Portal:Current events/2014 January 20

Current events of January 20, 2014 (2014-01-20) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War in North-West Pakistan
  • A suicide bomber blows himself up near Pakistan's military headquarters in Rawalpindi killing at least 9 people. (AP via MyFoxAL)
• December 2013 Volgograd bombings
  • An Islamist group claims responsibility for the bombings and threatens attacks on the 2014 Winter Olympic Games to be held in Sochi. (Reuters)

Disasters

• A 6.2 magnitude earthquake occurs on the lower North Island of New Zealand near the capital Wellington. (New Zealand Herald)
• Monsoon rains cause flooding in the Indonesian capital Jakarta causing the evacuation of more than 30,000 people. (Reuters via Trust)