Current events of December 1, 2014 (2014-12-01) (Monday) |
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- International relations
- Russia abandons its plans for the South Stream pipeline to Bulgaria due to European Union objections instead looking at a pipeline to Turkey. (Reuters)
- The United Nations World Food Program suspends a food program for 1.7 million Syrian refugees after donor countries fail to meet their commitments. (AP via CBC)
- Russia launches a new national defense facility in Moscow meant to monitor threats to national security in peacetime but take control of the country in wartime. (RT)
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Current events of December 2, 2014 (2014-12-02) (Tuesday) |
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- Armed conflict and attacks
- Business and economy
- A major Switzerland based commodities firm, Trafigura, played a "pivotal" role in the ability of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq to export oil, exports that the central government in Baghdad has prohibited. (Reuters)
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- Law and crime
- Greek anarchists burn a public transport bus and several cars during clashes with police in central Athens. (AP)
- An Egyptian court sentences 185 people to death over their alleged involvement in a lethal attack on a police station on the outskirts of Cairo. (Reuters via Egyptian Independent)
- Politics and elections
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Current events of December 3, 2014 (2014-12-03) (Wednesday) |
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Current events of December 4, 2014 (2014-12-04) (Thursday) |
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Current events of December 5, 2014 (2014-12-05) (Friday) |
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- A judge in the Netherlands declares Dutch clothing company Mexx bankrupt. The bankruptcy ruling affects over 300 stores worldwide, including 95 locations in Canada. (CBC News)
- Disasters and accidents
- Italian rescue crews discover 17 bodies in the hull of a migrant ship off Libya. (FOX News)
- International Relations
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- Science and Technology
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Current events of December 6, 2014 (2014-12-06) (Saturday) |
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Current events of December 7, 2014 (2014-12-07) (Sunday) |
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Current events of December 8, 2014 (2014-12-08) (Monday) |
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Current events of December 9, 2014 (2014-12-09) (Tuesday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- An Ansar al-Sharia suicide bomb attack kills seven soldiers at an army base in southern Yemen. (CNN)
- Three Turkish Army soldiers die by gunfire in the town of Ceylanpinar. The local Turkish governor begins an investigation of whether the gunfire came from the Syrian side of the border. (BBC)
- Another bomb explodes (the previous was November 6, 2014) on a passenger bus, killing at least 11 people and injuring 21 in the southern Philippines province of Bukidnon. (Xinhua)
- Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb release Serge Lazarevic, a French hostage seized three years ago in Mali. (NYTimes)
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- Science
- Nature publishes Penn State University findings of Ancient shells with 430,000-year-old engravings believed to be made by Homo erectus, changing beliefs on artistic expression and tool use by ancestors of Homo sapiens. Dutch anthropologist Eugene Dubois found the collection in Java in 1891 and Penn State discovered the markings in a museum in the city of Leiden. (WA Today)
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Current events of December 10, 2014 (2014-12-10) (Wednesday) |
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Current events of December 11, 2014 (2014-12-11) (Thursday) |
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Current events of December 12, 2014 (2014-12-12) (Friday) |
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- An unknown person shoots four people outside of Rosemary Anderson High School, an alternative high school in Portland, Oregon. Police later question a 22-year-old man. (CNN) (MSN), (AP)
- Prosecutors at Sary-Arqa District Court in Astana charge 30-year old Yevgeny Vdovenko, a Kazakh citizen, of intentional and illegal participation in a military conflict abroad because he had fought alongside pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. (Radio Free Europe)
- A Palestinian man throws a chemical substance believed to be acid at an Israeli family that stopped to pick up a hitchhiker. No terrorist groups claim credit for the attack. (Reuters)
- Science and technology
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Current events of December 13, 2014 (2014-12-13) (Saturday) |
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Current events of December 14, 2014 (2014-12-14) (Sunday) |
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- Environment
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Current events of December 15, 2014 (2014-12-15) (Monday) |
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Current events of December 16, 2014 (2014-12-16) (Tuesday) |
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Current events of December 17, 2014 (2014-12-17) (Wednesday) |
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Current events of December 18, 2014 (2014-12-18) (Thursday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gumsuri kidnapping
- News emerges, after survivors reach the city of Maiduguri, that suspected Boko Haram militants stormed the remote village of Gumsuri in north-eastern Nigeria on December 14, killing at least 33 people and kidnapping about 200. (BBC)
- Business and economy
- International relations
- A former US intelligence officer identifies Rolando "Rollie" Sarraff Trujillo as the Cuban Interior Ministry spy for the US Central Intelligence Agency, who was swapped in exchange for members of the Cuban Five. (NBC News)
- International sanctions during the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
- The European Union imposes sanctions on Russia-occupied Crimea by banning investments and tourism in the region and halting oil explorations. (Reuters)
- Law and crime
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Current events of December 19, 2014 (2014-12-19) (Friday) |
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- Health
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- International sanctions during the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
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- Science and technology
- Scientists withdraw the January 29, 2014 claim that there is a simple way to convert normal cells into stem cells, which can be used for any part of the body. Nature had in July retracted its two previous articles after the disgraced lead researcher, Japanese Haruko Obokata, was found to have plagiarized and fabricated parts of the papers. (Reuters via FOX News)
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Current events of December 20, 2014 (2014-12-20) (Saturday) |
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Current events of December 21, 2014 (2014-12-21) (Sunday) |
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Current events of December 22, 2014 (2014-12-22) (Monday) |
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- A federal land swap in Arizona green lights the US's deepest (1.3 miles) and largest (1.6b tons) copper mine. (FOX News)
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Current events of December 23, 2014 (2014-12-23) (Tuesday) |
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- Businesses and economy
- Keurig recalls 6.6 million coffee making machines after ninety reports of burn-related injuries. (CNN)
- Disasters and accidents
- Health
- The FDA says that in regards to the 31-year-old policy against gay men making blood donations it will recommend lifting the lifetime ban early next year, replacing it with a policy barring donations from men who have had sex with another man in the previous 12 months. (AP)
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Current events of December 24, 2014 (2014-12-24) (Wednesday) |
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- Russia declares a state of emergency after oil from a Russian oil pipeline spills into the Black Sea near the port of Tuapse. (Reuters)
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Xinhua reports that on December 21 Chinese police in Guangxi shot dead one person and detained 21 others. China considers the group to be "religious extremists" who were trying to cross the border into Vietnam. (Reuters)
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Current events of December 25, 2014 (2014-12-25) (Thursday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
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- 2014 Russian financial crisis
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Current events of December 26, 2014 (2014-12-26) (Friday) |
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- The Special Investigation Division of Taiwan initiates a review stemming from allegations that President Ma Ying-jeou has received illegal political donations from Ting Hsin International Group, a disgraced conglomerate at the center of the recent food scandal. (Central News Agency)
- Sony Pictures Entertainment hack
- North Korea's embassy in Moscow issues a statement, saying: "The film The Interview, produced by the U.S. studio Sony Pictures, is a very dangerous film product that justifies and promotes terrorism." (Hollywood Reporter)
- Russian Foreign Ministry’s official spokesman Alexander Lukashevich says that "the mere idea of the film is aggressively scandalous and that the reaction of the North Korean side is very understandable." (TASS)
- A report says that even before the American Christmas Eve release of The Interview, thousands of Chinese citizens were downloading pirated versions of the movie on domestic video-sharing websites. By midday on December 26, more than 300,000 people had seen the film. (The New York Times)
- The Interview grosses US$1 million on Christmas Day at the box office despite being released only to small theaters. (CNN)
- Hackers cause the Playstation Network and Xbox Live to suffer connection difficulties on Christmas Day. (USA Today)
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Current events of December 27, 2014 (2014-12-27) (Saturday) |
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Disasters and accidents
- 2014 Southeast Asian floods
- Malaysia reports that at least five people are dead. (The Independent)
- Thailand's Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation reports that at least eight people are dead. (Bangkok Post)
- Politics and elections
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Current events of December 28, 2014 (2014-12-28) (Sunday) |
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Current events of December 29, 2014 (2014-12-29) (Monday) |
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Current events of December 30, 2014 (2014-12-30) (Tuesday) |
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Current events of December 31, 2014 (2014-12-31) (Wednesday) |
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Ongoing events |
Economic
Environmental
Health
Political
- Irish demonstrations against water tax
- Military intervention against ISIS
- Russian military intervention in Ukraine
- South Sudanese Civil War
- Unrest in Ferguson, Missouri
- More details on ongoing conflicts below
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Ongoing conflicts |
- Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant
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Elections |
- 8: Dominica, Parliament
- 10: Mauritius, Parliament
- 14: Japan, Parliament
- 17: Greece, President (1st round)
- 20: Liberia, Senate
- 21: Tunisia, President (2nd round)
- 21: Uzbekistan, Parliament (1st round)
- 23: Greece, President (2nd round)
- 28: Croatia, President (1st round)
- 29: Greece, President (3rd round)
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Trials |
Recently concluded
- Australia: Brett Peter Cowan, Craig Thomson, Robert Hughes
- Canada: Michael Thomas Rafferty, Luka Magnotta
- China: Li Daqiu, Liu Tienan
- Croatia: Ivo Sanader
- Egypt: Peter Greste
- Germany: Breno Borges
- Iran: Mohammad Reza Rahimi
- Italy: Silvio Berlusconi
- Jordan: Abu Qatada
- Netherlands: Ante Gotovina (ICTY), Mladen Markač (ICTY), Momčilo Perišić (ICTY), Germain Katanga (ICC)
- Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Pussy Riot
- Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
- South Africa: Chris Mahlangu, Oscar Pistorius
- Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko
- United Kingdom: Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, Levi Bellfield, Robert Black, Vincent Tabak, Ali Dizaei, Antoni Imiela, Brian Regan, Donna Air, Ched Evans, Clayton McDonald, Titus Bramble, Dan Penteado, John Terry, Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed, Asil Nadir, Justin Lee Collins, Kweku Adoboli, Tony McCluskie, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Chris Huhne, Nicola Edgington, Vicky Pryce, Derek Rose, Mick Philpott, Mairead Philpott, Paul Mosley, Kevin Liverpool, Junior Bradshaw, Aggro Santos, Stuart Hazell, Mark Bridger, Andrew Lancel, Dale Cregan, Ray Wilkins, Michael Le Vell, Liam Adams, R v Grillo and Grillo, Ian Watkins, William Roache, Dave Lee Travis, Nicholas Jacobs, Nigel Evans, Max Clifford, Stuart Hall, Dappy, Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Rolf Harris, Tulisa Contostavlos, Chris Denning, Ray Teret
- United States: Noshir Gowadia, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Casey Anthony, Conrad Murray, George Huguely, Allen Stanford, Roger Clemens, Jerry Sandusky, Jared Lee Loughner, Lauryn Hill, Kermit Gosnell, George Zimmerman, Chelsea Manning, Ariel Castro, Whitey Bulger, Robert Bales, Nidal Malik Hasan, Crystal Mangum, Abu Hamza al-Masri
Ongoing
- Brazil: Mensalão scandal
- Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
- China: Organized crime in Chongqing
- Egypt: Mohamed Morsi, Hosni Mubarak
- France: Church of Scientology
- Germany: Christian Wulff, Beate Zschäpe, Uli Hoeness, Bernie Ecclestone
- Hong Kong: Alfredo Lim
- Iran: Babak Zanjani
- Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
- Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
- Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY), Ratko Mladic (ICTY)
- Palau: Tommy Remengesau
- Philippines: Andal Ampatuan, Jr., Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Janet Lim-Napoles, Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., Imelda Marcos, Jovito Palparan
- Russia: Alexei Navalny
- South Africa: Shrien Dewani
- South Korea: MV Sewol crew members
- Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
- Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
- Turkey: Kenan Evren
- United Kingdom: Eddy Shah, Koo Stark
- United States: Jodi Arias
Upcoming
- France: Éric Raoult
- Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo
- Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
- Spain: Lionel Messi
- United Kingdom: Dane Bowers, Gary Glitter, Andy Coulson
- United States: Paul Anthony Ciancia, Javaris Crittenton, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Dylan Quick, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, James Eagan Holmes, Aaron Hernandez, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, Anas al-Libi, Bob McDonnell, Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, Rick Perry
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