Portal:Current events/2008 December 28

Current events of December 28, 2008 (2008-12-28) (Sunday)

Operation Cast Lead The Israel Defense Forces continue airstrikes against Hamas in the Gaza Strip as the number of Palestinian casualties approaches 300. (ABC News) The United States vetoes a United Nations Security Council resolution aimed at stopping Israeli airstrikes against Gaza. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the United Kingdom, European Union, Russia, France, and China all call for a ceasefire. (PressTV) (CNN) (Xinhua) 2008 Garamba offensive: Uganda's People's Defence Force accuses the Lord's Resistance Army of hacking to death 45 people in a church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (France 24) A suicide bomber kills at least 16 people, 14 of them children, and injures 58 in Afghanistan's Khost Province. (BBC) A suicide bomber kills five Department of Civil Defence members and injures four others in Wattala, Sri Lanka. (BBC) Ghanaians vote in the presidential election run-off between Nana Akufo-Addo and John Atta Mills. (BBC) Mexican authorities arrest Army Major Arturo González Rodríguez for selling information to the Beltrán Leyva drug cartel. (BBC) Four boats carrying approximately 1,700 illegal Libyan migrants arrive on the Italian island of Lampedusa. (BBC) James Tanis wins Bougainville's Presidential election and will succeed Joseph Kabui, who died on June 7. (ABC Radio) Vietnam national football team won 2008 AFF Suzuki Cup