Portal:Current events/2014 December 1

December 1, 2014 (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Iraqi insurgency
- The Prime Minister of Iraq Haider 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)

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