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- Russia’s Gazprom and Ukraine’s Naftogaz Ukrainy have agreed to set up two joint ventures, the Russian company said after a meeting between its CEO Alexei Miller and Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Minister Yuri Boiko. (ITAR)
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Current events of December 2, 2010 (2010-12-02) (Thursday) |
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Current events of December 3, 2010 (2010-12-03) (Friday) |
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- Spain closes four airports saying there is a shortage of air traffic controllers who are concerned about their pay and working conditions. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- The Spanish government holds an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss plans to raise the pension age and to sell off its stakes in the lottery and airports. (Al Jazeera)
- Nissan starts selling the Leaf, one of the first mass market electric cars. (AP via Yahoo! News)
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Current events of December 4, 2010 (2010-12-04) (Saturday) |
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- The Spanish government imposes emergency measures unused since the end of military rule in 1975, threatening workers seeking better pay and working conditions with prosecution if they do not return to work. (BBC) (The Guardian) (Xinhua)
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- A proposed law in South Korea is to ban online gaming after midnight for young people amid concerns over Internet addiction. (Times of India)
- The China Academy of Telecommunication Research tells China Daily that China should merge identity management systems, currently run by different ministries, in order to fight online fraud and hacking. (People's Daily)
- Three people are arrested in China's Guangdong Province in relation to a $90 million gold heist, the biggest in Hong Kong history. (Radio Australia)
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Current events of December 5, 2010 (2010-12-05) (Sunday) |
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- The International Labour Organisation asks Gulf states to reform labour laws related to millions of foreign workers and urges the introduction of a minimum wage. (Al Jazeera)
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Current events of December 6, 2010 (2010-12-06) (Monday) |
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- Egypt calls in international shark experts following recent attacks, one fatal, on tourists in Sharm el-Sheikh in the past week. (The Guardian)
- Israeli firefighters douse the Mount Carmel forest fire which killed at least 41 people in the north of the country. (CNN)
- Officials in Haiti say more than 2,000 people have died in the cholera outbreak. (USA Today)
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- Iran meets with six world powers in Geneva for talks concerning its nuclear program. (BBC)
- United States diplomatic cables leak:
- Newly released cables from the United States indicate former Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd suggested the use of force against China if it could not be "successfully integrated" into the international community. The Australian government refuses to respond to the release. (ABC News)
- A newly released cable from Hillary Rodham Clinton accuses rich people in Saudi Arabia of being "the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide" and that "it has been an ongoing challenge to persuade Saudi officials to treat terrorist financing emanating from Saudi Arabia as a strategic priority". (The Independent)
- Newly released cables reveal American distrust both of Qatar and the country's Al Jazeera international news network, prompting Al Jazeera to release a statement saying that it has resisted pressure from both regional and international governments and "has never changed its bold editorial policies which remain guided by the principles of a free press". (Al Jazeera) (The Independent)
- The cables also reveal that foreign envoys to China from India, Japan, the EU and some African countries complained about the country's "aggressive" nature and that it was "losing friends worldwide". (Indian Express)
- Senior officials from Turkey and Israel meet in Geneva to resolve their differences following the Gaza flotilla raid in May. (BBC)
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Current events of December 7, 2010 (2010-12-07) (Tuesday) |
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Current events of December 8, 2010 (2010-12-08) (Wednesday) |
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Current events of December 9, 2010 (2010-12-09) (Thursday) |
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- After popular demonstrations Haiti orders an immediate recount of the disputed result of its presidential election. (BBC)
- Crowds gather in the South Sudan capital Juba to mark one month until the referendum on independence. (AFP)
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Current events of December 10, 2010 (2010-12-10) (Friday) |
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Current events of December 11, 2010 (2010-12-11) (Saturday) |
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- A house fire in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, kills five children. (Xinhua) (Sify India)
- Due to recent floods in Venezuela, President Hugo Chávez announces the erection in his garden of a Bedouin tent given as a gift by Muammar al-Gaddafi from which he is to live and govern to make room for more homeless families in his presidential palace at Miraflores. 25 families made homeless by the disaster had already sought shelter there and Chávez has been personally supervising the provision of relief in the country. (BBC)
- Eight fatal cases of A/H1N1 swine flu and two from seasonal flu are confirmed within six weeks in the United Kingdom. (AFP) (Daily Mail)
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Current events of December 12, 2010 (2010-12-12) (Sunday) |
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- Newly released cables from Australian intelligence show the intelligence assessment that charges of sodomy laid against Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim are due to a "set up job" that he "walked into". Others refer to Malaysia as a "confused and dangerous" state, Thai politicians as corrupt and Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn as "very erratic and easily subject to influence", and Japan as a "big fat loser". (The Sydney Morning Herald)
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Current events of December 13, 2010 (2010-12-13) (Monday) |
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- Brunei and Malaysia sign a deal to jointly explore and produce oil and gas off the coast of northern Borneo. (Malaysia Star)
- Major British supermarkets and online stores stop taking orders in Scotland in the run up to Christmas, because of a backlog of deliveries caused by the recent adverse weather conditions. (BBC)
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- Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat asks the European Union to recognize “two states (Israel and Palestine) along the 1967 borders". (Bloomberg)
- Europe reaffirms its readiness to recognise a Palestinian state at an "appropriate" time, stopping short of outright recognition despite mounting pressure to break the Middle East impasse. (AFP)
- Minni Minnawi, the only Darfur faction leader to sign the Darfur Peace Agreement with the Sudanese government, declares its failure and leaves his post. (Al Jazeera)
- The Philippine parliament blocks a government effort to provide free condoms to poor people, amid a debate over funding for family planning. (Straits Times)
- Protests by garment workers in Bangladesh over low wages spread to other areas of the country. (AFP)
- OpenLeaks, a splinter group rivaling WikiLeaks, launches its website. (CNN)
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Current events of December 14, 2010 (2010-12-14) (Tuesday) |
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- The Philippine government says it will attempt to end the long-running communist insurgency "within three years", as it announces a resumption of peace talks with rebels. (Straits Times)
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Tornado in Aumsville, Oregon
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Current events of December 15, 2010 (2010-12-15) (Wednesday) |
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- Scientists discover that the black kokanee (Oncorhynchus nerka kawamurae), a Japanese salmon subspecies which scientists had thought had gone extinct in 1940, has still a living population in 2010. (Associated Press)
- Data confirms that Voyager 1 has entered the heliopause, the area of space where the Sun's solar wind is stopped by the interstellar wind. It is believed the probe will now leave the Solar System within the next four years. (AFP via Breitbart)
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Current events of December 16, 2010 (2010-12-16) (Thursday) |
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- The Galongla Tunnel, built at an altitude of 3,750 meters, is completed; it links Tibet's Mêdog county to the outside world. (SINA)
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Current events of December 17, 2010 (2010-12-17) (Friday) |
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- The United Kingdom government announces plans to make prisoners serving less than four years eligible to vote. (BBC)
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Current events of December 18, 2010 (2010-12-18) (Saturday) |
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- The United States' unemployment rate rises in 21 states, the highest number to report an increase since August. It falls in 15 states. (Washingtion Times)
- Bank of America bans Wikileaks payments as a result of news of an upcoming release of information on banks in the United States that could leave an impact. (New York Post)
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Current events of December 19, 2010 (2010-12-19) (Sunday) |
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- Hundreds of small investors engage in protest activities in Dhaka following the steepest daily fall in the stock exchange. (BBC) (AFP via The Sydney Morning Herald)
- 60 Minutes, an influential news program, runs a segment with Meredith Whitney a bank analyst credited with a timely bearish call in 2008, in which she predicts hundreds of millions of dollars worth of defaults by U.S. municipalities. (CNBC)
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- At least 28 people are killed and dozens more are injured following an explosion on a PEMEX oil pipeline in San Martín Texmelucan, Puebla, Mexico. (BBC)
- 15 people, including 9 nursing students, are killed while 12 others are injured in an blaze that gobbles up two buildings in Tuguegarao City, Cagayan province in northern Philippines. (Xinhua) (Philippine Inquirer) (BBC)
- 8 people are seriously injured when a tour bus carrying a church group lost control, slides off a road and rolls onto its side on an icy highway in the U.S. state of Colorado. (CNN)
- 3 people are killed as blizzards and freezing temperatures hit Italy. (Herald Sun)
- Flights in and out of Heathrow Airport are at a virtual standstill as severe weather conditions continue across the United Kingdom. (BBC)
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Current events of December 20, 2010 (2010-12-20) (Monday) |
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Current events of December 21, 2010 (2010-12-21) (Tuesday) |
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- Toyota agrees to pay the US government $32.4 million over its handling of car recalls in 2010 where over 10 million cars were recalled worldwide, over 14 separate recalls. (BBC)
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- At least 39 people are killed and hundreds injured in a 6.5 magnitude earthquake in southeastern Iran. (Times of India)
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- A total lunar eclipse will take place on December 20/21, 2010. (CNN)
- In the United Kingdom an earthquake of magnitude 3.6 hits Cumbria and surrounding counties. (BBC)
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Current events of December 22, 2010 (2010-12-22) (Wednesday) |
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Current events of December 23, 2010 (2010-12-23) (Thursday) |
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- China offers to help eurozone countries through the debt crisis. (BBC)
- Banking giant Santander has admitted that a computer error has resulted in up to 35,000 people receiving other person's transactions details on their bank statement. (BBC)
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Current events of December 24, 2010 (2010-12-24) (Friday) |
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- Large-scale disruption continues in Europe after heavy snowfalls. (BBC)
- More than 30 people are killed after a bus plunged into a ravine in southwest Ecuador. (AFP) (CNN)
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Current events of December 25, 2010 (2010-12-25) (Saturday) |
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Current events of December 26, 2010 (2010-12-26) (Sunday) |
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- Protests against unemployment grow more violent as Tunisian security forces crack down on the residents in Sidi Bou Zid Governorate and a teenager is killed when police open fire. (Al Jazeera) (Ahram Online)
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- China and South Korea are to hold defence talks following tension on the Korean Peninsula. (China Daily) (BBC)
- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel) announces that it will boycott Durban III (World Conference against Racism), the 2011 United Nations summit commemorating the tenth anniversary of the World Conference against Racism 2001, due to the conference's "anti-Semitic undertones and displays of hatred for Israel and the Jewish world," a day after the UN General Assembly approved a resolution, by a vote of 104 to 22, with 33 abstentions, to hold the summit in September 2011; Canada has already announced that it will also not attend, calling it a "charade". (AFP via Google News) (The Washington Post) (JTA)
- The first humanitarian Asian flotilla, Asia to Gaza Solidarity Caravan of Asia 1, which left New Delhi with people of 15 differing nationalities aboard, leaves Damascus for Latakia, its final stop before it reaches its destination. (Tehran Times)
- Thousands of people shouting "death to Israel" gather at Sarayburnu port in Istanbul to welcome back the MV Mavi Marmara, draped with a banner containing faces of the 9 people killed during the Gaza flotilla raid. (Al Jazeera) (Arutz Sheva)
- Industry, Trade and Labour Minister of Israel Binyamin Ben-Eliezer responds to Ecuador's formal recognition of Palestine as an independent state by saying that the "entire world" could recognise a Palestinian state in the next year. (AFP via Google News)
- United States diplomatic cables leak:
- Newly released cables from July 2004 reveal that American diplomats panicked about a screening of the film Fahrenheit 9/11, which is critical of the U.S. government's response to the September 11 attacks. Diplomats stopped what they called a "potential fiasco" by intervening and contacting the offices of the New Zealand prime minister and Marian Hobbs, a government minister referred to as "Boo Boo" Hobbs by America. (Radio New Zealand International)
- Newly released cables allege that world governments have sought assistance from the United States with wiretapping criminal and political adversaries, leading to denials and claims of "misunderstanding". (BBC)
- Foreign Minister of Israel Avigdor Liberman states at a meeting with Israeli ambassadors that "classic diplomacy" is "not helpful" and that the right diplomacy is to say things "as is" due to the WikiLeaks website. Lieberman also attacks comments by the Foreign Minister of Turkey. (Ynetnews)
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- A court in Iran convicts a man of spying for Israel. His identity is to be revealed after the sentence is confirmed. (AFP via France24)
- Egypt sends to Damascus a dossier of sensitive technical information involving details of an Israeli spy ring in Syria, including a high ranking chemical expert who assisted Israel for 13 years. (Ahram Online)
- A Saudi woman, accused of attacking and torturing her Indonesian maid last month in a case that strained Saudi-Indonesia relations, now denies the charges, claiming that the maid tortured herself because she was “not normal.” (Asia One)
- Dr Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish files a lawsuit against Israel one day before the second anniversary of Israel's War on Gaza. Abu al-Aish's three daughters were killed at home by Israeli forces on live television on 16 January 2009 as the gynaecologist was doing an interview with Israel's Channel 10 television. (Al Jazeera)
- Iranian authorities halt the impending execution of a Kurdish student convicted of "enmity against God", in connection with alleged membership and activities on behalf of the militant Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK), following appeals by international organizations claiming that his trial was held behind closed doors and his lawyer was not allowed to be present. (Reuters) (The Jerusalem Post) (CNN) (BBC) (AFP)
- Police in the UK say they are "satisfied" that a body found on Christmas Day is that of missing woman Joanna Yeates. (BBC)
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- Kuwaiti Prime Minister Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah is grilled by MPs over clashes between riot police and protesters at an opposition rally earlier this month. (Al Jazeera)
- The UK Government defends a decision not to include children under the age of five in this year's flu vaccination programme, saying the decision is for medical and not financial reasons. (BBC)
- 33 leading forensic scientists have expressed concerns about the UK Government's plans to close the Forensic Science Service, saying that the justice system will take a "backward step" as a consequence. (BBC)
- The UK Government gives the go-ahead to plans to allow popular online petitions to be debated in Parliament within a year. (BBC)
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Current events of December 30, 2010 (2010-12-30) (Thursday) |
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- A 19-year-old Uyghur woman, Pezilet Ekber, is sentenced to death following a secret trial, the second Uyghur woman to receive the death penalty on charges of participating in ethnic riots last year. (RFA)
- Former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky has his prison sentence extended to a total of 14 years after a second conviction. (Al Jazeera)
- Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav is convicted of two counts of rape and other sexual offences by a court in Tel Aviv. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian)
- A major Indian separatist leader, Arabinda Rajkhowa of the United Liberation Front of Asom, is released on bail. (The Straits Times) (NDTV)
- A court in Thailand jails 79 pro-government "yellow shirt" protesters for storming a state television station two years ago. (Bangkok Post) (CTV) (Reuters)
- Four opposition figures in Belarus are charged with organising riots after demonstrations against the re-election of Alexander Lukashenko. (BBC)
- Anders Hogstrom, a Swedish man, is sentenced to two years and eight months imprisonment after being convicted of orchestrating the theft of Arbeit macht frei from the Auschwitz entry gate last December. (Al Jazeera)
- Minnesota sues 3M claiming they pumped PFCs, a very toxic chemical according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, into local waterways.(Reuters)
- Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour frees two sisters 16 years into double life terms received for armed robbery of two men for $11, citing one of the sister's "medical condition creates a substantial cost to the state of Mississippi." (Reuters)
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Current events of December 31, 2010 (2010-12-31) (Friday) |
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- Three Tibetan writers, detained earlier this year by Chinese authorities, are sentenced to jail terms of three to four years for "inciting activities to split the nation” (RFA)
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