Portal:Current events/2014 December 30

December 30, 2014 (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Iraqi insurgency
- Iraqi government forces and allied Shia militia recapture the town of Dhuluiya in Saladin Province, north of Baghdad, from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. (BBC)
Somali civil war
- A US airstrike in Saakow kills the intelligence chief, Abdishakur, who was also known as Tahlil, of the Somali al-Shabab militants. (AP)

Arts and culture

Luise Rainer, German-born American actress (The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth), Academy Award winner (1936, 1937), dies of pneumonia at the age of 104. (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501
- Indonesian officials confirm that at least three bodies have been recovered from the Java Sea off Borneo. (BBC) (CBS)
2014 Southeast Asian floods
- Flooding and the death toll continues in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. (Reuters)

Law and crime

A court in Moscow hands down a 3+1⁄2-year suspended sentence for corruption to Alexei Navalny, a prominent anti-Putin activist. (The Denver Post)
In three separate, but connected, crime scenes in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, a suicidal man kills eight people and then himself. (Irish Times)