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December 27, 2022
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2022-12-27
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Russo-Ukrainian War
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Battle of the Svatove-Kreminna line
Ukrainian forces
claim that they are closing in on the city of
Kreminna
in
Luhansk Oblast
. According to governor
Serhiy Haidai
,
Russian fighters
in some parts of the city were forced to retreat to neighboring
Rubizhne
.
(
The Guardian
)
Disasters and accidents
2022 Northern Mindanao floods
The death toll from
monsoon
floods in the
Philippines
has increased to 32, with 24 others still missing. Eighteen of the deaths occurred in
Northern Mindanao
.
(AP)
2022 Omdurman bus crash
Sixteen people are killed when a bus collides with a
dump truck
on the outskirts of
Omdurman
,
Khartoum
,
Sudan
.
(Reuters)
International relations
International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
2022 Russian oil price cap
Russian president
Vladimir Putin
issues a
decree
to prohibit the exports of
Russian oil and petroleum products
to countries and organizations that adhere to the
US$
60-per-barrel
price cap
that
Australia
, the
European Union
, and the
G7
member states agreed upon earlier this month. The decree will be in effect from February 1 to July 1.
(AFP via NDTV)
Law and crime
Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot
A federal judge in
Michigan
,
United States
,
sentences
a man to 16 years in prison for plotting to
kidnap
Michigan governor
Gretchen Whitmer
in 2020. The man was also
convicted
of
conspiring
to use a
weapon of mass destruction
.
(CNN)
Title 42 expulsion
The
Supreme Court of the United States
rules 5–4 to maintain
Title 42 of the U.S. Code
, allowing the
government
to remove persons who have recently been in a country where an
infectious disease
was present.
(AFP via RFI)
South Korean president
Yoon Suk-yeol
pardons
former president
Lee Myung-bak
as part of a mass pardon aimed at "national unity". Lee had been serving a 17-year sentence for
corruption
.
(Al Jazeera)
The
Taiwanese government
announces that it would extend the required duration for
conscription
from four months to one year, citing the increasing threat of
China
using
military force
to pursue
Chinese unification
. The reform, which will apply to men born after January 1, 2005, will take effect in 2024.
(AFP via SBS World News)
Sports
2022–23 NBA season
Slovenian
point guard
Luka Dončić
of the
Dallas Mavericks
scores the first 60-point
triple-double
in the
National Basketball Association
, the premier men's
professional basketball
league
in the world, after recording 60
points
, 21
rebounds
, and 10
assists
in the Mavericks' 126–121
overtime
win against the
New York Knicks
in
Dallas
.
(BBC Sport)
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