Portal:Current events/2016 December 30

Current events of December 30, 2016 (2016-12-30) (Friday)

Disasters and accidents

• Six people die in a fire in a bakery in the Indian city of Pune. (Firstpost)
• At least seven people are killed and 30 trapped after a pile of waste collapses in a Coal India mine in Jharkand. (Reuters) (CNN)
• A Cessna 525 carrying six passengers goes missing shortly after takeoff from Cleveland's Burke Lakefront Airport. (USA Today)

International relations

• Russia–United States relations
  • After 35 Russian diplomats are expelled from the United States, Russia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov recommends expelling 35 American diplomats. Russian President Vladimir Putin rejects Lavrov's recommendation and expresses a desire to restore relations between the two countries. (The New York Times) (Newshub)
• Mali returns on the same planes they arrived on two people France deported. (BBC)

Law and crime

• A body found in a burnt-out vehicle north of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is confirmed to be that of missing Greek Ambassador Kyriakos Amiridis. A military police officer who had an affair with the ambassador's wife confesses to the murder. The wife and a second man are also detained. (BBC)

Politics and elections

• Romanian President Klaus Iohannis designates social-democrat Sorin Grindeanu as the country's new prime minister, after the landslide victory of the centre-left PSD earlier this month. (AFP by The Indian Express)
• China's State Council announces details of its intention to ban all ivory trade and processing activities by the end of 2017. (BBC)

Science and technology

• A volcanic eruption continues on Bogoslof Island near Unalaska, in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. The eruption has impacted air transportation routes, and has dramatically changed the island's shape. (Alaska Public Radio Network) (Tech Times) (CDA News)