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Portal:Current events/2017 December 5

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;Arts and culture

  • The last King of Romania, Michael I, dies at the age of 96. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42234880 (BBC)] [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-romania-king/romanias-former-king-michael-dies-in-switzerland-at-age-of-96-idUSKBN1DZ1JC (Reuters)]
  • A summer 1941 Simon Templar (The Saint) novel by Leslie Charteris, titled The Saint's Second Front, describing a military attack by Japan on America—and subsequently rejected from publication for political reasons—emerges at a private auction after the work was presumed lost. [https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5073032/brit-book-which-predicted-the-attack-on-pearl-harbour-rediscovered-75-years-after-it-was-barred-from-publication/ (The Sun)]

;Business and economy

;Disasters and accidents

  • 2017 California wildfires
  • Thomas Fire
  • Due to persistent high winds, a fire begins and quickly spreads—at a rate of up to one acre per second—near Santa Paula, California, covering now at least {{convert|50,000|acres|km2}}, crawling into the edges of Ventura and cutting power to 260,000 homes. 7,700 houses are under mandatory evacuation. [http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-school-fire-20171204-story.html (LA Times)] [http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/05/us/ventura-county-fire-california/index.html (CNN)]
  • Cyclone Ockhi
  • Gujarat and Maharastra are on high alert because of Cyclone Ockhi. [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/cyclone-ockhi-rain-hits-mumbai/liveblog/61918257.cms (Times of India)]
  • Meerbusch train crash
  • A passenger train runs into the rear of a freight train at Meerbusch, Germany. Forty-seven people are injured, three seriously. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42246087 (BBC)]

;International relations

  • Positions on Jerusalem
  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan tells Donald Trump that Turkey might cut ties with Israel if the United States unilaterally recognizes Jerusalem as its capital. [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42232158 (BBC)]
  • According to a Palestinian spokesman, Donald Trump calls Mahmoud Abbas, "outlining his intentions" to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. The Palestinian President warns him against the dangers of such a step and says that he will continue reaching out to world leaders to prevent it from happening. [http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/05/politics/trump-abbas-us-embassy-jerusalem/index.html (CNN)]

;Law and crime

  • Ukrainian crisis
  • As police arrive at the stateless Mikheil Saakashvili's house in Kiev to detain him, Saakashvili goes up on the roof to protest verbally. Police then detain him and try to take him away in a blue minivan while hundreds of people block the street. Finally the supporters free him out of the van. Bespeeching the cameras again, he rails against corruption, against Petro Poroshenko and urges Ukrainians to "be afraid of nothing". [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/05/former-georgian-president-mikheil-saakashvili-is-detained-in-ukraine (The Guardian)] [https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-12-05/former-georgian-president-saakashvili-detained-in-kiev (U.S. News & World Report)] [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-saakashvili/saakashvili-supporters-free-him-from-police-van-after-detention-in-kiev-idUSKBN1DZ0VU (Reuters)] [http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/467179.html (Interfax Ukraine)]
  • Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko claims in a briefing that Saakashvili received $500,000 from the fugitive Serhiy Kurchenko for his activities in Ukraine. He also says Severion Dangadze, an associate of Saakashvili's Movement of New Forces, had been arrested. [http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/467130.html (Interfax Ukraine)]
  • 2017 Spanish constitutional crisis
  • Spain withdraws the international arrest warrant for five former Catalan officials now residing in Belgium. The charges of sedition and rebellion, however, remain. [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42237377 (BBC)]
  • Recognition of same-sex unions in Austria
  • Austria's Constitutional Court rules that the government cannot discriminate against same-sex couples' right to marry. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/world/europe/austria-gay-marriage.html (The New York Times)]

;Politics and elections

;Science and technology

;Sports

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