Portal:Current events/2014 December 3
December 3, 2014
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2014-12-03
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(Wednesday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Somali Civil War
A
suicide bomber
attacks a
United Nations
convoy near
Aden Adde International Airport
killing six people.
(AP)
(BBC)
International relations
Foreign ministers from members of
NATO
attend a summit in
Belgium
to discuss the
2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
and the
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant
insurgency.
(Xinhua)
Transparency International
issues its 2014
Corruption Perceptions Index
with
Denmark
achieving the highest rating and
North Korea
and
Somalia
tied with the lowest ranking.
(Reuters)
Law and crime
Italian
police arrest a mix of mafia gangsters, corrupt politicians, and one former terrorist in a
corruption scandal
exploiting migrants and gipsies.
(Telegraph)
Politics and elections
The
Israeli
parliament- the
Knesset
votes to dissolve the government and hold
early election
on March 17.
(Haaretz)
Less than three months after winning the
general election
,
Prime Minister of Sweden
Stefan Löfven
calls a
snap general election
after parliament rejected his government's budget proposal.
(BBC)
Science and technology
The
Japanese
space agency,
JAXA
, launches the space explorer
Hayabusa2
from the
Tanegashima Space Center
on a six-year roundtrip mission to the asteroid
(162173) 1999 JU3
to collect rock samples.
(AP)
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