Portal:Current events/2014 December 30
Appearance
December 30, 2014
(Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Iraqi insurgency
- Iraqi government forces and allied Shia militia recapture the town of Dhuluiya in Saladin Province, north of Baghdad, from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. (BBC)
- Somali civil war
Arts and culture
- Luise Rainer, German-born American actress (The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth), Academy Award winner (1936, 1937), dies of pneumonia at the age of 104. (BBC)
Disasters and accidents
- Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501
- Indonesian officials confirm that at least three bodies have been recovered from the Java Sea off Borneo. (BBC) (CBS)
- 2014 Southeast Asian floods
- Flooding and the death toll continues in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- A court in Moscow hands down a 3+1⁄2-year suspended sentence for corruption to Alexei Navalny, a prominent anti-Putin activist. (The Denver Post)
- In three separate, but connected, crime scenes in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, a suicidal man kills eight people and then himself. (Irish Times)