[561] News Headlines (Dec 2024)

Completion Date: 02 January 2025
Medium: Paint & ink on acid-free mount-board
Dimensions: 70 x 50 cm (27.5 x 19.7 inches)

News Headlines – December 2024

01 Dec 2024
S&P500: 6 032
Bitcoin $: 96 983
CO2: 424,88
USD/EUR: 1.27
Fed Funds Rate: 4.58%
Biden popularity: 37.7%

31 Dec 2024
S&P500: 5,884
Bitcoin $: 94,513
CO2: 425.72
USD/EUR: 1.25
Fed Funds Rate: 4.33%
Biden popularity: 37.4%

01 Dec
Syrian troops withdraw from Aleppo as rebels advance
Trump announces he intends to replace current FBI director with loyalist Kash Patel

02 Dec
Biden gives son Hunter ‘unconditional’ pardon

03 Dec
South Korean president declares martial law

04 Dec
French government collapses in no-confidence vote

05 Dec
Thousands flee Syrian city Homs as rebels advance further

06 Dec
Anti-Assad rebels take most of key southern Syrian region

07 Dec
Syria rebels declare Damascus ‘free,’ claim Assad has fled the capital

08 Dec
Assad has left Syria, says Russia

09 Dec
Israel carries out dozens of air strikes across Syria

10 Dec
Israel confirms attack on Syrian naval fleet

11 Dec
Russian ships move from Syria base amid doubts over future

12 Dec
FBI Director Christopher Wray to resign before Trump takes office

13 Dec
Israel Strikes Military Sites in Syria

14 Dec
Most Americans approve how Trump is handling his return to the White House

15 Dec
Israel plans to expand Golan settlements after fall of Assad

16 Dec
Ukraine kills general who led Russia’s nuclear defense force

17 dec
Gaza ceasefire talks in final stage

18 Dec
House GOP sides with Trump and goes after Liz Cheney

19 Dec
Shutdown grows closer as Trump tells GOP to kill spending deal

20 dec
Trump-backed bill to keep US government running fails to pass

21 Dec
Senate passes bill to avert a government shutdown

22 Dec
Trump is teasing US expansion into Panama, Greenland and Canada

23 Dec
Zelenskyy tells Ukraine’s diplomats to fight for Nato membership

24 Dec
Denmark boosts Greenland defence after Trump repeats desire for US control

25 Dec
Passenger airliner crashes in Kazakhstan – Russia involved?

26 Dec
Finland suspects Russian ‘Shadow Fleet’ vessel cut undersea power cable

27 Dec
Trump urges US Supreme Court to delay TikTok ban

28 Dec
Yellen warns ‘Extraordinary Measures’ needed to avoid default

29 Dec
179 people killed S-Korea plane crash

30 Dec
Jimmy Carter, former US president, dies aged 100

31 Dec
US Treasury says it was hacked by China in ‘major incident’