Portal:Current events/2010 January 23
January 23, 2010 (Saturday)
- Aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake:
- The Haitian government declares earthquake rescue operations over. (BBC)
- The government announces a first precise death toll of 111,481. To date, it is the second-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century (after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake). (CNN)
- Joe Biden's visit to Iraq:
- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden holds talks with Iraqi political leaders ahead of the March parliamentary election. (BBC)
- Biden says the U.S. government will appeal in the Blackwater Baghdad shootings case. (BBC)
- Thousands of protesters demonstrate in Venezuela for and against the polices of President Hugo Chávez amid a currency revaluation and energy shortages in the country. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
- Eight people are killed and 13 missing after flash floods and landslides hit Sulawesi, Indonesia. (News Australia) (Jerusalem Post)
- Between 100 and 150 bodies are found stuffed in wells in the village of Kuru following religious clashes in Jos, Nigeria. (BBC) (AFP)
- A passenger train in Iran derails, killing at least eight people and wounding at least fifteen others. (Press TV) (ISNA) (Reuters) (RTÉ) (The Canadian Press)
- Japanese prosecutors question Representative Ichirō Ozawa over an alleged party funding scandal. (BBC) (Manilla Bulletin)
- The American Civil Liberties Union condemns a U.S. Justice Department report that suggested 47 Guantánamo Bay detainees should be held indefinitely without trial. (BBC)
- Jim McCormick, the director of the U.K. company manufacturing the controversial ADE 651 bomb detectors, is arrested on suspicion of fraud. (BBC)
- A new assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey says Venezuela may hold double the oil reserves of Saudi Arabia. (BBC)
- Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra leaves Cambodia on the eve of anti-government protests in Thailand. (The Phnom Penh Post)
- A strong weather system leaves damage in the U.S. states of California and Arizona after producing flooding rains, strong winds, and a rare outbreak of tornadoes in the region. (Los Angeles Times) (San Francisco Chronicle) (ABC News)
- Canadians take to the streets to protest the prorogation of the 40th Canadian Parliament. (CBC) (Globe and Mail)