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The date of 16 December is the anniversary of the 1961 founding of Umkhonto we Sizwe ("Spear of the Nation" or MK), the armed wing of the ANC. [1] On that day, Umkhonto we Sizwe enacted its "first acts of sabotage" which included bomb blasts against government buildings in Johannesburg , Port Elizabeth and Durban . [ 19 ]
Armed conflicts and attacks. Syrian civil war. Fall of the Assad regime. Syrian mass graves. A recently created mass grave containing the bodies of 17 executed Syrian Army soldiers is discovered in the Syrian Desert near Deir ez-Zor.
The beginning of the nine-day celebration beginning December 16 and ending December 24, celebrating the trials which Mary and Joseph endured before finding a place to stay where Jesus could be born : The first day of Las Posadas (Mexico, Latin America) The first day of the Simbang Gabi novena of masses (Philippines)
[13] [22] [31] [16] [32] However, in early December 2017, following the ANC provincial general congresses, the party branches in Gauteng, Limpopo, the Northern Cape, the Eastern Cape, and the Western Cape nominated Ramaphosa for the presidency; KwaZulu-Natal, the North West, Mpumalanga, and the Free State nominated Dlamini-Zuma. [33]
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Disasters Japan declares the stricken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in cold shutdown. (Kyodo) The death toll from an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease in Vietnam reaches 156 with 96,000 people having been sick with the disease as at the end of November 2011. (AP via Washington Post) International relations The United States and North Korea are expected to hold diplomatic talks ...
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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.