Portal:Current events/2023 December 15: Difference between revisions

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• 2023 Nigerien crisis
• Indigenous peoples in Guatemala
• News of the World royal phone hacking scandal
• Post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 U.S. presidential election
• Fourteen workers at the Tenerife South Airport in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, are arrested on suspicion of stealing items from checked-in luggage. Police seize allegedly stolen items worth almost €2 million. (AP)
• A councillor detonates three grenades at a meeting of the village council of Keretsky, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine, injuring 27 people, including himself. (AFP via Barron’s)
• State prosecutors in Thailand indict a member of the country’s Senate, Upakit Pachariyangkun, on six charges involving narcotics trafficking, money laundering and association with a transnational criminal organization. (AP)
• Chile‘s police arrest at least 55 people in one of the country’s largest fiscal fraud cases, amounting to about $275 million and implicating small- and mid-sized companies in different parts of the country. The suspects will stand trial for tax crimes, criminal association, money laundering, customs fraud and making false declarations. (AP)

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