Current events: 2022-12-23

Wikipedia Current Events · Dec 23, 2022

Armed conflicts and attacks

Terrorism in France
- 2022 Paris shooting
  - Three people are killed and four others are injured during a mass shooting at a Kurdish community center in Paris, France. The perpetrator, a 69-year-old Frenchman, is arrested. (BBC News)
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- A police officer is killed and ten other people are injured when two Pakistani Taliban insurgents blow themselves up in a car outside a police station in Islamabad, Pakistan. (AP)

Business and economy

2021–2022 inflation surge
- Economy of Japan
  - Japan's internal affairs ministry reports that the country had experienced its highest level of inflation since 1981 last month after core consumer prices increased by 3.7 percent from November 2021. (AFP via Manila Bulletin)

Disasters and accidents

2022–23 North American winter
- Late December 2022 North American winter storm
  - At least 200 million people, two-thirds of the population of the United States, are under weather warning advisories. In New York, the state issues a travel ban due to extreme temperatures. Additionally, one million people across the country are left without power. (The New York Times)
  - At least 11 people are killed as a result of the storm. (The Weather Channel)
Sixteen people are killed when a bus falls into a gorge in Sikkim, India. (Reuters)

Health and environment

Law and crime

French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who had received a life sentence in Nepal for murdering multiple tourists in 1975, is released from prison due to his old age and good behaviour in accordance with a Supreme Court order. He is deported to France and will not be able to return to Nepal for at least ten years. (AFP via NDTV)