Portal:Current events/2018 January 22
January 22, 2018 (Monday)
Armed conflict and attacks
- Seven people died in clashes between security forces and worshippers taking part in an Ethiopian Orthodox religious ceremony marking Timkat (Epiphany) in Woldiya, Amhara, Ethiopia, over the weekend. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raises Mount Mayon's alert level to 4, its second highest volcano category which indicates a hazardous eruption is imminent. Mayon's activity, which began the afternoon of January 13, 2018, has displaced about 40,000 residents in Albay Province on Luzon island. (Reuters via NBC News)(CNN Philippines)
International relations
- United States recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital
- United States Vice President Mike Pence declares during a speech in the Israeli parliament that the new U.S. embassy in Israel, located in Jerusalem, will open in 2019, sooner than generally expected. (The Guardian)
- Palestine–European Union relations
- After a meeting with the President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini again assures President Abbas that the European Union supports Abbas' ambition to have East Jerusalem as capital of a Palestinian state. (Reuters)
- Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
- Italian politician Michele Nicoletti becomes a new President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. (PACE)
Politics and elections
- 2017–18 Spanish constitutional crisis
- Carles Puigdemont, ex-President of Catalonia, travels to Denmark while Spanish Attorney General requests the European Arrest Warrant. The Speaker of the Catalan Parliament appoints Puigdemont to be invested as President. Spain's Supreme Court refuses to reactivate the arrest warrant. (BBC) (RTE)
- United States federal government shutdown of 2018
- The United States Senate reaches an agreement to reopen federal agencies through Feb. 8. A bill is working its way through the legislative process. The first Senate vote was 81-18. (AP).