Hi there!
I'm sorry that this blog hasn't been updated in awhile. I have some really bad excuses, but I won't say them, because, well, they're just that bad. I'll try to get some more posts out.
Back to business, or whatever this is.
The latest big news out there is that King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz passed away at 1 a.m. this morning. His brother Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is the new king of Saudi Arabia and all of the oil inside it.
Tuesday, Jan. 20, ISIS posted a video of a man clothed in black holding a knife with two Japanese hostages: Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa. They gave Japan 72 hours (three days) to pay a $200 million dollar ransom. Well, today's Friday.
Speaking of terrorists, 2015 has nicely (note the sarcasm) started off with three days of attacks in Île-de-France, France. It started with the Charlie Hebdo shooting on Jan. 7 when two gunmen, Cherif and Saïd Kouachi, stormed the Charlie Hebdo (a satirical magazine) offices and killed 12 people. The following morning, policewoman Clarissa Jean-Philippe was shot and killed. The Kouachi brothers were eventually killed after a manhunt, a car chase, a shootout, and an eight-hour siege.
At the time of the siege, after a (different) shootout, Amedy Coulibaly took 19 people hostage at a kosher supermarket, threatening to kill them if the Kouachis were not freed. Around the time that the brothers were killed, the police stormed the supermarket, killed Coulibaly, and freed 15 hostages. They found four dead. The gunman's girlfriend, Hayat Boumediene, is still wanted by the police for her connection with Jean-Philippe's death, but is thought to now be in Syria.
Ugh, humanity depresses me. What happened to freedom of speech and peace and happiness? I'm done. Bye.
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