December 27, 2014 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Somali Civil War
- A top level Somali al-Shabab militant with a $3m US bounty, Zakariya Ahmed Ismail Hersi, surrenders to police. (BBC)
- North Korea experiences another Internet and cell phone outage and holds the United States responsible. (NY Daily News)
Disasters and accidents
- 2014 Southeast Asian floods
- Malaysia reports that at least five people are dead. (The Independent)
- Thailand's Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation reports that at least eight people are dead. (Bangkok Post)
Politics and elections
- Sweden's center-left government reaches a deal with the center-right opposition, The Alliance, giving a minority government room to govern so that the country's first snap election since 1958, originally planned for 22 March 2015, can be cancelled; the Sweden Democrats react by announcing that they will put down a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Stefan Löfven. (BBC) (The Local)
- Andrei Kobyakov replaces Mikhail Myasnikovich as Belarus's new prime minister in the biggest government reshuffle since 2010. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)