Current events: 2023-12-08

Wikipedia Current Events · Dec 8, 2023

Armed conflicts and attacks

2023 Guayana Esequiba crisis
- Amid growing border tensions between Guyana and Venezuela, the U.S. embassy in Guyana announces that the United States Southern Command will conduct joint flight operations with the Guyana Defence Force. (Reuters)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  - The Kiel Institute reports that pledges of aid to Ukraine have been significantly scaled back, falling to their lowest level since the start of the war. Aid promised to Ukraine between August and October 2023 fell almost 90 percent from the same period in 2022. (Al Jazeera)
- Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
  - Russia launches 19 cruise missiles from Tu-95s at Ukrainian cities, including the capital Kyiv, killing at least one civilian in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and injuring several others. At least 14 missiles are intercepted. (Reuters)
Syrian civil war
- Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
  - Syria says an Israeli airstrike has killed four people in a vehicle in Madinat al-Baath, Quneitra Governorate. Local media reports the victims were affiliated with Iran-backed militias. Shortly after the airstrike, rocket sirens are triggered in Israel's Galilee region. (''The Jerusalem Post)
2023 Israel–Hamas war
- The Gaza Antiquities Ministry reports that the Great Mosque of Gaza, the oldest mosque in the Gaza Strip, was destroyed by Israeli bombardment. (South China Morning Post)

International relations

Politics and elections

2023 Guatemalan general election
- The Attorney General's Office says that the results of the 2023 general election, won by Bernardo Arévalo, are "null and void" and should be "annulled". The Organization of American States condemned the actions and called them an "attempted coup d'état". (Prensa Libre) (Prensa Libre) (Prensa Libre)