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Jiang Zemin
- Jiang Zemin (pictured), former general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, dies at the age of 96.
- A deadly fire in Ürümqi escalates ongoing protests across China in response to the government's zero-COVID policy.
- Anwar Ibrahim of the Pakatan Harapan coalition becomes Prime Minister of Malaysia after the general election produces the nation's first hung parliament.
- An earthquake centred near Cianjur in Indonesia's West Java kills at least 323 people and injures more than 7,000 others.
December 7, 2022 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Islamic terrorism
- Terrorism in Indonesia
- Astana Anyar bombing
- Two people are killed and 11 others are injured by a suicide bomber in Astana Anyar District, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. (Detik)
- Astana Anyar bombing
- Terrorism in Indonesia
- Kurdish–Turkish conflict
- Rojava conflict
- Turkey gives the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces an ultimatum to withdraw its fighters from Manbij, Tell Rifaat and Kobanî within two weeks or face military action. A Turkish official says Russia and the United States have been informed of the deadline. (Al Jazeera)
- Rojava conflict
Disasters and accidents
- At least 155 people are injured by a train collision in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Capital punishment in Belarus
- Belarusian lawmakers approve a bill which punishes high treason among officials and military personnel with the death penalty. The bill also includes prosecution for "spreading false information discrediting the Armed Forces of Belarus". (RFE/RL)
- 2022 Germany coup d'état plot
- German police arrest 25 members of the Reichsbürger movement accused of planning a coup d'état. (DW)
- Crime in Indonesia
- Jemaah Islamiyah member Umar Patek, who was convicted for his role in the 2002 Bali bombings, is released on parole after an Indonesian court shortened his 20-year prison sentence. (AFP via Bangkok Post)
- Crime in Jamaica
- Jamaican prime minister Andrew Holness declares a nationwide state of emergency due to rising crime rates. (CNN)
- Crime in South Africa
- Janusz Waluś, the convicted assassin of South African anti-apartheid politician Chris Hani, is released on parole. (AFP via RFI)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Peruvian self-coup d'état attempt
- Peruvian President Pedro Castillo announced the dissolution of the Congress of the Republic, the imposition of a curfew, the creation of an "emergency" government and early parliamentary election hours before his third impeachment attempt. He is arrested shortly after he leaves the Government Palace. (Reuters) (La República)
- Prime Minister Betssy Chávez announces her resignation. (La República)
December 6, 2022 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Afghanistan conflict
- Seven people are killed when a vehicle carrying oil workers hits a roadside bomb in Balkh Province. (Reuters)
- Six people are injured in an explosion at a money exchange market in Jalalabad, Nangarhar Province. (Reuters)
- South Thailand insurgency
- Three people are killed and four others are injured in a bombing near Khlong Ngae railway station, Phang Nga, Thailand. (AP)
Business and economy
- 2021–2022 inflation surge
- 2022 food crises
- Economy of the Philippines
- Inflation in the Philippines reaches a 14-year record high of 8% due to increases in food prices. (CNBC)
- Economy of the Philippines
- 2022 food crises
- Boeing 747
- The 1,574th and final Boeing 747, a 747-8 Freighter, is rolled out from the Boeing Everett Factory. (CNBC)
International relations
- Accession of Kosovo to the European Union
- President of Kosovo Vjosa Osmani announces that the country will submit an application for membership of the European Union by the end of the year. (TVP World)
Law and crime
- New York investigations of The Trump Organization
- A jury finds the Trump Organization guilty of tax fraud charges. (The New York Times)
- 2022 Honduran gang crackdown
- Honduras begins a partial state of exception in most of the country as part of an attempt to reduce the amount of violent organized crime. (CNN en Español)
- Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is sentenced to six years in prison on corruption charges, with Kirchner also receiving a lifetime ban on holding public office. (Reuters) (The Brazilian Report)
Politics and elections
- 2022 United States Senate election in Georgia
- Voters in the U.S. state of Georgia go to the polls to elect their next Senator in a runoff election between the Democratic incumbent candidate Raphael Warnock and Republican candidate Herschel Walker. (The Guardian)
- Warnock wins re-election, bringing the Democratic majority in the Senate up to 51–49. (AP)
- 2022 Dominican general election
- Dominicans go to the polls to elect the members of the House of Assembly. (CARICOM Daily)
- The People's Representative Council of Indonesia replaces the country's colonial-era criminal code with a new code that criminalizes premarital and extramarital sex and cohabitation, among other changes. (AFP via New Straits Times)
December 5, 2022 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks on civilians in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- Russian forces launch another wave of cruise missile strikes on Ukraine, destroying homes and killing two people in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, while causing power outages in many other areas after damaging critical infrastructure. (Reuters)
- 2022 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- 2022 Western Russia attacks
- Russia says that a long-range drone attack on its Dyagilevo Air Base and Engels-2 Air Base has killed three servicemen, injured four others, and damaged two aircraft. (Reuters)
- Attacks on civilians in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Syrian civil war
- Turkish occupation of northern Syria
- Protests occur in the town of Atarib, Aleppo Governorate, Syria, after a Turkish military vehicle ran over and killed a woman and a child while conducting a patrol with a local rebel group, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (ABC News)
- Turkish occupation of northern Syria
- Kurdish–Turkish conflict
- The Iraqi military is deployed to its borders with Turkey and Iran. (Mehr)
Business and economy
- Irish finance minister Paschal Donohoe is re-elected as President of the Eurogroup. (AFP via Barron's)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Risaralda landslide
- At least 33 people are killed, four others are critically injured, and many others are missing after a landslide hits a bus in Risaralda, Colombia. (TRT World)
International relations
- 2021–2022 global energy crisis
- International sanctions during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Russian oil price cap
- The US$60-per-barrel price ceiling on Russian seaborne oil imposed by Australia, the European Union, and the G7 comes into force. (Reuters)
- 2022 Russian oil price cap
- International sanctions during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Law and crime
- Corruption in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Swiss multinational mining company Glencore agrees to pay the Democratic Republic of the Congo $180 million to settle corruption claims dating from 2007 to 2018. Glencore has admitted to bribing African officials in order to secure "improper business advantages", including in the DRC. (BBC News)
- One person is killed and another is injured in a stabbing attack in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Mongolian protests
- Protests occur in the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar in response to a corruption scandal. Four policemen are reported injured. (Tengrinews)
December 4, 2022 (Sunday)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Africa floods
- Nine people are killed and eight others are reported missing after flash flooding hits a church in Johannesburg, South Africa. (AP)
- The Indonesian government raises the volcanic alert status to the highest level after Semeru in East Java erupts, forcing the evacuation of around 2,000 people. (AFP via The Hindu)
Law and crime
- Iran–Israel relations
- Mahsa Amini protests
- Iranian prosecutor-general Mohammad Jafar Montazeri announces the dissolution of the Guidance Patrol, though Iranian state media disputes this. (AFP via Khaleej Times) (The New York Times) (BBC News)
- Moore County substation attack
- Over 40,000 customers are without power after two power substations in Moore County, North Carolina, United States, are deliberately damaged by gunfire on Saturday night. A curfew has been ordered, and power restoration is expected to take until Thursday. (CNN)
Politics and elections
- The African National Congress meets to debate the political future of South African president Cyril Ramaphosa amid an emerging scandal concerning Ramaphosa's ownership of a farm in alleged breach of anti-corruption laws. Ramaphosa has stated that he does not intend to resign. (AP)
December 3, 2022 (Saturday)
Law and crime
- Mahsa Amini protests
- The Iranian government gives its first official report regarding deaths from the protests that followed the death of Mahsa Amini in September. The report states that more than 200 people have died in what the government has labelled as "riots". (Al Jazeera)
- Hunter Biden laptop controversy
- Internal documents released by Twitter CEO Elon Musk show that staff at the company suppressed posts discussing the October 2020 New York Post article on the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 United States presidential election. (Forbes)
- Former South Korean national security director Suh Hoon is arrested on charges of tampering with evidence related to the killing of a Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries official by North Korean agents near the Northern Limit Line in September 2020. (AP)
Politics and elections
- Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election
- Donald Trump claims in his social media platform Truth Social that the alleged fraud during the 2020 American presidential elections justifies the "termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution". (BBC News)
December 2, 2022 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Afghanistan conflict
- Two men disguised in burqas attack a mosque in Kabul while former Afghan prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is inside. The attackers killed a civilian and injured two others before being shot dead by security guards. Hekmatyar was not injured in the attack. (ANInews)
International relations
- 2021–2022 global energy crisis
- International sanctions during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Russian oil price cap
- Australia, the European Union, and the G7 member states decide to impose a US$60-per-barrel price ceiling on Russian seaborne oil. (AP)
- 2022 Russian oil price cap
- International sanctions during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom adds Cuba, Nicaragua, and the Russian paramilitary organization Wagner Group to its blacklist of countries and organizations violating international religious freedom, signalling possible sanctions by the U.S. government. (AFP via France 24)
Law and crime
- Russia–Ukraine relations
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signs a decree that bans religious organizations with links to Russia and imposes personal sanctions against their representatives. Zelenskyy also announces that the Ukrainian government will draft a law banning churches affiliated with Russia, which he says is necessary in order to counter Russian government efforts to "weaken Ukraine from within." (AP) (Reuters)
- The Indonesian parliament announces that it will pass a new Criminal Code to replace the current one, which dates back from its colonial era. (Reuters)
- The United States Department of Justice announces that the Swedish-Swiss corporation ABB has acceded to a US$315-million fine for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by extorting the South African state-owned public utility Eskom to secure government contracts from 2014 to 2017. (AFP via RFI)
December 1, 2022 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Two Al-Quds Brigades leaders are killed and another person is injured by Israeli soldiers during a raid at a refugee camp in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
- 2022 Haitian crisis
- Twelve people are killed by armed gangs in Cabaret, a town in the department of Ouest. (Al Jazeera)
- 2022 Spain letter bomb attacks
- The Spanish Ministry of the Interior reports that several letter bombs have been sent to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, the Ministry of Defence and the Torrejón Air Base. A sixth letter bomb is intercepted at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid. (El Plural) (Reuters) (La Sexta)
Business and economy
- COVID-19 recession
- It is reported that the eurozone's unemployment rate declined to 6.5 per cent at the start of the fourth quarter, the lowest rate since Eurostat started recording employment data in 1998. (WION)
International relations
- Canada–China relations
- Chinese police overseas service stations
- Canada accuses China of operating "illegal" police stations on Canadian territory. (The Guardian)
- Chinese police overseas service stations
Law and crime
- Missing and murdered Indigenous women
- A man is charged in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, for the murders of four indigenous women earlier this year. (BBC News)
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