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January 7, 2014 (Tuesday)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

Syrian opposition–Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant conflict
- Rival combatants execute tens of prisoners in their captivity in Syria. (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

A Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter belonging to the US Air Force crashes into a marsh on England's Norfolk coast during a training mission, killing its four crew. (Independent, BBC News, Telegraph)

Law and crime

Infanta Cristina, the youngest daughter of the King of Spain, Juan Carlos I, is charged by a magistrate with tax evasion and money laundering. (Euronews)

Five members of the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI, who in 1971 stole documents from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and gave them to journalists, come forth. The leak exposed COINTELPRO, a program of surveillance and blackmail against American leftists including Martin Luther King, Jr. (New York Times, The Guardian, New York Magazine)

Sports

United States gold winning Olympic athlete Lindsey Vonn announces she is pulling out of her run for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi due to a re-injured right knee. (Washington Post)(ESPN)

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 *[[Syrian opposition–Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant conflict]]
 **Rival combatants execute tens of prisoners in their captivity in Syria. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25643153 (BBC)]
 ;Disasters and accidents
+*A Sikorsky [[HH-60 Pave Hawk]] helicopter belonging to the US Air Force [[2014 Norfolk helicopter crash|crashes into a marsh]] on England's [[Norfolk]] coast during a training mission, killing its four crew. ([http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/norfolk-helicopter-crash-four-crew-killed-as-us-air-force-craft-crashes-into-cley-marshland-9045188.html ''Independent''], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25646978 BBC News], [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/aviation/10557518/Helicopter-crash-four-killed-on-US-military-training-mission-in-north-Norfolk.html ''Telegraph''])
-*Four people are killed when a [[HH-60G Pave Hawk]] helicopter, based at [[RAF Lakenheath]] in Suffolk, UK, crashes at a nature reserve in [[Cley next the Sea]], north Norfolk. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25646978 (BBC)]
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 *United States gold winning Olympic athlete [[Lindsey Vonn]] announces she is pulling out of her run for the [[2014 Winter Olympics]] in [[Sochi]] due to a re-injured right knee. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/sochi-2014-without-lindsey-vonn-us-olympic-team-in-search-of-stars/2014/01/07/7af85dd0-77b6-11e3-af7f-13bf0e9965f6_story.html (Washington Post)][http://espn.go.com/olympics/skiing/story/_/id/10256400/lindsey-vonn-not-compete-2014-sochi-olympics-due-knee-injury (ESPN)]
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-;Disasters and accidents
-*A Sikorsky [[HH-60 Pave Hawk]] helicopter belonging to the US Air Force [[2014 Norfolk helicopter crash|crashes into a marsh]] on England's [[Norfolk]] coast during a training mission, killing its four crew. ([http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/norfolk-helicopter-crash-four-crew-killed-as-us-air-force-craft-crashes-into-cley-marshland-9045188.html ''Independent''], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25646978 BBC News], [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/aviation/10557518/Helicopter-crash-four-killed-on-US-military-training-mission-in-north-Norfolk.html ''Telegraph''])