Afghan presidential election, 2014 A recount of votes begins after contenders Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani reach a deal with the assistance of United States Secretary of State John Kerry.
Thanh Hoa A oil tanker carrying 5,000 liters of oil explodes while docking at the Lach Bang port, Thanh Hoa, Viet Nam killing two people and injuring four others. The fire is ignited either in the oil compartments or from the cooking gas cylinder.
Iceland Iceland issues a red alert warning for the Bárðarbunga volcano meaning significant emissions are likely.
Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs agrees to buy back $3.15 billion in low quality mortgage bonds that it dumped on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac preceding the financial crisis of 2007–08.
Islamist insurgency in Nigeria Thirty-five Nigerian police officers are missing following an attack on a training school in Borno state.
The UN calls for action to prevent what it suspects may become a massacre in the northern Iraqi town of Amirli, which has been besieged by IS forces since June.
2014 Libyan conflict Tripoli International Airport is captured by Islamist militias following days of clashes with nationalist militias.
2014 Israel–Gaza conflict The IDF retracts claims that the mortar shell that killed an Israeli child was fired near or from a school run by UNRWA, saying that the shell was fired from a school used as a shelter run by Hamas.
Four additional Palestinians charged with collaborating with Israel are publicly executed outside of the Jabalia refugee camp by Hamas; the killings are denounced by the secretary-general of the PA, Tayeb Abdel Rahim, who compared them to ISIS.