Portal:Current events/2015 January 1

Current events of January 1, 2015 (2015-01-01) (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Terrorism in Yemen
  • The death toll of the suicide bombing in Ibb, Yemen, that occurred on December 31 rises to 49 with the injury count rising to 70. (AFP via Business Standard)
• A shooting kills one and injures six people in Killarney, Calgary, Canada, with police making no arrests. (National Post)

Business and economy

• Lithuania adopts the euro as its official currency, becoming the 19th member of the Eurozone. (CNN)
• U.S. fast-food restaurant chain Chick-fil-A warns that a security breach may have leaked credit card details of 9,000 customers in five states. (Daily Mail)

International relations

• The Palestine Authority signs a treaty to join and participate in the International Criminal Court. (Wall Street Journal)
• The Eurasian Economic Union between Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia comes into effect (Novinite)

Law and crime

• Vietnam’s new marriage law goes into effect, abolishing regulations that “prohibit marriage between people of the same sex.” (Bloomberg)

Politics and elections

• Mario Cuomo, former governor of the U.S. state of New York, dies at the age of 82. (Reuters)