Portal:Current events/2023 December 26

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Battle of Marinka
      • Ukraine's commander-in-chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi confirms the loss of the city of Marinka to Russian forces. (BBC News) (The New York Times)
  • Crimea attacks
    • The Russian Ropucha-class landing ship Novocherkassk is destroyed by a Ukrainian airstrike in Feodosia, Crimea, killing at least one person and injuring four others. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
• Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
  • Nigerian bandit conflict
    • 2023 Plateau State massacres
      • Armed bandits kill about 140 people in Plateau State, Nigeria. Many houses are burned down. (AP)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Red Sea crisis
    • A drone launched from the direction of the Red Sea is shot down near the Egyptian resort town of Dahab, according to the Egyptian military. The drone fell into the sea with no casualties or damage reported. (Reuters)
• Iraqi conflict
  • Islamic State insurgency in Iraq, Attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria
    • Two men from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia on a hunting trip in Iraq are killed when their vehicle hits a roadside bomb planted by Islamic State insurgents in Al Anbar Governorate. (AP)
• 2024 Iran–Israel conflict, Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • A civilian and nine IDF soldiers injured in Hezbollah missile attacks on St. Mary's Greek Orthodox Church in Iqrit, northern Israel.(Times of Israel) [https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/1703602610-hezbollah-missile-hits-greek-orthodox-church-in-northern-israel (I24News)

Business and economy

• Daihatsu, a subsidiary of Japanese automaker Toyota, suspends all production at its four factories in Japan amid a transport ministry investigation into improper tests for safety certifications. (AP)
• The administration of Argentina's new president Javier Milei says the government will not renew contracts for more than 5,000 employees hired this year before he took office, as part of plans for cutbacks to the government. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Africa floods
  • Twenty-two people are killed by floods in Kasaï-Central, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Several houses and structures are damaged, with a major road being cut off. (AP)
• 2023 Totota fire
  • At least 40 people are killed during the explosion of a gas tanker in Totota, Liberia. (Al Jazeera)
• A fire at a guest house in Prahova, Romania leaves six people dead, two others injured, and several others missing. (Euronews) (AP)

International relations

• Nuclear program of Iran
  • The International Atomic Energy Agency says that Iran has reversed a slowdown of its enrichment of uranium, and is now enriching uranium at up to 60%, bringing the country closer to reaching the enrichment level required to make a nuclear weapon. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Fukushima nuclear accident
  • The Tokyo High Court rules that TEPCO, the operator of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, will be solely responsible for compensating evacuees and reduced the amount to half the amount a lower court initially ordered, while also absolving the government of any liability. (AP)
• A man is arrested in Sevres, Île-de-France, France, for killing his four children and their Haitian mother at their flat in Meaux the day before. (AP)

Sports

• 2023–24 NBA season
  • In basketball, the Detroit Pistons lose their 27th consecutive game and break the single-season record for the most consecutive losses in a National Basketball Association regular season, surpassing the records set by the 2010–11 Cleveland Cavaliers and 2013–14 Philadelphia 76ers, who both lost 26 straight games. (The Detroit News)