Features Editor
With a busy winter
break and a hectic exam schedule, you might not have been able to check the
news very often. Here are some news stories that took place this month that you
might have missed:
January
1: A stampede in Shanghai during a New Year’s celebration kills 36 and injures
47.
January
5: Congress is called into session under Republican control for the first time
since 2006.
January
7: Muslim extremists attack the Paris headquarters of French satirical magazine
Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 and
injuring 11. Three French mosques are burned in acts of arson as “retribution”.
January
11: A “march for unity” is held in Paris in response to the attack on Charlie
Hebdo and rising animosity againt Muslims in the country.
January
12: One of the attackers in the Charlie Hebdo shootings eludes authorities and
takes hostages at a Jewish grocery store. The situation ends with the deaths of
four, along with the attacker.
January
15: A plot to attack the U.S. Capitol is foiled. The FBI arrested 20 year old
Christopher Cornell in Ohio after making violent tweets which supported ISIS.
