Portal:Current events/2017 December 2

• Israeli involvement in the Syrian Civil War
  • Israel launches surface-to-surface missiles at a military installation outside the Syrian capital Damascus overnight, Syrian state TV reports. (BBC)

• ABC News suspends journalist Brian Ross for four weeks without pay as a consequence for an erroneous report on Michael Flynn. (CNBC)

• Heavy rainfall causes flooding in southern Albania. At least one person has died and 3,000 houses have been flooded. (Fox News)
• 2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
  • Cyclone Ockhi hits southern India causing 13 deaths in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The cyclone kills 15 people and displaces another 200,000 persons in Sri Lanka. (NDTV) (Economy Next)

• Bangladesh–Holy See relations, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
  • Pope Francis ends his six-day trip to Myanmar and Bangladesh by visiting the Rohingya refugees in Dhaka. (AFP)
• Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
  • The former president of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh suggests that he is open to talking to the Saudi-led coalition that his forces have been fighting for years. (BBC)
• United States and the United Nations
  • The Trump administrations withdraws the United States from the Global Compact on Migration of the United Nations. (Voice of America)

• Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017
  • The United States Senate passes the Republican tax reform bill with a 51–49 vote. (CNN)

• Voyager program
  • Voyager 1 successfully fires backup maneuvering thrusters, that had previously remained inactive for 37 years. Those thruster firings are to keep the spacecraft's antenna pointed at Earth, which is vital to maintain communications. (Ars Technica)