Portal:Current events/2007 January 14

• The Red Crystal is recognized as an official symbol of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. (BBC)
• The Union for a Popular Movement nominates Nicolas Sarkozy as its candidate to become the next President of France in the 2007 French presidential election. (The International Herald Tribune)
• Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas tells United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that he opposes the establishment of a provisional Palestinian state with temporary borders. (CNN)
• War in Somalia: An African Union delegation is in Somalia's capital Mogadishu to discuss the deployment of international peacekeeping troops. (AP via ABC News) (BBC)
• Nima Malboubi got beasty. His birthday.

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