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• France announces plans to close its embassies in 20 Muslim countries in expectation of a violent response to a cartoon of Muhammad in the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
• In Egypt and Libya, U.S. diplomatic missions are attacked, causing the deaths of four people in Libya, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens.

• Canada severs diplomatic ties with Iran.
• In Mali, Islamist militants seize control of Douentza, ousting the local secular militia.
• Following the deaths of over 300 people in a cholera outbreak, the government of Sierra Leone declares state of national emergency.
• An Israeli court rules that the Israel Defense Forces and the Ministry of Defense were not responsible for the death of Rachel Corrie in the Gaza Strip in 2003.
• Over 2,000 people in Mombasa, Kenya, riot and protest the killing of Muslim cleric Aboud Rogo.

• A bus crashes into a tanker carrying methanol, killing 36 people in Shaanxi, China.
• Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announces the commencement of peace talks with the rebel group FARC.
• Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District between the Orma and Pokomo peoples kill at least 52 people.
• A Romanian constitutional court invalidates a referendum to impeach President Traian Basescu, reinstating him as president.
• Following a military coup, Mali forms a national unity government in an effort to solve a political crisis.

• Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi dies at the age of 57.
• Gu Kailai, the wife of Chinese politician Bo Xilai, is given a suspended death sentence for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood.
• Thirty-two people are killed in a plane crash in Sudan, including members of the Sudanese government and military.
• Three gunmen kill nineteen people in a church near Okene, Nigeria.
• Unidentified gunmen kill 16 Egyptian police officers on the Egyptian-Israeli border in Sinai.