Current events: 2023-12-28

Wikipedia Current Events · Dec 28, 2023

Armed conflicts and attacks

Mexican Drug War
- Gunmen from the La Familia Michoacana drug cartel kidnap 14 people from Texcaltitlan, Mexico as retaliation for a previous incident where 10 cartel members were killed by residents of the town. (AP) Disasters and accidents
At least 13 people are killed when a bus catches fire after colliding head-on with a truck on a highway in Guna district, Madhya Pradesh, India. (India Today)
At least 10 people are killed and 57 others injured by a multiple-vehicle collision on a motorway in Sakarya Province, Turkey. (AP via New Haven Register)

International relations

Bulgaria and Romania reach an agreement to become members of the Schengen Area through sea and air routes in March, while discussions regarding the opening of land borders are scheduled to commence next year. (Le Monde)

Law and crime

Capital punishment in Qatar
- A court in Qatar reduces the sentences of eight retired Indian Navy officers who had been sentenced to death for spying. (AP)
Law in the United States
- American woman Gypsy Rose Blanchard is released early from prison after serving seven of a ten year sentence for conspiring in the murder of her mother Dee Dee Blanchard in 2015. (BBC)

Politics and elections