Sunday, January 1st, 2023 

Several people are killed by an Islamic State bombing at a checkpoint outside the military airport in Kabul. (Al Jazeera) 

Two soldiers are killed during a series of Israeli airstrikes at Damascus International Airport. (Al Jazeera) 

Two Palestinians are killed and three more injured during confrontations with Israeli soldiers who stormed Kafr Dan to demolish the homes of two Palestinians killed in a shootout at a checkpoint in Jenin several months ago. (Al Jazeera) 

Ten prison officers and four inmates are killed in an armed attack on a prison in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, in which 24 prisoners escaped. (AFP via Deccan Herald) 

Canada enacts a law prohibiting foreigners, except for immigrants and permanent residents, from acquiring residential areas in the country for two years in response to a real-estate bubble. (CNN Business) 

Australia and Canada announce that they will require travelers from China to present a negative COVID-19 test in order to enter their countries beginning on January 5. (CTV News) 

The British arm of climate protest group Extinction Rebellion announces it will “temporarily” shift away from using public disruption as a primary tactic. (Reuters) 

Croatia changes its national currency from the kuna to the euro to become 20th member state of the Eurozone, and joins the European passport-free zone, the Schengen Area. (AFP via Macau Business) 

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is sworn in as President of Brazil for the third time in his political career. (Télam) 

The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines closes the country’s airspace for nearly six hours due to a power outage in its air traffic management center, affecting more than 280 commercial flights and more than 56,000 passengers. (Bloomberg) 

Saturday, December 31st, 2022 

Hundreds of Russian mobilized soldiers are claimed by Ukraine to be killed and injured as a result of an Ukrainian missile attack on a vocational school building serving as military barracks. Russian authorities acknowledge several casualties, but suggest lower figures. (Reuters)

The Colombian government reaches a bilateral ceasefire agreement with the major armed groups involved in the conflict, including the National Liberation Army, FARC dissidents, and the Clan del Golfo. The ceasefire will be in effect from January 1 to at least June 30. (AFP via Gulf News) 

Fifteen people are killed and 47 others are injured after a bus crashed and flipped in Nayarit, Mexico. (AP) 

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Pope emeritus Benedict XVI, who served from 2005 until his resignation in 2013, dies at the age of 95 and is scheduled for a funeral starting on 2 January. (BBC News) 

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Friday,  December 30th, 2022 

France, Israel, South Korea, Spain, and the United Kingdom announce that they will require travelers from China to present a negative COVID-19 test in order to enter their countries. (AFP via Hong Kong Free Press) 

In Pennsylvania, United States, the alleged perpetrator of a mass stabbing of four University of Idaho students, 28-year-old Bryan Christopher Kohberger, is arrested by police in the Pocono Mountains. (CNN) 

A court in Myanmar delivers its final verdict on ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s cases, sentencing her to seven years in prison, with an overall sentence of 33 years’ imprisonment. (CNN) 

A judge in Bolivia orders opposition figure Luis Fernando Camacho to be remanded in detention for four months on “terrorism charges”, as opposition parties call for a national strike. (AP) 

The National Opposition Assembly votes to terminate Juan Guaidó’s interim government and opposition leadership, with Guaidó’s disputed acting presidency expected to end on January 4. (The New York Times) 

Thursday, December 29th, 2022 

Russia carries out a series of drone and cruise missile strikes on Ukraine, with strikes reported in the cities of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Lviv and Zhytomyr, injuring at least three people. (BBC News) 

Five people are killed and 37 others injured in a fire caused by the collision of a freight truck and a bus on the Second Gyeongin Expressway near Seoul, South Korea. (Reuters) 

Eighteen children in Uzbekistan die after drinking a cough syrup product manufactured by Indian drug manufacturer Marion Biotech. (BBC News) 

Following talks with Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić, barricades erected by ethnic Serbs in North Kosovo begin being dismantled. (BBC News) 

Benjamin Netanyahu is sworn in as the prime minister of Israel for the third time in his political career. (CNN) 

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Tuesday,  December 27th, 2022 

It is announced that a record seventy-one military vehicles from the Chinese Air Force entered Taiwan’s air defense identification zone in the past 24 hours. (Reuters) 

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. (AFP via SBS World News) 

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. (Al Jazeera) 

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. (The Guardian) 

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. (AFP via NDTV) 

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. (CNN) 

The Supreme Court of the United States rules 5–4 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. (AFP via RFI) 

Monday,  December 26th, 2022 

Five North Korean drones cross the DMZ into South Korea, which assembles aircraft to intercept the drones. One of the South Korean FA-1 light attack aircraft crashes during takeoff and a North Korean drone crashes near the South Korean capital of Seoul. It is believed that North Korea launched the drones in response to criticism of the quality of North Korean satellite images.  (Daily NK) 

The National Health Commission announces that China will suspend their COVID-19 quarantine requirements for passengers arriving from abroad beginning on January 8. (ABC News) 

Three Russian military members are killed by debris after Russia shoots down a drone that was approaching the Engels air base in Saratov Oblast, Russia. (AFP via Times of Israel) 

Six Syrian Democratic Forces members are killed and an unknown number of others are injured during an ambush by five Islamic State gunmen in Raqqa. One of the attackers is killed and another is arrested. (Al Jazeera) 

Six Turkish-backed National Front for Liberation militants are killed during a fight with the Syrian Democratic Forces and the Syrian Army in Aleppo. (AP) 

Seventeen people are killed and 93 more injured as heavy snow affects Japan. (AP) 

Three members of the endangered Irrawaddy dolphin have died within ten days from each other in Cambodia, prompting an increasing alarming situation. (AP) 

A French judge indicts a 69-year-old man with murder, attempted murder due to race, and the unlawful procurement and possession of a weapon for killing three people and injuring three others in the 10th arrondissement of Paris on December 23. The suspect had confessed to having been motivated by racism. (AFP via Deccan Herald) 

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