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December 14, 2008 (Sunday)
- At least 28 people are dead and 22 missing after the ferry Maejan capsizes in the northern Philippines. (AFP via News Limited)
- A bus crash in Minya, Egypt, kills 57 people. (AP via Google)
- Turkmenistan holds an early parliamentary vote with only candidates from the Democratic Party and associated organizations standing for election. (Reuters)
- Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Southern Sudan launch an operation against the Lord's Resistance Army insurgency in the DRC's Garamba National Park. (BBC)
- Al-Baghdadia TV journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi is subdued after throwing both his shoes at United States President George W. Bush during his farewell speech in Iraq. (CNN)
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