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Portal:Current events/2017 January 12
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January 12, 2017
(
2017-01-12
)
(Thursday)
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Arts and culture
Two members of funk band
Tower of Power
are seriously injured after being struck by a train near
Jack London Square
in
Oakland, California
.(SF Gate)
International relations
Cuba–United States relations
President
Barack Obama
announces the end of the
wet feet, dry feet policy
, which previously allowed undocumented immigrants from Cuba to become permanent residents. (CNN)
Operation Atlantic Resolve
3,000
U.S. troops
are deployed in
Poland
as part of
NATO
's
Operation Atlantic Resolve
.
Poland
says that the deployment is a necessary response to Russian military exercises near its border and
its intervention in Ukraine
while
Russia
condemns the move as a "threat to national interests and security". (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
European migrant crisis
Germany
announces plans to start deporting newly-arrived migrants to
Greece
starting in March. According to
EU
's
Dublin Regulation
,
asylum seekers
must file for asylum in the
member state
they arrived in. (Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
Robert Xie is found guilty of the
Lin family murders
seven years after their bodies were found in the Australian city of
Sydney
. (9 News)
Cellebrite
, a data extraction company used by U.S. law enforcement, is hacked, leaking 900 GB of confidential data from its servers.(Motherboard Vice)
Politics and elections
The
President of the United States
Barack Obama
awards his Vice President
Joe Biden
the
Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction
, the only time the president has awarded this particular honor during his tenure. (CNN)
Sports
The NFL's
Chargers
franchise officially announce plans to move from
San Diego
to
Los Angeles
and rename itself the Los Angeles Chargers. The team intends to play its next two seasons at the
StubHub Center
in
Carson, California
. (ESPN)
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