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This article covers breaking news and events in January 2016.

Daily events

Friday 1st January 2016

Logo of the Dutch EU Council Presidency

• Berlin / Germany : Germany takes over the presidency of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
• Berlin / Germany : The detailed individual examination of the asylum application with a personal hearing decided by the Interior Ministers' Conference in Koblenz on December 3, 2015 comes into force again for asylum seekers from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Eritrea for security reasons.
• Bern / Switzerland : Johann Schneider-Ammann takes up the post of Federal President of the Swiss Confederation according to schedule.
• The Hague / Netherlands : The Netherlands take over the EU Council Presidency .
• Kiev / Ukraine : The free trade agreement between Ukraine and the European Union comes into force.
• Cologne / Germany : Sexual assaults on women, robbery and bodily harm occur near Cologne Central Station on New Year's Eve . The actually responsible authorities only find out about the incidents through later reports, which are said to have mainly originated from drunk men.
• Munich / Germany : Due to a terrorist warning of probably two suicide bombers with an Islamist background, Munich Central Station and Pasing Station are closed as a precaution.
• New York / United States : Egypt , Japan , the Senegal , the Ukraine and Uruguay are new non-permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations .
• Paris / France : The 2015 reform of the French regions comes into force. Instead of the previous 22 regions, there will be only 13 in the future.
• Tel Aviv / Israel : Two people are killed and seven others injured in a shootout in a bar. The act is considered another incident in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict , which has been worsening for months.
• Vienna / Austria : The 76th New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic will be broadcast in over 90 countries around the world, and it will be broadcast for the first time in Brazil, Pakistan and Vietnam.

Saturday 2nd January 2016

• Pathankot / India : Five fighters from the Islamist Jaish-e Mohammed attack the air force base in the state of Punjab near the border with Pakistan . During the following 13-hour firefight, all attackers and three Air Force soldiers were killed.
• Riyadh / Saudi Arabia : In the morning, 47 people previously convicted of membership in terrorist organizations and carrying out criminal conspiracies will be executed, including the Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr . The Iranian Foreign Ministry had warned the Saudi Arabian government in the course of the condemnation of al-Nimr not to carry out the death sentence against him, since otherwise the royal family would “pay a high price”. The SPA agency publishes the list of 47 people executed by Saudi Arabia .
• Riyadh / Saudi Arabia : The military alliance under the leadership of Saudi Arabia, the support of the Yemeni government under Abed Rabbo Mansur Hadi was founded, raises agreed in December 2015 under the mediation of UN ceasefire with Houthi on -Rebellen.
• Vatican City : The Holy See continues diplomatic relations with the State of Palestine in place of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). An agreement signed between Palestine and the Vatican at the end of June 2015 has now come into force.

Sunday 3rd January 2016

• Burns / United States : in Harney County in the US state of Oregon occupy dozens partly armed members of a vigilante group the main administrative building of the reserve Malheur National Wildlife Refuge . The reason for the protest is the sentencing of two ranchers to four years' imprisonment, as the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) accuses them of having started a fire on the federal government's land to cover up traces of poaching. The protesters in the park describe the state's approach and condemnation of the accused as "abuse of power by the authorities" and cite other reasons that justified the setting of the fire.
• London / United Kingdom : The Scot Gary Anderson wins the final of the PDC World Darts Championship 2016 .
• Pune / India : Tens of thousands of supporters of the radical Hindu volunteer movement Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) take part in a mass rally that is seen as a show of power by the politically increasingly influential organization.
• Silopi / Turkey : At least 28 PKK fighters and one civilian are killed in a military operation by the Turkish armed forces that is part of the banned Workers' Party PKK . Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had declared war on the PKK in his New Year's address.
• Tehran / Iran : The Saudi Arabian embassy is stormed by a violent crowd and set on fire. Saudi Arabia then breaks off diplomatic relations with Iran. There are also demonstrations and riots in Iraq's Wasit governorate and in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir .

Monday 4th January 2016

Press conference with Cologne's Lord Mayor Henriette Reker and Police President Wolfgang Albers

• al-Sidr / Libya : The terrorist organization Islamic State is attacking the largest oil port in the country. The Libyan air force and security personnel from the Petrol Facilities Guard ( Ibrahim al-Jathran militia ) deployed on site manage to repel the attack. Two guards and ten IS fighters are killed in the fighting.
• Kabul / Afghanistan : The Taliban carry out two suicide attacks in the capital, in which one person is killed and 30 others are injured. One of the attacks is said to have targeted a Bundeswehr convoy under Brigadier General Michael Podzus. The general security situation is worsening, with attacks on the Spanish embassy in Kabul and the Indian consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif recently .
• Cologne / Germany : In the course of several allegations of abuse on the forecourt of Cologne Central Station , Police President Wolfgang Albers reports on the first results of the investigative group of the North Rhine-Westphalia police . According to this, numerous women out of a group of up to 1000 men are said to have been surrounded, harassed, sexually touched or robbed on New Year's Eve. The North Rhine-Westphalian Interior Minister Ralf Jäger (SPD) condemns the attacks.
• Copenhagen / Denmark : To curb the influx of refugees , Sweden is reintroducing passport controls at the Danish border. Denmark also orders random checks at the border with Germany for an initial ten days.
• Manama / Bahrain : The Kingdom of Bahrain and Sudan follow Saudi Arabia and break off diplomatic relations with Iran . The United Arab Emirates are reducing their embassy staff. The Arab League holds an emergency meeting in Cairo on January 10th .
• Beijing / China : Due to poor economic data from the industry, share prices on the stock market, including the leading index CSI 300 , are falling rapidly. For the first time in their history, the supervisory authorities are ordering all trading on the stock exchanges to be suspended for the rest of the day.
• Washington, DC / United States : As a result of the emissions scandal and for violating the Clean Air Act, the US Department of Justice is filing a civil action in a federal court in Detroit ( Michigan ) pertaining to the German automobile companies Volkswagen , Audi and Porsche .

Tuesday 5th January 2016

• Ayvalık / Turkey : At least 30 bodies of refugees who tried to cross over to the Greek island of Lesbos in rubber dinghies were washed up on the beach in the coastal city . A dozen more people are rescued by the Turkish coast guard. Because of the stormy seas in this region, a crossing is considered particularly dangerous.
• Zurich / Switzerland : The International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) officially recognizes the discovery of radioactive, artificially generated chemical elements with the ordinal numbers 113 , 115 , 117 and 118, which has been in effect since December 30, 2015. These complete the seventh row in the periodic table of the elements .

Wednesday 6th January 2016

Leakage point of the Aliso Canyon gas storage facility in California, USA

• Bischofshofen / Austria : With the victory in the overall standings, the Slovenian Peter Prevc wins the 64th Four Hills Tournament ahead of the German Severin Freund .
• Los Angeles / United States : California Governor Jerry Brown declares a state of emergency for the Porter Ranch neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley . The reason for this is a leak that has existed since October 2015 in the underground Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility operated by the operator Southern California Gas Company (SoCal), from which up to 58 tons of methane escape per hour .
• Pyongyang / North Korea : State television reports on the first successful test of a hydrogen bomb at the Punggye-ri test site in Ryanggang-do province . The United Nations Security Council holds an emergency meeting in New York.

Thursday 7th January 2016

• South Tarawa / Kiribati : In the parliamentary elections, several ministers fail to defend their parliamentary mandates.
• Zliten / Libya : At least 70 people, including numerous civilians, are killed when a suicide bomber blows himself up in a truck loaded with explosives in front of a training center run by the Libyan border police. In addition, more than 127 people are injured.

Friday 8th January 2016

• Hurghada / Egypt : Two gunmen storm the Bella Vista Hotel & Resort in the suburb of Sekalla and stab tourists with knives. Several people are slightly injured and one attacker is shot dead by security forces. A similar incident had already occurred the day before at the Three Pyramids Hotel in Giza . Egypt is increasingly being targeted by various Islamist groups .
• Incirlik / Turkey : Two German reconnaissance aircraft of the type Tornado Recce of the Air Force begin their first use in the fight against the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq.
• Los Mochis / Mexico : President Enrique Peña Nieto announces the arrest of drug lord El Chapo . The head of the Sinaloa cartel escaped through a tunnel from a maximum security prison in July 2015 and has been on the run since then. The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) welcomes the actions of the Mexican government.
• Munich / Germany : The Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) publishes the first historical-critical and scientific edition of Adolf Hitler's ideological program publication Mein Kampf .
• Regensburg / Germany : The special investigator of the diocese of Regensburg and victim attorney Ulrich Weber publishes an interim report on the abuse of 231 children between 1953 and 1992 at the Regensburger Domspatzen . Another 50 children are also said to have been sexually abused.

Saturday 9th January 2016

• Al-Anbar / Iraq : The Iraqi military announces the death of the high-ranking IS military commander Assi Ali Mohammed Nasser al-Obeidi. Accordingly, he is killed in a bombing of the Iraqi air force on the city of Barwana .

Sunday 10th January 2016

• Barcelona / Spain : The previous mayor of Girona , Carles Puigdemont , is elected the new President of the Generalitat of Catalonia with 70 to 63 votes with two abstentions . He should successfully continue the process for the establishment of a Republic of Catalonia .
• Cairo / Egypt : The foreign ministers of the Arab League condemn, with the exception of Lebanon, the storming of the Saudi embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran . The Iran also call forth religious tensions and support terrorist groups. The storming took place during the protests against the execution of the Shiite clergyman Nimr al-Nimr . Saudi Arabia dominates the Arab League and the Gulf Cooperation Council .
• Razih / Yemen : During the Yemeni civil war, the Shiara Hospital of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Sa'da Governorate was hit by a rocket and severely damaged. Five people die and at least ten are injured.
• Van / Turkey : The Turkish armed forces are once again reporting significant losses to the banned PKK Workers' Party in eastern and south-eastern Anatolia . According to the army, twelve PKK fighters are killed in Van and 38 in Cizre and Diyarbakır .

Monday 11th January 2016

• Baghdad / Iraq : After a car bomb exploded, strangers storm a shopping center in a Shiite district of the city, killing at least 18 people and taking up to 40 others hostage. Iraqi security forces are bringing the situation under control. Two attackers die and four are arrested. Dozens of people are also killed or injured in terrorist attacks on a casino in al-Muqdadiyya , east of Baghdad . The Islamic State (IS) is committed to the attacks.
• Madaya / Syria : For the first time in three months, aid convoys laden with food and medicine reach the city ​​near the Lebanese border, which is besieged by government troops of the Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad . An estimated 42,000 people have been trapped there for more than half a year. Several places besieged by Islamist rebels in Idlib province are also supplied with goods.
• Nyon / Switzerland : Carli Lloyd and Lionel Messi are named World Footballer of the Year with the FIFA Ballon d'Or . Jill Ellis and Luis Enrique win among the coaches .

Tuesday January 12, 2016

• Istanbul / Turkey : A Syrian suicide bomber blows himself up on Sultan Ahmed Square by the obelisk of Thutmose III. in the air and kills ten people with it. Seven others are injured, some seriously. The Turkish government blames the Islamic State (IS) for the crime. In retrospect it becomes known that all victims are German citizens .

Wednesday January 13, 2016

• Düsseldorf / Germany : The German TV Prize 2016 is awarded.
• Grenoble / France : In the French Alps, an avalanche takes a group of schoolchildren with it and kills at least three people. A teacher is seriously injured. The slope used by those affected has been closed since the beginning of the ski season.
• Houston / United States : At the meeting of the team owners of the National Football League (NFL) it is decided by 30 to two votes that the St. Louis Rams move to Los Angeles . The San Diego Chargers also have the option to move to Los Angeles for a year.
• Quetta / Pakistan : 14 police officers and an employee of the Ministry of the Interior die in a suicide attack on a poliomyelitis vaccination station . The Jundollah and the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan are committed to the attack .

Thursday January 14, 2016

The destroyed police station in Jakarta

• Diyarbakır / Turkey : At least five people are killed and another 22 injured when a car bomb explodes in front of a police station.
• Geneva / Switzerland : The World Health Organization (WHO) officially declares the end of the Ebola fever epidemic in West Africa , which claimed around 11,300 victims.
• Jakarta / Indonesia : Seven people died in a series of attacks in the central Thamrin district, including all five attackers. Similar to 2015 in Paris, the attacks are aimed at busy targets such as cafes and shopping centers. The Islamic State (IS) takes responsibility for the attacks.
• Paris / France : As a result of a raid on the French car manufacturer Renault , which was carried out a week earlier by the State Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Protection and Fraud Prevention (DGCCRF) in connection with the VW emissions scandal , the company's share price fell by up to 23 Percent.
• Universe : An international research team led by Subo Dong from the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University announces its evaluations after the discovery of the supernova ASASSN-15lh on June 14, 2015. After that, it will be the brightest known star explosion that has ever been recorded.

Friday 15th January 2016

• Krakow / Poland : This year's men's European handball championship begins in the Tauron Arena Kraków .
• Ouagadougou / Burkina Faso : 29 people died in a terrorist attack and subsequent hostage-taking in the luxury hotel Splendid and the nearby Café Cappuccino . When the hotel was stormed, the Burkinabe armed forces and French special forces were able to free 126 hostages. Dozens of people are injured. The Islamist group al-Qaeda of the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI) is committed to the attack.

Saturday 16th January 2016

• Flint / United States : Following the contamination of drinking water with lead from the Flint River, US President Barack Obama, at the request of Governor Rick Snyder , orders an environmental emergency for the state of Michigan to include federal aid such as the provision of drinking water, water filters and Receive test kits for a period of up to three months.
• Taipei / Taiwan : In the presidential election in the Republic of China and the election of the legislative yuan , the Kuomintang (KMT) loses a majority in parliament for the first time. The lawyer Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which takes office in May 2016, is elected as the new president .
• Vienna / Austria : After the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed the scaling back of the Iranian nuclear program and the obligations from the nuclear agreement of the 5 + 1 group (USA, China, Russia, Great Britain and France plus Germany) agreed in July 2015 have been fulfilled , the years of economic and financial sanctions against Iran by the European Union and the United States are lifted.

Sunday 17th January 2016

• Deir ez-Zor / Syria : According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), more than 130 people, including at least 85 civilians, are killed in an offensive by the terrorist organization Islamic State . More than 400 people are also kidnapped.

Monday 18th January 2016

“Fine dust alarm in Stuttgart”
Signed on January 28, 2017 on the A 81 .

• Stuttgart / Germany : The Lord Mayor Fritz Kuhn ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) calls the particulate matter alarm for the first time by January 21, 2016. Motorists are advised to switch to the environmental network's means of transport if possible , to walk, to use electric vehicles or to form car pools.
• Valfréjus / France : During a ski exercise by French Foreign Legionnaires on a closed slope, five soldiers are killed by an avalanche. Five days earlier, three people died in an avalanche in Les Deux Alpes .

Tuesday 19th January 2016

• Havana / Cuba : The Colombian government and the Marxist guerrilla movement FARC-EP agree in a joint peace process to ask the United Nations and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to end the ceasefire in Colombia for one year and to disarm the FARC control.

Wednesday January 20, 2016

• Charsadda / Pakistan : Gunmen kill at least 20 students and lecturers on the grounds of Bacha Khan University . The attack is attributed to the radical Islamic Tehrik-i-Taliban .
• Davos / Switzerland : The 46th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) begins.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : Deutsche Bank reports a record pre-tax loss of 6.1 billion euros for the 2015 financial year .
• Grafenegg / Austria : The Austrian Film Prize 2016 is awarded.
• Vienna / Austria: With the introduction of an upper limit of 37,500 asylum seekers for 2016, the federal government is responding to the ongoing refugee crisis . In addition, another 150 soldiers from the German Armed Forces are reinforcing the 435 already deployed at the Spielfeld border crossing .

Thursday January 21, 2016

• London / United Kingdom : The British judge Robert Owen announces the investigation report into the Alexander Litvinenko case and describes it as "very likely" that the Russian domestic secret service FSB is responsible for the murder in London in November 2006. In addition, Russian President Vladimir Putin "probably" agreed to the order at the time.
• Mogadishu / Somalia : Armed fighters from the Islamist al-Shabaab militia shoot more than 20 people in the Beach View Hotel and the Lido Seafood Restaurant. On January 15, 2016, the extremists attacked the AMISOM base in El Adde (Ceel Cadde) in the Gedo region .

Friday 22nd January 2016

The Washington Monument during the blizzard

• La Loche / Canada : Four people die in a rampage at the La Loche Community School in the province of Saskatchewan . The perpetrator is arrested after an exchange of fire with the police.
• Port Vila / Vanuatu : Independent candidates win the most seats in parliamentary elections.
• Tunis / Tunisia : As a result of ongoing unrest and sometimes violent clashes between police and demonstrators, the Tunisian government under Prime Minister Habib Essid has ordered a night curfew for the entire country . The demonstrators have been calling on the government for days to do more to combat rising unemployment and poverty and to fight rampant corruption. Meanwhile , France has offered the country an aid package worth a billion euros.
• Washington, DC / United States : In a traffic chaos triggered by the Blizzard Jonas in the evening, which follows massive snowfalls and hurricane-like winds, at least eight people in three states are killed. Hundreds of thousands of households are also without electricity. The transportation of people by underground trains and buses will be suspended until further notice. The authorities call on residents of the affected areas of the east coast to stay at home.

Saturday 23rd January 2016

• Davos / Switzerland : End of the 46th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum , at which the challenges of the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution were discussed.
• Rome / Italy : Tens of thousands demonstrate peacefully in more than 100 cities for the legal recognition of same-sex partnerships. Thousands of opponents of gay marriage had already taken to the streets days earlier. Italy wants to revolutionize the legal status of homosexual partnerships as the last Western European country. Criticism of the project also comes from the Catholic Church .
• Tehran / Iran : The Iranian President Hassan Rohani and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping announce a massive expansion of economic and political cooperation between the two countries at a summit meeting. The joint fight against Islamist extremism in the Middle East is also under discussion.

Sunday January 24, 2016

• Lisbon / Portugal : With around 53 percent of the vote and thus an absolute majority, the conservative politician Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa ( PSD ) wins the presidential election .

Monday 25th January 2016

• The Hague / Netherlands : The European police authority Interpol warns for the first time of possibly large-scale terrorist attacks by the Islamic State (IS). The Islamist militia therefore has “new combat-like possibilities” and is paying special attention to various targets in Europe.
• New York City / United States : The US auto supplier Johnson Controls announces the takeover of the Irish fire protection and safety provider Tyco International .
• Rome / Italy : The Iranian President Hassan Rohani as well as several ministers and a business delegation are starting a planned four-day trip to Europe to promote various economic agreements and investments in Iran in Italy and France , among other places . Another meeting with Pope Francis is planned in the Vatican .

Tuesday 26th January 2016

• Berlin / Germany : Due to massive criticism of the Bundeswehr's operational readiness and deficiencies in its equipment, Federal Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen announced a total investment of 130 billion euros over a period of 15 years and called for an increase in the general defense budget.
• Brasília / Brazil : In order to prevent and eradicate the Zika virus , which is mainly transmitted by mosquitoes , the Latin American country is deploying hundreds of thousands of soldiers to counter the mosquito with poison and other measures. The rapidly spreading virus is increasingly suspected of being directly related to skull malformations in newborns.
• Burns / United States : After more than three weeks of occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge by an armed militia and other activists, there is an exchange of fire with the police, in which an occupier is killed and at least seven others, including the leader of the protest group, are arrested .
• Homs / Syria : At least 20 people are killed in a double attack near a military checkpoint of the Syrian army . The Islamic State (IS) is committed to the act.
• Copenhagen / Denmark : The Danish parliament approves a tightening of the asylum law, which for example makes it more difficult to reunite families and shortens the duration of residence permits. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon criticized the decision.

Wednesday January 27, 2016

Hilda Heine

• Brussels / Belgium : The Vice President of the European Commission , Valdis Dombrovskis , accuses the Greek government of "serious neglect" and "serious deficiencies" in protecting the EU's external borders and the registration of refugees and threatens Greece with a temporary exclusion from the Schengen area .
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : In the course of possible bribe payments, which are said to have come from the German Football Association (DFB) in the run-up to the 2006 World Cup , the law firm Freshfields investigating the case comes to the conclusion that the DFB has possible evidence of corruption and has systematically obscured other dubious deals for years.
• Majuro / Marshall Islands : After President Casten Nemra was overthrown on a motion of no confidence the day before, Hilda Heine is elected as his successor with 24 of 33 votes. She is the first female head of state in the Marshall Islands and takes office the following day.

Thursday January 28, 2016

• Berlin / Germany : The German Bundestag resolves with an overwhelming majority to continue and expand the participation of armed German armed forces in the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission of the United Nations in Mali (MINUSMA) and to continue participation in training support for the security forces of the government of the Kurdistan-Iraq region and of the Iraqi armed forces .
• The Hague / Netherlands : The trial against the former President of the Ivory Coast , Laurent Gbagbo , and the former minister of youth Charles Blé Goudé begins before the International Criminal Court .
• Geneva / Switzerland : The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Margaret Chan , warns at a special meeting of the explosive spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in 23 countries. A connection between the spread of the virus and an increase in skull malformations in newborns is strongly suspected. So far, five Germans have contracted the Zika virus.

Friday 29th January 2016

• Geneva / Switzerland : Start of the renewed peace talks on Syria with the mediation of the United Nations (UN). The Syrian opposition announced its non-participation in the negotiations and justified the rejection by saying that previous demands in the Syrian war zone were not answered satisfactorily.
• Seattle / United States : A Boeing 737 MAX 8 named Spirit of Renton successfully completes its maiden flight; it is equipped with LEAP-1B - turbofan aircraft engines from the manufacturer CFM International .

Saturday 30th January 2016

• Addis Ababa / Ethiopia : Summit of the African Union (AU). One of the topics is the planned deployment of a peacekeeping force to Burundi .
• New York / United States : United Nations Deputy Secretary-General for the Field Service , Anthony Banbury, announced at a press conference that UN soldiers were guilty of sexual abuse and exploitation in at least 69 cases in 2015 , including 22 in the Central African Republic .
• Reggio Calabria / Italy : In a concrete bunker near Maropati , the Polizia di Stato holds the bosses of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta , Giuseppe Crea and Giuseppe Ferraro, who have been wanted for several years . 37-year-old Crea had been on the run for ten years, 48-year-old Ferraro for 18 years.
• Rome / Italy : Tens of thousands of people are demonstrating again in the capital against the introduction of registered civil partnerships for homosexual couples planned by the government under Prime Minister Matteo Renzi ( PD ) . Members of the government, including Interior Minister Angelino Alfano from the Christian Democratic Nuovo Centrodestra (NCD) and Environment Minister Gian Luca Galletti from the Christian Democratic Unione di Centro (UdC) as well as representatives of Italian dioceses also take part in the demonstration.

Sunday 31st January 2016

• Damascus / Syria : According to official reports, at least 45 people were killed and more than 110 injured in three attacks by the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) in the predominantly Shiite district of Sayeda Zeinab.
• Krakow / Poland : The German men's national handball team wins the final of the 12th European Handball Championship .
• Maiduguri / Nigeria : At least 65 people are killed in attacks by the Islamist terrorist Boko Haram in the village of Dalori.

See also

• Nekrolog January 2016 for deaths this month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in January
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in January

Web links

Finland in January 2016

Commons : January 2016  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Articles Published in January 2016  - News

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Asylum applications from Syrians are again being examined individually. Zeit Online , December 31, 2015, accessed December 31, 2015 . 
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4. ↑ A difficult year. Handelsblatt , January 4, 2016, accessed on January 6, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Customs barriers between the EU and Ukraine have fallen. Deutsche Welle , January 1, 2016, accessed January 1, 2016 . 
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21. ^ Hindu nationalists hold mass rallies in India. (No longer available online.) Donaukurier , January 3, 2016, archived from the original on January 3, 2016 ; Retrieved January 3, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
22. ^ Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to hold conclave on Sunday. (No longer available online.) Prameya News7 January 1, 2016, archived from the original January 3, 2016 ; accessed on January 3, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
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