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Topics in the news

Jiang Zemin

 Jiang Zemin (pictured), former general secretary of the

Chinese Communist Party, dies at the age of 96.
 A deadly fire in Ürümqi escalates ongoing protests
across China 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.

Ongoing: 
 FIFA World Cup
 Mahsa Amini protests
 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Recent deaths: 
 Jens Bullerjahn
 Jimmy Cole
 Chuck Stobart
 Doddie Weir
 Christine McVie
 Clare Marx
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Armed conflicts and attacks

 Israeli–Palestinian conflict
o Two Al-Quds Brigades leaders are killed and
another person is injured by Israeli soldiers during a
raid at a refugee camp in Jenin, in the
occupied West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
 2022 Haitian crisis
o Twelve people are killed by armed gangs in the town
of Cabaret, Haiti. (Al Jazeera)
 2022 Spain letter bomb attacks
o The Spanish Ministry of the Interior reports that
several letter bombs have been sent to Prime
Minister Pedro Sánchez, the Ministry of Defence and
the Torrejón Air Base. A sixth letter bomb is
intercepted at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid. (El
Plural) (Reuters) (La Sexta)

Business and economy

 COVID-19 recession
o It is reported that the eurozone's unemployment rate
declined to 6.5 per cent at the start of the fourth
quarter, the lowest rate since Eurostat started
recording employment data in 1998. (WION)

November 30, 2022 (Wednesday)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

  Syrian civil war
o American-led intervention in the Syrian civil war

 The United States Central Command announces

that the Free Syrian Army killed Islamic
State caliph Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-
Qurashi during an operation in the Daraa
Governorate in mid-October. (AFP via The
Brussels Times)
 Afghanistan conflict
o At least 15 people are killed and 20 others injured in
a bombing at a religious school in Aybak, Samangan
Province. (Al Jazeera)
 November 2022 Quetta bombing
o Three people are killed and 24 others injured by
a Pakistani Taliban suicide bomber at a polio
vaccination centre
in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
 2022 Spain letter bomb attacks
o A staff member at the
Ukrainian embassy in Madrid, Spain, suffers minor
injuries when opening a letter bomb that was
addressed to ambassador Serhii
Pohoreltsev. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

 UNESCO officially adds several inscriptions to

its intangible cultural heritage list,
including French baguettes, Korean talchum dance,
and Chinese tea making. (BBC News)

Law and crime

 Capital punishment in Singapore

o The Singaporean government approves legislation
that will only allow the Court of Appeal to grant a
last-ditch clemency petition prior to an execution on
consideration or on the basis of new evidence
presented by the defendant. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

 Scott Morrison ministerial positions controversy

o The Australian House of Representatives votes 86–
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)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

 Israeli–Palestinian conflict
o Four Palestinians, one in Hebron, one in al-
Mughayir 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
o 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)

Disasters and accidents

 Nineteen people are injured after an ethane gas

explosion in Agua Dulce, Veracruz, Mexico. (AP)

International relations

 China–United Kingdom relations

o 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)

Law and crime

 LGBT rights in Singapore

o 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
o 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)

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Disasters and accidents

 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa

o 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

o 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
 o 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)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

 Somali Civil War

o 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)
 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

 Protests against COVID-19 lockdowns in China

 o Hundreds of protesters clash with police
in Shanghai as security forces attempt to disperse
the crowds during a candlelight vigil for the victims of
the fire on 24 November
in Ürümqi, Xinjiang. (Reuters)

November 26, 2022 (Saturday)

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Disasters and accidents

 2022 Ischia landslide

o 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

o 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

o 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)
o 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)
o 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
o 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)
o 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
o 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

o 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)

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Disasters
 Climate crisis
 COVID-19 pandemic

 Opioid epidemic

 2022 monkeypox outbreak

 2022 Pakistan floods

 2022 Atlantic hurricane season

 2022 Pacific typhoon season

Economics
 2020–present global chip shortage
 2021–present global energy crisis
  2021–2022 inflation surge

 2022 food crises

 Lebanese liquidity crisis

 Moldovan energy crisis

 Sri Lankan economic crisis

 Turkish currency and debt crisis

 United Kingdom cost of living crisis

Politics
 Belarus−European Union border crisis
 Chinese anti-COVID lockdown protests

 Haitian crisis

 Iranian protests

 Kiribati constitutional crisis

 Myanmar protests

 Peruvian political crisis

 Russia−European Union gas dispute

 Sri Lankan protests

 Sudanese protests

 Tunisian political crisis

 Ukrainian refugee crisis

 United States abortion protests

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Elections and referendums
Recent
 November
o 19: Bahrain, Council of Representatives (2nd)
o 19: Malaysia, Dewan Rakyat

o 20: Equatorial Guinea, President, Senate

       Chamber of Deputies

o 20: Kazakhstan, President

o 20: Nepal, House of Representatives

o 26: Taiwan, Constitutional referendum

o 27: Slovenia, Referendum

Upcoming
  December
o 6: Dominica, House of Assembly
o 8: Faroe Islands, Løgting

o 14: Fiji, Parliament

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Trials
Recently concluded
 United States: Tom Barrack, Igor Danchenko, Nikolas Cruz

Ongoing
 Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
 Guinea: Moussa Dadis Camara

 Indonesia: Ferdy Sambo

 Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu

 Italy: Matteo Salvini

 Kosovo: Specialist Chambers

 Malta: Yorgen Fenech

 Philippines: Leila de Lima

 Sudan: Omar al-Bashir

 United States: Harvey Weinstein, Paul Flores

 Vatican City: Giovanni Angelo Becciu

 ICC: Ali Kushayb

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Sport

 Association football
o 2022 FIFA World Cup
o 2022–23 UEFA Champions League

o 2022–23 UEFA Europa League

o 2022–23 Premier League

 2022–23 Bundesliga

 2022–23 Ligue 1

 2022–23 La Liga

 2022–23 Serie A
 American football

o 2022 NFL Season

o 2022 NCAA FBS College Football Season

 Basketball

o 2022–23 NBA season

 International cricket

o 2021–23 ICC World Test Championship

o 2020–23 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League

o 2019–23 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2

o 2019–22 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League

 Ice hockey

o 2022–23 PHF season

o 2022–23 NHL season

 Other sports seasons

o 2022–23 snooker season

o 2022–23 curling season

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December / November
 1: Gaylord Perry
 30: Christine McVie

 30: Abu Hasan al-Qurashi

 30: Jiang Zemin

 28: Clarence Gilyard

 28: Donald McEachin

 26: Albert Pyun

 26: Louise Tobin

 26: Vladimir Makei

 26: Doddie Weir

 25: Irene Cara

 25: Charles Koppelman

 24: Börje Salming

 23: David Johnson

 22: John Y. Brown Jr.

 22: Cecilia Suyat Marshall

 22: Pablo Milanés

 21: Wilko Johnson

 20: Hebe de Bonafini

 20: Mickey Kuhn

 19: Jason David Frank

 19: Danny Kalb

 19: Tuan Tuan

 18: George Lois

 18: Ned Rorem

 17: Michael Gerson

 17: Staughton Lynd

 16: Nicki Aycox

 16: Robert Clary

 16: Carol Leigh

 16: Michael Pertschuk

 14: Virginia McLaurin

 13: Anthony Johnson

 12: Jim Bohannon

 12: Budd Friedman

 12: Mehran Karimi Nasseri

 11: John Aniston

 11: Gallagher

 11: Keith Levene

 10: Kevin Conroy

 9: Gal Costa

 9: Fred Hickman

 9: Kirill Stremousov

 9: Bao Tong

 8: Dan McCafferty

 8: Evelyn de Rothschild

 7: Michael Butler

 7: Jeff Cook

 7: Leslie Phillips
 6: Edward C. Prescott

 6: Michael Boyce

 5: Bill Treacher

 5: Aaron Carter

 5: Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici

 4: Dave Butz

 4: Dow Finsterwald

 4: Doris Grumbach

 4: Ibrahim Munir

 3: Ray Guy

 3: Douglas McGrath

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 War against the Islamic State

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o Cabinda War

 Cameroon

o Anglophone Crisis

 Central African Republic

o Civil war

 Democratic Republic of the Congo

 ADF insurgency

 LRA insurgency

 Kivu conflict

 Ituri conflict

 Ethiopia

o Oromo conflict

 Mozambique

o Insurgency in Cabo Delgado

 Nigeria
 o Insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria

o Boko Haram insurgency

 Sahel

 Burkina Faso insurgency

 Mali War

 Senegal

o Casamance conflict

 Somali civil war

o U.S. intervention

 Sudan

 South Kordofan conflict

 War in Darfur

 Western Sahara

o Guerguerat crisis

Americas
 Colombia
o Colombian conflict

 Mexico

o Mexican drug war

 Paraguay

o Insurgency in Paraguay

 Peru

o Internal conflict in Peru

Asia-Pacific
 Afghanistan
o Islamic State–Taliban conflict
o Republican insurgency

 India

o Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir

o Insurgency in Northeast India

o Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

 Indonesia
 o Papua conflict

 Myanmar

 Civil war

 Rakhine conflict

 Kachin conflict

 Karen conflict

 Pakistan

o Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

o Insurgency in Balochistan

 Philippines

 Communist rebellion

 Philippine drug war

 Moro conflict

 Thailand

o South Thailand insurgency

Europe
 Russia and Ukraine
o Russian invasion of Ukraine

Middle East
 Egypt
o Sinai insurgency

 Iran

 Iran–Kurdish conflict

 Iran–Baloch conflict

 Iraqi conflict

 Iranian intervention

 Islamic State insurgency

 Israel and Palestine

o Gaza–Israel conflict

 Nagorno-Karabakh
 o Armenia–Azerbaijan border
crisis

 Syrian civil war

o Foreign involvement

 Turkish intervention

 U.S.–led intervention

 Turkey

o Kurdish–Turkish conflict

 Yemeni civil war

o Saudi Arabian–led
intervention

 Houthi–Saudi Arabian
conflict

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