Current Events for the Week of 25 January 2010
Current Events for Thursday, 28 January 2010
- U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the nation, to focus on jobs; Republicans respond
- Sri Lankan opposition leader General Sarath Fonseka calls for nullification of election results
- Toyota sends mixed message: recalls some eight million vehicles, tells consumers to continue driving
- North Korea fires more artillery at South, claims to have arrested U.S. spy
- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva falls ill, cancels trips to World Economic Forum
- Israel uses Holocaust Memorial Day to criticize Iran
- French court expected to hand-down its verdict in political libel, slander case against former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin
- Haitian President René Préval pleads for more aid
- Ethiopian Airways that crashed of Lebanese coast has its flight recorder found
- Apple unveils iPad, met with skepticism
- Zimbabwean High Court dismisses lawsuit against President Robert Mugabe’s land-reform program
- Iraq al-Qa`ida-linked group claims responsibility for Baghdad bombings that killed thirty-seven
- India announces planned man space mission by 2016
- U.S. new home sales decline again
- U.S. admits to providing Yemeni security forces with intelligence about al-Qa`ida rebels
- Nigerian Senate insists President Umaru Yar’Adua should cede power, Cabinet insists he is still fit to govern
- Iranian security forces clash with Kurd separatist group
- Porfiro Lobo sworn-in as new Honduran president
- Iran executes two over election unrest
Current Events for Friday, 29 January 2010
- Afghan Taliban leaders signal they will soon decide whether or not to join peace process
- North Korea continues artillery barrage of South
- Reclusive American author J.D. Salinger, famous for penning Catcher in the Rye, dies at 91
- U.S. Senate votes to confirm U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to second term, 70-30
- Toyota now faces U.S. congressional scrutiny over recall
- U.S. Department of Defense (Pentagon) to unveil new steps to get rid of “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy
- U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Diane Feinstein announces agreement with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg that 9/11 trial should be moved from Manhattan courtroom
- U.S. formally accepts last month’s Copenhagen climate deal
- Former French Prime Minister de Villepin found “not guilty” in campaign smear case
- Fierce gun-battle between Afghan security forces, militants breaks-out in Lashkar Gah
- Hamas claims senior member assassinated by Israel on visit to Dubai
- China agrees to increase anti-piracy patrols off Somali coast
- Two Indian soldiers killed in fire-fight with militants in Indian-administered Kashmir
- Around 1,400 tourists rescued from flooding at Machu Picchu
- University of the Arts, London study: learning music boosts broader learning
- U.S. Senate votes for new, tougher sanctions on Iran over its disregard for U.N. nuclear nonproliferation process
- Amazon.com announces 71% profit rise for fourth-quarter 2009
- Microsoft cites “exceptional demand” for Windows 7 as cause for 60% fourth-quarter 2009 profit rise
- Kenyan parliament agrees to scrap prime minister post in constitutional reforms being discussed
- Sri Lankan Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa: government considering taking “action” against defeated opposition candidate General Sarath Fonseka
- African Union (A.U.): Sudan a “powder keg” of unrest
- Ford Motor Company posts $2.7 billion annual profit for 2009
- Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai: Zimbabwe should be “rewarded” for progress with cut in international sanctions
- Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) Associate Justice Samuel Alito gains spotlight after facial expressions at State of the Union