Portal:Current events/2008 December 28
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December 28, 2008 (Sunday)
- Operation Cast Lead
- The Israel Defense Forces continue airstrikes against Hamas in the Gaza Strip as the number of Palestinian casualties approaches 300. (ABC News)
- The United States vetoes a United Nations Security Council resolution aimed at stopping Israeli airstrikes against Gaza. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the United Kingdom, European Union, Russia, France, and China all call for a ceasefire. (PressTV) (CNN) (Xinhua)
- 2008 Garamba offensive: Uganda's People's Defence Force accuses the Lord's Resistance Army of hacking to death 45 people in a church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (France 24)
- A suicide bomber kills at least 16 people, 14 of them children, and injures 58 in Afghanistan's Khost Province. (BBC)
- A suicide bomber kills five Department of Civil Defence members and injures four others in Wattala, Sri Lanka. (BBC)
- Ghanaians vote in the presidential election run-off between Nana Akufo-Addo and John Atta Mills. (BBC)
- Mexican authorities arrest Army Major Arturo González Rodríguez for selling information to the Beltrán Leyva drug cartel. (BBC)
- Four boats carrying approximately 1,700 illegal Libyan migrants arrive on the Italian island of Lampedusa. (BBC)
- James Tanis wins Bougainville's Presidential election and will succeed Joseph Kabui, who died on June 7. (ABC Radio)
- Vietnam national football team won 2008 AFF Suzuki Cup
- 2008 NFL season: In American football, the Detroit Lions finishes their season by going winless, making them the first team in the NFL to finish a season with an 0-16 record and the first to go winless since the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. (Fox News)