THE BURJ KHALIFA IN DUBAI CELBRATES ITS FIFTH ANNIVERSARY AS THE WORLD'S TALLEST BUILDING JANUARY 4th.
Welcome to the first Week In Review of 2015!
AMONGST EVENTS AROUND THE WORLD THIS PAST WEEK...
*Although the cause of the crash is still unknown, 3 bodies have been found near Borneo in relation to Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501, which disappeared from radar December 28 on its way to Singapore.
*A woman from Sierra Leone is the United Kingdom's first Ebola sufferer as the virus continues.
*The Italian Coast Guard has rescued a cargo ship with almost 1000 victims of human trafficking on board.
*The United States has applied more sanctions against North Korea because of the infamous computer hacking of Sony Studios, and events stemming from that incident.
*Palestine is now a member of the International Criminal Court.
*Lithuania has officially adopted the Euro as its national currency, making it the 19th member of the Eurozone.
*A general public election is to be held in Greece after the country's parliament failed for a third time to elect a new President.
*Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has announced his impending retirement.
*Gambia President Yahya Jammeh is still in office after a failed coup attempt.
THE LATEST IN THE WAR ON TERROR...
*The American military has pulled all of its combat forces out of Afghanistan, leaving a peace keeping mission behind.
*The Boko Haram organization attacked a Cameroon village without warning or known reason, leaving over 30 dead. A retaliatory airstrike by the Cameroon government has been declared successful.
*Iraqi forces have reclaimed Dhuluiya (near Baghdad) from ISIS/ISIL terrorists.
*Donna Douglas (The Beverly Hillbillies, Frankie and Johnny) has taken her last bow on life's stage.
*Mario Cuomo (Governor of New York from 1983-1994) is no longer with us.
*Country music legend "Little" Jimmy Dickens has left us.
*Luise Rainer (The Good Earth, The Great Ziegfeld) has passed away.
*The American military has pulled all of its combat forces out of Afghanistan, leaving a peace keeping mission behind.
*The United States has applied more sanctions against North Korea because of the infamous computer hacking of Sony Studios, and events stemming from that incident.
*Sporadic incidents of civil unrest continue over some police instances of excessive force.
*The fast food chain Chick-fil-a warns that its computer systems may have been hacked, exposing the data of recent credit card users.
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