Portal:Current events/2009 January 6
January 6, 2009 (Tuesday)
- United States President-elect Barack Obama offers CNN medical correspondent and neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta the position of Surgeon General. (Washington Post)
- Russia's Gazprom alleges that Ukraine has blocked three key gas pipelines to Europe, making natural gas delivery there impossible. (Reuters)
- Israeli artillery strikes near a United Nations school in Gaza City, killing at least 40 people. (CNN)
- Kathmandu University students protest against the Nepali government's decision to replace Indian head priests at Pashupatinath Temple with Nepalis. (CNN-IBN)
- The Indian Army continues to battle Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed militants in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch District. (CNN-IBN)