Portal:Current events/2016 December 26

December 26, 2016 (Monday)

Arts and culture

American Actor George S. Irving, best known for being one of the last members of the original production of Oklahoma! and voicing Heat Miser from The Year Without a Santa Claus, dies at age 94. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Disasters and accidents

2016 Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash
- Eleven bodies have so far been recovered from the Black Sea from yesterday's military aircraft crash. All 92 people on board died. (CNN)

International relations

China resumes diplomatic ties with São Tomé and Príncipe two weeks after the African island nation broke diplomatic ties with Taiwan. (AP via New York Times)

CHP MP Öztürk Yılmaz says Turkey has expressed its readiness to work with president Assad of Syria. (Sputnik)

Science and technology

Researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory find a way to make thinner electrical wires that measure just three atoms wide. (Phys.org) (SLAC)

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