Portal:Current events/2018 January 12
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January 12, 2018 (Friday)
Arts and culture
- Women's rights in Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman, Saudi Vision 2030
- For the first time, Saudi Arabia allows women to spectate at football matches, part of an easing of strict rules on gender separation by the ultra-conservative Muslim country. (BBC)
Disasters and accidents
- A major fire engulfs parts of Nottingham station, United Kingdom. (BBC)
International relations
- Turkey–United States relations
- Turkey cautions its citizens against travel to the United States in response to an advisory that warned Americans about terror threats and arbitrary detentions in Turkey. (AP via Fox News)
- United Kingdom–United States relations
- United States President Donald Trump cancels his scheduled trip to the United Kingdom next month. (Reuters)
- Nepal–United States relations, Botswana–United States relations
- Panama–United States relations
- The United States Ambassador to Panama, John D. Feeley, resigns saying he can no longer serve under Trump administration. (The Telegraph)
Law and crime
- Murder of Zainab Ansari
- After European Parliament auditors conclude that he used a parliamentary assistant for UKIP party matters instead of for work related to the duties of a Member of the European Parliament, Nigel Farage will now pay back £35,500 (€40,000) through having half of his salary withheld. (The Independent)
Politics and elections
- Cabinet of Germany
- The CDU/CSU (Christian Democrats) and SPD (Social Democrats) agree on a blueprint for formal negotiations on a new "grand coalition" government after the September 2017 federal election. (BBC)
- Politics of Mexico
- Mexicans react with incredulity after President of Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto appointed Alberto Bazbaz to the position of head of the CISEN intelligence service. Bazbaz is known for having overseen a 9-day search for a missing girl, Paulette Gebara Farah, who was eventually found dead in her own bed. (The Guardian)
Science and technology
- 2018 in spaceflight
- The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launches India’s 100th satellite and 30 other satellites from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. (The Hindu)
- A Delta IV launches NROL-47, a classified U.S. military payload, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. It is the last single-core Delta IV to launch from Vandenberg. (Spaceflight Now)