Portal:Current events/2017 January 12
Arts and culture
- Two members of funk band Tower of Power are seriously injured after being struck by a train near Jack London Square in Oakland, California.(SF Gate)
International relations
- Cuba–United States relations
- President Barack Obama announces the end of the wet feet, dry feet policy, which previously allowed undocumented immigrants from Cuba to become permanent residents. (CNN)
- Operation Atlantic Resolve
- 3,000 its intervention in Ukraine while Russia condemns the move as a "threat to national interests and security". (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
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- European migrant crisis
- Germany announces plans to start deporting newly-arrived migrants to Greece starting in March. According to EU's Dublin Regulation, asylum seekers must file for asylum in the member state they arrived in. (Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
- Robert Xie is found guilty of the Sydney. (9 News)
- Cellebrite, a data extraction company used by U.S. law enforcement, is hacked, leaking 900 GB of confidential data from its servers.(Motherboard Vice)
Politics and elections
- The President of the United States Barack Obama awards his Vice President Joe Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, the only time the president has awarded this particular honor during his tenure. (CNN)
Sports
- The NFL's StubHub Center in Carson, California. (ESPN)