Portal:Current events/2019 November 13
November 13, 2019 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Afghanistan
- A car bomb kills 12 people and injures 20 others near the Interior Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Al Jazeera) (Yahoo News)
- A suicide bomber kills himself and injures six other people when he detonates near police headquarters in Medan, Indonesia. (DW News)
- Gaza–Israel conflict; Gaza–Israel clashes (November 2019)
- Israeli airstrikes leave 22 Palestinians (20 militants and 2 civilians) dead and dozens injured. (Haaretz)
- More than 200 rockets were fired into Israel from Gaza. (New York Post)
- Two people are arrested in Poland for planning to shoot and kill Muslims in an attack inspired by the Norwegian shooter Anders Breivik. (Reuters)
International relations
- Japan–North Korea relations, Japan–South Korea relations
- South Korean media reports that between May and September, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe sent personal letters to North Korea's Kim Jong-un to hold bilateral meetings to ease tensions between the two countries. A Japanese government spokesman denied the report, saying, "There's no such fact." (The Japan Times)
Law and crime
- Catholic Church sexual abuse cases
- The Australian High Court agrees to hear a final appeal from ex-Vatican treasurer and convicted child sex offender George Pell, who was found guilty of sexually assaulting three teenage choirboys. (Reuters)
- After the South Korean government launches an investigation into comfort women, a survivor tells the press that Japan "lacked honor" for failing to attend the South Korean court. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 2019 Hong Kong protests
- Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam vows not to give in to protesters as chaos continues into Wednesday morning. (The Straits Times)
- Schools, transport links and businesses close amid rising violence in the city as police warn of a "deadly level of violence". (Reuters)
- 2019 Bolivian protests, Evo Morales government resignation
- Bolivia’s exiled former president Evo Morales rejected the self-proclaimed presidency of an opposition senator, but police barred his lawmakers from entering the legislature to undo it. (Washington Post)