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Business and economy The United States sells 84 F-15 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. (Reuters) Disasters At least 15 people are killed and dozens injured in an explosion in the Burmese city of Rangoon. (BBC) At least 14 people die in a multi-vehicle accident on the Pan American Highway on the outskirts of the Venezuelan capital Caracas. (El Universal) Mount Cleveland, a volcano in the U.S. state ...
Armed conflicts and attacks. Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian strikes against infrastructure. 29 December 2023 Russian strikes on Ukraine. Russia launches the largest wave of drones and missiles on Ukrainian cities since the start of the war in a widespread overnight assault across the country, killing at least 39 people and injuring at least 160 others.
Disasters and accidents 12 Vietnamese sailors are missing after a cargo ship sinks in the South China Sea. 11 other crew were rescued. (Saigon Daily) An Antonov An-22 cargo plane crashes during training in Russia's Tula region, killing 12 crew. (BBC) (Times of India) (RIA Novosti) International relations A proposed draft resolution calling on the United Nations Security Council to criticise ...
Business and economy The Bank of Italy says in a statement that the country's treasury will have to put up around 6.6 billion euros to rescue Monte dei Paschi given the European Central Bank's estimate of Monte dei Paschi's capital shortfall. (Reuters) Disasters and accidents At least 50 people drown and thousands are left homeless due to flooding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
Law and crime A 23-year-old Indian woman who was gang-raped on a bus in Delhi on December 16 dies of her injuries at a hospital in Singapore. (BBC) Politics and elections Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher leaves hospital after undergoing surgery to remove a tumour. (BBC) US Senate passes H.R. 5949, FISA Amendments Act Reauthorization Act, which extends the Foreign ...
A suicide bomb attack at the Volgograd-1 railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd kills at least 16 people and wounds 40 others., , Syrian Civil War. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says barrels packed with explosives dropped from Syrian Air Force aircraft have killed 517 people in the northern province of Aleppo since 15 December.