## [2024-12-21](/feed/2024/12/21/index.md)

##### 2025 United States federal budget
### [The United States Senate passes a funding bill, with President Joe Biden subsequently signing the bill into law, thereby averting a government shutdown. ](/feed/2024/12/21/the-united-states-senate-passes-a-funding-bill-with-president-joe-biden-subsequently-signing-the-bill-into-law-thereby.md)
##### 2024 Icelandic parliamentary election
### [The Social Democratic Alliance, led by Kristrún Frostadóttir, forms a coalition government in Iceland's Althing with the Liberal Reform Party and the People's Party. Kristrún becomes Iceland's youngest prime minister at 36 years old. ](/feed/2024/12/21/the-social-democratic-alliance-led-by-kristrun-frostadottir-forms-a-coalition-government-in-iceland-s-althing-with-the.md)
##### Censorship of TikTok
### [The Albanian government announces a one-year ban on the social media platform TikTok beginning in 2025, following a fatal stabbing of a teenager in November in connection to a confrontation on the platform. ](/feed/2024/12/21/the-albanian-government-announces-a-one-year-ban-on-the-social-media-platform-tiktok-beginning-in-2025-following-a-fata.md)
##### Sohana village
### [Two people are killed and three others are missing when an under-construction six-story building collapses in Sohana village, Mohali district, India. ](/feed/2024/12/21/two-people-are-killed-and-three-others-are-missing-when-an-under-construction-six-story-building-collapses-in-sohana-vil.md)
##### Ravine
### [Nine people are killed and 13 more injured when a bus plunges into a ravine in Pa Alam, Lorestan, Iran. ](/feed/2024/12/21/nine-people-are-killed-and-13-more-injured-when-a-bus-plunges-into-a-ravine-in-pa-alam-lorestan-iran.md)
##### Stampede
### [Ten people are killed and many others are injured in a stampede during a distribution of food and clothes at a church in Abuja, Nigeria. ](/feed/2024/12/21/ten-people-are-killed-and-many-others-are-injured-in-a-stampede-during-a-distribution-of-food-and-clothes-at-a-church-in.md)
##### Minas Gerais road crash
### [Forty-one people are killed when a bus collides with a granite block that fell from a truck on a highway in Minas Gerais, Brazil. ](/feed/2024/12/21/forty-one-people-are-killed-when-a-bus-collides-with-a-granite-block-that-fell-from-a-truck-on-a-highway-in-minas-gerais.md)
##### Constitutional crisis in Somalia
### [The Puntland region of Somalia announces that it will introduce a new regional currency in 2025. The region had previously shifted to use of the United States dollar in 2021, due to severe inflation of the Somali shilling. ](/feed/2024/12/21/the-puntland-region-of-somalia-announces-that-it-will-introduce-a-new-regional-currency-in-2025-the-region-had-previous.md)
##### Red Sea crisis
### [Sixteen people are injured in a Houthi missile attack on the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area in Israel. ](/feed/2024/12/21/sixteen-people-are-injured-in-a-houthi-missile-attack-on-the-tel-aviv-jaffa-area-in-israel.md)
##### Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
### [Sixteen Pakistan Army soldiers are killed and five others are critically injured when Pakistani Taliban militants launch an overnight raid on an army post in Makeen, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. ](/feed/2024/12/21/sixteen-pakistan-army-soldiers-are-killed-and-five-others-are-critically-injured-when-pakistani-taliban-militants-launch.md)
##### Haitian crisis
### [The Haitian government declares a one-month state of emergency amid the escalating gang violence and the deepening security crisis. ](/feed/2024/12/21/the-haitian-government-declares-a-one-month-state-of-emergency-amid-the-escalating-gang-violence-and-the-deepening-secur.md)
##### Russian invasion of Ukraine
### [At least seven Ukrainian drones strike Kazan, Russia, six of which reportedly hit residential areas, including a 32-story apartment building. ](/feed/2024/12/21/at-least-seven-ukrainian-drones-strike-kazan-russia-six-of-which-reportedly-hit-residential-areas-including-a-32-stor.md)
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