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**] celebrates mass at ]-hit city of ] with an audience of half-a-million people.
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**The Pope cuts his ] trip short as an approaching ] threatened the city in ]. This cyclone may also affect Francis's scheduled closing Mass on Sunday in the capital, ].
;Disasters and accidents
;Disasters and accidents
Revision as of 22:29, 17 January 2015
Current events of January 17, 2015 (2015-01-17) (Saturday)
Gunmen abduct the chief of staff to Yemen's president in the center of the capital, Sanaa. It is uncertain if Shiite Houthi rebels or al-Qaida militants kidnapped Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak. (AP)
The rescue and recovery efforts at the wreckage of the January 15 capsized tugboat on China's Yangtze River near the city of Jingjiang finds that twenty-one people are dead while three are rescued. (Straits Times)