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December 20, 2014
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2014-12-20
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Armed conflicts and attacks
War in North-West Pakistan
The
Pakistan Armed Forces
attacks two
Pakistani Taliban
positions near
Peshawar
, killing 5 militants.
(BBC)
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Israel
launches an airstrike against an alleged
Hamas
base near
Khan Yunis
in retaliation for a rocket attack.
(Euronews)
(The Jerusalem Post)
A bomb detonates in
Bani Jamra
,
Bahrain
, injuring 3 police officers.
(AP via
Wall Street Journal
)
Sony Pictures Entertainment hack
The
North Korean
government denies the
U.S.
Federal Bureau of Investigations
's (FBI) accusation of involvement in hacking Sony's computers, asking the U.S. for a joint investigation and threatening "serious consequences" if the
United States
refuses the offer of cooperation.
(Bloomberg)
The United States rejects the offer from North Korea and then seeks help
from China
instead.
(LA Times)
Hackers send the FBI an email linking to a
YouTube
video of "You are an idiot!"
(The Daily Beast)
(ITV)
Law and crime
Turkey
issues an arrest warrant for
Fethullah Gülen
, who currently lives in self-imposed exile in the
United States
.
(
New York Times
)
Cairns child killings
Queensland
police arrest an Australian mother for murder in the stabbing deaths of eight children.
(FOX News)
2014 NYPD officer killings
After shooting and wounding his ex-girlfriend in
Baltimore
, Ismaaiyl Brinsley shoots and
kills two policemen
execution style
in
Brooklyn
,
New York
, supposedly in revenge for the deaths of two black men in the U.S. reportedly caused by police officers during the summer of 2014,
Eric Garner
and
Michael Brown
. The gunman is later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the
subway
.
(CNN)
(AP via CBS)
Hundreds of people from the group
Black Lives Matter
Minneapolis protest at the
Mall of America
, leading to its partial shutdown and 25 arrests.
(USA Today)
Science and technology
In preparation for a government-proposed transportation tunnel,
anthropologists
discover 6,000-year-old
charcoal
at a site near
Stonehenge
suggesting an encampment existed much earlier than previously theorized.
(Huffington Post)
(The Telegraph)
(University of Buckingham)
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