At least six park rangers in the Virunga National Park in Rutshuru, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, are killed in an ambush. A Mai-Mai militia is suspected to have committed the attack.
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January 10, 2021 (Sunday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
The Ethiopian National Defense Force says that it has killed 15 members of the Tigray People's Liberation Front, including the region's former deputy police commissioner, and captured eight others, including the region's former president Abay Weldu.
Business and economy
PGA of America announces it will terminate an agreement to play the 2022 PGA Championship at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster because conducting the golf tournament there would have been "detrimental" to the PGA brand.
Payment processor Stripe will no longer process payments for the campaign website of President Donald Trump because of the company's policies against encouraging violence.
Disasters and accidents
Indonesian authorities locate the black boxes of the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 PK-CLC that crashed into the sea soon after taking off from Jakarta, as human body parts and debris from the plane are found. Loss of everyone on board is considered almost certain.
22 workers are trapped in a gold mine in Qixia, east China's Shandong province after an explosion tore through the mine at 2 p.m.
Health and environment
Spokesman for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador Jesús Ramírez Cuevas tested positive for COVID-19.
Japan's Health Ministry detects a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 partially similar to those from South Africa and the United Kingdom in four people that travelled from Amazonas in Brazil.
The Philippines signs an agreement with the Serum Institute of India to receive 30 million doses of Novavax's vaccine.
Vietnam limits inbound flights until the Lunar New Year holiday due to the spread of new variants of SARS-Cov-2 in many countries.
Germany surpasses 40,000 deaths from COVID-19.
Africa surpasses three million cases of COVID-19.
Law and crime
A mother and her three daughters are found dead in a house fire in Glen Waverley, Victoria. Police are investigating it as a possible mass murder.
Two men who were photographed carrying plastic hand restraints in the Senate chamber during the storming of the United States Capitol, are arrested in Tennessee and Texas.
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand reveals that one of its file hosting services storing "sensitive information" was "maliciously" breached. The bank says the breach was contained and that they are investigating the "nature and extent" of "potentially accessed" information.
Six inmates escape from a jail in California. Their whereabouts are unknown and being sought by California police. The six men are considered to be armed and dangerous.
Politics and elections
Legislative elections are held in Kazakhstan. The election is criticized for a lack of opposition to the leading party Nur Otan and is therefore expected to be considered neither free nor fair by international observers.
Presidential elections are held in Kyrgyzstan following last year's political unrest and the resignation of President Sooronbay Jeenbekov. Interim Prime Minister Sadyr Japarov is widely expected to win the election. The question of keeping the current parliamentary system or reintroducing a presidential system is also presented to the electorate in the form of a referendum.
North Korean state media says that Kim Jong-un has been formally elected as the General Secretary of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, inheriting the title from his late father Kim Jong-il, who died in 2011.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says that the country will draft a new constitution by the end of the year. It remains unclear whether the new constitution will result in Lukashenko leaving office.
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