current Events/2022 December 28

• Poipet casino hotel fire
  • A fire at a casino hotel in Poipet, Cambodia, near the Thai border, kills at least 27 people and injures dozens of others. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • Travel during the COVID-19 pandemic
    • Italy and the United States announce that they will require travelers from China to present a negative COVID-19 rapid antigen test in order to enter their countries. (AFP via New Straits Times) (The New York Times)

International relations

• Syrian civil war
  • Syrian peace process
    • The defence ministers of Russia, Syria, and Turkey hold a trilateral meeting in Moscow. It is the first such meeting, as well as the first meeting between a Syrian and Turkish defence minister, since the war began in 2011. (AFP via France 24)
• 2022 North Kosovo crisis
  • Kosovo closes two border crossings with Serbia after protesters in Serbia block the border crossings in order to support the ethnic Serbs who are erecting barricades in North Kosovo and who refuse to recognize the independence of Kosovo. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Aftermath of the Grand-Bassam shootings
  • A court in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, sentences four Malian men to life imprisonment for inciting an Islamist mass shooting that killed 19 people and injured 33 others at a beach resort in Grand-Bassam in 2016. (AFP via RFI)
• Calabar Carnival
  • Fourteen people are killed and 24 others are injured when a drunk driver drives into crowds at the annual carnival parade in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. (BBC News)
• Bolivian police detain opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho for his role in the 2019 protests that prompted then-president Evo Morales to resign. (ABC News)