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Portal:Current events/2017 January 31

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January 31, 2017 (2017-01-31) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Syrian Civil War
- TheSyrian opposition agrees to surrender their remaining villages in the stretch between theWadi Barada area and theLebanon-Syria border, as well as theRankous borderange for transportation of at least 250 rebel fighters to their stronghold in theIdlib Governorate.(Al Masdar News)

Arts and culture

agrees to ban the full-face veil (burqa andniqāb) in public spaces, part of a larger deal struck by the center-leftSocial Democratic Party and the center-rightAustrian People's Party to avoid the collapse of the ruling coalition government.(BBC)(The Christian Science Monitor)

Business and economics

ConsultancyPwC says that global banks with business both in London and on the European continent must plan for ahard Brexit that entails a break with many of the benefits of theEuro system, and a short transition period.(Reuters)

International relations

Enlargement of the African Union
- Morocco rejoins theAfrican Union after a 33-year absence, despite opposition from several member states over thepolitical status of Western Sahara.(Al Jazeera)
White House National Trade Council directorPeter Navarro saysGermany exploits other countries with a "grossly undervalued"euro. German ChancellorAngela Merkel rejects the allegation.(Bloomberg)(CNBC)

Law and crime

Susan Kiefel is sworn in as the first femaleChief Justice of Australia.(Radio National)
Alan Turing law
- TheUnited Kingdom posthumously pardons around 49,000gay and bisexual men found guilty of decades-oldsodomy laws inEngland andWales. Those still living can apply for astatutory pardon.(BBC)
TheKremlin arrests four people,Kaspersky Lab's Ruslan Stoyanov, and three officials in theFederal Security Service (FSB previously KGB) Center for Information Security, reportedly ontreason charges for passing information toAmerica's CIA.(New York Daily News)(The Washington Times)(The New York Times)(AP)
2008 Mumbai attacks
- Pakistan detainsHafiz Muhammad Saeed, the suspected mastermind of the 2008 attacks in theIndian city. Saeed, co-founder of the active terrorist organizationLashkar-e-Taiba, is being held underhouse arrest inLahore in Pakistan'sPunjab Province. Four other men are also under house arrest in the area.(CNN)(Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

Presidency of Donald Trump
- Cabinet of Donald Trump
  - TheU.S. Senate confirms formerU.S. labor secretary anddeputy transportation secretary Elaine Chao asSecretary of Transportation. Chao is married toSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.(The Washington Post)
- Supreme Court of the United States
  - President Donald Trump has nominatedJudge Neil Gorsuch to fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court of the United States. Neil Gorsuch is the youngest nominee to the court in 25 years.(CNN)
- Executive Order 13769
  - TheState Department memorandum about concerns with this travel ban is submitted to actingSecretary of State Tom Shannon through the federal government'sDissent Channel. This protest memo had between 900-1,000 signatures. Department officials said these signatures are far more than any dissent cable in recent years, adding more diplomats want to add their names to it.(The New York Times)(Reuters and AFP-JIJI viaThe Japan Times)(Voice of America)
2017 Romanian protests
- Despite massive protests in recent days,Romania'sgovernment adopts an emergency ordinance to decriminalize some graft offences.(Reuters)