Portal:Current events/2012 January 17
January 17, 2012 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2012 Afar region tourist attack
- Unknown assailants kill 2 Hungarians, 2 Germans and an Austrian in northeastern Ethiopia. (Al Jazeera)
- 2011–2012 Syrian uprising:
- Syria rejects calls for Arab troops to intervene in the country's conflict. (News24)
- 25 people are killed by Syrian security forces in the latest violence. (Voice of America)
- Officials in Burma order the military to stop offensives in ethnic minority areas. (Bangkok Post)
- 2011–2012 Yemeni uprising: Vice President Abdurabu Hadi says that presidential and parliamentary elections planned for next month will go ahead. (CNN)
Business and economy
- Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang resigns as chief executive officer. (San Jose Mercury News)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 26 people are killed after a truck's brakes fail along a busy street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (BBC)
International relations
- India and China agree to establish a working mechanism to deal with border issues. (The Hindu)
Politics
- Crackdown on dissidents in the People's Republic of China: Authorities in China charge dissident Zhu Yufu for "subverting state power". (The New York Times)
- Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of new North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, predicts the regime will fall if reforms are not made soon. (UPI)
- Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng orders an investigation into a guerrilla-style standoff with farmers who laid land mines and firing improvised shotguns amid a land eviction. (Straits Times)
Science
- Abdollah Jassbi resigns as President of Islamic Azad University after near thirty years in position. (Tabnak)