Portal:Current events/2005 January 21

January 21, 2005 (Friday)

In Belize, the unrest continues for a second day. Water has been cut and government buildings have been torched. (Belize channel 5) (Belize channel 7)
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:
- The Palestinian Authority redeploys paramilitary police in Gaza for the first time since the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada. (Reuters)^{[permanent dead link]}
- Hamas publishes a document in which it recognizes the 1967 borders. (Haaretz)
B15A, the world's largest iceberg with 160 km length, seems to have run aground in Antarctica, threatening to cut off supply ships for a number of scientific research stations and to starve tens of thousands of penguins. (CBC)
Conflict in Iraq:
- 5 Danish troops, including an army intelligence officer, have been charged with mistreating Iraqi prisoners in southern Iraq last year. (BBC)
- At least 14 people die in a car bombing at a Shi'a mosque in Iraq's capital, amid threats of a long war from a key militant. (BBC)
In Lucerne, Switzerland, a trial opens against a nurse accused of killing 24 patients. (SwissInfo)
The Italian government condemns the destruction of an Italian cemetery in Mogadishu, Somalia. Local militia wanted to clear the area for a base. (BBC)
Italian police have arrested number of people connected to smuggling of illegal immigrants from Libya. (AGI) (BBC)
Chilean judge Sergio Munoz intends to launch an international investigation for secret bank accounts of Augusto Pinochet. (Reuters) Archived 2005-03-21 at the Wayback Machine (BBC)
In France, teachers and civil servants join the growing numbers of strikers to protest over job cuts in the public sector. (BBC) (Reuters) Archived 2005-03-21 at the Wayback Machine
The relatives of victims of Kursk submarine disaster appeal to the European Court of Human Rights for an additional investigation into the catastrophe. (Mosnews) (St.Petersburg Times)
France extradites Holger Pfahls, former German deputy defence minister suspected of corruption. (Deutsche Welle) (Bloomberg) (PolitInfo)