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Topics in the news
- Brazilian footballer Pelé (pictured) dies at the age of 82.
- A winter storm causes record-breaking low temperatures and leaves more than 80 people dead across North America.
- Pushpa Kamal Dahal becomes Prime Minister of Nepal after the general election.
- Sitiveni Rabuka becomes Prime Minister of Fiji after a coalition government is formed following the general election.
- In Afghanistan, the Taliban institute a ban on women attending university and working in non-government organisations.
December 30, 2022
(Friday)
December 29, 2022
(Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- Russia carries out a series of drone and cruise missile strikes on Ukraine, with strikes reported in the cities of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Lviv and Zhytomyr, injuring at least three people. (BBC News)
- 2022 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Disasters and accidents
- Second Gyeongin Expressway fire
- Five people are killed and 37 others injured in a fire caused by the collision of a freight truck and a bus on the Second Gyeongin Expressway near Seoul, South Korea. (Reuters)
Health and environment
- Eighteen children in Uzbekistan die after drinking a cough syrup manufactured by Indian drug manufacturer Marion Biotech. (BBC News)
International relations
- 2022 North Kosovo crisis
- Following talks with Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić, barricades erected by ethnic Serbs in North Kosovo begin being dismantled. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- Social media influencer and former professional kickboxer Andrew Tate is arrested in Romania in relation to allegations of human trafficking and production of child pornography. (Antena 3)
- A Riverside County Sheriff's Department deputy is shot and killed in Jurupa Valley, California. After a lengthy chase, the suspect is shot and killed in Norco.(CBS News)
Politics and elections
- Thirty-seventh government of Israel
- Benjamin Netanyahu is sworn in as the prime minister of Israel for the third time in his political career. Netanyahu heads what has been called Israel's "most right-wing government in history." (CNN)
December 28, 2022
(Wednesday)
Disasters and accidents
- A fire at a casino hotel in Poipet, Cambodia, along the Cambodia–Thailand border kills at least 19 people and injures 50 others. (Al Jazeera)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- Travel during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Italy and the United States announce that they will require travelers from China to present a negative COVID-19 rapid antigen test in order to enter their countries. (AFP via New Straits Times) (The New York Times)
- Travel during the COVID-19 pandemic
International relations
- Syrian civil war
- Syrian peace process
- The defence ministers of Russia, Syria, and Turkey hold a trilateral meeting in Moscow. It is the first such meeting, as well as the first meeting between a Syrian and Turkish defence minister, since the war began in 2011. (AFP via France 24)
- Syrian peace process
- 2022 North Kosovo crisis
- Kosovo closes two border crossings with Serbia after protesters in Serbia block the border crossings in order to support the ethnic Serbs who are erecting barricades in North Kosovo and who refuse to recognize the independence of Kosovo. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Aftermath of the Grand-Bassam shootings
- A court in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, sentences four Malian men to life imprisonment for inciting an Islamist mass shooting that killed 19 people and injured 33 others at a beach resort in Grand-Bassam in 2016. (AFP via RFI)
- Calabar Carnival
- Fourteen people are killed and 24 others are injured when a drunk driver drives into crowds at the annual carnival parade in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. (BBC News)
- Bolivian police detain opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho for his role in the 2019 protests that prompted Evo Morales to resign. (ABC News)
December 27, 2022
(Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Battle of the Svatove-Kreminna line
- Ukrainian forces claim that they are closing in on the city of Kreminna in Luhansk Oblast. According to governor Serhiy Haidai, Russian fighters in some parts of the city were forced to retreat to neighboring Rubizhne. (The Guardian)
- Battle of the Svatove-Kreminna line
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Northern Mindanao floods
- The death toll from monsoon floods in the Philippines has increased to 32, with 24 others still missing. Eighteen of the deaths occurred in Northern Mindanao. (AP)
- 2022 Omdurman bus crash
- Sixteen people are killed when a bus collides with a dump truck on the outskirts of Omdurman, Khartoum, Sudan. (Reuters)
International relations
- International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian oil price cap
- Russian president Vladimir Putin issues a decree to prohibit the exports of Russian oil and petroleum products to countries and organizations that adhere to the US$60-per-barrel price cap that Australia, the European Union, and the G7 member states agreed upon earlier this month. The decree will be in effect from February 1 to July 1. (AFP via NDTV)
- 2022 Russian oil price cap
Law and crime
- Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot
- A federal judge in Michigan, United States, sentences a man to 16 years in prison for plotting to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. The man was also convicted of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. (CNN)
- Title 42 expulsion
- The Supreme Court of the United States rules 5–4 to maintain Title 42 of the U.S. Code, allowing the government to remove persons who have recently been in a country where an infectious disease was present. (AFP via RFI)
- South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol pardons former president Lee Myung-bak as part of a mass pardon aimed at "national unity". Lee had been serving a 17-year sentence for corruption. (Al Jazeera)
- The Taiwanese government announces that it would extend the required duration for conscription from four months to one year, citing the increasing threat of China using military force to pursue Chinese unification. The reform, which will apply to men born after January 1, 2005, will take effect in 2024. (AFP via SBS World News)
Sports
- 2022–23 NBA season
- Slovenian point guard Luka Dončić of the Dallas Mavericks scores the first 60-point, 20 rebound triple-double 10 assist game in the National Basketball Association, the premier men's professional basketball league in the world, after recording 60 points, 21 rebounds, and 10 assists in the Mavericks' 126–121 overtime win against the New York Knicks in Dallas. (BBC Sport)
December 26, 2022
(Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Western Russia attacks
- Three Russian military members are killed by debris after Russia shoots down a drone that was approaching the Engels air base in Saratov Oblast, Russia. (AFP via Times of Israel)
- 2022 Western Russia attacks
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Syrian civil war
- Six Syrian Democratic Forces members are killed and an unknown number of others are injured during an ambush by five Islamic State gunmen in Raqqa. One of the attackers is killed and another is arrested. (Al Jazeera)
- Six Turkish-backed National Front for Liberation militants are killed during a fight with the Syrian Democratic Forces and the Syrian Army in Aleppo. (AP)
- Korean conflict
- Five North Korean drones cross the DMZ into South Korea, which assembles aircraft to intercept the drones. One of the South Korean FA-1 light attack aircraft crashes during takeoff and a North Korean drone crashes near the South Korean capital of Seoul. It is believed that North Korea launched the drones in response to criticism of the quality of North Korean satellite images. (AFP via MSN) (Daily NK)
- Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
- At least ten people are killed and five others are injured when a bus hits a landmine in Fada N'gourma, Est, Burkina Faso. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- Seventeen people are killed and 93 more injured as heavy snow affects Japan. (AP)
- Three Nigerien soldiers are killed when their military helicopter crashes while attempting to land at Diori Hamani International Airport in Niamey, Niger. (Reuters)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
- Travel during the COVID-19 pandemic
- The National Health Commission announces that China will suspend their COVID-19 quarantine requirements for passengers arriving from abroad beginning on January 8. (ABC News)
- Travel during the COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
- Three members of the endangered Irrawaddy dolphin have died within ten days from each other in Cambodia, prompting an increasing alarming situation. (AP)
International relations
- Cross-Strait relations
- It is announced that a record seventy-one military vehicles from the Chinese Air Force entered Taiwan's air defense identification zone in the past 24 hours. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Aftermath of the 2022 Paris shooting
- A French judge indicts a 69-year-old man with murder, attempted murder due to race, and the unlawful procurement and possession of a weapon for killing three people and injuring three others in the 10th arrondissement of Paris on December 23. The suspect had confessed to having been motivated by racism. (AFP via Deccan Herald)
December 25, 2022
(Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Insurgency in Balochistan
- Six soldiers are killed and 17 civilians are injured during a series of nine attacks in Balochistan, Pakistan. (ABC News)
- Piracy off the coast of Somalia
- Fourteen Iranian fishermen are returned to Iran after eight years of captivity in Somalia. The men were found in Somalia by police last month and freed from al-Shabaab jihadists after negotiations between the captors, tribal chiefs and Somali elders. (AFP via Al Arabiya)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Northern Mindanao floods
- At least eight people are killed, and 19 others are missing from monsoon floods in the Visayas and Mindanao regions of the Philippines. (Reuters via ABC News)
- At least four people are injured, one of them seriously, when an avalanche hits the ski resort Zürs/Lech in Vorarlberg, Austria. Emergency services rescue all of the ten people who had been buried alive. (RTL News in German)
Health and environment
- Catalonia in Spain registers the highest December temperature ever for the autonomous community in Anglès, which reached 26.3 °C (79.3 °F). Several other stations, including in the regional capital of Barcelona, also break records. (Catalan News)
Law and crime
- Pierce County substation attack
- An attack on an electrical substation in Pierce County, Washington, United States, cuts off power to 14,000 people. The perpetrators and motive of the attack are unknown. (Seattle Times)
- A court in the Maldives sentences former president Abdulla Yameen to 11 years in prison on money laundering and bribery charges. (ABC News)
December 24, 2022
(Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks on civilians in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian forces shell the city of Kherson, killing at least ten civilians and injuring 58 others. (Daily Express)
- Attacks on civilians in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Aftermath of the 2022 Paris shooting
- Kurds riot near the Place de la République in Paris, France, damaging shops and setting fires. The Paris Police Prefecture reports 11 arrests and at least 30 minor injuries in relation to the violence. The riot followed a peaceful protest in response to yesterday's mass shooting at a Kurdish cultural center that killed three people. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Kemerovo nursing home fire
- A fire at an unregistered nursing home in Kemerovo, Russia, kills 22 people and injures six others. (Reuters)
- Boksburg tanker explosion
- A fuel tanker explodes in Boksburg, Gauteng, South Africa, killing 15 people, injuring 27 others, and damaging a nearby hospital. (Al Jazeera)
- 2022 Galicia bus crash
- Six people are killed and two others are rescued after a bus falls off a bridge into the Lérez river in Galicia, Spain. (The Guardian)
- Late December 2022 North American winter storm
- Four people are killed and 36 others are injured in a bus crash on Highway 97C in British Columbia, Canada. The crash was attributed to "icy roads" following the winter storm. (Sky News)
- Four people are killed after a head on collision between two vehicles near Chivhu, Zimbabwe. (ZWnews)
Law and crime
- Aftermath of the assassination of Shinzo Abe
- The Nara District Public Prosecutors Office in Nara Prefecture, Japan, says that the accused assassin of former prime minister Shinzo Abe is competent to stand trial for the killing. Prosecutors say that Tetsuya Yamagami "does not suffer from any mental illness that could greatly affect his ability to judge right from wrong". According to sources, prosecutors plan to indict Yamagami on murder charges. (Yomiuri)
- Treatment of women by the Taliban
- The Taliban issues a decree banning female employees from all non-governmental organizations in Afghanistan. (CNN)
- Wallasey pub shooting
- One person is killed and four others are injured during a mass shooting at a pub in Wallasey, Merseyside, England. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- Aftermath of the 2022 Fijian general election
- Sitiveni Rabuka is confirmed as the new prime minister. Rabuka will hold the office again more than two decades after first leading the country as prime minister. (AP via VOA)
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