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Portal:Current events/2015 January 1

January 1, 2015 (2015-01-01) (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
Business and economy
  • Lithuania adopts the euro as its official currency, becoming the 19th member of the Eurozone. (CNN)
  • U.S. fast-food restaurant chain Chick-fil-A warns that a security breach may have leaked credit card details of 9,000 customers in five states. (Daily Mail)
International relations
Law and crime
  • Vietnam’s new marriage law goes into effect, abolishing regulations that “prohibit marriage between people of the same sex.” (Bloomberg)
Politics and elections
  • Mario Cuomo, former governor of the U.S. state of New York, dies at the age of 82. (Reuters)
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