Portal:Current events/2015 January 3

January 3, 2015 (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Boko Haram
- Fleeing villagers from a remote part of the Borno State report that Boko Haram had three days prior kidnapped around 40 boys and young men. (BBC)

Arts and culture

Turkey permits the building of a Syriac church in Istanbul, the first construction of a Christian house of worship allowed since the founding of the modern republic in 1923. (Dawn) (BGN News)

Disasters and accidents

The Singapore-registered cargo ship MV Höegh Osaka runs aground on Bramble Bank off the coast of the Isle of Wight, in the entrance to Southampton Water. (BBC News)
MS Bulk Jupiter, a Norwegian-owned cargo ship, sinks off the coast of Vietnam, with eighteen dead and one survivor. (KRON)
The Cypriot-registered cargo ship Cemfjord sinks off the northern coast of Scotland leaving eight onboard missing. (BBC News)

Law and crime

Politics and elections

Greek parliamentary election, 2015
- Former Prime Minister George Papandreou announces the formation of a new party, Movement of Democratic Socialists, threatening to push the long-dominant PASOK under the election threshold. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)