Current events: 2022-12-29

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
      • Russia carries out a wave of drone and cruise missile strikes on Ukraine, with strikes reported in the cities of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Lviv and Zhytomyr, injuring at least three people. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Second Gyeongin Expressway fire
  • Five people are killed and 37 others injured after a fire on the Second Gyeongin Expressway near Seoul, South Korea. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• Eighteen children in Uzbekistan die after drinking a cough syrup manufactured by Indian drug maker Marion Biotech. (BBC News)

International relations

• 2022 North Kosovo crisis
  • Following talks with Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić, barricades erected by ethnic Serbs in North Kosovo begin being dismantled. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• Thirty-seventh government of Israel
  • Benjamin Netanyahu is sworn in as the prime minister of Israel for the third time in his political career. He heads what has been called Israel's "most right-wing government in history." (CNN)

Law and crime

• Social media influencer and former professional kickboxer Andrew Tate is arrested in Romania in relation to allegations of human trafficking and production of child pornography. (Antena 3 - CNN)

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