Current events: 2025-12-23

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War on drugs, Operation Southern Spear
  • 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers
    • The United States Southern Command announces it struck an alleged drug boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing one person. (ABC)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • The Pakistani Taliban detonates a bomb and shoots at a police van in Karak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, killing five officers. (Reuters)
• Israeli settler violence
  • Five masked Israeli settlers violently break into a Palestinian house in the southern West Bank, killing three sheep, injuring four others, and fire tear gas into the living quarters. Three children under the age of four are taken to hospital after the tear gas attack. (Los Angeles Times)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Siversk front of the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces confirms their withdrawal from the city of Siversk in Donetsk Oblast. (upday)
• Yemeni civil war
  • In an agreement mediated by United Nations special envoy office and the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council and the Houthis release a joint 2,900 detainees held throughout the civil war. (AP)

Business and economy

• The Italian Competition Authority fines Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair €255 million (US$300 million) for allegedly abusing its dominant market position from April 2023 to April 2025 by restricting how travel agencies sell its flights. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Harmony Jets Flight 185
  • A Dassault Falcon 50 carrying Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, the Libyan Army chief, and four other passengers crashes approximately two kilometers south of Kesikkavak, Haymana, Ankara, Turkey. No survivors are reported. (Al Jazeera)
• At least two people are killed and five others are reported missing in an explosion and fire at a nursing home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. (WPVI-TV)
• A tank truck explodes on a highway in Teano, Campania, Italy. The number of casualties is unknown. (Times Now)

Law and crime

• Corruption in Romania
  • Romanian president Nicușor Dan announces an investigation into alleged systemic abuses within the judiciary after judges and prosecutors report intimidation and undue influence by the High Court of Cassation and Justice. (Reuters)
• Zagreb school stabbing
  • A Croatian man is sentenced to 50 years in prison for fatally stabbing a 7-year-old student at Prečko Elementary School in Zagreb in December 2024. (AP)
• Crime in Delaware
  • Two people are killed, including the suspect and a state trooper, and three others are injured in a shooting at a department of motor vehicles building in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. (WPVI-TV) (WBOC-TV)

Politics and elections

• 2026 Portuguese presidential election
  • A court in Lisbon, Portugal, orders Chega presidential candidate André Ventura to remove campaign posters targeting the Romani people within 24 hours, ruling that the materials are discriminatory and may incite hatred, or face daily fines of €2,500 (US$2,940) per poster. (Reuters)

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