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	*] police seize 5,361 ancient artefacts worth ]64 million from a ]-Italian trafficking ring. The ~~discovery~~ come after various raids on warehouses against Italian art dealer Gianfranco Becchina, who owns an art gallery in Switzerland.		*] police seize 5,361 ancient artefacts worth ]64 million from a ]-Italian trafficking ring. The discoveries come after various raids on warehouses against Italian art dealer Gianfranco Becchina, who owns an art gallery in Switzerland.
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Current events of January 21, 2015 (2015-01-21) (Wednesday)

A Palestinian man from the West Bank, Hamza Muhammad Hassan Matrouk, illegally crosses into Israel for the express purpose to stab people attacking up to a dozen Israelis on a bus in central Tel Aviv. Security forces capture the assailant as he continued to indiscriminately stab people in the street. (The New York Times)
2014–15 Russian military intervention in Ukraine
- The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko accuses Russia of sending 9,000 soldiers to help separatists in eastern Ukraine. (Reuters)

Lutz Bachmann resigns as a leader of PEGIDA, a German anti-Islamist organisation, after controversy was sparked by a headshot photo of himself posing as Adolf Hitler. (Christian Science Monitor)

EBay announces plans to spin off its PayPal business and fire 2,400 employees during 2015. (CNBC)

Mexico's Volcán de Colima erupts. (ABC News Australia)
For the second time the massive Avalon at Edgewater apartments in Edgewater, New Jersey burn down. Among the 400 perople evacuated, New York Yankees annnouncer John Sterling is one of the victims. (CBS),(NJ.com)

Russian state-owned gas company, Gazprom, announces a plan to shift its European natural gas pipeline from Ukraine to Turkey, through a proposed link under the Black Sea to Turkey. (Bloomberg)

The government-installed pollution gauges that were set up along roadside stations to monitor Hong Kong reach the maximum level of their ranges. (Bloomberg)

Italian police seize 5,361 ancient artefacts worth $64 million from a Swiss-Italian trafficking ring. The discoveries come after various raids on warehouses against Italian art dealer Gianfranco Becchina, who owns an art gallery in Switzerland. (AFP via ABC.Net.AU)