Portal:Current events/2012 January 30

Current events of January 30, 2012 (2012-01-30) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Police shoot and kill two people in Podor during protests over a decision by the Constitutional Council that President of Senegal Abdoulaye Wade can run for re-election. (BBC)
• Local coordination committees in Syria call for a day of remembrance for lives lost in the ongoing uprising. (CNN)
• Tibetan advocacy groups claim that as many as seven ethnic Tibetans have been killed and 60 wounded in the past week in protests in China's Sichuan province bordering Tibet. (Reuters)
• Soldiers who attempted a mutiny last week in Papua New Guinea hand their weapons over to the Deputy Prime Minister Belden Namah in return for a general amnesty. (AAP via SBS)
• Sudanese officials claim that the army has freed 14 of 29 Chinese workers held by rebels in the South Kordofan region since last Saturday. (BBC)
• A US drone airstrike kills 15 members of al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula in the Yemeni town of Lawdar in the Abyan Governorate. (Xinhua)

Disasters

• The death toll of a fake medicine crisis at a cardiology hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, reaches 112. (Express Tribune)

Law and crime

• An Indonesian court in Jayapura indicts five Papuan activists for declaring independence in October. (AFP via The West Australian)

Politics and elections

• Occupy DC activists are banned from camping in McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza in the US capital Washington DC. (CNN)