Portal:Current events/2011 December 18
Armed conflict and attacks
- The uprising. (Xinhua)
- Clashes continue in Cairo's Tahrir Square for a third day between the Egyptian Army and protesters. (Reuters)
- The last convoy of United States Army soldiers withdraws from Iraq, marking the formal end of the Iraq War. (Reuters)
- A bomb kills one person and clashes break out in Bangladesh between security and opposition protesters during the 40th anniversary of the country's independence. (Al Jazeera)
- Unrest in Zhanaozen, Kazakhstan, spreads as a train is burnt; one person is shot dead and 11 injured. (BBC)
Disasters
- Nine people die following an explosion in a Hunan Province. (Xinhua)
- The Kolskaya with 76 people on board overturns in the Sea of Okhotsk off the coast of Sakhalin in the Russian Far East resulting in four deaths and fifty people missing. (RT) (BBC) (VoA)
- The Tropical Storm Washi has risen to 521. (AP via Google News)
Arrests, detentions and prosecutions
- spying. (Al Arabiya)
- More than 50 Occupy Wall Street protesters are arrested as they attempted to establish a new encampment. (The Guardian)
Politics
- China, threaten to march on government offices this week if detained protesters are not released. (Bangkok Post)
- Thousands parliamentary elections. (AP via Google) (RIA Novosti)
Sports