Sixteen people are injured in a Houthi missile attack on the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area in Israel. (CNN) Red Sea crisis link embed save
At least seven Ukrainian drones strike Kazan, Russia, six of which reportedly hit residential areas, including a 32-story apartment building. (Ukrainska Pravda), (Reuters) Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of UkraineRussian invasion of Ukraine link embed save
Sixteen Pakistan Army soldiers are killed and five others are critically injured when Pakistani Taliban militants launch an overnight raid on an army post in Makeen, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Al Arabiya) Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa link embed save
The Haitian Government declares a one-month state of emergency amid the escalating gang violence and the deepening security crisis. (Caribbean National Weekly) Haitian crisis link embed save
The Puntland region of Somalia announces that it will introduce a new regional currency in 2025. The region had previously shifted to use of the United States dollar in 2021, due to severe inflation of the Somali shilling. (Garowe Online), (Hiiraan Online), (Horseed Media) Constitutional crisis in Somalia link embed save
Ten people are killed and many others are injured in a stampede during a distribution of food and clothes at a church in Abuja, Nigeria. (AP) link embed save
Nine people are killed and 13 more injured when a bus plunges into a ravine in Pa Alam, Lorestan, Iran. (AP) link embed save
Two people are killed and three others are missing when an under-construction six-story building collapses in Sohana village, Mohali district, India. (Zee News) link embed save
Forty-one people are killed when a bus collides with a granite block that fell from a truck on a highway in Minas Gerais, Brazil. (The Guardian), (G1), (O Globo) Minas Gerais road crash link embed save
The Albanian government announces a one-year ban on the social media platform TikTok beginning in 2025, following a fatal stabbing of a teenager in November in connection to a confrontation on the platform. (Al Jazeera), (Türkiye Today) link embed save
The United States Senate passes a funding bill, with President Joe Biden subsequently signing the bill into law, thereby averting a government shutdown. (CBS News) 2025 United States federal budget, Government shutdowns in the United States link embed save
The Social Democratic Alliance, led by Kristrún Frostadóttir, forms a coalition government in Iceland's Althing with the Liberal Reform Party and the People's Party. Kristrún becomes Iceland's youngest prime minister at 36 years old. (CNA) 2024 Icelandic parliamentary election link embed save