Portal:Current events/2023 December 19
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December 19, 2023 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Kivu conflict
- Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
- The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to start the withdrawal of the United Nations peacekeeping force from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The withdrawal will start in South Kivu in eastern Congo, gradually handing over its responsibilities to the Congolese government. (AP)
- Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip kill at least 29 people in a residential area in Rafah, and at least 13 people in Jabalia. (Al Jazeera)
Politics and elections
- 2024 United States presidential election
- Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign, Anderson v. Griswold
- The Colorado Supreme Court disqualifies former U.S. president Donald Trump from the state's primary ballot under the Fourteenth Amendment. (NBC News)
- Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign, Anderson v. Griswold
- 2023 Indian Parliament breach
- Forty-nine Lok Sabha MPs are suspended from parliament for taking part in protests relating to a security breach in parliament, bringing the total number of suspensions to 141: 95 from the Lok Sabha, and 46 from the Rajya Sabha. (BBC News)