Fourteen Iranian fishermen are returned to Iran after eight years of captivity in Somalia. The men were found in Somalia by police last month and freed from al-Shabaab jihadists after negotiations between the captors, tribal chiefs and Somali elders.
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December 25, 2022 (Sunday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Six soldiers are killed and 17 civilians are injured during a series of nine attacks in Balochistan, Pakistan.
Disasters and accidents
At least four people are injured, one of them seriously, when an avalanche hits the ski resort Zürs/Lech in Vorarlberg, Austria. Emergency services rescue all of the ten people who had been buried alive.
At least eight people are killed, and 19 others are missing from monsoon floods in the Visayas and Mindanao regions of the Philippines.
Health and environment
Catalonia in Spain registers the highest December temperature ever for the autonomous community in Anglès, which reached 26.3 °C (79.3 °F). Several other stations, including in the regional capital of Barcelona, also break records.
Law and crime
A court in the Maldives sentences former president Abdulla Yameen to 11 years in prison on money laundering and bribery charges.
An attack on an electrical substation in Pierce County, Washington, United States, cuts off power to 14,000 people. The perpetrators and motive of the attack are unknown.
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