Portal:Current events/2014 December 2
Armed conflict and attacks
- War in Somalia
- The Red Cross says that at least 36 people may be dead following an attack in Mandera County in northeastern Kenya. Al-Shabaab militants are believed to be responsible. (Bloomberg via Business Week), (Reuters via New York Times)
- The
- Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon
- Unidentified gunmen kill 6 Lebanese soldiers near the eastern town of Ras Baalbek. (Al Jazeera)
- Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant
- The Lebanese government arrests a wife and daughter of ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (NBC News)
- Sony Pictures Entertainment hack
- The leadership of North Korea to be responsible. (FOX News)
- The
Business and economy
- A major Switzerland based commodities firm,
Health
- Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa
- Tonkolili district with more than half the country under lockdown and the official death toll in the country reaching 1,530 and roughly 7,109 infected. (Daily Mail)
International relations
- South Korea approves a plan by the Christian Council of Korea to set up a large Christmas tree near the border with North Korea despite ongoing tensions. (AP via Daily Mail)
Law and crime
- An Egyptian court sentences 185 people to death over their alleged involvement in a lethal attack on a police station on the outskirts of Cairo. (Reuters via Egyptian Independent)
Politics and elections
- Israeli prime minister new elections. (Times of Israel)
- The September elections. (ABC News)[permanent dead link]
- 2014 Hong Kong protests
- C. Y. Leung, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, warns pro-democracy activists not to return to the streets after yesterday's clashes. (BBC)
- The Ukrainian citizenship just hours before the vote: Georgian-born Alexander Kvitashvili, US-national Natalie Jaresko and Lithuanian Aivaras Abromavičius. (Al Jazeera) (AP via ABC News)