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• 16 January 2023: UK Treasury considering plans for digital pound, economic secretary says
• 13 January 2023: Powerful earthquake rocks Vanuatu archipelago
• 10 January 2023: Troops freed by Mali return to Ivory Coast
• 9 January 2023: Supporters of ex-President Bolsonaro storm Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court
• 8 January 2023: “One-in-100-year flood event” devastates Western Australia
• 8 January 2023: Kevin McCarthy elected US House Speaker on 15th ballot
• 6 January 2023: 118th United States Congress convenes; House of Representatives adjourns without electing Speaker for first time in 100 years
• 5 January 2023: France to be first nation to donate Western armored vehicles to Ukraine
• 4 January 2023: Two helicopters collide in Gold Coast, Australia
• 2 January 2023: Pope Benedict XVI dies at age 95

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International row after Spielberg quits 2008 Beijing Olympics

The U.S. film director stepped down as artistic adviser saying that China, which has close links to the Sudanese government, should do more to address the Darfur situation. » Full story

‘Top Model’ winner Jaslene Gonzalez on her career and being a Latina role model

Wikinews talks with America’s Next Top Model’s first Puerto Rican winner, Jaslene Gonzalez, about her childhood, what makes her a strong individual, and what television show her abuela would want her to go on. This is also the first time one of our interviews can also be read in Spanish at Wikinoticias. » Full story

Wikinews from January 20, 2008 (More…)

• Wikinews Shorts: January 20, 2008
• Africans keep the leading position at 2008 Mumbai Marathon
• Jesuits choose Adolfo Nicolás as their new Superior General
• French TV director Alain Jaubert talks about art programs in Taiwan

Wikinews from January 20, 2007 (More…)

• Church group backs ‘extremist’ mosque
• Lakewood Police & SWAT team end standoff with tear gas
• Kuiper Belt object to become comet in approx. 2 million years
• 13 U.S. soldiers killed in helicopter crash

Wikinews from January 20, 2006 (More…)

• Demonstration held in support of Jill Carroll
• Danish clothing company sells T-shirts to support FARC and PFLP
• Whale spotted in river Thames, Central London
• Message in bottle travels from UK to Australia

Wikinews from January 20, 2005 (More…)

• China Plans Next Manned Space Mission
• Romanian artists auction off their works for tsunami victims
• Bucharest Metro operator to purchase more modern trainsets
• UN proposes world-wide natural disaster warning system

• Kyiv mayor: Ukrainian “critical infrastructure” could fail “any second”
• Nepalese plane crashes near Pokhara airport, killing at least 68
• “A commonsense proposal”: Wikinews interviews Michelle Tilley, Campaign Director for Yes on 820

• US House of Representatives forms subcommittee on “the Weaponization of the Federal Government”
• Russian missile attack kills five, Britain sending tanks to Ukraine
• Pavel and Babiš advance to second round of Czech presidential election

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• Brothers Sunshine Coast to join A grade rugby union competition on Australia’s Sunshine Coast
• Russian photographer Viktor Pinchuk presents textbook in Simferopol, Crimea
• Russian journalist Viktor Pinchuk delivers ‘Hobo Tourism’ lecture in Simferopol, Crimea

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