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Portal:Current events/2021 December 23

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Armed conflicts and attacks

  • Insurgency in the Maghreb
  • Gunmen ambush a column of a civilian militia in Loroum, Burkina Faso, killing 41 people. It is one of the deadliest single-day attack against the militia. [https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/two-day-mourning-period-declared-after-41-killed-burkina-faso-ambush-2021-12-26/ (Reuters)]

Disasters and accidents

  • 2021 Madagascar shipwreck
  • Twenty-four more people are found dead after the boat accident off the coast of Analanjirofo, Madagascar, three days ago, bringing the total death toll to 85. [https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20211223-death-toll-from-madagascar-shipwreck-rises-to-85 (France 24)]
  • European migrant crisis
  • Eleven people are dead as a boat carrying migrants sinks in the Aegean Sea. Around 90 other people are rescued. [https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/24/seven-people-killed-in-shipwreck-off-greek-islet (Al Jazeera)]

Health and environment

International relations

Law and crime

  • 14-Year-Old Valentina Orellana-Peralta killed in LAPD response
  • While responding to multiple reports of a violent assault suspect at a Los Angeles clothing store, LAPD officers fired upon one male subject. Valentina Orellana-Peralta was sheltering with her mother and other patrons and was killed by an errant shot. Valentina and the suspect both succumbed to their injuries in the store. Several patrons were injured by the suspect prior to officers' arrival. [https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/28/us/lapd-teen-killed-valentina-orellana-peralta-family/index.html]
  • Political impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Lithuania
  • The Seimas votes 89–17 with 19 abstentions to approve a law that would require MPs to have a health pass, which shows proof of vaccination, a negative test result from the previous 72 hours, or that a person has recovered from COVID-19, in order to attend hearings beginning in January. [https://www.barrons.com/news/lithuania-to-require-covid-health-pass-from-mps-01640284207?tesla=y (Barron's)]
  • Workfare
  • The Australian Government pays a A$2,000,000 settlement to the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku to end a class action lawsuit in the Federal Court over the controversial Community Development Program, which saw unemployed Ngaanyatjarra and other Indigenous Australian people in remote communities working up to 25 hours a week otherwise unpaid in order to receive the JobSeeker payment, which is generally considered to be less than the cost of living and which is provided to other Australians in exchange for completing a fortnightly quota of job applications. The Ngaanyatjarra accused the program of being racist and a form of modern slavery. [https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/dec/23/federal-government-to-pay-out-2m-to-settle-class-action-over-racist-work-for-the-dole-program (The Guardian)]

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