Portal:Current events/2022 December 29

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)

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

• Death and funeral of Pelé
  • Brazilian footballer Pelé dies at the age of 82. (CNN)