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December 17, 2014
(
2014-12-17
)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
War in North-West Pakistan
2014 Peshawar school attack
Pakistan
lifts the
moratorium
on the
death penalty
for terror-related cases following the
Taliban's
assault on a school in
Peshawar
on Tuesday that killed 141, including 132 children.
(The Guardian)
Sony Pictures Entertainment hack
Sony cancels the
New York City
sneak preview of the upcoming 2014 film
The Interview
, originally scheduled for December 18, due to threatening messages by
hackers
.
(USA Today)
Sony cancels the release of
The Interview
, originally scheduled for
Christmas
2014.
(CNN)
Business and economy
Spanish energy company
Repsol
acquires Canadian energy producer
Talisman Energy
for
$
13 billion including debt.
(Reuters)
International relations
The
United States
and
Cuba
re-establish
diplomatic relations
after severing them 55 years ago. An
American embassy
will open in
Havana
and talks to lift the
embargo
will begin.
(
The Daily Beast
)
The
European Union
removes
Hamas
from its list of terrorist organizations.
(
Reuters
)
Law and crime
The
Chinese Communist Party
, through the
Supreme People's Procuratorate
, indicts former
Nanjing
mayor
Ji Jianye
on bribery and corruption.
(AP via Denver Post)
The U.S. attorney's office indicts Gregory Conigliaro and Barry Cadden, co-founders of the
New England Compounding Center
in
Framingham, Mass.
, along with 12 former employees, on federal racketeering for a
fungal meningitis
outbreak
that killed 64 people in seven states in the fall of 2012.
(AP)
Politics and elections
The
Parliament of Greece
fails
to elect a new president
in the first round of voting.
(ABC News)
Sport
FIFA
's independent ethics investigator
Michael J. Garcia
resigns from that position in protest over the organization's handling of
his compiled report on corruption allegations
in connection with the bidding process for the
2018
and
2022
FIFA World Cups
.
(BBC)
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