Wikipedia Current Events Real Joined Dec 7, 2022 Messages 993 Reaction score 0 BC ฿2 Dividends 0 Feb 6, 2024 #1 Armed conflicts and attacks Two Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front shooters open fire outside Turkey's Istanbul Justice Palace, killing one person and wounding five others, before being killed in a shootout with police. (Al Jazeera) Blasts in a market in Mogadishu, Somalia kill ten and injure twenty. (Al Jazeera) Business and economy The Dutch owner of Yandex, a Russian multinational technology company and search engine, Yandex N.V, announces the sale of the company to a "fully-Russian owned entity" for 475 billion rubles ($5.2bn), marking its withdrawal from the country. (BBC News) Disasters and accidents Former two-time Chilean president Sebastián Piñera dies in a helicopter crash in Ranco Lake, southern Chile. (Atlas News) Eleven people are killed and 150 more injured during a fire at a fireworks factory in Harda, India. (AP) Politics and elections 2024 United States presidential election 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries 2024 Nevada Republican presidential nominating contests Nevada holds its Republican Party presidential primary. However, the Republican Party is boycotting the primary and will award no delegates to the winner. Instead it plans to hold a presidential caucus on February 8 to award its delegates. (Al Jazeera) Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election, Federal prosecution of Donald Trump (election obstruction case) The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., United States, rules that former President Donald Trump does not have presidential immunity, and thus can be prosecuted for allegedly attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. (BBC News) Continue reading...
Armed conflicts and attacks Two Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front shooters open fire outside Turkey's Istanbul Justice Palace, killing one person and wounding five others, before being killed in a shootout with police. (Al Jazeera) Blasts in a market in Mogadishu, Somalia kill ten and injure twenty. (Al Jazeera) Business and economy The Dutch owner of Yandex, a Russian multinational technology company and search engine, Yandex N.V, announces the sale of the company to a "fully-Russian owned entity" for 475 billion rubles ($5.2bn), marking its withdrawal from the country. (BBC News) Disasters and accidents Former two-time Chilean president Sebastián Piñera dies in a helicopter crash in Ranco Lake, southern Chile. (Atlas News) Eleven people are killed and 150 more injured during a fire at a fireworks factory in Harda, India. (AP) Politics and elections 2024 United States presidential election 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries 2024 Nevada Republican presidential nominating contests Nevada holds its Republican Party presidential primary. However, the Republican Party is boycotting the primary and will award no delegates to the winner. Instead it plans to hold a presidential caucus on February 8 to award its delegates. (Al Jazeera) Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election, Federal prosecution of Donald Trump (election obstruction case) The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., United States, rules that former President Donald Trump does not have presidential immunity, and thus can be prosecuted for allegedly attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. (BBC News) Continue reading...