Today in the world: * Greece: Elections are this weekend, heres a primer on the parties involved: https://storify/reportedly/dueling-election-rallies-in-athens-by-divided-left * Yemen: Yemens been the big story lately and yesterday was a particularly busy one, with two high-level resignations: https://storify/reportedly/resignations-in-yemen * More Yemen: If you dont know much about Yemen, heres a bundle of stories to read over the weekend: https://bitly/bundles/kimbui/1 * Japan: The deadline to pay a ransom to ISIS for two hostages has passed. Were watching that today: reuters/article/2015/01/23/us-mideast-crisis-islamicstate-japan-idUSKBN0KW03920150123 *Congo: A good look at the effect of the internet being shut down in DRC: sputniknews/africa/20150120/1017129141.html *Thailand: The former PM of Thailand has been impeach officially and will now face criminal charges: bangkokpost/news/general/458484/panel-seeks-criminal-charges-for-yingluck *Syria: There was an air attack in Syria today at a market. We have a video (thats graphic) on our FB page, but heres AP on it: bigstory.ap.org/article/e50266c0bb4b4245b65712352233f3b3/activists-syrian-airstrike-kills-least-32-near-damascus
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:29:53 +0000
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