On 15 January 2018, the Venezuelan army and the Venezuelan National Guard launched an operation to capture Óscar Pérez, who was held up in the western Caracas neighborhood of El Junquito. Pérez resisted the attack. After three hours of shooting, Pérez wanted to surrender but he was shot dead along with his men. His death was confirmed by the Venezuelan police one day later.
The international media and some politicians & citizens all over the world defined what has happened in El Junquito as a «massacre»» and did harsh critics to Maduro & his government.
Some of the countries were: Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, with critics from ex-president Andrés Pastrana, USA, with senator Marco Rubio angry comments, Guatemala, Paraguay, Uruguay, Spain and France. Additionally, the main media in Italy (Corriere della Sera, La Stampa, Repubblica, Il Giornale, etc..) for a full week showed in first page the El Junquito massacre news.
Manasha
Manasha is a Mythological Bengali television soap opera that Premiered on 29 January 2018 and airs on Colors Bangla. It is produced by Subatra Roy,Manas it Stars Chandi Saha as the Main Female Protagonist and Aditi Chatterjee,Fahim Mirza,Neil Chatterjee, and Indrajit Majumdar in Supporting Roles. Manasha took the time slot of Colors Bangla's Popular show *"Roopkatha".
It will narrate the story of Goddess Manasha. It is not the story of a vindictive venomous snake-goddess alone but a sad saga of a lonely woman who perpetually gets hurt by the closest male members of her life—her father, her husband and all other celestial men folk, who censor her right to be worshiped as a Goddess.Manasha is the goddess of snakes.
She is the daughter of shiva.Her legends emphasize her erratic temper and despondency deep-rooted by her father loRd shiva's rejection ,her stepmother's hatred and her husband's rejection .Follow the journey of this lonely goddess who perpetually falls victim to male chauvinistic behaviour prevalent among gods.Fighting her own can Manasha win her right to be worshipped as a goddess
Madalena Iglésias
Madalena Lucília Iglésias do Vale de Oliveira (24 October 1939 – 16 January 2018) was a Portuguese actress and singer. She represented Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 1966, with the song "Ele e ela". She was born in Lisbon. She also appeared in movies such as "Uma hora de Amor" (1964), "Canção da Saudade" (1964) and in "Sarilho de fraldas" (1966).
Iglésias died in Barcelona, Spain on 16 January 2018 at the age of 78.
Hugh Wilson
Hugh Hamilton Wilson (August 21, 1943 – January 14, 2018) was an American movie and television director and television writer. He was best known as the creator of the TV series "WKRP in Cincinnati" and "Frank's Place", and as the director of the popular movie comedies "Police Academy" and "The First Wives Club". He was born in Miami, Florida.
In 1988, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.
Wilson died on January 14, 2018 in Charlottesville, Virginia at the age of 74 of emphysema.
Oliver Ivanović
Oliver Ivanović (1 April 1953 – 16 January 2018) was a Kosovo Serb politician. He was the president of the civic initiative SDP operating in Kosovo.
Ivanović served as the State Secretary of the Ministry for Kosovo and Metohija from 2008 to 2012. He was also member of the Coordinating Center for Kosovo and Metohija.
Ivanović was arrested in January 2014 on suspicion of war crimes and sentenced to nine years in jail on 21 January 2016 for war crimes by judges from the EULEX Kosovo. However, the Appeals Court in Pristina annulled the guilty verdict on 12 February 2017 and ordered a new trial.
Ivanović was shot six times in a drive-by shooting at 08:15 on 16 January 2018 while entering his office in North Mitrovica. He was 64 years old.
Henry B. Eyring
Henry Bennion Eyring (born May 31, 1933) is an American educational administrator, author, and religious leader. He was born in Princeton, New Jersey.
After being set apart on January 14, 2018, Eyring is currently the Second Counselor to Russell M. Nelson in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Before, Eyring was the First Counselor to Thomas S. Monson in the First Presidency from 2008 until Monson's death on January 2, 2018. Eyring was the Second Counselor to Gordon B. Hinckley in the First Presidency from October 6, 2007, until Hinckley's death on January 27, 2008.
Jo Jo White
Joseph Henry White (November 16, 1946 – January 16, 2018) was an American professional basketball player. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
White played basketball at the University of Kansas during the Ted Owens coaching era and represented the U.S. Men's Basketball team during the 1968 Summer Olympics.
As a professional, he was best known for his ten-year stint with the Boston Celtics of the NBA, where he led the team towards two NBA championships, played nine seasons, and set a record of 488 consecutive games played.
White was added into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.
White was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2010. He died on January 16, 2018 from pneumonia complicated from dementia in Boston, Massachusetts at the age of 71.
Tom Heinsohn
Thomas William Heinsohn (August 26, 1934 – November 10, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He has worked with the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 60 years as a player, coach and broadcaster. He played for the Celtics from 1956 to 1965, and also coached the team from 1969 to 1978.
Heinsohn was added to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame: one for his playing career in 1986 and a second for his coaching career in 2015.
Heinsohn died on November 10, 2020 in Boston, Massachusetts at the age of 86.
Ted Owens (basketball)
Ted Owens (born July 16, 1929) is an American college basketball coach. He was the coach of the University of Kansas men's basketball team from 1964 to 1983. He is the fourth-winningest coach in Jayhawks basketball history. He was born in Hollis, Oklahoma.
Owens was inducted into the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame on August 3, 2009.
Paul Gérin-Lajoie
Paul Gérin-Lajoie (February 23, 1920 – June 25, 2018) was a Canadian lawyer, politician and philanthropist.
Gérin-Lajoie was born in Montreal, Quebec. He studied at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, the Université de Montréal, and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
Gérin-Lajoie ran unsuccessfully as a Liberal candidate in the riding of Vaudreuil-Soulanges in the 1956 general election and in a 1957 by-election. He was elected in Vaudreuil-Soulanges in the 1960 election and was re-elected in 1962 and 1966.
From 1960 to 1964. he was the Minister of Youth in the cabinet of Jean Lesage and in 1964 became the first person since 1875 to be appointed Minister of Education, serving in that position until 1966.
Gérin-Lajoie was president of the Canadian International Development Agency from 1970 to 1977.
He founded the Paul Gérin-Lajoie Foundation, in 1977, an organization that has helped give the basic education of children.
Air gap (networking)
An air gap, air wall or air gapping is a network security measure employed on one or more computers to ensure that a secure computer network is physically isolated from unsecured networks, such as the public Internet or an unsecured local area network. Air gapped computers are commonly used in classified settings where network usage must be limited or cut off completely. In an air gapped setting a flash drive is used to transfer needed external data.
Bhim Singh Thapa
Bhim Singh Thapa known popularly as Bagh Buda (Translation: Tiger oldie) was a Nepalese military officer. He commanded the battle of Palanchowk in 1959 AD. He died in the battle. After his death, his 11-year-old son Amar Singh Thapa was installed in the army under Marwat policy. He was known for his fighting prowess. He was awarded the personal title of "Bagh", which literally means tiger.