Portal:Current events/2022 December 6
December 6, 2022 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Afghanistan conflict
- Seven people are killed when a vehicle carrying oil workers hits a roadside bomb in Balkh Province. (Reuters)
- Six people are injured in an explosion at a money exchange market in Jalalabad, Nangarhar Province. (Reuters)
- South Thailand insurgency
- Three people are killed and four others are injured in a bombing near Khlong Ngae railway station, Phang Nga, Thailand. (AP)
Business and economy
- 2021–2022 inflation surge
- 2022 food crises
- Economy of the Philippines
- Inflation in the Philippines reaches a 14-year record high of 8% due to increases in food prices. (CNBC)
- Economy of the Philippines
- 2022 food crises
- Boeing 747
- The 1,574th and final Boeing 747, an Atlas Air 747-8 Freighter, is rolled out from the Boeing Everett Factory. (CNBC)
International relations
- Accession of Kosovo to the European Union
- President of Kosovo Vjosa Osmani announces that the country will submit an application for membership of the European Union by the end of the year. (TVP World)
Law and crime
- New York investigations of The Trump Organization
- A jury finds the Trump Organization guilty of tax fraud charges. (The New York Times)
- 2022 Honduran gang crackdown
- Honduras begins a partial state of exception in most of the country as part of an attempt to reduce the amount of violent organized crime. (CNN en Español)
- Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is sentenced to six years in prison on corruption charges, with Kirchner also receiving a lifetime ban on holding public office. (Reuters) (The Brazilian Report)
Politics and elections
- 2022 United States Senate election in Georgia
- Voters in the U.S. state of Georgia go to the polls to elect their next Senator in a runoff election between the Democratic incumbent candidate Raphael Warnock and Republican candidate Herschel Walker. (The Guardian)
- Warnock wins re-election, bringing the Democratic majority in the Senate up to 51–49. (AP)
- 2022 Dominican general election
- Dominicans go to the polls to elect the members of the House of Assembly. (CARICOM Daily)
- The People's Representative Council of Indonesia replaces the country's colonial-era criminal code with a new code that criminalizes premarital and extramarital sex and cohabitation, among other changes. (AFP via New Straits Times)