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  • Borut Pahor (pictured) is elected President of Slovenia.
  • Ramush Haradinaj, formerly Prime Minister of Kosovo and commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, is acquitted of war crimes.
  • The UN General Assembly approves a motion granting Palestine non-member observer state status.
  • In Formula One, Sebastian Vettel wins the Drivers' Championship for the third consecutive year.
  • In Canadian football, the Toronto Argonauts defeat the Calgary Stampeders to win the 100th Grey Cup.

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Current events of December 3, 2012 (2012-12-03) (Monday)
International relations
  • South Korea's Yonhap news agency reports that North Korea has installed an Unha rocket at its Dongchang-ri launch site. Japan is threatening to shoot down the rocket if it manages to stay airborne and threaten Japanese territory. (Yonhap) (ABC News)
Arts and culture
  • St James's Palace confirms that Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge is pregnant. (BBC)
Law and crime
  • Singapore charges five Chinese bus drivers and deports 29 others for holding the country's first strike in 26 years. (BBC)
December 3, 2012 Wikinews articles
  • UK Wikinews Shorts: December 3, 2012
Current events of December 2, 2012 (2012-12-02) (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
  • The Taliban launches an attack on the NATO airstrip in the eastern Afghanistan city of Jalalabad resulting in seven Taliban deaths and at least five Afghans are killed. (Sky News Australia) (BBC) (AP)
  • Suspected Islamist fighters go on the rampage in Chibok, Nigeria, killing 10 Christians with guns and machetes and burning down their houses. (Reuters)
Arts and culture
  • The 2012 Kennedy Center Honors are announced in the United States with American actor Dustin Hoffman, American television host David Letterman, British rock group Led Zeppelin, American blues musician Buddy Guy and ballerina Natalia Makarova inducted. (AP) (CNN)
  • A 200-year-old letter dated 20 October 1812 in which Napoleon Bonaparte vows to blow up the Moscow Kremlin fetches €187,500 (£151,000, $233,800) at a French auction in Fontainebleau. (Sky News) (ITV) (ABC News)
Disasters and accidents
  • A section of the Sasago Tunnel in Japan collapses trapping 30 vehicles, at least 9 people are dead. (BBC) (Sky News) (CBC News)
  • 16 miners are trapped underground after a coal mine was flooded in northeast China's Heilongjiang province. (RIA Novosti)
  • The Philippines warns citizens about Typhoon Bopha expected to make landfall on Tuesday, December 4. (AP via Mercury News)
Law and crime
  • Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court defers a ruling on whether the Constituent Assembly is legal following pressure from supporters of President Mohamed Morsi. (AP)
  • Israel Keyes, a 34-year old man suspected of killing Samantha Koenig and possibly as many as 7 others throughout the U.S., apparently kills himself while in custody. (AP/CBS News)
Politics and elections
  • Former Prime Minister Borut Pahor is elected President of Slovenia beating the incumbent President Danilo Türk in the second round of a presidential election after anti-austerity protests in the capital, Ljubljana, erupted in clashes that left 15 people injured. (BBC) (AP via Washington Post)
  • Voters in Italy go to the polls to select a centre-left candidate for Prime Minister with Pier Luigi Bersani winning. (BBC) (Reuters)
Science and technology
  • French very-high-resolution optical Earth-imaging satellite Pléiades-HR 1B is launched successfully via a Russian Soyuz STA rocket out of the Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guiana. (Reuters)
Sport
  • Spanish racing team HRT F1 leave Formula One after they were unable to find a buyer before the deadline of 30 November. The team was subsequently omitted from the 2013 entry list. (Autosport)
  • The International Volleyball Federation confirms the structure of the 2013 FIVB Volleyball World League with the competition increasing from 16 to 18 teams split into three pools of six. (FIVB)
  • The Sambafoot Association announces their list of 30 contenders nominated as the 2012 Samba Gold, a football award given to the best Brazilian footballer in Europe. (Sambafoot)
December 2, 2012 Wikinews articles
  • Leaked Syrian government emails indicate weapons supplied to Hamas
Current events of December 1, 2012 (2012-12-01) (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
  • Syrian civil war:
    • Syrian jets bombard rebel positions in Damascus as a country-wide Internet and phone blackout enters a third day. Government officials announce the road to the airport in the capital has been secured, though rebels insist clashes are ongoing. (Reuters)
  • 2012 East D.R. Congo conflict:
    • M23 rebels begin their withdrawal from the city of Goma as part of a Uganda-brokered deal struck a week earlier. (Reuters)
Arts and culture
  • Anastasiya Petryk from Ukraine wins the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with her song Nebo (Sky) which got 138 points. (Eurovision)
Disasters and accidents
  • A tour bus hits a bridge at Miami International Airport, USA, killing at least two people and injuring many more. (NBC News) (BBC) (The Miami Herald)
  • At least 8 people are killed and 36 injured when a passenger bus overturned on the highway between the cities of Sucre and Potosí in southern Bolivia. (RIA Novosti)
International relations
  • North Korea's state agency KCNA announces the country will launch a satellite sometime between December 10 and December 22. The launch will take place around the time of South Korea's presidential election on December 19 and close to the first anniversary of the death of former leader Kim Jong-il. South Korean officials, as well as the US, believe that the isolated state is testing long-range missile technology with the aim of developing an intercontinental ballistic missile. (Reuters)
  • Foreign ministers of the Arab League meet in Istanbul, Turkey, to show their support for the Syrian opposition groups and Palestinians. (Fox News)
Law and crime
  • Notorious Macau gangster Broken Tooth Koi is released from prison after serving nearly 15 years. (BBC)
  • Jovan Belcher, a linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs American football team kills himself at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, after reportedly killing his girlfriend. (The Telegraph)
Politics and elections
  • Mexican inauguration:
    • Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party is sworn in as the President of Mexico as violent clashes occur outside. (Associated Press)
    • Over 23 people severely wounded outside the Camara de Diputados during the protests in Mexico City. (ElEconomista)
  • President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi announces that the country's new draft constitution will be put to a constitutional referendum on December 15. (BBC)
  • Voters in Kuwait go to the polls for a parliamentary election with the Opposition holding a boycott. The lowest voter turnout in the Kuwaiti election history is observed. (BBC) (The Guardian)
Science and technology
  • The USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was officially deactivated in ceremonies held at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, completing a 51-year career in the United States Navy. (Associated Press)
Sport
  • Ukrainian chess player Anna Ushenina wins the Women's World Chess Championship 2012 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, by defeating Antoaneta Stefanova from Bulgaria on rapid tie-breaks. (Chess News)
  • The draw for the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup is held at the Anhembi Convention Center in São Paulo, Brazil. Title holders Brazil will face Japan, Mexico, Italy in Group A while World Champions Spain will play Uruguay, Tahiti and the 2013 African Champion in Group B. (FIFA)
  • Spanish football club Valencia fires Mauricio Pellegrino as coach after the 2–5 home loss to Real Sociedad in the 2012–13 La Liga. (Reuters via Eurosport)
  • The Los Angeles Galaxy defeat the Houston Dynamo 3–1 to win the 2012 Major League Soccer Cup. It was David Beckham's final game. (Houston Chronicle) (MLS Soccer)
  • In college football, the Alabama Crimson Tide defeat the Georgia Bulldogs 32–28 in the 2012 Southeastern Conference Championship Game, projecting Alabama to play the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the 2013 BCS National Championship Game. (ESPN)
December 1, 2012 Wikinews articles
  • Bird flu outbreak kills birds in Krasnodar region
Current events of November 30, 2012 (2012-11-30) (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
  • An unpublished list compiled by Mexico's Attorney General's Office is leaked showing that more than 25,000 people disappeared in Mexico's drug war, placing the probable death toll of the six-year conflict at around 100,000 deaths. (The Independent)
Disasters and accidents
  • An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane belonging to Aéro-Service, flying from Pointe Noire to Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of the Congo, crashes into houses near Maya-Maya Airport during a thunderstorm. Congolese Red Cross officials say at least 32 people are confirmed dead in the crash, including six crew members and a police officer on board, as the search for victims continues. (BBC) (Reuters) (The Australian) (BNO News)
  • A railway bridge collapses over a creek in Paulsboro in southern New Jersey, causing a Conrail freight train to derail and spill hazardous chemicals into the air and water. (Reuters) (NY Daily News)
  • Two people are killed and more than ten others injured in a gas explosion and fire in an apartment building in the Siberian city of Tomsk, Russia. (RIA Novosti) (ITAR-TASS)
  • A freight train derails at the Stuttgart-Feuerbach station, Germany, after a collision with the railway platform. There were no reports of injuries. (Stuttgarter-Zeitung) (SWR)
Law and crime
  • A murder–suicide attack occurs in Casper, Wyoming, United States. Two people are murdered, including a female computer science instructor (off campus), and a male faculty member that she'd been seeing (in a classroom) at Casper College, before the perpetrator, the male professor's son, killed himself in the classroom. (NBC News)
  • A New Hampshire federal grand jury indictS David Kwiatkowski, 33, a former employee of Exeter Hospital in Exeter, New Hampshire, on fraud and product-tampering charges in connection with an outbreak of hepatitis C that sickened more than 30 people and caused concern in 7 states. (CNN)
  • Qatari author Mohammed al-Ajami is given a life sentence for a poem insulting emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. (The Washington Post) (RT) (AP via The New York Times) (BBC)
Media
  • Time magazine editors announce their list of 38 contenders nominated as the 2012 Time Person of the Year, including Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Sheldon Adelson, Malala Yousafzai, Sandra Fluke, Felix Baumgartner, Curiosity rover, Bashar Assad, Mohamed Morsi, PSY, Pussy Riot, Higgs boson, Michael Phelps, and others. The winner of the people's choice will be announced on 14 December. (Time) (Reuters via MSN)
Politics and elections
  • The Labour Party wins the three by-elections held in the United Kingdom on Thursday. Steve Reed is elected in Croydon North, Andy McDonald in Middlesbrough and Sarah Champion in Rotherham. The UK Independence Party achieve second place in Middlesbrough and Rotherham, beating the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. (BBC)
  • Victims of press intrusion launch an online campaign to urge British Prime Minister David Cameron to fully implement the recommendations of the Leveson report. (BBC)
Science and technology
  • A small humanoid robot that can talk will be sent into space to provide conversational company for Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata on a six-month mission to the ISS during Soyuz TMA-11M in 2013. (AFP via France24)
  • NASA debunks rumors of new evidence of life on Mars, but its Curiosity rover continues to make many smaller discoveries. (CBS News) (Space.com)
  • The first direct photograph of DNA, by Enzo Di Fabrizio, a physics professor at Magna Graecia University in Catanzaro, Italy, is taken. He used an electron microscope (not the usual X-ray crystallography) and a nanoscopic landscape of extremely water-repellant silicon pillars (the water evaporated quickly and left behind the DNA). (MSNBC)
Sport
  • The Russian Premier League is looking at setting up a pan-CIS football league, as analog of KHL in ice hockey or VTB United League in basketball, after several clubs expressed an interest. (RIA Novosti)
  • Former England cricket captain Andrew Flintoff makes his debut as a professional boxer, and wins his first fight against Richard Dawson. (BBC)
  • Following Israel's recent assault on Gaza, some footballers sign a letter of condemnation against plans to hold the 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship in Israel next summer; among the signatories are Eden Hazard, Abou Diaby, Papiss Cissé, Cheick Tioté, Sylvain Marveaux, Yohan Cabaye, Demba Ba, Didier Drogba and Frédéric Kanouté. (The Irish Times) (ESPN) (The Telegraph)
November 30, 2012 Wikinews articles
  • Locally designed, low emissions car launched in Qatar
  • Sandra Fluke nominated by Time magazine for Person of the Year
Current events of November 29, 2012 (2012-11-29) (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
  • Syrian civil war:
    • Syrian opposition fighters battle the Syrian Army outside Damascus, forcing the closure of the main airport road, and the suspension of some flights. (Reuters)
    • The internet and phone networks in Syria are cut off, in an unprecedented move. (Bangkok Post) (Al Arabiya)
  • Iraqi insurgency (post U.S. withdrawal):
    • Bombs in two majority Shia Muslim cities in southern Iraq, Hillah and Karbala, kill at least 30 people and wound more than 100. (The Guardian) (AP via USA Today)
  • Police in Burma break up a three-month long protest against the expansion of a copper mine run by the military and a Chinese company. (Al Jazeera)
  • A roadside bomb explodes under a passenger van in Deh Rahwod District of Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan, killing 10 people, and wounding at least eight. (Reuters) (AFP via Google)
Disasters and accidents
  • Train services in the Channel Tunnel are suspended after a freight train fire on the French side. Everybody on the train is safely evacuated, traffic is resumed two hours after. (BBC)
International relations
  • The 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly approves to upgrade Palestine's status from an "observer" to an "observer state", with 138 voting in favor, 9 against and 41 abstaining. (BBC) (AP)
  • Colombia announces it will leave Pact of Bogotá after the International Court of Justice's ruling in the territorial dispute with Nicaragua. (Reuters) (BBC)
Law and crime
  • A UN war crimes tribunal acquits former Kosovan Prime Minister and former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army Ramush Haradinaj of war crimes, prompting Serbia to denounce the court. (BBC) (Reuters) (The Guardian)
  • The Arts and Letters Building at Florida Atlantic University's campus in Boca Raton, Florida, and the nearby Boca Raton campus of Palm Beach State College, are given the all-clear and are back to normal after police locked them both down for three hours searching for a gunman believed to have robbed a student at gunpoint, no injuries. (NBC News)
Politics and elections
  • Leveson report:
    • Lord Leveson announces the findings of the Leveson Inquiry into the British media. (CNN)
    • British Prime Minister David Cameron says he backs the principles of the report's recommendations, but has "serious concerns and misgivings" about introducing any new legislation to underpin a regulatory body to oversee the media. (BBC)
  • U.S. President Barack Obama spent more than an hour with Mitt Romney at the White House, as the one-time rivals shared lunch and discussed their ideas for the first time since the 2012 election. (Reuters)
  • A committee charged with developing a new Egyptian constitution releases a final draft as protests against sweeping new powers granted to President Mohamed Morsi continue. (CNN)
  • Michigan State Senator Rick Jones of the Republican Party proposes dissolving the city of Detroit due to financial problems. (CBS Detroit)
  • Three by-elections are held in the United Kingdom, in Croydon North, Middlesbrough and Rotherham. (BBC)
  • George H. W. Bush is admitted in stable condition to The Methodist Hospital of the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. The 88-year-old served as the 41st President of the United States from 1989 till 1993 and was hospitalized due to a severe cough and bronchitis but is expected to be discharged within 72 hours. (NBC News) (CBS News) (Fox News) (CNN)
Science and technology
  • New data from the NASA space probe MESSENGER indicate that Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, almost surely has water ice buried beneath the surface at its north pole. (NASA) (Forbes) (AP)
  • The new species of darter fish are classified and named as Etheostoma obama after U.S. President Barack Obama. (The Guardian)
Sport
  • Luiz Felipe Scolari takes over as coach of Brazil national football team, 2014 FIFA World Cup hosts, 10 years after leading the team to the 2002 FIFA World Cup title. (Reuters)
  • In cricket, former Australian captain Ricky Ponting announces his retirement from Test matches after the completion of the match against South Africa in Perth. (The Roar)
  • Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and Andrés Iniesta, and Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo are named in shortlist for 2012 FIFA Ballon d'Or prize for best player of the year. (Goal.com)
  • Argentine football club River Plate confirm Ramón Díaz will replace the sacked Matías Almeyda as manager. (ESPN)
  • South Korean international Lee Keun-Ho is named as Asian Footballer of the Year in a ceremony held in Kuala Lumpur. Shinji Kagawa, Japanese midfielder of Manchester United, is the first recipient of the Asian International Footballer of the Year award. (AFC) (Goal.com)
November 29, 2012 Wikinews articles
  • Of cabbages and things: Dutch researchers study wasp hyperparasitoid
Current events of November 28, 2012 (2012-11-28) (Wednesday)
Armed attacks and conflicts
  • Syrian civil war:
    • At least 54 people are killed and more than 120 injured by two car bomb explosions in a south-eastern district of Damascus, Syria's capital. (BBC) (AFP via MSN News)
  • 2012 East D.R. Congo conflict:
    • M23 rebels announce their withdrawal from territory captured from government troops after a pullout deal was reached in Uganda. (Al Jazeera)
  • More than 200 people are wounded in a second day of clashes between Tunisian security forces and thousands of protesters in Siliana, Tunisia. (BBC) (Al Arabiya)
Business and economy
  • The UK's Home Office launches a ten week consultation on whether to introduce a minimum price for the sale of alcohol of 45p a unit. The plans are aimed at tackling binge drinking and other alcohol related problems. (BBC)
  • The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces that BP has been suspended from bidding on future US government contracts as a result of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (Bloomberg)
  • The European Commission approves a Spanish government plan to shrink and restructure three major Spanish banks (Bankia, NCG Banco and Catalunya Banc) and sell a fourth (Banco de Valencia). (BBC)
Disasters and accidents
  • Seven students and a teacher are injured as the result of a small explosion in an eighth-grade science classroom in Wilson Middle School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA. Two of the students were flown by helicopter to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. One was released that evening, the other is in fair condition. (AP via MSN)
Law and crime
  • British student Richard O'Dwyer reaches an agreement with authorities in the United States to avoid being extradited from the United Kingdom to stand trial over infringement of U.S. copyright laws over his TVShack website which hosted links to pirated films and television shows. (BBC)
  • Zachary Holly, 28, of Bentonville, Arkansas, is charged with the rape and capital murder of his nextdoor neighbor, 6-year-old Jersey Bridgeman, whom he was babysitting. (NBC News)
  • No violent crime is reported in New York City for an entire day, 26 November, the first time in recent memory. (BBC) (Reuters)
Media
  • CNN publish a list of the top 10 CNN Heroes of 2012. Pushpa Basnet, a social worker from Nepal, is listed among others. (CNN)
Politics and elections
  • President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi will address the nation about a decree greatly increasing his powers. (CBS News)
Sport
  • The draw for the 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship is made in Tel Aviv. Hosts Israel will face England, Norway and Italy in group A while title holders Spain will play the Netherlands, Russia and Germany in group B. (UEFA)
  • River Plate president Daniel Passarella fires a coach Matías Almeyda on disappointing performance by the team in the Torneo Inicial. (Buenos Aires Herald)
November 28, 2012 Wikinews articles
  • Thousands protest constitutional decree in Tahrir Square, Egypt
Current events of November 27, 2012 (2012-11-27) (Tuesday)
Armed attacks and conflicts
  • At least 29 people are killed and 126 wounded in eight car bombings across Iraq. (CNN)
  • Gunmen attack a pub in central Nigeria's Plateau State and open fire on customers, killing 10 people. (BBC)
Business and economy
  • The eurozone will pay out of 43.7 billion euros in loans to Greece from December 13 for reducing Greece's debt. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
  • A Chinese-made training airplane K-8 crashes during an air force flying exhibition in Venezuela, the two pilots ejected successfully. The French-made military helicopter Cougar sent to rescue the pilots also crashes, no one is injured. (The Montreal Gazette)
Education
  • The UK government is to create a new wave of universities both in the private and public sector, the first new universities in the country for two decades. (BBC)
International relations
  • French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announces that France intends to vote in favor of upgrading Palestine's status at the United Nations from permanent observer as the Palestinian Liberation Organization to a non-member observer state. The vote is scheduled to be held later this week. (BBC)
Media
  • Aung San Suu Kyi and Thein Sein are ranked first on Foreign Policy’s 2012 Top 100 Global Thinkers list ahead of Moncef Marzouki, Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. Also, Malala Yousafzai is ranked sixth behind Bill Gates and Melinda Gates, but ahead of Barack Obama. (The International News) (Foreign Policy)
Law and crime
  • The remains of Yasser Arafat are exhumed as part of an investigation into how the Palestinian leader died in November 2004. (BBC)
  • Mexican beauty queen María Susana Flores Gámez, crowned as 2012 Woman of Sinaloa, is killed during a weekend shootout in Sinaloa, Mexico. (CNN)
Politics and elections
  • Tens of thousands of protestors demonstrate in Tahrir Square in Cairo against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi for last week's decree granting himself sweeping powers. (BBC)
  • A Hungarian MP from the far right Jobbik party calls for a list of Jewish politicians and government employees who are a "threat to national security". The Hungarian Government later released a statement condemning the comments. (BBC)
Sport
  • UEFA President Michel Platini announces that the administrative body is considering scrapping the Europa League in favour of an extended Champions League. A proposal may involve extending the final phase of the Champions League from 32 to 64 teams from 2015, with the final decision to be made in 2014. (Bangkok Post)
November 27, 2012 Wikinews articles
  • Fujitsu launches cloud website for dog pedometer service
  • Agencies choose yearlong crew for International Space Station


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