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Portal:Current events/2014 January 4
January 4, 2014 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Anbar conflict:
- The Iraqi government loses control of Fallujah to Islamist militants. (Al Jazeera)
- Majid al-Majid, the chief of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades militant group that was accused of being responsible for a double suicide bombing in front of the Iranian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, in November 2013, dies in custody in a military hospital in Beirut. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- A three-story building under construction collapses in the southern Indian state of Goa, killing at least 14 people. (Reuters via Voice of America)
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