December 1, 2010 (2010-12-01) (Wednesday)
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December 2, 2010 (2010-12-02) (Thursday)
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December 3, 2010 (2010-12-03) (Friday)
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- Spain closes four airports saying there is a shortage of air traffic controllers who are concerned about their pay and working conditions. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- The Spanish government holds an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss plans to raise the pension age and to sell off its stakes in the lottery and airports. (Al Jazeera)
- Nissan starts selling the Leaf, one of the first mass market electric cars. (AP via Yahoo! News)
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December 4, 2010 (2010-12-04) (Saturday)
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- The Spanish government imposes emergency measures unused since the end of military rule in 1975, threatening workers seeking better pay and working conditions with prosecution if they do not return to work. (BBC) (The Guardian) (Xinhua)
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- Ivorian political crisis:
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December 5, 2010 (2010-12-05) (Sunday)
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December 6, 2010 (2010-12-06) (Monday)
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- Iran meets with six world powers in Geneva for talks concerning its nuclear program. (BBC)
- United States diplomatic cables leak:
- Newly released cables from the United States indicate former Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd suggested the use of force against China if it could not be "successfully integrated" into the international community. The Australian government refuses to respond to the release. (ABC News)
- A newly released cable from Hillary Clinton accuses rich people in Saudi Arabia of being "the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide" and that "it has been an ongoing challenge to persuade Saudi officials to treat terrorist financing emanating from Saudi Arabia as a strategic priority". (The Independent)
- Newly released cables reveal American distrust both of Qatar and the country's Al Jazeera international news network, prompting Al Jazeera to release a statement saying that it has resisted pressure from both regional and international governments and "has never changed its bold editorial policies which remain guided by the principles of a free press". (Al Jazeera) (The Independent)
- The cables also reveal that foreign envoys to China from India, Japan, the EU and some African countries complained about the country's "aggressive" nature and that it was "losing friends worldwide". (Indian Express)
- Senior officials from Turkey and Israel meet in Geneva to resolve their differences following the Gaza flotilla raid in May. (BBC)
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December 7, 2010 (2010-12-07) (Tuesday)
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December 8, 2010 (2010-12-08) (Wednesday)
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December 9, 2010 (2010-12-09) (Thursday)
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December 10, 2010 (2010-12-10) (Friday)
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December 11, 2010 (2010-12-11) (Saturday)
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December 12, 2010 (2010-12-12) (Sunday)
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December 13, 2010 (2010-12-13) (Monday)
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- Brunei and Malaysia sign a deal to jointly explore and produce oil and gas off the coast of northern Borneo. (Malaysia Star)
- Major British supermarkets and online stores stop taking orders in Scotland in the run up to Christmas, because of a backlog of deliveries caused by the recent adverse weather conditions. (BBC)
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December 14, 2010 (2010-12-14) (Tuesday)
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Tornado in Aumsville, Oregon
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December 15, 2010 (2010-12-15) (Wednesday)
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December 16, 2010 (2010-12-16) (Thursday)
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- The Galongla Tunnel, built at an altitude of 3,750 meters, is completed; it links Tibet's Mêdog county to the outside world. (SINA)
December 17, 2010 (2010-12-17) (Friday)
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December 18, 2010 (2010-12-18) (Saturday)
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December 19, 2010 (2010-12-19) (Sunday)
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- Hundreds of small investors engage in protest activities in Dhaka following the steepest daily fall in the stock exchange. (BBC) (AFP via The Sydney Morning Herald)
- 60 Minutes, an influential news program, runs a segment with Meredith Whitney a bank analyst credited with a timely bearish call in 2008, in which she predicts hundreds of millions of dollars worth of defaults by U.S. municipalities. (CNBC)
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(ESPN)
December 20, 2010 (2010-12-20) (Monday)
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December 21, 2010 (2010-12-21) (Tuesday)
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- At least 39 people are killed and hundreds injured in a 6.5 magnitude earthquake in southeastern Iran. (Times of India)
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December 22, 2010 (2010-12-22) (Wednesday)
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December 23, 2010 (2010-12-23) (Thursday)
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- China offers to help eurozone countries through the debt crisis. (BBC)
- Banking giant Santander has admitted that a computer error has resulted in up to 35,000 people receiving other person's transactions details on their bank statement. (BBC)
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December 24, 2010 (2010-12-24) (Friday)
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- Large-scale disruption continues in Europe after heavy snowfalls. (BBC)
- More than 30 people are killed after a bus plunged into a ravine in southwest Ecuador. (AFP) (CNN)
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December 25, 2010 (2010-12-25) (Saturday)
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December 26, 2010 (2010-12-26) (Sunday)
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- China and South Korea are to hold defence talks following tension on the Korean Peninsula. (China Daily) (BBC)
- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel) announces that it will boycott Durban III (World Conference against Racism), the 2011 United Nations summit commemorating the tenth anniversary of the World Conference against Racism 2001, due to the conference's "anti-Semitic undertones and displays of hatred for Israel and the Jewish world," a day after the UN General Assembly approved a resolution, by a vote of 104 to 22, with 33 abstentions, to hold the summit in September 2011; Canada has already announced that it will also not attend, calling it a "charade". (AFP via Google News) (The Washington Post) (JTA)
- The first humanitarian Asian flotilla, Asia to Gaza Solidarity Caravan of Asia 1, which left New Delhi with people of 15 differing nationalities aboard, leaves Damascus for Latakia, its final stop before it reaches its destination. (Tehran Times)
- Thousands of people shouting "death to Israel" gather at Sarayburnu port in Istanbul to welcome back the MV Mavi Marmara, draped with a banner containing faces of the 9 people killed during the Gaza flotilla raid. (Al Jazeera) (Arutz Sheva)
- Industry, Trade and Labour Minister of Israel Binyamin Ben-Eliezer responds to Ecuador's formal recognition of Palestine as an independent state by saying that the "entire world" could recognise a Palestinian state in the next year. (AFP via Google News)
- United States diplomatic cables leak:
- Newly released cables from July 2004 reveal that American diplomats panicked about a screening of the film Fahrenheit 9/11, which is critical of the U.S. government's response to the September 11 attacks. Diplomats stopped what they called a "potential fiasco" by intervening and contacting the offices of the New Zealand prime minister and Marian Hobbs, a government minister referred to as "Boo Boo" Hobbs by America. (Radio New Zealand International)
- Newly released cables allege that world governments have sought assistance from the United States with wiretapping criminal and political adversaries, leading to denials and claims of "misunderstanding". (BBC)
- Foreign Minister of Israel Avigdor Liberman states at a meeting with Israeli ambassadors that "classic diplomacy" is "not helpful" and that the right diplomacy is to say things "as is" due to the WikiLeaks website. Lieberman also attacks comments by the Foreign Minister of Turkey. (Ynetnews)
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- A court in Iran convicts a man of spying for Israel. His identity is to be revealed after the sentence is confirmed. (AFP via France24)[permanent dead link]
- Egypt sends to Damascus a dossier of sensitive technical information involving details of an Israeli spy ring in Syria, including a high ranking chemical expert who assisted Israel for 13 years. (Ahram Online)
- A Saudi woman, accused of attacking and torturing her Indonesian maid last month in a case that strained Saudi-Indonesia relations, now denies the charges, claiming that the maid tortured herself because she was “not normal.” (Asia One)
- Dr Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish files a lawsuit against Israel one day before the second anniversary of Israel's War on Gaza. Abu al-Aish's three daughters were killed at home by Israeli forces on live television on 16 January 2009 as the gynaecologist was doing an interview with Israel's Channel 10 television. (Al Jazeera)
- Iranian authorities halt the impending execution of a Kurdish student convicted of "enmity against God", in connection with alleged membership and activities on behalf of the militant Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK), following appeals by international organizations claiming that his trial was held behind closed doors and his lawyer was not allowed to be present. (Reuters) (The Jerusalem Post) (CNN) (BBC) (AFP)
- Police in the UK say they are "satisfied" that a body found on Christmas Day is that of missing woman Joanna Yeates. (BBC)
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December 27, 2010 (2010-12-27) (Monday)
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December 28, 2010 (2010-12-28) (Tuesday)
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(Reuters) (The Associated Press)
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December 29, 2010 (2010-12-29) (Wednesday)
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December 30, 2010 (2010-12-30) (Thursday)
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- A 19-year-old Uyghur woman, Pezilet Ekber, is sentenced to death following a secret trial, the second Uyghur woman to receive the death penalty on charges of participating in ethnic riots last year. (RFA)
- Former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky has his prison sentence extended to a total of 14 years after a second conviction. (Al Jazeera)
- Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav is convicted of two counts of rape and other sexual offences by a court in Tel Aviv. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian)
- A major Indian separatist leader, Arabinda Rajkhowa of the United Liberation Front of Asom, is released on bail. (The Straits Times) (NDTV)
- A court in Thailand jails 79 pro-government "yellow shirt" protesters for storming a state television station two years ago. (Bangkok Post) (CTV) (Reuters)
- Four opposition figures in Belarus are charged with organising riots after demonstrations against the re-election of Alexander Lukashenko. (BBC)
- Anders Hogstrom, a Swedish man, is sentenced to two years and eight months imprisonment after being convicted of orchestrating the theft of Arbeit macht frei from the Auschwitz entry gate last December. (Al Jazeera)
- Minnesota sues 3M claiming they pumped PFCs, a very toxic chemical according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, into local waterways.(Reuters)
- Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour frees two sisters 16 years into double life terms received for armed robbery of two men for $11, citing one of the sister's "medical condition creates a substantial cost to the state of Mississippi." (Reuters)
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December 31, 2010 (2010-12-31) (Friday)
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