Portal:Current events/2021 November 14
November 14, 2021 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Insurgency in the Maghreb
- Gunmen open fire at a military post near a gold mine in Inata, Soum Province, Burkina Faso, killing 19 gendarmes and a civilian. (Al Jazeera)
- Liverpool Women's Hospital bombing
- A passenger is killed and his driver injured when a taxi explodes in front of the Liverpool Women's Hospital in Liverpool, England. Three men are subsequently arrested under the Terrorism Act. (BBC News)
- Syrian civil war
- A bomb explodes near a vehicle carrying troops in Deir ez-Zor, Syria, killing four soldiers and a general. (The New Arab)
- Somali Civil War; Capital punishment in Somalia
- Two Ugandan soldiers are sentenced to death and three more receive 39-year prison sentences in Somalia for killing seven civilians during a gun battle in Golweyn, Lower Shabelle, three months ago. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- Astroworld Festival crowd crush
- A 9-year-old boy, injured during a crowd crush at the Astroworld Music Festival, who had been in a medically-induced coma, dies, bringing the death toll to 10. (CNN)
- European migrant crisis
- Eight sub-Saharan African migrants are found dead on a boat adrift off the southern coast of the Canary Islands, with 54 other men being rescued from the boat. (El País)
- A fire at a COVID-19 ward in Sliven, Bulgaria, kills three patients. (ABC News)
- A magnitude 6.5 earthquake strikes Hormozgan Province, Iran, at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) and is felt in many southern Iranian cities. A man killed by a falling pole is the sole death reported. (Reuters)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Austria
- Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announces a nationwide lockdown for those over the age of 12 years who are unvaccinated against COVID-19, which prohibits them from leaving their homes except for essential reasons beginning at midnight, amid a record increase in new COVID-19 cases. (AP)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt, COVID-19 vaccination in Egypt
- The Egyptian government announces the start of clinical trials for COVI-VAX, which is the country’s first domestically-made COVID-19 vaccine. (Ahram Online)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Israel, COVID-19 vaccination in Israel
- The Israeli Health ministry approves the usage of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11, two weeks after the U.S. FDA grants its own approval, with vaccination expected to begin next week. (Haaretz)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Peru
- Peru announces that people over the age of 18 years who want to enter indoor spaces must show a proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 beginning in December, either physical or virtual vaccination cards. (AFP via Barron's)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Austria
Politics and elections
- 2021 Bulgarian general election
- Bulgarians go to the polls to elect the President and the National Assembly. (MSN)
- 2021 Argentine legislative election
- Argentines go to the polls to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. (24/7 News Agency)