Ukrainian forces claim that they are closing in on the city of Kreminna in Luhansk Oblast. According to governor Serhiy Haidai, Russian fighters in some parts of the city were forced to retreat to neighboring Rubizhne.
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December 27, 2022 (Tuesday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Disasters and accidents
Sixteen people are killed when a bus collides with a dump truck on the outskirts of Omdurman, Khartoum, Sudan.
The death toll from monsoon floods in the Philippines has increased to 32, with 24 others still missing. Eighteen of the deaths occurred in Northern Mindanao.
International relations
Russian president Vladimir Putin issues a decree to prohibit the exports of Russian oil and petroleum products to countries and organizations that adhere to the US$60-per-barrel price cap that Australia, the European Union, and the G7 member states agreed upon earlier this month. The decree will be in effect from February 1 to July 1.
Law and crime
A federal judge in Michigan, United States, sentences a man to 16 years in prison for plotting to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. The man was also convicted of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction.
The Supreme Court of the United States rules 5β4 to maintain Title 42 of the U.S. Code, allowing the government to remove persons who have recently been in a country where an infectious disease was present.
South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol pardons former president Lee Myung-bak as part of a mass pardon aimed at "national unity". Lee had been serving a 17-year sentence for corruption.
The Taiwanese government announces that it would extend the required duration for conscription from four months to one year, citing the increasing threat of China using military force to pursue Chinese unification. The reform, which will apply to men born after January 1, 2005, will take effect in 2024.
Sports
Slovenian point guard Luka DonΔiΔ of the Dallas Mavericks scores the first 60-point triple-double in the National Basketball Association, the premier men's professional basketball league in the world, after recording 60 points, 21 rebounds, and 10 assists in the Mavericks' 126β121 overtime win against the New York Knicks in Dallas.
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