Portal:Current events/2018 January 13
January 13, 2018 (Saturday)
Business and economy
- Racism in South Africa
- In South Africa, several H&M stores are closed following protests over a controversial advertisement that was featured in the store's webpage. The advertisement showed a black child model wearing a green hoodie reading "Coolest Monkey in the Jungle". Several stores are also ransacked by protesters from the Economic Freedom Fighters over the advertisement. (Reuters) (CNN Business)
- Rubber bullets are used on EEF protesters at the East Rand Mall. (News24)
Disasters and accidents
- A search for missing children is underway after a boat capsized off the Indian coast near Dahanu, Maharashtra. Two bodies have been recovered. (BBC)
- Sanchi oil tanker collision
- A Chinese rescue team recovers two bodies from the MV Sanchi and salvages the voyage data recorder from the bridge. (Reuters)
- Pegasus Airlines Flight 8622
- A Pegasus Airlines flight from Esenboğa International Airport in Ankara, Turkey, departs the runway of Trabzon Airport in northern Turkey upon landing. All 162 passengers, two pilots, and four cabin crew evacuated the aircraft, a Boeing 737, unharmed. The local government launched an investigation into the incident. (Irish Independent), (Sky News)
International relations
- Iran–United States relations
- Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the January 12 U.S. sanctions on Chief Justice Sadeq Amoli-Larijani are "beyond all [...] red lines." (BBC) (Sputnik)
- Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
- U.S. President Donald Trump says he is extending sanctions relief for Iran one last time so Europe and the U.S. can fix the nuclear deal's "terrible flaws". (BBC)
- Iran's Foreign Ministry replies that it "will not accept any change in the deal," adding that it will "not take any action beyond its commitments." (Politico)
- Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation
- Russia deploys a second anti-air S-400 missile battalion in Crimea. (TASS) (Radio Free Europe)
- 2018 Hawaii false missile alert
- An emergency alert warning of an inbound ballistic missile is accidentally sent out across the U.S. state of Hawaii at 8:07 HST, before being cleared as a false alarm 38 minutes later. This event caused panic and disruptions across the state on the archipelago inhabited by roughly 1.7 million people. (BBC)
Law and crime
- The Bar Council of India forms a 7-member delegation which will attempt to meet the four most senior Supreme Court judges on behalf of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra. This comes in the wake of allegations made by the four top judges against the CJI at a first of its kind press conference held on January 12. (The Times of India)
- Nigerian Shia Islamic Movement leader, Ibrahim Zakzaky, who is detained at an unknown location without charges since December 2015, makes a short public appearance, his first in two years, being allowed to see his doctor. (Reuters)
- Two people are killed and another is injured in a mass shooting in Vancouver, Canada. (CBC)
Politics and elections
- Czech presidential election
- The first round of the presidential election results in a second round that will be held on 26 and 27 January between Miloš Zeman and Jiří Drahoš. (Reuters)