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January 3, 2018
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2018-01-03
)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Boko Haram insurgency
A suicide bomber attacks a mosque in
Gamboru
,
Nigeria
, killing 11 people.
(Deutsche Welle)
Disasters and accidents
Storm Eleanor
Winter storm Eleanor moves from the
British Isles
to
continental Europe
with one dead in
France
as well as injuries and material losses in
Germany
,
Netherlands
and
Switzerland
.
(BBC)
Law and crime
Law of Iceland
A new
Icelandic
law goes into effect which requires government agencies and companies with more than 24 full-time employees to prove they are
paying men and women equally
, as required by existing legislation.
(NPR)
(
The New York Times
)
Politics of Ethiopia
Ethiopian Prime Minister
Hailemariam Desalegn
announces that
Ethiopia
will drop charges against all political prisoners and close down the infamous prison camp of Maekelawi.
(AP)
Politics and elections
Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity
U.S. President
Donald Trump
dissolves the
voter fraud
commission noting the cost to the public of litigating against lawsuits from states objecting to the voter information requested.
(Reuters)
(CNN)
Science and technology
Computer security
Security researchers disclose two hardware vulnerabilities—
Spectre
, which affects most modern processors, and
Meltdown
, which affects most
Intel chips
.
(Reuters)
(
The Guardian
)
Largest known prime number
The
Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
announces the discovery of the latest largest known
prime number
, a
Mersenne prime
with 23,249,425 digits, equal to 2
77,232,917
− 1.
(
International Business Times
)
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