Portal:Current events/2012 January 17

• 2012 Afar region tourist attack
  • Unknown assailants kill 2 Hungarians, 2 Germans and an Austrian in northeastern Ethiopia. (Al Jazeera)
• 2011–2012 Syrian uprising:
  • Syria rejects calls for Arab troops to intervene in the country's conflict. (News24)
  • 25 people are killed by Syrian security forces in the latest violence. (Voice of America)
• Officials in Burma order the military to stop offensives in ethnic minority areas. (Bangkok Post)
• 2011–2012 Yemeni uprising: Vice President Abdurabu Hadi says that presidential and parliamentary elections planned for next month will go ahead. (CNN)

• Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang resigns as chief executive officer. (San Jose Mercury News)

• At least 26 people are killed after a truck's brakes fail along a busy street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (BBC)

• India and China agree to establish a working mechanism to deal with border issues. (The Hindu)

• Crackdown on dissidents in the People's Republic of China: Authorities in China charge dissident Zhu Yufu for "subverting state power". (The New York Times)
• Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of new North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, predicts the regime will fall if reforms are not made soon. (UPI)
• Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng orders an investigation into a guerrilla-style standoff with farmers who laid land mines and firing improvised shotguns amid a land eviction. (Straits Times)

• Abdollah Jassbi resigns as President of Islamic Azad University after near thirty years in position. (Tabnak)