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Last update: 2023-12-28 22:06:02
• 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)