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Revision as of 17:51, 20 December 2024
December 20, 2024 (2024-12-20) (Friday)Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kryvyi Rih strikes, Kyiv strikes
- At least one person is killed and eight people are injured in Russian missile strikes on civilian infrastructure in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and Kyiv, Ukraine. (The Kyiv Independent) (Reuters)
- Kryvyi Rih strikes, Kyiv strikes
Disasters and accidents
- European migrant crisis
- Twenty people are killed after a shipwreck off the coasts of Tunisia. (AP)
International relations
- Australia–Solomon Islands relations
- Australia agrees to provide Solomon Islands with a package of financing, training, and infrastructure support worth AU$190 million (US$118 million) over four years to strengthen its police force, as part of a renewed security partnership between the two nations. (France 24)
- Hungary–Poland relations
- Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs summons Hungary's ambassador to protest the Hungarian government's decision to grant asylum to former Polish deputy justice minister Marcin Romanowski, who is wanted for alleged corruption. Poland also recalls its ambassador to Hungary Sebastian Kęciek for consultations. (AP)
Law and crime
- 2024 Zagreb school stabbing
- A child is killed and seven people are wounded during a mass stabbing at a primary school in Zagreb, Croatia. The 19-year-old perpetrator is arrested. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- A congressional bill supported by US President-elect Donald Trump to enforce a two-year suspension of the federal debt limit to maintain the full operation of the U.S. federal government service is rejected in the Republican majority U.S. House of Representatives, with multiple House Republicans and nearly all House Democrats opposing. A government shutdown is set to occur if no bill is passed by midnight. (BBC)
- Politics of Macau
- Sam Hou Fai is sworn in as the new Chief Executive of Macau Special Administrative Region, China, suceeding Ho Iat Seng. (RTHK)