Portal:Current events/2014 January 7

Current events of January 7, 2014 (2014-01-07) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian opposition–Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant conflict
  • Both belligerents mass execute dozens of their combatant prisoners. (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

• Four killed in US Air Force HH-60 Pave Hawk crash in England's Norfolk coast. (The Independent) (BBC) (The Daily 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)