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December 30, 2014 (Tuesday)

Iraqi insurgency
- Iraqi government forces and allied Shia militia recapture the town of Dhuluiya, north of Baghdad, from the Islamic State. (BBC)

Luise Rainer, German-born American actress (The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth), Academy Award winner (1936, 1937), dies of pneumonia at the age of 104-years-old. (BBC)

A court in Moscow dispenses a three and one half year suspended sentence on corruption to Alexei Navalny, a prominent anti-Putin activist. (The Denver Post)
In three separate, but connected, crime scenes in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, a suicidal male kills nine people. (Irish Times)

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 *A court in [[Moscow]] dispenses a three and one half year suspended sentence on corruption to [[Alexei Navalny]], a prominent anti-Putin activist. [http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_27227306/putin-foe-alexei-navalny-found-guilty-fraud (The Denver Post)]
-*Nine people are killed in three separate houses in [[Edmonton, Alberta]], [[Canada]]. [http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/nine-dead-in-edmonton-canada-shooting-incidents-1.2051535 ''(Irish Times)'']
+*In three separate, but connected, crime scenes in [[Edmonton, Alberta]], [[Canada]], a suicidal male kills nine people. [http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/nine-dead-in-edmonton-canada-shooting-incidents-1.2051535 ''(Irish Times)'']
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