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December 2, 2022
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2022-12-02
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Afghanistan conflict
Two men disguised in
burqas
attack a
mosque
in
Kabul
while former
Afghan
prime minister
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
is inside. The attackers killed a
civilian
and injured two others before being shot dead by
security guards
. Hekmatyar was not injured in the attack.
(ANInews)
Disasters and accidents
2022 Sheffield gas supply outage
A burst
water main
in the
Stannington
area of
Sheffield
,
England
, floods the local natural gas supply network, leaving thousands of properties without a gas supply.
(BBC News)
International relations
2021–2022 global energy crisis
International sanctions during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
2022 Russian oil price cap
Australia
, the
European Union
, and the
G7
member states decide to impose a
US$
60-per-barrel
price ceiling
on
Russian seaborne oil
.
(AP)
The
United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
adds
Cuba
,
Nicaragua
, and the
Russian
paramilitary
organization
Wagner Group
to its
blacklist
of countries and organizations violating international
religious freedom
, signalling possible sanctions by the
U.S. government
.
(AFP via France 24)
Law and crime
Russia–Ukraine relations
Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
signs a
decree
that
bans
religious organizations
with links to
Russia
and imposes personal sanctions against their representatives. Zelenskyy also announces that the
Ukrainian government
will draft a
law
banning churches affiliated with Russia, which he says is necessary in order to counter
Russian government
efforts to "weaken
Ukraine
from within."
(AP)
(Reuters)
The
Indonesian parliament
announces that it will pass a new Criminal Code to replace the current one, which dates back from its
colonial era
.
(Reuters)
The
United States Department of Justice
announces that the
Swedish
-
Swiss
corporation
ABB
has acceded to a
US$
315-million fine for violating the
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
by extorting the
South African state-owned
public utility
Eskom
to secure government contracts from 2014 to 2017.
(AFP via RFI)
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