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- Anwar Ibrahim (pictured) 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 310 people and injures more than 2,000 others.
- In Canadian football, the Toronto Argonauts defeat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the Grey Cup.
- NASA's Artemis 1 is successfully launched on an uncrewed test flight to the Moon.
- The United Nations estimates the world population to have exceeded eight billion.
November 26, 2022
(Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian Civil War
- Mazloum Abdi, commander of the Kurdish forces in Syria, says that his group, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), has halted its operations against ISIL due to targeted Turkish airstrikes against the SDF fighters to whom Turkey blames of a bombing in Istanbul. (VOA)
Disasters and accidents
- Eight people are killed and several others missing or injured after landslides hit Ischia, Naples, Italy. (AFP via GMA News Online)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Taiwanese local elections
- Taiwanese head to the polls to elect mayors, city council members and other local leaders in 13 counties and nine cities. (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 their major defeat in the elections. (AP)
- 2022 Taiwanese constitutional referendum
- Taiwanese head to the polls for a constitutional referendum on the issues of lowering voting age from 20 to 18 and age of candidacy from 23 to 18. Local councils and city mayors are also on the election. (BBC News)
- The propositions on lowering voting and candidacy ages to 18 fail to pass as they do not get the approval of the required half of 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 charges the Serbian national football team for hanging a banner in their locker room with 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
- Ten people are killed and nine others injured in a fire at an apartment block in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China. (AP)
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
- Three people are killed and 13 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)
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
- Chinese intelligence activity abroad, 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)
November 23, 2022
(Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- October–November 2022 nationwide missile strikes on Ukraine
- Widespread blackouts are reported in Western Ukraine as Russian forces launch another wave of cruise missile strikes, including in the city of Lviv, which is currently experiencing a power outage. Moldova also reports "massive" power outages, although the country has not been directly hit by missiles. (BBC News)
- At least six people, all civilians, are killed in the latest missile strikes, including three in an apartment block in Vyshhorod, Kyiv Oblast, where 15 other people were injured. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko says that 21 of the 31 missiles targeting Kyiv were intercepted before they reached their targets. (The Guardian)
- Foreign aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace announces that the United Kingdom will send three Sea King helicopters to the Ukrainian Air Force as part of a new £50 million support package to Ukraine. (The Telegraph)
- October–November 2022 nationwide missile strikes on Ukraine
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- 2022 Jerusalem bombings
- A 16-year-old Israeli Canadian teenager and a Ethiopian-Israeli man in his fifties are killed and 22 others are injured in explosions at two bus stops in Jerusalem. (The Guardian) (The Jerusalem Post)
- Death of Tiran Fero
- An Israeli Druze teen is kidnapped from a Jenin hospital by Jenin Brigades militants and his body held hostage. He died either in the hospital or after the militants unplugged him from his life support. (Times of Israel)
- Two Palestinians are killed and three others injured during a raid by Israeli soldiers at a refugee camp in Nablus. (Wafa) (Wafa)
- 2022 Jerusalem bombings
- Kivu conflict
- M23 offensive
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda agree to a ceasefire from November 25 and "the immediate withdrawal of M23 rebels from the occupied areas". (AFP via Africanews)
- M23 offensive
- Afghanistan conflict
- At least five people are killed in a mass shooting at a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Xinhua)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Düzce earthquake
- Two people are killed and 68 others are injured by a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Düzce, Turkey. (DW)
International relations
- Russia–European Union relations
- The European Parliament designates Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, citing Russia's military strikes on civilian targets in Ukraine, including critical infrastructure, hospitals, schools, and bomb shelters. (Reuters)
- Kosovo–Serbia relations
- Kosovo and Serbia agree an EU-brokered deal to end a dispute over Kosovar license plates in North Kosovo, which triggered protests last year. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Proposed second Scottish independence referendum
- The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom unanimously denies the Scottish government the right to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence from the United Kingdom without approval from the British government. (The Guardian)
Sports
- 2022 FIFA World Cup controversies
- FIFA announces that they will fine the Ecuadorian Football Federation after Ecuadorian fans made discriminatory chants about Chileans during the opening game of the World Cup against Qatar at the Al Bayt Stadium. (Yahoo! Sports)
November 22, 2022
(Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 missile explosion in Poland
- Germany says that it will deploy Patriot surface-to-air missile systems on the Poland–Ukraine border in order to protect Polish airspace. Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak says that he has accepted the German proposal. (International Business Times)
- 2022 missile explosion in Poland
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Boko Haram insurgency
- 2022 Chad attack
- Ten Chadian soldiers are killed and many others injured in an attack by Boko Haram in Lac Region, Chad. (Reuters)
- 2022 Chad attack
- South Thailand insurgency
- One person is killed and 30 others injured in a car bombing at a police compound in Narathiwat, Thailand. (Al Jazeera)
- Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
- At least 14 people, including eight Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland members, are killed in two separate attacks by jihadists in northern Burkina Faso, with one occurring near Markoye, Oudalan. (AFP via Free Malaysia Today)
Disasters and accidents
- A helicopter crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, killing the pilot and a meteorologist, both WBTV news station employees. (CNN)
International relations
Law and crime
- 2022 Chesapeake shooting
- Six people are killed and four others injured during a mass shooting at a Walmart Supercenter in Chesapeake, Virginia, United States. The perpetrator, identified as the supermarket's store manager, kills himself after the shooting. (CNN)
Sports
- 2022 FIFA World Cup
- The Saudi Arabia national football team defeats Argentina 2–1 in an upset. With this loss, Argentina fails to equal Italy's record 37-match unbeaten streak in international football. (NPR)
November 21, 2022
(Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Kurdish–Turkish conflict
- Spillover of the Syrian civil war
- A rocket attack on the Turkish border town of Karkamış, kills three people, including a child. Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu blames Kurdish militants in Syria and vows a "strong response". Kurdish groups have denied being behind the attack. (DW)
- A Turkish soldier is killed and seven police officers are injured after the Bab al-Hawa Border Crossing is shelled by suspected Kurdish militants. (ABC News)
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatens to launch a ground operation in northern Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan in response to the rocket attacks on Turkish territory. (France 24)
- Spillover of the Syrian civil war
- Afghanistan conflict
- Two people are killed in a bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Reuters)
- Three people are killed and 22 others are injured after an ambush on a major highway in Central Equatoria, South Sudan. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 West Java earthquake
- A 5.6-magnitude earthquake kills at least 310 people and injures over 2,000 others in West Java, Indonesia. (RTÉ)
- 2022 Anyang factory fire
- At least 38 people are killed and two others are injured by a fire at a factory in Anyang, Henan, China. Local officials report evidence of electric resistance welding violating workplace safety standards as the likely cause of the fire. (AFP via NDTV)
- A Piper PA-31 crashes into a residential area in the Belén Rosales, Medellín, Colombia, killing the eight people on board. (El Tiempo)
- One person is killed and 16 others are injured when a vehicle crashes into an Apple Store in Hingham, Massachusetts, United States. (BBC News)
- Twelve people are injured in an explosion at a school in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. (OneNews)
International relations
- France–Mali relations, Mali War
- The Assimi Goïta-led military junta prohibits the operation of France-supported NGOs in Mali to reciprocate the French government's suspension of development aid for the West African country due to its involvement with Russia's Wagner Group in the war. (AFP via Al Arabiya)
Law and crime
- A court in Tel Aviv rules that former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert committed defamation against the family of prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu by claiming that members of Netanyahu's family are mentally ill and orders Olmert to pay $18,000. (BBC News)
Science and technology
- Artemis program
- Artemis 1
- NASA's Orion spacecraft performs a flyby of the Moon, coming within 130 kilometres (81 mi) of the lunar surface before entering into a lunar orbit. (BBC News)
- Artemis 1
Sports
- 2022 FIFA World Cup controversies
- The Iranian team chooses not to sing the Iranian national anthem prior to a match against England amid ongoing civil unrest in Iran. (Reuters)
November 20, 2022
(Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant crisis
- The Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Enerhodar is shelled, with damage occurring to some buildings, systems, and equipment, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. (Reuters)
- Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant crisis
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kurdish–Turkish conflict, Syrian civil war
- Operation Claw-Sword
- The Turkish Air Force launches a series of airstrikes against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Syrian Army positions in Northern Syria, and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Iraqi Kurdistan following the Istanbul bombing, which Ankara blames on Kurdish separatists. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that at least 35 people were killed, including 18 SDF fighters and 16 Syrian troops. (Al Jazeera) (SOHR)
- Operation Claw-Sword
- Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
- A humanitarian aid worker for the French NGO Solidarités International and a few other civilians are killed in an ambush in the Cabo Delgado Province of Mozambique. (News360)
International relations
- Egypt–Turkey relations
- Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan meet for the first time following their opposing involvements in the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état. (AFP via The Straits Times)
Law and crime
- Colorado Springs nightclub shooting
- Five people are killed and 25 others injured in a mass shooting at a gay bar in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, during a drag show and a commemoration of the Transgender Day of Remembrance. A suspect is taken into custody shortly afterward. (CNN)
- Two people are killed and two others are seriously injured after a car hit a group of people in Oldbury, West Midlands, United Kingdom. A suspect has been arrested by West Midlands Police. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Malaysian general election
- The results from yesterday's election indicate that Malaysia will experience a hung parliament in the Dewan Rakyat for the first time in its history. (CNN)
- Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, whose Pakatan Harapan coalition won the most seats, and former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin of Perikatan Nasional both claim to have the necessary support to establish a new government, but neither have announced the parties involved. (Free Malaysia Today)
- 2022 Kazakh presidential election
- Kazakhs head to the polls to elect their president in a snap election. Exit polls suggest that President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev will be re-elected to a seven-year term. (AFP via TRT World) (DW)
- 2022 Equatorial Guinean general election
- Equatorial Guineans head to the polls to elect their president and members of parliament. (AFP via The Citizen)
- 2022 Nepalese general election
- Nepalis head to the polls to elect the 275 members of the House of Representatives. (Al Arabiya)
Sports
- 2022 FIFA World Cup
- The 22nd edition of the FIFA World Cup opens in Qatar, with Ecuador defeating the hosts 2–0 in the opening match at the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor. Qatar becomes the first host nation to lose their opening match in World Cup history. (AP)
- 109th Grey Cup, 2022 CFL season
- The Toronto Argonauts defeat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 24–23 to secure their 18th Canadian Football League championship. (CBC)
- 2022 ATP Finals
- Novak Djokovic of Serbia defeats Casper Ruud of Norway in two sets, 7–5, 6–3, to win his sixth ATP Finals title, equaling Roger Federer's record. Djokovic becomes the oldest singles champion at 35 years old. He also claims the biggest payday in tennis history, a record $4,740,300 in prize money. (AFP via Manila Bulletin)
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