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Former Chinese domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang (pictured) is arrested and expelled from the Communist Party of China. NASA successfully conducts the maiden flight of its Orion spacecraft. Dozens of people are killed or injured in clashes between security forces and insurgents in Grozny, Chechen Republic, Russia. In Canadian football, the Calgary Stampeders defeat the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to win the Grey Cup. Australian Test cricketer Phillip Hughes dies after being struck in the neck by a ball bowled to him. A previously unknown copy of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, dated to 1623, is discovered at a library in Saint-Omer, near Calais, France. Recent deaths: Queen Fabiola of Belgium – Jean Béliveau – Go Seigen

Current events of December 7, 2014 (2014-12-07) (Sunday) Armed conflicts and attacks Syrian Civil War The Israeli Air Force bombs two Syrian Armed Forces bases near Damascus and the town of Dimas, according to a statement carried on Syrian state TV. The Syrian government described the air strikes as "direct aggression" carried out to help the Syrian government's opponents. (BBC News) Allied Democratic Forces insurgency Ugandan rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces and National Army for the Liberation of Uganda kill 36 people on the Democratic Republic of the Congo's North Kivu province. (Reuters/AFP via ABC News) Disasters and accidents Typhoon Hagupit The death toll from Typhoon Hagupit in the Philippines is at least three as the storm weakens. (BBC) International relations Philippines v. China China condemns the Philippines over the latter's "pressure" over the South China Sea despite the weakness of the Armed Forces of the Philippines against China's People's Liberation Army. (The Sunday Times), (Bloomberg) Politics and elections United States elections, 2014 Democrat Mary Landrieu loses her bid for a fourth term representing Louisiana in the United States Senate to Republican congressman Bill Cassidy in Saturday's runoff election, called since no candidate had obtained a clear majority in the November 4, 2014 general election. Landrieu had topped eight candidates with 42.8 percent. This is the Republicans' ninth Senate-seat pickup in this year's elections, increasing the GOP majority to 54 seats. (USA Today) (Newsweek) (Louisiana Secretary of State) Current events of December 6, 2014 (2014-12-06) (Saturday) Armed conflicts and attacks 2014 hostage rescue operations in Yemen An American civilian and a South African civilian are killed during an attempt to rescue them by U.S. Navy SEALs in Yemen. They were being held hostage by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. (CNN) 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping The first of the 43 missing students in Guerrero is confirmed dead after forensic specialists identified his body. His remains were located at a municipal dump in Cocula, Guerrero. (El Universal) Syrian Civil War The Syrian Army repels an ISIL offensive on the Deir ez-Zor air base, resulting in at least 119 casualties total. (Khaleej Times) Disasters and accidents Typhoon Hagupit (Ruby), a strong tropical cyclone, makes landfall hitting the Philippines with at least one person dead. (BBC) Law and crime 2014 Ferguson unrest, Death of Eric Garner Demonstrations continue for a third day in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Jacksonville, Miami, and Washington, D.C. where protesters perform "die-ins" over the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. (The New York Times) (Boston.com) Science and Technology NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reawakened at 8:00 PM UTC in preparation for observing the dwarf planet Pluto and its satellites. New Horizons, launched on January 19, 2006, will begin distant observations on January 15, 2015.(Sky and Telescope) (L.A. Times) Current events of December 5, 2014 (2014-12-05) (Friday) Armed conflicts and attacks Kashmir insurgency: An attack on a military camp leaves 11 Indian soldiers and police dead near Uri. Eight militants and two civilians are killed in that and concurrent attacks in the state capital, Srinagar, and a part of southern Kashmir. (Reuters) Terrorism in Somalia A suicide bomb attack kills at least 10 at a restaurant in Baidoa. (Al Jazeera) Business and economy A judge in the Netherlands declares Dutch clothing company Mexx bankrupt. The bankruptcy ruling affects over 300 stores worldwide, including 95 locations in Canada. (CBC News) Disasters and accidents Italian rescue crews discover 17 bodies in the hull of a migrant ship off Libya. (FOX News) International Relations The British Museum announces that it will loan one of the Elgin Marbles in its collection, originally taken from Greece, to the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras calls the move "a provocation to the Greek people." (CNN) Law and Crime China's Supreme People's Procuratorate arrests former Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang on corruption charges and expells him from the Communist Party of China. (BBC) Bill Cosby files a counter-lawsuit against the woman who accused him of sexual assault, claiming she attempted to extort money from him. (BBC) Rolling Stone Magazine issues a partial retraction on Sabrina Erdely's "A Rape on Campus" story after additional fact checking identifies "discrepancies" in the account of the University of Virginia young woman identified as "Jackie" who alleged that seven men raped her as she lay on broken glass during a party at U.Va.'s Phi Kappa Psi fraternity in 2012. (Rolling Stone) (Washington Post) (TimesDispatch) Science and Technology The first flight test of NASA's Orion spacecraft launches successfully at 7:05 EST (12:05 UTC) and splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean at 8:29 PST (16:29 UTC). (CNN) Current events of December 4, 2014 (2014-12-04) (Thursday) Armed conflicts and attacks 2014 Grozny clashes: Islamic insurgents kill three state police at a traffic circle before taking an empty school and a "press house" in Grozny. Ten state forces die with 28 injured in gun battles ending with ten insurgents killed. (RT) Iraqi insurgency: Bombings in Kirkuk and Shia Muslim sections of Baghdad kill at least 33 people. (Al Jazeera) Disasters and accidents Tens of thousands of people evacuate ahead of Typhoon Hagupit (Ruby) which is expected to strike the Philippines. (BBC) An estimated 3000m³ of crude oil from a damaged pipeline leak into a nature reservation in Arava desert in southern Israel. (DW) (Ynetnews) Law and crime Death of Eric Garner: Protests erupt in New York City after a grand jury decides not to indict any police officers in the death of Garner. (CNN) Current events of December 3, 2014 (2014-12-03) (Wednesday) Armed conflicts and attacks Somali Civil War A suicide bomber attacks a United Nations convoy near Aden Adde International Airport killing six people. (AP) (BBC) International relations Foreign ministers from members of NATO attend a summit in Belgium to discuss the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant insurgency. (Xinhua) Transparency International issues its 2014 Corruption Perceptions Index with Denmark achieving the highest rating and North Korea and Somalia tied with the lowest ranking. (Reuters) Politics and elections The Israeli parliament- the Knesset votes to dissolve the government and hold early election on March 17. (Haaretz) Less than three months after winning the general election, Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Lofven calls a snap general election after parliament rejected his government's budget proposal. (BBC) Science and technology The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer Hayabusa 2 from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year roundtrip mission to the asteroid (162173) 1999 JU3 to collect rock samples. (AP) Current events of December 2, 2014 (2014-12-02) (Tuesday) Armed conflict and attacks War in Somalia The Red Cross says that at least 36 people may be dead following an attack in Mandera County in northeastern Kenya. Al-Shabaab militants are believed to be responsible. (Bloomberg via Business Week), (Reuters via New York Times) Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon Unidentified gunmen kill 6 Lebanese soldiers near the eastern town of Ras Baalbek. (Al Jazeera) Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant The Lebanese government arrests a wife and daughter of ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (NBC News) Business and economy Reuters reveals, based on three anonymous sources, that a major Switzerland based commodities firm, Trafigura, played a "pivotal" role in the ability of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq to export oil, exports that the central government in Baghdad has prohibited. (Reuters) Health Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa Sierra Leone quarantines the Tonkolili district with more than half the country under lockdown and the official death toll in the country reaching 1,530 and roughly 7,109 infected. (Daily Mail) International relations South Korea approves a plan by the Christian Council of Korea to set up a large Christmas tree near the border with North Korea despite ongoing tensions. (AP via Daily Mail) Law and crime Greek anarchists burn a public transport bus and several cars during clashes with police in central Athens. (AP) The FBI launches a probe into a massive hacking attack on Sony Pictures, believing the leadership of North Korea to be responsible. (FOX News) An Egyptian court sentences 185 people to death over their alleged involvement in a lethal attack on a police station on the outskirts of Cairo. (Reuters via Egyptian Independent) Politics and elections Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu fires Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and Finance Minister Yair Lapid amid the imminent breakup of the government coalition and dissolution of the Knesset ahead of new elections. (Times of Israel) The Sweden Democrats decide to vote for the opposition's budget proposal, likely forcing the collapse of Prime Minister Stefan Löfven's new government that came to power in the September elections. (ABC News) 2014 Hong Kong protests C. Y. Leung, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, warns pro-democracy activists not to return to the streets after yesterday's clashes. (BBC) The Parliament of Ukraine approves the formation of a new government that includes three foreigners who have received Ukrainian citizenship just hours before the vote: Georgian-born Alexander Kvitashvili, US-national Natalie Jaresko and Lithuanian Aivaras Abromavičius. (Al Jazeera) (AP via ABC News) Current events of December 1, 2014 (2014-12-01) (Monday) Armed conflicts and attacks Iraqi insurgency The Prime Minister of Iraq Haidar al-Abadi promises a crackdown on corruption after an audit shows that there were 50,000 ghost soldiers in the Army. (AFP via ABC News Australia) The Iraq Prime Minister fires 24 Interior Ministry officials while the Islamic State kills at least 15 police officers near the border with Syria. (AP via Daily Mail) Naxalite-Maoist insurgency Maoist rebels kill 14 Central Reserve Police Force members in an ambush in Chhattisgarh, Central India. (BBC) Islamist insurgency in Nigeria: Dual Boko Haram attacks in Maiduguri and Damaturu leave at least 77 dead, including 33 police, 6 soldiers, and 20 militants. (CBS) War in Afghanistan: A suicide bomb kills at least nine, including two policemen, at a funeral for a tribal elder in Baghlan Province, northern Afghanistan. (Al Jazeera) Disasters and accidents A search continues for 52 people missing from a South Korean fishing vessel, the Oriong-501, that sank early in the morning in bad weather in the Bering Sea off Russia's Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. Eight people have been rescued including one person who subsequently died. (Voice of America) Health World AIDS Day: Researchers claim that the pandemic has reached a tipping point where the number of people receiving treatment in a year was greater than the number of new cases. (U.S. Presidential Proclamation), (Reuters) International relations Russia abandons its plans for the South Stream pipeline to Bulgaria due to European Union objections instead looking at a pipeline to Turkey. (Reuters) The United Nations World Food Program suspends a food program for 1.7 million Syrian refugees after donor countries fail to meet their commitments. (AP via CBC) Russia launches a new national defense facility in Moscow meant to monitor threats to national security in peacetime but take control of the country in wartime. (RT) Law and crime A group of 30 armed men raid Papua New Guinea's Lae Nadzab Airport holding passengers hostage and ransacking offices. (ABC News Australia) Politics and elections Former Polish prime minister Donald Tusk becomes the second full-time President of the European Union. (EUobserver) Moldovan parliamentary election, 2014 Moldova's pro-European parties begin consultations on forming a coalition as near-complete results show them gaining 54 seats in the 101-seat parliament. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) 2014 Hong Kong protests Pro-democracy demonstrators and the Hong Kong Police Force clash outside the headquarters of the Government of Hong Kong. Dozens of people are arrested. (New York Times), (AP via Fox News) Sports The Calgary Stampeders defeat the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to win the 102nd Grey Cup. (TSN) More November 2014 events...

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About this page • Suggest a headline News about Wikipedia  Ongoing events Economic Eurozone crisis Greek government-debt crisis Environmental 2014 North Indian Ocean cyclone season 2014 Pacific typhoon season Health Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa Legionella outbreak in Portugal Political Global surveillance disclosures Hong Kong protests Irish demonstrations against water tax Military intervention against ISIS US-led intervention in Syria Iranian-led intervention in Iraq Pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine Russian military intervention in Ukraine South Sudanese Civil War More details on ongoing conflicts below  Recent deaths December 7: Stella Young 6: Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah 6: Luke Somers 4: Jeremy Thorpe 3: Ian McLagan 2: Jean Beliveau 2: Bobby Keys 1: Mario Abramovich 1: Sita Murt November 30: Kent Haruf 30: Martin Litton 30: Go Seigen 29: Mark Strand 28: Dale Armstrong 28: Bob Baker 28: Chespirito 28: Jack Kyle 27: Phillip Hughes 27: P. D. James 27: Frank Yablans 26: Frankie Fraser 26: Mary Hinkson 26: Sabah 25: Sitara Devi 25: Petr Hapka 25: Denham Harman 25: Anne Cowdrey, 14th Lady Herries of Terregles 24: Murli Deora 24: John Neal 24: Viktor Tikhonov 23: Marion Barry 23: Dorothy Cheney 23: Murray Oliver 23: Pat Quinn 22: Fiorenzo Angelini 22: Claire Barry 21: Göran Graffman (death announced on this date) 21: Wang Kun 20: Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba 19: Maria Jose Alvarado (body found on this date) 19: Otieno Kajwang 19: Gholam Hossein Mazloumi 19: Mike Nichols 18: Dave Appell 18: Pepe Eliaschev 18: Shahzada Alam Monnoo 18: C. Rudhraiya 17: Willy Burgdorfer 17: Omar Chabán 17: John T. Downey 17: Bill Frenzel 17: Jimmy Ruffin 17: Ray Sadecki 16: Ian Craig 16: Peter Kassig (death announced on this date) 16: Sik Kok Kwong 16: Carl Sanders 15: Bunny Briggs 15: Leslie Feinberg 15: Valéry Mézague (body found on this date) 15: Reg Withers 14: Diem Brown 14: Jane Byrne 14: Glen A. Larson 14: Morteza Pashaei 13: Kakha Bendukidze 13: Alvin Dark 13: Alexander Grothendieck 13: Irving Peress 12: Ravi Chopra 12: Warren Clarke 11: John Doar 11: Mark Dyer 11: Big Bank Hank 11: Donald F. Steiner 11: Carol Ann Susi 10: Brian Farrell 10: Wayne Goss 10: Ken Takakura 10: Tomas Young 9: Saud bin Muhammed Al Thani 9: Myles Munroe 9: R. A. Montgomery 9: Orlando Thomas 9: Joe Walsh 9: Annette Polly Williams 8: Phil Crane 8: Ernie Vandeweghe 7: Zoltán Gera 7: Kajetan Kovič 7: Dwivedula Visalakshi 6: Rick Rosas 5: Manitas de Plata 4: Admire Rakti 4: Araldo 4: Enrique Olivera 4: Ivor Seemley 4: S. Donald Stookey 3: Sadashiv Amrapurkar 3: Tom Magliozzi 3: Gordon Tullock 2: Acker Bilk 1: Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett 1: Brittany Maynard 1: Donald Saddler 1: Wayne Static  Ongoing conflicts Global War on Drugs War on Terror Operation Active Endeavour Operation Enduring Freedom Terrorist incidents in 2014 Africa Lord's Resistance Army insurgency Maghreb insurgency OEF – Horn of Africa OEF – Trans Sahara Central African Republic Civil conflict Egypt Islamist unrest Sinai insurgency Libya Post-civil war interfactional fighting 2014 Libyan Civil War Nigeria Boko Haram Somalia Civil war Sudan and South Sudan Sudan internal conflict South Sudan internal conflict Americas Colombian conflict Mexican Drug War Asia Afghanistan War Military operations Taliban insurgency India Naxalite–Maoist insurgency Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir Insurgency in Northeast India Korea Korean maritime border conflict Pakistan Balochistan conflict North-West War Sectarian violence Philippines Communist insurgency Moro insurgency Southeast Asia Cambodian–Thai border dispute Kachin conflict Papua conflict South Thailand insurgency Territorial disputes in the South China Sea Europe North Caucasus insurgency Pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine War in Donbass Middle East Arab–Israeli conflict Gaza–Israel conflict Israeli–Lebanese conflict Israeli–Palestinian conflict Israel–Iran proxy conflict Iraqi insurgency Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Kurdistan Kurdish–Iranian conflict Syrian Civil War Yemen al-Qaeda crackdown Shia insurgency South Yemen insurgency  Elections Recent: November 2: Romania, President (1st round) 4: United States, House of Representatives and Senate (one third: Class II Senators) 16: Romania, President (2nd round) 19: Lebanon, President (15th round, indirect; aborted) 19: Solomon Islands, General 22: Bahrain, General 23: Tunisia, President (1st round) 25: Tonga, General 29: Namibia, General 30: Moldova, Parliament Upcoming: December 8: Dominica, Parliament 10: Mauritius, Parliament 14: Japan, Parliament 21: Uzbekistan, Parliament (1st round) 28: Tunisia, President (2nd round)  Trials Recently concluded Australia: Brett Peter Cowan, Craig Thomson, Robert Hughes Canada: Michael Thomas Rafferty China: Bo Xilai Croatia: Ivo Sanader Germany: Breno Borges Iran: Mohammad Reza Rahimi Italy: Silvio Berlusconi Jordan: Abu Qatada Netherlands: Ante Gotovina (ICTY), Mladen Markač (ICTY), Momčilo Perišić (ICTY), Germain Katanga (ICC) Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Pussy Riot Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) South Africa: Chris Mahlangu, Oscar Pistorius Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko United Kingdom: Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, Levi Bellfield, Robert Black, Vincent Tabak, Ali Dizaei, Antoni Imiela, Brian Regan, Donna Air, Ched Evans, Clayton McDonald, Titus Bramble, Dan Penteado, John Terry, Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed, Asil Nadir, Justin Lee Collins, Kweku Adoboli, Tony McCluskie, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Chris Huhne, Nicola Edgington, Vicky Pryce, Derek Rose, Mick Philpott, Mairead Philpott, Paul Mosley, Kevin Liverpool, Junior Bradshaw, Aggro Santos, Stuart Hazell, Mark Bridger, Andrew Lancel, Dale Cregan, Ray Wilkins, Michael Le Vell, Liam Adams, R v Grillo and Grillo, Ian Watkins, William Roache, Dave Lee Travis, Nicholas Jacobs, Nigel Evans, Max Clifford, Stuart Hall, Dappy, Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Rolf Harris, Tulisa Contostavlos United States: Noshir Gowadia, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Casey Anthony, Conrad Murray, George Huguely, Allen Stanford, Roger Clemens, Jerry Sandusky, Jared Lee Loughner, Lauryn Hill, Kermit Gosnell, George Zimmerman, Chelsea Manning, Ariel Castro, Whitey Bulger, Robert Bales, Nidal Malik Hasan, Crystal Mangum, Abu Hamza al-Masri Ongoing Brazil: Mensalão scandal Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Canada: Luka Magnotta China: Organized crime in Chongqing Egypt: Mohamed Morsi, Hosni Mubarak France: Church of Scientology Germany: Christian Wulff, Beate Zschäpe, Uli Hoeness, Bernie Ecclestone Hong Kong: Alfredo Lim Iran: Babak Zanjani Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY), Ratko Mladic (ICTY) Palau: Tommy Remengesau Philippines: Andal Ampatuan, Jr., Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Janet Lim-Napoles, Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., Imelda Marcos, Jovito Palparan Russia: Platon Lebedev South Africa: Shrien Dewani South Korea: MV Sewol crew members Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra Turkey: Kenan Evren United Kingdom: Eddy Shah, Koo Stark United States: Jodi Arias Upcoming France: Éric Raoult Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi Spain: Lionel Messi United Kingdom: Dane Bowers, Gary Glitter, Andy Coulson, Chris Denning United States: Paul Anthony Ciancia, Javaris Crittenton, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Peter Madoff, Christian Gerhartsreiter, Dylan Quick, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, James Eagan Holmes, Aaron Hernandez, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, Anas al-Libi, Bob McDonnell, Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, Rick Perry

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