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December 15, 2014 (Monday)

Disasters and accidents

A fire at a karaoke bar in China's Henan province kills at least 11 people. (IANS via The Hindu)
An emergency rescue SMURD helicopter crashes into Lake Siutghiol, Constanţa County, Romania with four people killed. (ABC)^{[permanent dead link‍]}
The death toll of the 2014 Indonesia landslide rises to 56. (AP via Fox News)

International relations

Philippine prosecutors charge a United States Marine with murder over the death of Jennifer Laude, a Filipino transgender woman. (The Washington Post)
Authorized by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Denmark becomes the first country to officially submit a claim on the North Pole. (UPI)
About ten thousand people, including those of Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the Occident (PEGIDA), protest in Germany against the presence of Muslims. (The Telegram)

Law and crime

2014 Sydney hostage crisis
- A gunman, Man Haron Monis, takes 17 people hostage at Lindt Chocolate Café in Martin Place, Sydney. (BBC) (ABC) (Melbourne Herald-Sun)
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania shootings
- A shooting spree kills six people throughout Montgomery County in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania suburbs. The suspect, Bradley William Stone, remains at large. (WPVI-TV) (Philadelphia Inquirer)
The Supreme Court of the United States rules by an 8–1 vote that evidence collected based on a reasonable misinterpretation of the law can be used at trial and is not deemed an unreasonable search or seizure. (Wall Street Journal)(Washington Post)
An appellate court in Vietnam upholds a 30-year prison sentence and convictions for Nguyen Duc Kien, a former businessman. (Tuoi Tre)

Politics and elections

2014 Hong Kong protests
- Authorities remove the last remaining protest camp, the one at Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. (Wall Street Journal)(BBC)
The United States Senate approves Vivek Murthy's nomination as Surgeon General by a 51–43 vote. (CBS)