Portal:Current events/2012 December 29

December 29, 2012 (Saturday)

Armed attacks and conflicts

Syrian civil war:
- The LCC report that up to 400 people have been killed across Syria on Saturday, including about 200 reported executed by the Syrian Army in the Deir Ballba neighborhood of Homs. (CNN)
2012 Central African Republic rebellion:
- Rebels in the Central African Republic have made fresh gains and are now in control of a key central city. (BBC)
War in North-West Pakistan:
- Fighters of the Pakistani Taliban kill 21 kidnapped security personnel near Peshawar. (BBC) (Xinhua)

Disasters and accidents

A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner with eight people on board crashes in a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway after overshooting a runway at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing five people and leaving three others critically injured. (BBC) (RIA Novosti) (Xinhua) (RT)

Law and crime

A 23-year-old Indian woman who was gang-raped on a bus in Delhi on December 16 dies of her injuries at a hospital in Singapore. (BBC)

Politics and elections

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher leaves hospital after undergoing surgery to remove a tumour. (BBC)
US Senate passes H.R. 5949, FISA Amendments Act Reauthorization Act, which extends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008 five more years until December 31, 2017. The US House of Representatives also voted for the extension earlier this month. (Govtrack)
France’s Constitutional Council strikes down the government’s plan to impose a 75 percent marginal income tax rate on the wealthy. (The New York Times) (The Guardian) (BBC)

Sport