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January 2, 2010 (Saturday)

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A quarter of voters in Iceland sign a petition asking President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson to veto a bill on repaying US$5 billion to foreign savers who lost their money when Icelandic banks collapsed. (ABC News) (Iceland Review)
The Ugandan army announces it has killed Bok Abudema, a senior member of the Lord's Resistance Army, in the Central African Republic. (AFP) (BBC)
The Afghan Parliament rejects 17 out of 24 cabinet nominees proposed by President Hamid Karzai. (The Daily Telegraph) (Hürriyet) (Al Jazeera)
Somali pirates seize an Indonesian chemical tanker with 24 crew in the Gulf of Aden and a British cargo ship with 26 cars 620 miles off the Horn of Africa. (Times of India) (RTT News) (BBC)
The Israeli Air Force launches an attack against tunnels leading from Gaza into Israel in response to missile attacks and mortar fire. (Haaretz) (Al Jazeera)
19-year-old Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is confirmed as the youngest-ever world number one in the official January 2010 FIDE rating list. (Reuters) (TIME) (AFP) (Chessbase)
An Antarctic expedition finds remains of the first aeroplane brought to the continent, a single-propeller Vickers plane of explorer Douglas Mawson. (Reuters)
Atheist Ireland purposefully publishes the words of Jesus Christ, Muhammad, Salman Rushdie, Mark Twain and Pope Benedict XVI on its website despite a new law banning them on grounds of blasphemy. (BBC) (CNN) (Irish Times)
Police in Denmark shoot a 28-year-old male Somali after he breaks into the Viby J home of Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist at the centre of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy in 2005, and threatens his family with an axe. (BBC) (The Times) (Sky News)

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 *The [[National Assembly of Afghanistan|Afghan Parliament]] rejects 17 out of 24 cabinet nominees proposed by [[President of Afghanistan|President]] [[Hamid Karzai]]. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6924731/Blow-for-Afghan-President-Hamid-Karzai-as-MPs-reject-most-of-his-cabinet-nominees.html (''The Daily Telegraph'')] [http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=afghan-parliament-rejects-most-of-karzais-cabinet-nominees-2010-01-02 (''Hürriyet'')] [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/01/201012111935617946.html (Al Jazeera)]
 *[[Piracy in Somalia|Somali pirates]] [[List of ships attacked by Somali pirates|seize]] an [[Indonesia]]n chemical tanker with 24 crew in the [[Gulf of Aden]] and a [[United Kingdom|British]] cargo ship with 26 cars 620 miles off the [[Horn of Africa]]. [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Somali-pirates-hijack-India-bound-chemical-tanker/articleshow/5404159.cms (''Times of India'')] [http://www.rttnews.com/ArticleView.aspx?Id=1169169&SMap=1 (RTT News)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8437581.stm (BBC)]
-*The [[Israeli Air Force]] [[January 2010 Gaza Tunnels airstrike|launches an attack]] against tunnels leading from [[Gaza]] into [[Israel]] in response to missile attacks and mortar fire. [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1139336.html (''Haaretz'')] [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/01/2010121275652585.html (Al Jazeera)]
+*The [[Israeli Air Force]] [[January 2010 Gaza Tunnels airstrike|launches an attack]] against tunnels leading from [[Gaza Strip|Gaza]] into [[Israel]] in response to missile attacks and mortar fire. [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1139336.html (''Haaretz'')] [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/01/2010121275652585.html (Al Jazeera)]
 *19-year-old Norwegian [[chess]] grandmaster [[Magnus Carlsen]] is confirmed as the youngest-ever [[List of FIDE chess world number ones|world number one]] in the official January 2010 [[FIDE]] rating list. [http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BT17H20091230 (Reuters)] [http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1948809,00.html (TIME)] [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g1QmAdxADzyQCWyLLzs2N63owZEA (AFP)] [http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6027 (Chessbase)]
 *An [[Antarctic]] expedition finds remains of the first aeroplane brought to the continent, a single-propeller [[Vickers]] plane of explorer [[Douglas Mawson]]. [http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60104L20100102 (Reuters)]