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December 31, 2014
(
2014-12-31
)
(Wednesday)
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watch
Armed conflicts and attacks
Terrorism in Yemen
A
suicide bombing
in
Ibb
,
Yemen
, kills at least 26 people.
(Reuters)
Business and economy
The
United States stock exchange
reports ending on a gain of 7.5%. It was the sixth year of continued advancement.
(Wall Street Journal)
Disasters and accidents
Pacific typhoon season
As
Tropical Storm Jangmi (Seniang)
weakens, the Philippines death toll reaches 53 people.
(AP)
Explosions at a factory in the southern Chinese city of
Foshan
kill 17 people and injure 20.
(Reuters)
A New Year's Eve celebration
stampede
in
Shanghai
kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others.
(BBC)
(China Daily)
The
Italian coast guard
boards and regains control of a
cargo ship
that had been sabotaged and abandoned by human traffickers carrying nearly 1,000 passengers, mostly
Syrian refugees
, that was in imminent jeopardy of crashing into land.
(Wall Street Journal)
(eNews Channel Africa)
Law and crime
A
riot
breaks out at a New Year's Eve festival in
Gisborne
,
New Zealand
, leaving 83 people injured and 63 arrested.
(NZ Herald)
Politics and elections
President of Italy
Giorgio Napolitano
announces his impending resignation, citing "old age".
(Business Week)
President of Gambia
Yahya Jammeh
remains in power after a
failed coup attempt
while he was travelling outside the country.
(Al Jazeera)
Nur Bekri
resigns as the Chairman of the
Xinjiang
Uyghur Autonomous Region of China to become the Director of the
National Energy Administration
, and is replaced in the interim by
Shohrat Zakir
.
(Business Standard)
China relieves
Sun Chunlan
of her post as
Party Committee Secretary
of
Tianjin
, China, and replaces her on an interim basis with
Huang Xingguo
.
(SCMP)
As part of an agreement with
Djibouti
's Prime Minister
Abdoulkader Kamil
, the country's main opposition party, the
Union for National Salvation
, decides to return to its eight seats in the National Assembly after having boycotted it since the
parliamentary election in 2013
.
(Deutsche Welle)
Month
December 2014
Previous day
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Next day
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Category
:
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<
Portal:Current events
December 31, 2014
(
2014-12-31
)
(Wednesday)
history
watch
Armed conflicts and attacks
Terrorism in Yemen
A
suicide bombing
in
Ibb
,
Yemen
, kills at least 26 people.
(Reuters)
Business and economy
The
United States stock exchange
reports ending on a gain of 7.5%. It was the sixth year of continued advancement.
(Wall Street Journal)
Disasters and accidents
Pacific typhoon season
As
Tropical Storm Jangmi (Seniang)
weakens, the Philippines death toll reaches 53 people.
(AP)
Explosions at a factory in the southern Chinese city of
Foshan
kill 17 people and injure 20.
(Reuters)
A New Year's Eve celebration
stampede
in
Shanghai
kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others.
(BBC)
(China Daily)
The
Italian coast guard
boards and regains control of a
cargo ship
that had been sabotaged and abandoned by human traffickers carrying nearly 1,000 passengers, mostly
Syrian refugees
, that was in imminent jeopardy of crashing into land.
(Wall Street Journal)
(eNews Channel Africa)
Law and crime
A
riot
breaks out at a New Year's Eve festival in
Gisborne
,
New Zealand
, leaving 83 people injured and 63 arrested.
(NZ Herald)
Politics and elections
President of Italy
Giorgio Napolitano
announces his impending resignation, citing "old age".
(Business Week)
President of Gambia
Yahya Jammeh
remains in power after a
failed coup attempt
while he was travelling outside the country.
(Al Jazeera)
Nur Bekri
resigns as the Chairman of the
Xinjiang
Uyghur Autonomous Region of China to become the Director of the
National Energy Administration
, and is replaced in the interim by
Shohrat Zakir
.
(Business Standard)
China relieves
Sun Chunlan
of her post as
Party Committee Secretary
of
Tianjin
, China, and replaces her on an interim basis with
Huang Xingguo
.
(SCMP)
As part of an agreement with
Djibouti
's Prime Minister
Abdoulkader Kamil
, the country's main opposition party, the
Union for National Salvation
, decides to return to its eight seats in the National Assembly after having boycotted it since the
parliamentary election in 2013
.
(Deutsche Welle)
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Next day
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Category
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