- Australia: massive flooding with gigantic damage.
- Arkansas, Illinois and Missouri have all been hit with deadly tornado's.
- The blizzards in the Northeast have left people stranded with major damage.
- The death toll in Africa rising exponentially
- Ivory Coast is gathering to surround Ouattara's hotel for a rally. I'm sure the death toll will be tomorrow's news.
- Pakistan: Missile attacks and bombers in Pakistan kill several more than last week's attack
- Argentina: 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit today.
- Haiti: Cholera death toll rises to more than 3,000.
- Russia: 1 person killed, 3 missing, 4 in hospital after an explosion and fire on Russian plane.
- Egypt: A bomb kills 21 and wounds 80 in New Years Mass outside of a Coptic Egyptian church.
- Italy: One person was killed, more than 70 injured after gunshots and fireworks rang in the new year.
- Iraq: opened the new year with bloodshed as two police officials were show dead.
- Canada:
- Calgary has it's first homicide of the year.
- shooting at Ontario place (non-fatal)
- double stabbing on queen street (non-fatal)
May be the Mayan's are right?
BTW, New York prepared for a new years eve terrorist attack in Time Square. They had undercover cops, radiation detectors and even snipers set up around the new years party - which attracted around 1M people. Thankfully the event ran smoothly.
