December 29, 2022 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- Russia carries out a series of drone and cruise missile strikes on Ukraine, with strikes reported in the cities of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Lviv, and Zhytomyr, injuring at least three people. (BBC News)
- 2022 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Disasters and accidents
- Second Gyeongin Expressway tunnel fire
- Five people are killed and 37 others injured in a fire caused by the collision of a freight truck and a bus on the Second Gyeongin Expressway near Seoul, South Korea. (Reuters)
Health and environment
- Toxic cough syrup
- Eighteen children in Uzbekistan die after drinking a cough syrup product manufactured by Indian drug manufacturer Marion Biotech. (BBC News)
International relations
- 2022 North Kosovo crisis
- Following talks with Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić, barricades erected by ethnic Serbs in North Kosovo begin being dismantled. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- Thirty-seventh government of Israel
- Benjamin Netanyahu is sworn in as the prime minister of Israel for the third time in his political career. (CNN)
Sports