Portal:Current events/2016 December 7

• Syrian Civil War
  • Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016), Aleppo offensive (November–December 2016)
    • Syrian rebels withdraw from the old city of Aleppo. (BBC)
  • Turkish military intervention in Syria
    • Turkish Air Force jets strike 12 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant targets in Al-Bab District, killing at least 23 militants. (Reuters)

• President-elect of the United States Donald Trump is named Time Person of the Year. (Time)

• Carrier Air Conditioner move to Mexico
  • Union leader Chuck Jones criticizes Donald Trump's announcement of kept jobs saying that the numbers mentioned are lower. Jones says that 550 workers would actually lose their livelihoods, while other workers were never scheduled to leave. (Washington Post via MSN)
• U.S. stocks closed higher Wednesday with the Dow industrials and S&P 500 notching new records. (Market Watch)

• 2016 Aceh earthquake
  • At least 96 people are killed following a 6.4 magnitude earthquake in Indonesia's Aceh region. Hundreds of people are injured and several buildings have collapsed. (BBC), (AP), (USA Today)
• Pakistan International Airlines Flight 661
  • A Pakistan International Airlines aircraft carrying at least 48 people, including former singer Junaid Jamshed, crashes shortly after taking off from Chitral, Pakistan. (BBC), (Reuters)

• 2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires
  • Two juveniles are charged with aggravated arson in relation to the wildfires that claimed 14 lives in the US town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. (CNN)

• Ghanaian general election, 2016
  • Voters go to the polls in Ghana for the country's presidential elections. It is expected to be a close race between incumbent president John Dramani Mahama of the ruling National Democratic Congress party and his rival Nana Akufo-Addo and his New Patriotic Party. (Al-Jazeera)
• Philippine Drug War
  • Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte accuses the opposition Liberal Party of trying to oust him and install the current vice president Leni Robredo to the presidency. (Rappler)
• Presidential transition of Donald Trump
  • John F. Kelly is selected as Secretary of Homeland Security. (The Washington Post)
  • Linda McMahon is selected as Administrator of the Small Business Administration
  • Scott Pruitt is selected as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
• 2016 United States presidential election
  • Mark A. Goldsmith, a United States district judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ends a recount for the state of Michigan after a state court found that Green Party of the United States candidate Jill Stein had no standing to seek a recount. (AP via Yahoo! News)

• India has launched its Resourcesat-2A imaging satellite via its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket. (NASASPACEFLIGHT)