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January 21, 2015 (Wednesday)

An invading West Bank Palestinian man, Hamza Muhammad Hassan Matrouk, stabs up to a dozen Israelis on a bus in central Tel Aviv. Security forces capture the assailant as he continued to indiscriminately stab people in the street. (The New York Times)
2014–15 Russian military intervention in Ukraine
- The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko accuses Russia of sending 9,000 soldiers to help separatists in eastern Ukraine. (Reuters)

Lutz Bachmann resigns as a leader of PEGIDA, a German anti-Islamist organisation, after controversy was sparked by a headshot photo of himself posing as Adolf Hitler. (Christian Science Monitor)

EBay announces plans to spin off its PayPal business and fire 7,400 employees during 2015. (CNBC)

Russian state-owned gas company, Gazprom, announces a plan to shift its European natural gas pipeline from Ukraine to Turkey, through a proposed link under the Black Sea to Turkey. (Bloomberg)

The government-installed pollution gauges that were set up along roadside stations to monitor Hong Kong reach the maximum level of their ranges. (Bloomberg)

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-*A [[West Bank]] [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] man, Hamza Muhammad Hassan Matrouk, stabs up to a dozen [[Israelis]] on a bus in central [[Tel Aviv]]. Security forces capture the assailant as he continued to indiscriminately stab people in the street. [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/22/world/middleeast/middle-east-violence.html (''The New York Times'')]
+*An invading [[West Bank]] [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] man, Hamza Muhammad Hassan Matrouk, stabs up to a dozen [[Israelis]] on a bus in central [[Tel Aviv]]. Security forces capture the assailant as he continued to indiscriminately stab people in the street. [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/22/world/middleeast/middle-east-violence.html (''The New York Times'')]
 *[[2014–15 Russian military intervention in Ukraine]]
 **The [[President of Ukraine]] [[Petro Poroshenko]] accuses [[Russia]] of sending 9,000 soldiers to help separatists in eastern [[Ukraine]]. [http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/22/us-ukraine-crisis-davos-poroshenko-idUSKBN0KU1TX20150122 (Reuters)]