International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announces official names for recently-discovered superheavy elements Nihonium (113), Moscovium (115), Tennessine (117), and Oganesson (118).
Gambian presidential election, 2016 Opposition candidate Adama Barrow defeats Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, bringing an end to Jammeh's 22-year-rule in the West African nation.
Joko Widodo Indonesian president Joko Widodo attends the main event of the rally, Friday mass prayer, easing the tension of protesters.
Muslim Approximately 200,000 Muslims protest in the Indonesian capital Jakarta against the Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama for alleged blasphemy. This is the second mass protest in a month against the minority Christian governor.
Central Bank of Russia The Russian Central Bank says hackers, who were attempting to steal about 5 billion rubles, did take more than 2 billion ($31 million) this year from member bank accounts.
Dolj County A shooting in Palilula, Dolj County, Romania, leaves at least three people dead, including the gunman, with two more injured.
MERCOSUR Mercosur suspends Venezuela from the South American trading bloc for failing to meet membership requirements on trade and human rights.
United States President-elect Donald Trump holds a telephone conversation with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, the first known contact between a U.S. president or president-elect with a Taiwanese leader since the United States recognized the People's Republic of China in 1979.
2016 Oakland warehouse fire At least nine people are killed and 40 are missing in a warehouse fire in Oakland, California.
Chinese The bodies of 21 coal miners are retrieved from an unlicensed coal mine in the Chinese city of Qitaihe in the province of Heilongjiang. Four people have been arrested including the owner of the mine and three managers.
2016 Southeastern United States wildfires The death toll from the wildfire that hit the U.S. town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, rises to 13.
U.S. President United States President Barack Obama blocks China's Fujian Grand Chip Investment Fund's acquisition of the U.S. semiconductor business of German-based Aixtron because of national security concerns. The German Economy Ministry withdrew its approval in October.
European Union Ministers of the European Union have given the EU president a mandate to lower charges that mobile phone services can impose on one another for keeping each others' customers connected as the customers "roam," that is, travel about Europe.
Military intervention against ISIL Denmark's government announces it will be withdrawing its seven F-16 fighter jets from military operations against ISIL in Iraq and Syria from mid-December.
Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present) A military operation leaves three Turkish soldiers dead and another three wounded in Hakkâri Province, Turkey.