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Vigil in Chengdu for Ürümqi fire victims
- A deadly fire in Ürümqi escalates ongoing protests across China (vigil pictured) in response to the government's zero-COVID policy.
- Anwar Ibrahim of the Pakatan Harapan coalition becomes Prime Minister of Malaysia after the general election produces the nation's first hung parliament.
- An earthquake centred near Cianjur in Indonesia's West Java kills at least 323 people and injures more than 7,000 others.
- In Canadian football, the Toronto Argonauts defeat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the Grey Cup.
November 30, 2022 (Wednesday)
Law and crime
- Capital punishment in Singapore
- A bill is passed in Singapore regarding last-ditch clemency petitions before an execution. Henceforth, only the Court of Appeal will grant a clemency petition on consideration or on the basis of new evidence presented by the defendant. (Al Jazeera)
Politics and elections
- Scott Morrison ministerial positions controversy
- The Australian House of Representatives votes, by 86 votes to 50, to censure former prime minister Scott Morrison for failing to disclose to the parliament and the public his secret appointments to a number of ministries during his premiership. Morrison is the first former Australian prime minister to be censured. (AP)
November 29, 2022 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Three Palestinians, one in Hebron and two brothers in Kafr Ein, are killed during clashes with Israeli forces. Eight others are injured. A man is also killed in Kokhav Ya'akov after ramming and seriously injuring a female soldier. (AP) (Times of Israel)
Business and economy
- Germany–Qatar relations
- 2021–2022 global energy crisis
- 2022 Russia–European Union gas dispute
- Germany signs a 15-year deal with Qatar's state-owned petroleum company QatarEnergy to have its liquefied natural gas supplied by the company from 2026. (AP)
- 2022 Russia–European Union gas dispute
- 2021–2022 global energy crisis
International relations
- China–United Kingdom relations
- 2022 COVID-19 protests in China
- The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the United Kingdom summons Chinese ambassador Zheng Zeguang over the arrest of BBC News journalist Edward Lawrence while covering the protests in Shanghai. (AFP via CNA)
- 2022 COVID-19 protests in China
Law and crime
- LGBT rights in Singapore
- The Parliament of Singapore repeals Section 377A, thereby decriminalising sex between consenting male adults in the country. (The New York Times)
- November 2021 English Channel disaster
- The Gloucestershire Constabulary arrest a man near Cheltenham, Cotswolds, England, as a prime suspect in conspiring to transport 30 illegal immigrants from France to the United Kingdom on an inflatable boat, of which all but three died when the boat capsized in transit along the English Channel in 2021. (AFP via The Star)
- Janusz Waluś, the convicted assassin of South African anti-apartheid politician Chris Hani, is stabbed and wounded in prison in Pretoria a few days before his scheduled release on parole. (AFP via The Guardian)
November 28, 2022 (Monday)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa
- Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano, erupts for the first time since 1984, triggering an ash advisory for Hawaii's biggest island. (CNN)
Law and crime
- Comoros passport sales scandal
- A court in the Comoros sentences former president Ahmed Abdallah Sambi to life in prison after Sambi was convicted of high treason for selling passports to stateless people in the Persian Gulf, and for other crimes, including embezzlement. (France 24)
- Aftermath of the 2022 Buffalo shooting
- Payton S. Gendron, who shot and killed 10 people and injured three others at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, United States, in May, pleads guilty to all state charges: first-degree murder, domestic terrorism motivated by hate, and attempted murder as a hate crime. (PBS NewsHour)
Science and technology
- The Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland fines American technology company Meta for €265 million (US$275 million) for a data breach on its international users. (AFP via The Philippine Star)
November 27, 2022 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Somali Civil War
- November 2022 Mogadishu attack
- Eight civilians and a soldier are killed and several others, including Somalia's internal security minister, are injured when al-Shabaab jihadists attack a hotel in Mogadishu frequented by Somali politicians. Five insurgents are also killed. (BBC) (The New York Times)
- November 2022 Mogadishu attack
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi jointly announce that 40 Burundian rebels of the National Forces of Liberation have been killed recently in eastern DRC. (AFP via RFI.fr)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 14 people are killed and dozens of others are missing after a landslide hits Yaoundé, Cameroon. (AP)
- Five people are killed in a helicopter crash in Yangyang County, Gangwon, South Korea. (Yonhap)
Law and crime
November 26, 2022 (Saturday)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Ischia landslide
- Ten people are killed, five others are injured, and two are missing after a landslide hits Ischia, Naples, Italy. (Il Messaggero)
Law and crime
- Mass shootings in the United States
- One person is killed and five others are injured during a mass shooting in Atlantic Station in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. (ABC News)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Taiwanese local elections
- Residents of Taiwan head to the polls to elect mayors, city council members and other local leaders in nine cities and 13 counties. (BBC News)
- The Kuomintang Party, who has consistently advocated economic engagement and unification with mainland China, wins 13 of the 21 seats contested in the elections. (CNN)
- Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen resigns as leader of the Democratic Progressive Party after the party suffers a major defeat in the elections. (AP)
- 2022 Taiwanese constitutional referendum
- Residents of Taiwan head to the polls for a constitutional referendum on the issues of lowering the voting age from 20 to 18 and lowering the age of candidacy from 23 to 18. (BBC News)
- The propositions on lowering voting and candidacy ages to 18 fail to pass as they do not receive the required approval of half of the eligible voters. (Focus Taiwan)
- 2022 Equatorial Guinean general election
- President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the world's longest-serving president, is re-elected to a seven-year term. (AFP via Barron's)
Sports
- 2022 FIFA World Cup controversies
- FIFA announces that they will discipline the Serbian national football team for hanging a banner in their locker room that showed the territory of Kosovo as part of Serbia. Kosovar authorities condemned the incident. (ABC News)
November 25, 2022 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Somali Civil War
- The military of Somalia carries out a series of counterterrorism operations in southern Somalia, killing 15 al-Shabaab members who survived a previous operation two days ago, in which 49 fighters were killed. The military also says that they stopped an attack in Qayib, Galmudug, killing dozens of militants. (Xinhua)
- 2022 São Tomé and Príncipe coup d'état attempt
- São Tomé and Príncipe prime minister Patrice Trovoada reports that his officials had thwarted a coup d'état attempt led by the President of the National Assembly, Delfim Neves, after they arrested Neves and another individual for infiltrating the headquarters of the armed forces in São Tomé. Four people were killed in the attempt. (AP via The Washington Post)
Disasters and accidents
Health and environment
- At the 19th CITES Conference of the Parties in Panama City, member states adopt stricter measures on the trade of 54 requiem and hammerhead shark species. (AFP via Voice of America)
Law and crime
- Aracruz school shootings
- Four people are killed and 12 others injured in a mass shooting targeting two schools in Aracruz, Espirito Santo, Brazil. The suspect, a 16-year-old boy, is later arrested. (AP)
- Mount Isa Murders
- An Indian Australian citizen, Rajwinder Singh, is arrested in New Delhi as the prime suspect in the murder of Australian woman Toyah Cordingley on a beach in Far North Queensland in October 2018. (AP)
November 24, 2022 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Kurdish–Turkish conflict
- Operation Claw-Sword
- Syrian Democratic Forces commander-in-chief Mazloum Abdi suspends military operations against the Islamic State in order to focus on preparations for a Turkish ground invasion of northern Syria. (Al Monitor)
- Operation Claw-Sword
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Southern Ukraine campaign
- At least 15 people are killed and 35 others are injured when Russian Armed Forces bombard Kherson. (AFP via NDTV)
- Southern Ukraine campaign
Business and economy
- Modern immigration to the United Kingdom
- Net migration to the United Kingdom reaches a record of 504,000 in 2022, according to the Office for National Statistics. The record increase is primarily due to non-EU migration, the resumption of post-pandemic travel, the arrival of Afghan and Ukrainian refugees, and immigration from Hong Kong. (BBC News)
International relations
- Mahsa Amini protests
- The United Nations Human Rights Council approves the establishment of a fact-finding mission into the allegations of human rights violations committed by the Iranian government in response to the protests. (AFP via News24)
Law and crime
- Philippine drug war
- Killings of Kian delos Santos, Carl Arnaiz and Reynaldo de Guzman
- A Regional Trial Court in Caloocan, Philippines, sentences a police officer to life imprisonment for torturing and fabricating evidence on drug war victims Carl Arnaiz and Reynaldo de Guzman in 2017. (Reuters)
- Killings of Kian delos Santos, Carl Arnaiz and Reynaldo de Guzman
- 2021 Algeria wildfires
- China–United Kingdom relations
- The Government of the United Kingdom orders its departments to remove and refrain from installing closed-circuit television systems manufactured by companies that are under China's national intelligence law at "sensitive" buildings, citing security concerns. (CNBC)
- Three people are killed and another is injured as a gunman opens fire at a shopping centre in Krymsk, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. The perpetrator commits suicide after the attack. (Outlook)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Malaysian general election
- Pakatan Harapan and long-time opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is sworn in as the Prime Minister of Malaysia. (Reuters)
- Russian gay propaganda law
- The lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, passes a bill banning all instances of "LGBT propaganda". (Reuters)
Sports
- 2022 FIFA World Cup
- Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo becomes the first player to score a goal at five FIFA Men's World Cup tournaments after scoring one in Portugal's 3–2 win against Ghana. (AP)
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