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- Wyoming Backs Down from Auctioning Land Inside Grand Teton National Park
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December 8
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2023 Guayana Esequiba crisis
- Amid growing border tensions between Guyana and Venezuela, the U.S. embassy in Guyana announces that the United States Southern Command will conduct joint flight operations with the Guyana Defence Force. (Reuters)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- The Kiel Institute reports that pledges of aid to Ukraine have been significantly scaled back, falling to their lowest level since the start of the war. Aid promised to Ukraine between August and October 2023 fell almost 90 percent from the same period in 2022. (Al Jazeera)
- Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- Russia launches 19 cruise missiles from Tu-95s at Ukrainian cities, including the capital Kyiv, killing at least one civilian in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and injuring several others. At least 14 missiles are intercepted. (Reuters)
- Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Syrian civil war
- Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
- Syria says an Israeli airstrike has killed four people in a vehicle in Madinat al-Baath, Quneitra Governorate. Local media reports the victims were affiliated with Iran-backed militias. Shortly after the airstrike, rocket sirens are triggered in Israel's Galilee region. (The Jerusalem Post)
- Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
- 2023 Israel–Hamas war
- The Gaza Antiquities Ministry reports that the Great Mosque of Gaza, the oldest mosque in the Gaza Strip, was destroyed by Israeli bombardment. (South China Morning Post)
International relations
- Armenia–Azerbaijan relations
- Armenia and Azerbaijan agree to exchange prisoners of war and work towards a peace treaty to formally end the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and normalize relations. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- 2023 Guatemalan general election
- The Attorney General's Office says that the results of the 2023 general election, won by Bernardo Arévalo, are "null and void" and should be "annulled". The Organization of American States condemned the actions and called them an "attempted coup d'état". (Prensa Libre) (Prensa Libre) (Prensa Libre)
On This Day
December 8: Feast of the Immaculate Conception (Roman Rite Catholicism); Rōhatsu in Japan
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British commander-in-chief Sir William Howe withdrew his troops from the Battle of White Marsh to Philadelphia.
- 1963 – After being struck by lightning while in a holding pattern, Pan Am Flight 214 crashed near Elkton, Maryland, U.S., killing all 81 people on board.
- 1980 – English musician John Lennon was murdered at the entrance of the Dakota, his residence in New York City.
- 2009 – Bombings in Baghdad carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq killed at least 127 people and injured at least 448 others.
- 2010 – The Japanese experimental spacecraft IKAROS (model pictured) flew by Venus at a distance of 80,800 km (50,200 mi), completing its planned mission to demonstrate solar-sail technology.