Portal:Current events/2016 January 9

January 9, 2016 (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Disasters and accidents

2015–16 Australian bushfire season
- Two dead bodies have been found in Yarloop, Western Australia, and residents of four towns urged to evacuate in under threat as the Waroona bushfire continues to burn out of control. (West Australian via Yahoo! Online) (ABC News) (The Australian)
- A bushfire burning near the town of Esperance, Western Australia, is threatening lives and properties. (West Australian via Yahoo! Australia)

International relations

Brussels Agreement (2013), Kosovo–Serbia relations
- Anti-Serbian protesters set fire to the government's headquarters in Kosovo's capital, Pristina, over an EU-brokered deal that will give Kosovo's ethnic Serb minority greater local powers. (RT)

Law and crime

Sian Blake's partner Arthur Simpson-Kent is arrested in Ghana in connection with the murder of Blake and her two children. (The Guardian)

Sport

2016 Dakar Rally
- A Bolivian spectator dies in the seventh stage between Bolivia and Argentina after being hit by a Mitsubishi driven by French driver Lionel Baud. (ABC News Australia)