Portal:Current events/2016 November 23
November 23, 2016 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2016 India–Pakistan military confrontation
- Pakistani officials say nine civilians have been killed after cross-border Indian shelling hit their passenger bus in Neelam Valley, northeast of Muzaffarabad, while three Pakistani soldiers were killed in other cross-border firing incidents. (Reuters), (The Washington Post)
Business and economy
- Economy of Brazil
- The Brazilian Development Bank announces plans to repay up to $29 billion in loans to the Government of Brazil in order to stem a burgeoning deficit. (Reuters)
- Peabody Energy says it plans to file a reorganization plan in the middle of December because recent increases in the price of coal have eased conflicts among its creditors. (Reuters)
International relations
- Iran–United States relations
- Ayatollah Khamenei warns that Iran will retaliate if sanctions that breach the Nuclear Deal are approved. (Huffington Post)
Law and crime
- White supremacist Thomas Mair is found guilty of the murder of British Member of Parliament Jo Cox and is sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order. (The Guardian)
- Serial killer Stephen Port is found guilty of four rape-murders. (BBC)
- Cameroon security forces arrest about 100 people after days of protests against alleged discrimination against the English-speaking minority. (Reuters via Trust)
- A Texas jury awards T. Boone Pickens and his Mesa Petroleum partners $140 million as a result of systemic underpayment of profits and ownership from 160 oil wells in Reeves and Pecos counties. (CNBC)
Politics and elections
- Presidential transition of Donald Trump
- President-elect Donald Trump names South Carolina governor Nikki Haley as United States Ambassador to the United Nations. (BBC)
- Former chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party Betsy DeVos is named as United States Secretary of Education. (The Detroit News)
- Politics of Spain
- Senator Rita Barberá, who was considered the Mayoress of Spain while governing the city of Valencia for 24 years, dies unexpectedly two days after declaring at the Supreme Court for a corruption scandal. (BBC)
Science and technology
- The $4B USS Zumwalt, thought to be the U.S. Navy's most technologically advanced vessel to date, suffers a large engineering malfunction while crossing the Panama Canal. This is the craft's second major malfunction since its launch less than a month prior. (CNN)
- Astronomers announce the discovery of a near 3000 cubic mile subterranean deposit of ice on Mars. Researchers claim it can easily be used as a sustainable resource for a manned mission to the red planet. (FOX News)