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*Six people die as a [[Piper PA-34]] crashes near [[Huntington, West Virginia]]. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,486204,00.html (AP via Fox News)] |
*Six people die as a [[Piper PA-34]] crashes near [[Huntington, West Virginia]]. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,486204,00.html (AP via Fox News)] |
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*The [[United States]] [[United States Department of State|Department of State]] will not renew [[Private military company|security contractor]] [[Blackwater Worldwide]]'s license when it expires in May 2009. [http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/30/us.blackwater.contract/index.html?eref=rss_topstories (CNN)] |
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*[[Michael S. Steele]] becomes the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Republican National Committee]]'s [[List of African-American firsts|first]] [[African-American]] [[chairman]]. [http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/30/rnc.chairman/index.html?eref=rss_topstories (CNN)] |
*[[Michael S. Steele]] becomes the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Republican National Committee]]'s [[List of African-American firsts|first]] [[African-American]] [[chairman]]. [http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/30/rnc.chairman/index.html?eref=rss_topstories (CNN)] |
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*[[Somalia]]'s [[Transitional Federal Government]] collapses after [[Al-Shabaab (Somalia)|Al-Shabaab]] captures [[Baidoa]]. [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99995400 (NPR)] |
*[[Somalia]]'s [[Transitional Federal Government]] collapses after [[Al-Shabaab (Somalia)|Al-Shabaab]] captures [[Baidoa]]. [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99995400 (NPR)] |
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Revision as of 19:05, 31 January 2009
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- Six people die as a Piper PA-34 crashes near Huntington, West Virginia. (AP via Fox News)
- The United States Department of State will not renew security contractor Blackwater Worldwide's license when it expires in May 2009. (CNN)
- Michael S. Steele becomes the U.S. Republican National Committee's first African-American chairman. (CNN)
- Somalia's Transitional Federal Government collapses after Al-Shabaab captures Baidoa. (NPR)
- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon announces an investigation into Israel's attack on the U.N.'s Gaza Strip headquarters. (Al Jazeera)
- A heat wave affects southeastern Australia, with both Adelaide and Melbourne experiencing temperatures above 45 °C (113 °F). (ABOM)
- More than one thousand workers strike at four different United Kingdom oil refineries. (Sky News)
- Thirteen people are killed and 47 people are missing after a Nakumatt supermarket burns in Nairobi, Kenya. (CNN)
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