Current events: 2024-12-23

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Armed conflicts and attacks

Somali Civil War
- Constitutional crisis in Somalia
  - Jubaland crisis
    - Heavy clashes erupts between Jubaland forces backed by the Ethiopian ENDF and Somali armed forces in Doolow, with Colonel Qoorgaab being killed by a roadside bomb. After the battle Jubaland forces take control of Doolow, Gedo Region. (Garowe Online) (Hiiraan Online)
    - Badhadhe District mayor, Hassan Nuur Cabdi, survives an ambush attack which resulted in at least five of his security personnel killed and one more injured as they traveled to Kulbiyow town, in Badhadhe, Lower Juba. (Idil News) (Hiiraan Online)

Business and economy

Disasters and accidents

Three people are killed and another is wounded after a series of severe storms in Rome, Italy, while two more people are missing on the Gran Sasso d'Italia massif. (Roma Today) (Roma Today 2) (Il Messaggero)

Law and crime

Capital punishment by the United States federal government
- U.S. President Joe Biden commutes the death sentences of 37 out of the 40 federal death row inmates to life imprisonment. The exceptions are Dylann Roof, Robert Gregory Bowers, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who received death sentences for terrorism or hate-motivated mass murder-related crimes. (CBS News)
A man is arrested and charged for animal cruelty for shooting and killing 98 kangaroos on a military base in Singleton, New South Wales, Australia. (News.com.au)
A man is arrested in New York City, New York, United States, after immolating a woman yesterday aboard a subway train. It is believed that the victim was chosen at random. (Al Jazeera)
Minas Gerais road crash
- The suspected truck driver that caused a multiple-vehicle collision and killed at least 41 people in Teófilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil, turns himself in to the local authorities. (R7) (G1)