Events in December 2010
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Dec. 4
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India’s Nicole Faria is crowned Miss Earth Talent 2010 in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. |
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Dec. 7
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is arrested by the British police following surrender at a Central London police station. |
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Dec. 8
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At least 83 inmates of a Chilean prison are killed in a fire set off by rioting fellow prisoners. |
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Dec. 9
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A teenager is sentenced by the Supreme Court for the January 2 murder of an Indian youth Nitin Garg in Cruickshank Park in Melbourne, Australia. |
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Dec. 10
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Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in absentia at an Oslo ceremony. |
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Dec. 12
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Kosovo votes in its first elections since declaring independence from Serbia in 2008. |
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Dec. 13
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Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismisses Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki. |
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Richard Holbrooke (69), the U.S. President Barack Obama’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan passes away at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington of complications from 21 hours of surgery to repair ruptured aorta. |
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Dec. 15
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The Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is named Time magazine’s 2010 Person of the Year. |
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The U.N. Security Council eases sanctions on Iraq. Curtains on oil for-food programme. |
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Dec. 16
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is freed. |
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Dec. 17
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U.S. missile attacks leave 54 killed in Pakistan’s Khyber tribal region. |
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Dec. 18
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The U.S. Senate votes to repeal the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell law that will allow the military to permit gays to serve openly. |
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Dec. 19
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Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko wins a fourth straight term in office. |
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Dec. 21
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Iraq’s Parliament confirms Nouri al-Maliki as Prime Minister for a second term. |
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Dec. 22
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The U.S. Senate passes the New START treaty with Russia. |
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Australia apologises and makes a payout to Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef for wrongly detaining and charging him with involvement in a terrorism plot in Britain in 2007. |
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Dec. 23
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The International Convention for the Protection of all Persons From Enforced Disappearance enters into force. |
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Dec. 24
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The Russian Parliament gives preliminary approval for New START treaty. |
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Dec. 25
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An earthquake causes a minor tsunami in the South Pacific. |
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Jayachandra Elaprolu, a student from Andhra Pradesh, is shot dead in a robbery at a gas station in Pasadena city of Texas state. |
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Dec. 27
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The jailed former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky is found guilty of stealing oil from his firm Yukos in his second trial. |
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Dec. 30
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The former Israeli President, Moshe Katsav, is held guilty of rape by a Tel Aviv court. |
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A Moscow judge hands down a 13.5-year jail term to former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. |
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Dec. 31
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Australia’s northeast is battered by floods. Forced evacuation in Rockhampton town. |
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