Apple to pay $350 million to settle tax fraud probe in Italy
1. The Syrian army has made fresh gains as it continues to purge Daesh terrorists from regions across the country. Army troops, backed by the Air Force, have recaptured a number of villages in the eastern Homs countryside and seized control of several areas in Hama, Lattakia, Dara’a, and Aleppo.
2. Yemeni fighters have launched fresh retaliatory attacks against Saudi forces as Riyadh continues to bomb various parts of the country. Yemeni forces killed two Saudi soldiers in the province of Hajjah. The attacks came after Saudi jets targeted several residential areas in the province of Amran, killing at least seven people.
3. A Bahraini jet, participating in Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen, has gone down. The F16 aircraft crashed in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern Jizan region due to technical failure. The pilot survived the incident. This is the second warplane that crashes in the course of the Saudi war on Yemen.
4. group in Iraq. Emanuele, who fought in the US invasion of Iraq, says the creation of ISIL is the result of the conditions the US strategy caused during the Iraq war.
5. 45,000 junior doctors in Britain are set to go on strike after three weeks of talks with the government over pay bore no results. During the walkout on January 13, only emergency medical care will be provided. The trainees say new contracts will lead to pay cuts and longer working hours.
6. Anger flares up in the US city of Cleveland over a grand jury’s decision not to indict police officers involved in the 2014 fatal shooting of a black boy. Protesters took to the streets blocking traffic in downtown Cleveland. They condemned police brutality and demanded justice for 12-year-old Tamir Rice.
7. South Korean women, forced into wartime sexual slavery, and their supporters have demonstrated outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul. They oppose a recent comfort women deal under which Japan and South Korean authorities have agreed to resolve the historic women abuse issues.
8. US tech giant Apple will pay nearly 350 million dollars to settle tax fraud probe in Italy. The hefty fine will toss out a case which accuses the company’s Italian subsidiary of failing to declare some one-point-three billion dollars of profit to the tax authority.
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