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• Mexican Drug War □ Gunmen from the La Familia Michoacana drug cartel kidnap 14 people from Texcaltitlan, Mexico as retaliation for a previous incident where 10 cartel members were killed by residents of the town. (AP)
• At least 13 people are killed when a bus catches fire after colliding head-on with a truck on a highway in Guna district, Madhya Pradesh, India. (India Today) • At least 10 people are killed and 57 others injured by a multiple-vehicle collision on a motorway in Sakarya Province, Turkey. (AP via New Haven Register)
• Bulgaria and Romania reach an agreement to become members of the Schengen Area through sea and air routes in March, while discussions regarding the opening of land borders are scheduled to commence next year. (Le Monde)
• Capital punishment in Qatar □ A court in Qatar reduces the sentences of eight retired Indian Navy officers who had been sentenced to death for spying. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine □ Russian strikes against infrastructure ☆ Russian drone and artillery strikes kill at least five people and cause power outages for around 70% of households in Kherson, according to Kherson governor Oleksandr Prokudin. (AP)
• Renewable energy in Colombia □ Colombia approves regulations that encourage local communities and indigenous groups to produce energy using renewable sources and sell the energy to the national grid. (BBC News) • Thousands of union members and activists in Argentina protest a decree from President Javier Milei imposing deregulation and austerity measures meant to revive the country's economy. (AP)
• Death of Ana Clara Benevides □ A forensics report by Rio de Janeiro's Forensic Medical Institute in Brazil finds that hyperthermia led to cardiorespiratory arrest that killed Swiftie Benevides. It says she did not have preexisting conditions or substance abuse that could have led to her death. (Reuters) • At least 10 people are killed by thunderstorms and strong winds in the eastern Australian states of Queensland and Victoria. (ABC News Australia)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine □ Eastern Ukraine campaign ☆ Battle of Marinka ○ Ukraine's commander-in-chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi confirms the loss of the city of Marinka to Russian forces. (BBC News) (The New York Times) □ Crimea attacks ☆ The Russian Ropucha-class landing ship Novocherkassk is destroyed by a Ukrainian airstrike in Feodosia, Crimea, killing at least one person and injuring four others. (Al Jazeera) (AP) • Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria □ Nigerian bandit conflict ☆ 2023 Plateau State massacres ○ Armed bandits kill about 140 people in Plateau State, Nigeria. Many houses are burned down. (AP) • 2023 Israel–Hamas war □ Houthi involvement in the Israel–Hamas war ☆ A drone launched from the direction of the Red Sea is shot down near the Egyptian resort town of Dahab, according to the Egyptian military. The drone fell into the sea with no casualties or damage reported. (Reuters) • Iraqi conflict □ Islamic State insurgency in Iraq ☆ Two men from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia on a hunting trip in Iraq are killed when their vehicle hits a roadside bomb planted by Islamic State insurgents in Al Anbar Governorate. (AP)
• Daihatsu, a subsidiary of Japanese automaker Toyota, suspends all production at its four factories in Japan amid a transport ministry investigation into improper tests for safety certifications. (AP) • The administration of Argentina's new president Javier Milei says the government will not renew contracts for more than 5,000 employees hired this year before he took office, as part of plans for cutbacks to the government. (AP)
• 2023 Africa floods □ Twenty-two people are killed by floods in Kasaï-Central, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Several houses and structures are damaged, with a major road being cut off. (AP) • At least 40 people are killed during the explosion of a gas tanker in Totota, Liberia. (Al Jazeera) • A fire at a guest house in Prahova, Romania leaves six people dead, two others injured, and several others missing. (Euronews) (AP)
• Nuclear program of Iran □ The International Atomic Energy Agency says that Iran has reversed a slowdown of its enrichment of uranium, and is now enriching uranium at up to 60%, bringing the country closer to reaching the enrichment level required to make a nuclear weapon. (Reuters)
• Fukushima nuclear accident □ The Tokyo High Court rules that TEPCO, the operator of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, will be solely responsible for compensating evacuees and reduced the amount to half the amount a lower court initially ordered, while also absolving the government of any liability. (AP) • A man is arrested in Sevres, Île-de-France, France, for killing his four children and their Haitian mother at their flat in Meaux the day before. (AP)
• 2023–24 NBA season □ In basketball, the Detroit Pistons lose their 27th consecutive game and break the single-season record for the most consecutive losses in a National Basketball Association regular season, surpassing the records set by the 2010–11 Cleveland Cavaliers and 2013–14 Philadelphia 76ers, who both lost 26 straight games. (The Detroit News)