December 14, 2023 (2023-12-14) (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
Business and economy
Disasters and accidents
International relations
Law and crime
- Bloody Sunday
- Disappearance of Alex Batty
- Alex Batty, a British boy who went missing in Spain in 2017 when he was 11, is found alive in France. (BBC News)
- A United States Navy officer, Ridge Alkonis, jailed in Japan after being found guilty of the negligent driving deaths of two local civilians, has been transferred into American custody, where he was booked into a federal detention center. (AP)
- Ex-FBI agent Charles McGonigal is sentenced to over four years in prison for violating U.S. sanctions on Russia, including laundering money for oligarch Oleg Deripaska. (BBC News)
- Hong Kong police announce HK$1 million (US$128,000) bounties for five activists residing overseas, including Simon Cheng, charging them with inciting secession under the national security law. (AFP via CNN-News18)
- The New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal acquits Kathleen Folbigg, overturning her 2003 conviction for the deaths of her four children, following new scientific evidence revealing rare genetic mutations as the cause of the deaths. (AFP via NDTV)
- Online marketplace company Temu files a lawsuit against online fashion retailer Shein, accusing Shein of "mafia-style intimidation of suppliers". (CNBC)