In December 2011, Aon Corporation paid a $ 16. 26 million penalty to the US Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) and the US Department of Justice ( DOJ ) for violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ( FCPA ).

Mirvish Productions presented the earlier Stratford production at the Canon Theatre, Toronto, in December 2010 through January 2011.

It was revived in 2011 and new episodes began airing on MTV on October 27 and ended on December 29.

In December 2011, more than a year after the official reboot announcement, the Los Angeles Times site reported that Whit Anderson, the writer picked for the new Buffy movie, had her script rejected by the producers behind the project, and that a new writer was being sought.

Barney was replaced as Camden Yards ' PA announcer by Dave McGowan, who held the position until December 2011.

As of December 2011, the City Council members are: Loretta Clawson, Mayor ; Jamie Leigh, Councilor, Mayor Pro-tempore ; and Councilors: Rennie Brantz, Andy Ball, Allan Scherlen, and Lynne Mason.

The project was slated to be completed by December 31, 2011 ; as of 16 March 2012, construction is ongoing.

In December 2011, BJU announced its intention to apply for regional accreditation with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools ( SACS ).

The new highspeed ICE railway line from Karlsruhe to Basel was completed in 2008 while phase I of the TGV Rhin-Rhône line, opened in December 2011, has reduced travel time from Basel to Paris to about 3 hours.

They were also criticised for shutting down all servers except the Japanese servers for the games Resident Evil: Outbreak and its sequel Resident Evil Outbreak File 2, which the servers for Outbreak and Outbreak File 2 in Japan finally closed on June 30, 2011, over three and a half years after shutting down the North American and European servers on December 31, 2007.

In December 2011, Rodrigo Carreras became the Costa Rican ambassador to Israel for the second time, after his posting there in the 1980s.

The Croatian parliamentary election, 2011 was held on 4 December 2011, and the Kukuriku coalition won.

As of 23 December 2011, the Deputy Prime Ministers are Radimir Čačić, Neven Mimica, Branko Grčić, and Milanka Opačić.

As of 23 December 2011, the prime minister is Zoran Milanović.

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Soyuz TMA-20 / Expedition 26 / 27 ( December 15, 2010, to May 23, 2011 ) was an extended duration mission to the International Space Station.

In December 2011, Caltech students went to New York and pulled a prank on Manhattan's Greenwich Village.

The current version of the standard ( now known as " C11 ") was approved in December of 2011.

On 22 December 2010, the UN declared the period from 2011 to 2020 as the UN-Decade on Biodiversity.

In December 2009 the company announced that it will close its three Columbus, Georgia manufacturing facilities between June 2010 and December 2011.

The 16 largest corporate bankruptcies as of 13 December 2011:

In December 2011 the UK's Minister of State for Schools, Nick Gibb, voiced concern that children can become " too dependent " on the use of calculators.

On December 19, 2011, The Writers Guild of America announced that Trumbo will get full credit for his work on the screenplay of the 1953 romantic comedy Roman Holiday, sixty years after the fact.

Karmal would remain in exile until December 1979, when the Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan ( with the consent of the Afghan government ) to stabilise the situation in the country, they killed Amin, the leader of the PDPA and the Afghan government.

After the Taliban government was toppled during Operation Enduring Freedom, Rabbani returned to Kabul and served as a temporary President from November to December 20, 2001, when Hamid Karzai was chosen at the Bonn International Conference on Afghanistan.

In December 1978 the PDPA leadership signed an agreement with the Soviet Union which would allow military support for the PDPA in Afghanistan if needed.

In December 2004, during the War in Afghanistan ( 2001-present ) | War in Afghanistan, a group of U. S. Army soldiers tries to free a HMMWV, which is stuck in the sands of southern Afghanistan.

This event marked the opening salvo of the rebellion which led to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979.

He would have to consent to a gag order that would prevent him from making any public statements on the matter for the duration of his 20-year sentence, and he would have to drop any claims that he had been mistreated or tortured by U. S. military personnel in Afghanistan and aboard two military ships during December 2001 and January 2002.

After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, on December 24, 1979, the Red Army occupied the capital.

In December 2001, Kabul became the capital of the Afghan Transitional Administration, which transformed to the present Government of Afghanistan that is led by President Hamid Karzai.

Zahir Shah attended the 7 December 2004 swearing in of Hamid Karzai as President of Afghanistan.

The Battle of Tora Bora, involving U. S., British and Northern Alliance forces took place in December 2001 to further destroy the Taliban and suspected al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.

According to the Washington Post, in December 2009, after US President Barack Obama announced he would deploy 30, 000 more U. S. soldiers, and that Washington wants others to follow suit, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reacted with the message that Turkey would not contribute additional troops to Afghanistan.

On December 13, 2001, the United States State Department released a video tape apparently showing bin Laden speaking with Khaled al-Harbi and other associates, somewhere in Afghanistan, before the U. S. invasion had driven the Taliban regime from Kandahar.

** Soviet war in Afghanistan ( 1979 – 1989 )-Although taking place almost entirely throughout the 1980s, the war officially started on December 27, 1979.

* December 24 – Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan

* December 3 – Babrak Karmal, President of Afghanistan ( b. 1929 )

* December 27 – Hafizullah Amin, General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, President of Afghanistan ( b. 1929 )

This operation was the first large-scale battle in the United States War in Afghanistan since the Battle of Tora Bora in December 2001.

As of December 31, 2005, the largest source countries of refugees are Afghanistan, Iraq, Sierra Leone, Myanmar, Somalia, South Sudan, and the Palestinian Territories.

* December 31 – The United States and the United Kingdom will officially withdraw their troops from Afghanistan.

The Soviet Union declared its plan to intervene in Afghanistan on 12 December 1979, and the Soviet leadership initiated Operation Storm-333 ( the first phase of the intervention ) on 27 December 1979.