military says one of its helicopters has crashed north-east of Baghdad, killing all 13 passengers. (BBC) (CNN)
- A planned meeting between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal is postponed. (BBC) (Reuters)
- Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez says Fidel Castro is 'battling for his life.' (BBC)
- A three-man team, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093 mile trek to reach the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility for the first time since 1958 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance. (BBC)
- The World Social Forum opens in Nairobi, Kenya. (BBC)