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Current events of December 15, 2014 (2014-12-15) (Monday)

Disasters and accidents

A fire at a karaoke bar in China's Henan province kills at least 11 people. (IANS via The Hindu)
An emergency rescue SMURD helicopter crashes into Lake Siutghiol, Constanţa County, Romania with at least three people killed and one seriously injured. (ABC)
The death toll of the 2014 Indonesia landslide rises to 56. (AP via Fox News)

International relations

Philippines prosecutors charge a United States Marine with murder over the death of Jennifer Laude, a Filipino transgender woman. (The Washington Post)

Law and crime

2014 Sydney hostage crisis
- A gunman takes an unknown number of people hostage at Lindt Chocolate Café in Martin Place, Sydney. (BBC) (ABC) (Melbourne Herald-Sun)
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania shootings
- A shooting spree kills six people throughout Montgomery County in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania suburbs. The suspect, Bradley William Stone, remains at large. (WPVI-TV) (Philadelphia Inquirer)
The Supreme Court of the United States rules by an 8–1 vote that evidence collected based on a reasonable misinterpretation of the law can be used at trial and is not deemed an unreasonable searches and seizures. (Wall Street Journal)(Washington Post)

Politics and elections

2014 Hong Kong protests
- Authorities remove the last remaining protest camps at Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. (Wall Street Journal)(BBC)
The United States Senate approves Vivek Murthy's nomination as Surgeon General by a 51–43 vote. (CBS)

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