December 24, 2017 (Sunday)
Disasters and accidents
- Typhoon Tembin
- Officials raise the death total from this storm to 182, with at least 153 people missing and more than 70,000 displaced. (Malay Mail)
International relations
- Positions on Jerusalem
- Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales says he will move his country's Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. (Reuters)
- Transport in Tunisia
- Tunisia's Transport Ministry suspends Emirates Airlines flights to Tunis. (Deutsche Welle)
- Sanctions against North Korea
- North Korea’s foreign ministry, in an official statement, says the latest United Nations sanctions are an act of war and are, in effect, a complete economic blockade. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Pardon of Alberto Fujimori
- Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski pardons Alberto Fujimori, who was serving a 25-year sentence for corruption and human rights violations. (BBC)
Politics and elections
- 2016–17 purges in Turkey
- The Turkish government dismisses 2,756 public servants for alleged links to organizations involved in the July 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt. (France 24)
Science and technology
- China's AVIC AG600, the world's largest amphibious aircraft, makes its maiden flight. State-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) has spent almost eight years developing the aircraft, which is designed to carry out marine rescues and battle wildfires. (BBC)