Portal:Current events/2018 December 24
Business and economy
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 2.9%, its worst performance ever on Christmas Eve. (NPR)
Disasters and accidents
- 2018 Sunda Strait tsunami
- The death toll following the tsunami caused by the
- 2018 Puebla helicopter crash
- Martha Erika Alonso and Senator Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas are among several fatalities in a helicopter crash near Puebla, Mexico. (New York Times via Reuters)
- Mount Etna erupts, causing the closure of Catania–Fontanarossa Airport in Sicily, Italy. (BBC) (China Economic Net)
Law and crime
- Corruption in Pakistan
- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is sentenced to seven years in prison after being found guilty of corruption. (CNN)
Politics and elections
- Chairman of Iran's Expediency Discernment Council and former Chief Justice Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi dies at the age of 70. (Euronews)
- The coalition government of Benjamin Netanyahu dissolves the Knesset and sets early elections for April. The coalition has been struggling after failing to pass a new bill that would extend the military draft to ultra-Orthodox Jews and the resignation of Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, leader of one of the parties in the coalition. (CNN)
- Burundi moves its capital from Bujumbura to Gitega. (QZ)