Portal:Current events/2014 January 24
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January 24, 2014 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Post-coup unrest in Egypt:
- Three bombs explode in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, killing about five people. (BBC News)
- Heavy gunfire erupts in Central African Republic's capital Bangui. (ABC News)
Law and crime
- Prominent conservative political pundit Dinesh D'Souza pleads "not guilty" to charges that he violated U.S. election financing laws. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Euromaidan:
- Unrest in the Ukraine spreads to the cities of Khmelnitsky, Zhytomyr, Cherkasy, Lviv (Lvov), Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lutsk, Rivne and Chernivtsi. In Rivne and Lviv, the offices of the governors were broken into; the Lviv regional governor was forced to sign a letter of resignation. (The New York Times) (National Post)