Portal:Current events/2014 December 30

Current events of December 30, 2014 (2014-12-30) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

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

Arts and culture

• 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)

Disasters and accidents

• Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501
  • Indonesian officials confirm that at least three bodies have been recovered from the Java Sea off Borneo. (BBC)
• 2014 Southeast Asian floods
  • Flooding and the death toll continues in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• A court in Moscow hands down a three and one half year suspended sentence for 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)