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Armed conflicts and attacks
Sixteen Pakistan Army soldiers are killed and five others are critically injured when Pakistani Taliban militants launch an overnight raid on an army post in Makeen, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Al Arabiya)
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Disasters and accidents
Forty-one people are killed when a bus collides with a granite block that fell from a truck on a highway in Minas Gerais, Brazil. (The Guardian) (G1) (O Globo)
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/21/at-least-22-people-killed-in-tragic-bus-crash-in-brazil
- https://g1.globo.com/mg/vales-mg/noticia/2024/12/21/acidente-em-mg-e-a-maior-tragedia-em-rodovias-federais-pelo-menos-desde-2007-inicio-da-serie-historica-da-prf.ghtml
- https://oglobo.globo.com/google/amp/brasil/minas-gerais/noticia/2024/12/22/tragedia-em-minas-sobe-para-41-o-numero-de-mortos-em-acidente-em-teofilo-otoni.ghtml
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Disasters and accidents
Nine people are killed and 13 more injured when a bus plunges into a ravine in Pa Alam, Lorestan, Iran. (AP)
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Disasters and accidents
Two people are killed and three others are missing when an under-construction six-story building collapses in Sohana village, Mohali district, India. (Zee News)
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Politics and elections
The Social Democratic Alliance, led by Kristrún Frostadóttir, forms a coalition government in Iceland's Althing with the Liberal Reform Party and the People's Party. Kristrún becomes Iceland's youngest prime minister at 36 years old. (CNA)