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Current events of December 30, 2014 (2014-12-30) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Iraqi insurgency
- Iraqi government forces and allied Shia militia recapture the town of Dhuluiya, north of Baghdad, from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. (BBC)

Arts and culture

Luise Rainer, German-born American actress (The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth), Academy Award winner (1936, 1937), dies of pneumonia at the age of 104-years-old. (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501
- Indonesian officials confirm that at least three bodies have been found in the Java Sea off Borneo. (BBC)
2014 Southeast Asian floods
- Flooding and the death toll continues in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. (Reuters)

Law and crime

A court in Moscow hands down a three and one half year suspended sentence for corruption to Alexei Navalny, a prominent anti-Putin activist. (The Denver Post)
In three separate, but connected, crime scenes in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, a suicidal male kills nine people. (Irish Times)

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