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- HTMS Sukhothai (pictured), a corvette of the Royal Thai Navy, capsizes and sinks, leaving 31 crew members missing.
- In the Fijian general election, FijiFirst wins the most seats, but fails to gain a parliamentary majority.
- In association football, the FIFA World Cup concludes with Argentina defeating France in the final.
- At least 24 people are killed in a landslide near Batang Kali, Malaysia.
December 20, 2022
(Tuesday)
December 19, 2022
(Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2022 Jordanian protests
- Three police officers and a gunman are killed during a raid on the hideout of the suspected killers of a policeman during protests in Ma'an, Jordan. Nine people are arrested. (Al Jazeera)
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Around 20 Pakistani Taliban members seize control of a counterterrorism centre in Bannu, Pakistan, killing one officer and taking six hostages. The attackers are demanding safe passage to Afghanistan. (Al Jazeera)
- Four Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members are killed by gunmen in Saravan, Iran, near the border with Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
Business and economy
- 2021–2022 global energy crisis
- EU natural gas price cap
- European Union member states agree to a natural gas price cap in an attempt to limit economic damage from the global energy crisis. The price cap can be triggered beginning on February 15, if for three days, prices on the TTF, which is the European natural gas benchmark, exceed €180 per megawatt-hour (MWh) and are also more than €35/MWh higher than a reference price based on liquefied natural gas price assessments. (Reuters)
- EU natural gas price cap
- Aftermath of the Ethiopia–Tigray peace agreement
- The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, the country's largest commercial bank, resumes operations in some Tigrayan cities and towns following the suspension of services during the Tigray War. (AFP via RFI)
Law and crime
- Rwanda asylum plan
- The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom rules that the British government's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda while their application is ongoing is lawful. (CNN)
- Aftermath of the January 6 United States Capitol attack
- The U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack issues a report in its final meeting declaring that former President Donald Trump was the "central cause" of the January 6 United States Capitol attack, and recommends that he be referred to the Justice Department for prosecution on at least four criminal charges. (ABC News)
- Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases
- American film producer Harvey Weinstein is convicted on 3 of 7 sexual assault charges against him. The jury found Weinstein either not guilty, or was hung, on four other charges. (CNN)
December 18, 2022
(Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Islamic State insurgency in Iraq
- 2022 Kirkuk bombing
- Nine police officers are killed and two others are injured when a convoy hits a roadside bomb in Kirkuk, Iraq. (Al Jazeera)
- 2022 Kirkuk bombing
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Salang Tunnel fire
- At least 19 people are killed and 37 others are injured when a tank truck overturns, explodes and catches fire in the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- 2022 Vaughan shooting
- Five people are killed and one other person is injured in a mass shooting at a condominium tower in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. The gunman is killed by police. (Global News)
- Israel deports French-Palestinian lawyer and activist Salah Hamouri saying that Hamouri continues to be active with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which has been designated as a terrorist organization by Israel, the United States, European Union and other countries. (Arab News)
Sports
December 17, 2022
(Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Yemeni Civil War
- Three people are killed and another is injured in a landmine explosion in Al Hudaydah, Yemen. (Mehr News)
Business and economy
- Economy of Uzbekistan
- Uzbekistan announces a nearly $1 billion loan from the two main World Bank lending institutions, aimed at supporting the country's transition to a private sector-led economy. (Xinhua)
Disasters and accidents
- Five people are killed and five others are injured in a head-on collision of a bus and a pickup truck near Ventersburg, Free State, South Africa. (NewZimbabwe)
- Three people are killed and 17 others are injured by a freak wave at a beach in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. (VOA)
Law and crime
- Dresden Green Vault burglary
- German authorities recover 31 royal jewellery items that were stolen from the Green Vault museum at Dresden Castle in Dresden, Saxony, Germany, in 2019. (AFP via South China Morning Post)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Tunisian parliamentary election
- Tunisians head to the polls to elect the members of the Assembly of the Representatives of the People. Opposition parties have called for a boycott of the election. (AFP via The East African)
- 2022 Fijian general election
- Fiji's election office projects that both the ruling FijiFirst and opposition People's Alliance parties will win 26 seats each in the 55-seat parliament, resulting in a deadlock. (DW)
Sports
- 2022 FIFA World Cup
- 2022 NFL season
- The Minnesota Vikings complete the largest comeback in NFL history against the Indianapolis Colts, winning 39–36 after a 0–33 deficit. The previous largest comeback occurred in January 1993 when the Buffalo Bills won 41–38 against the Houston Oilers after a 35–3 deficit. (CBS Sports)
December 16, 2022
(Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- Russian forces launch a barrage of at least 76 missiles across Ukraine, damaging at least nine power stations and killing at least three civilians, with many more civilians being injured. (BBC News)
- 2022 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Jordanian protests
- Protests and riots over high fuel prices occur across Jordan, with a policeman being shot dead by protestors in Ma'an. (Al Jazeera)
- Kurdish–Turkish conflict
- Nine people are injured by a car bombing in Diyarbakır Province, Turkey. (Reuters)
- Mali War
- Two MINUSMA police personnel are killed and four others are injured after a United Nations Police patrol is attacked in Timbuktu, Mali. (AFP via RTÉ)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Batang Kali landslide
- A landslide hits a campsite on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, killing 21 people and leaving twelve more missing. (Reuters)
- Vaulx-en-Velin fire
- Ten people are killed and 14 others are injured in a residential building fire in Vaulx-en-Velin, Lyon Metropolis, France. (Euronews)
- 2022 West Java earthquake
- The death toll in the earthquake that struck near Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia, in November increases to 602. (AFP via Philippine Daily Inquirer)
- Four people are injured, two of whom later died after a stampede at Nigerian singer Asake's concert at the Brixton Academy in London, United Kingdom. (AP) (BBC News)
- The AquaDom aquarium in Berlin, Germany, home to 1,500 tropical fish of more than 100 different species, bursts, flooding local streets. The majority of the fish die during the incident, and two people are injured. (BBC News)
International relations
- Burkina Faso–Ghana relations
- Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
- Burkina Faso summons Ghanaian ambassador Naa Bolinaa Saaka over Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo's remarks alleging that the Burkinabè government had amalgamated with Russian paramilitary organization Wagner Group in their civil war against Islamist rebels. (AFP via Barron's)
- Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
Law and crime
- Humanitarian impact of the Russo-Georgian War
- The International Criminal Court concludes its investigation in the situation in Georgia, delivering arrest warrants for three de facto South Ossetian officials believed to bear responsibility for war crimes against Georgian civilians during the 2008 war. The fourth suspect, Russian general Vyacheslav Borisov, is not indicted as he died in 2021. (ICC)
Politics and elections
- Aftermath of the 2022 Fijian general election
- Fijian police detain opposition leader and former prime minister Sitiveni Rabuka for interrogation over his claims of electoral fraud in the recent election. (AFP via UrduPoint)
December 15, 2022
(Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2017–present Peruvian political crisis
- December 2022 Peruvian protests
- Ayacucho massacre
- Seven people are killed and 52 others are injured by the Peruvian Army in the city of Ayacucho following a crackdown in recent protests. (RPP)
- Ayacucho massacre
- December 2022 Peruvian protests
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Southern Ukraine campaign
- Shelling by Russian forces kills two people and leaves the entire city of Kherson without power. (BBC News)
- Southern Ukraine campaign
- 2022 North Kosovo crisis
- Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić announces that the Serbian government will send a request to KFOR for the return of a certain number, "from hundreds to a thousand", of police and army personnel to Kosovo, in accordance with UN Resolution 1244. (RFE/RL)
Business and economy
- 2021–present United Kingdom cost of living crisis
- The Royal College of Nursing begins the largest strike action in the history of the National Health Service amid a dispute with the government over a pay increase for nurses. (BBC News)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
- COVID-19 vaccination in the United States
- The United States Senate passes a defense bill that rescinds the vaccine mandate for the U.S. military. (Los Angeles Times)
- COVID-19 vaccination in the United States
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
International relations
- Accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the European Union
- The European Council formally grants candidate status to Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Sarajevo Times)
Law and crime
- Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- The Biden administration orders the release of thousands of documents on the assassination of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy for the first time. With 13,173 files now published online, more than 97% of records are now publicly available, according to the White House. (BBC News)
- Police in Zambia arrest a truck driver alleged to have transported 27 Ethiopian migrants who were found dead at a farm on the outskirts of Lusaka on Sunday. (Xinhua)
Politics and elections
- Political status of Puerto Rico
- In a 233–191 bipartisan vote, the U.S. House of Representatives passes a bill that would allow Puerto Rico to have its first ever binding referendum to decide whether the unincorporated territory should become a state, an independent nation or an independent nation with free association. (The New York Times)
Science and technology
- Acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk
- December 15, 2022 Twitter suspensions
- Twitter suspends the accounts of several journalists who reported on negative news relating to Elon Musk and Twitter. Musk accuses these journalists of posting links to real-time location data. The suspensions follow an incident in Los Angeles involving the safety of Elon Musk's son. (The Guardian) (Al Jazeera) (Yahoo!)
- December 15, 2022 Twitter suspensions
December 14, 2022
(Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2017–present Peruvian political crisis
- December 2022 Peruvian protests
- 2022 Apurímac insurgency
- The government declares a nationwide state of emergency for 30 days following mass protests in support of Pedro Castillo, which have killed seven people. (SwissInfo)
- 2022 Apurímac insurgency
- December 2022 Peruvian protests
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Two people are killed and 14 others are injured when a roadside bomb targeting a security forces' convoy explodes in Miranshah, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
- Islamic State insurgency in Iraq
- Three security forces are killed when a bomb explodes during a military operation in Al-Tarmia District, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- Tornado outbreak of December 13–14, 2022
- An ongoing tornado outbreak across the United States kills three people, injures dozens of others, and leaves hundreds of people homeless. (The Weather Channel)
- Multiple tornadoes strike the New Orleans metropolitan area, damaging up to 5,000 structures and following nearly the same path as a high-end EF3 tornado on March 22. (CNN) (Raw Alerts via Twitter)
- English Channel migrant crossings
- Four people are killed and 43 others are rescued after a migrant boat capsizes in the English Channel off the coast of Kent, United Kingdom. (AP)
International relations
- Armenia–Russia relations
- Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
- 2021–2022 Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
- 2022 Artsakh blockade
- Members of parliament belonging to the Armenian governing coalition accuse Russia of wanting to drag Armenia into a new war with neighboring Azerbaijan, and criticize the conduct of Russian peacekeepers amid a renewed crisis in the region following the Lachin blockade and worsening relations between Armenia and Russia. (RFE/RL)
- 2022 Artsakh blockade
- 2021–2022 Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
- Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
- China–United Kingdom relations
- Clash at the Consulate General of China, Manchester
- The Chinese foreign ministry recalls Manchester consul general Zheng Xiyuan and five other diplomats in the United Kingdom following their alleged involvement in the October clash. (AFP via Barron's)
- Clash at the Consulate General of China, Manchester
- Accession of Kosovo to the European Union
- Kosovo formally signs a request to become a member of the European Union. Serbia condemns the request and says that it will ask the five members of the bloc which do not recognize Kosovo to reject the request. (AP)
- Iran is expelled from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women over the death of Mahsa Amini and the violent crackdown against protests for women's rights in Iran. (MSN) (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Mayor of Istanbul and popular opposition figure Ekrem İmamoğlu goes on trial where he faces a political ban and between 15 months and four years in jail on charges of "insulting" public officials. (AFP via France24)
- One Irish U.N. peacekeeper is killed and three others are wounded after an armed confrontation with a crowd in Al-Aqbieh, Lebanon. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Fijian general election
- Fijians head to the polls to elect the 55 members of the parliament. (Al Jazeera)
Sports
- 2022 FIFA World Cup
- The defending champions France defeats Morocco 2–0, advancing to their second consecutive World Cup final, which will be against Argentina. France is the first team since Brazil in 2002 to advance to consecutive World Cup finals, and will aim to become the first team since Brazil in 1962 to win consecutive World Cup finals. (CNN)
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