Portal:Current events/2018 January 6
January 6, 2018 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Casamance conflict
- Gunmen kill 13 people near the town of Ziguinchor, Senegal. (France 24)
- Kashmir conflict
- An IED bombing kills four Indian Reserve policemen patrolling a deserted market in the upper northwestern city of Sopore, India. Jaish-e-Mohammed militants, fighting against Indian rule in Kashmir, claim responsibility for the attack. (AP via The Washington Post) (Gulf News)
Disasters and accidents
- Sanchi oil tanker collision
- Thirty-two sailors are missing after Iranian oil tanker MV Sanchi and Chinese freighter CF-Crystal collide off the east coast of China. The collision ignites the oil tanker, which carried a 136,000-tonne load. (CNN), (Reuters)
International relations
- Germany–Turkey relations
- German foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel and his Turkish colleague Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu agree to improve relations between their countries. (AFP via News24)
- Cuba–United States relations
- U.S. Senator Jeff Flake tells Cuban officials there is "no evidence" of a suspected sonic attack on U.S. diplomats at the U.S. embassy in Havana. (CBS News)
Law and crime
- Anti-austerity movement
- Saudi authorities arrest 11 princes in Riyadh for staging a protest against Saudi Arabia's austerity measures. (Al Jazeera)
Politics and elections
- 2017–18 Iranian protests
- Thousands of government supporters demonstrate across Iran for the fourth consecutive day. (Voice of America)
- Hundreds of Iranians hold rallies in support of the anti-regime protests in Iran, in cities including Washington, D.C., Stockholm, London, Paris and Berlin. About 400 people gathered in central Paris, and several hundred held a rally in front of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate with Iranian flags, drums and banners calling for a change of government. (Yahoo! via Reuters)
- Crisis in Venezuela (2012–present)
- After the Venezuelan government orders shops to lower prices, hundreds of people line up to take advantage of these price cuts. (Reuters)