Friday,  November 18th, 2022 

F1 launches a female racing category, which is set to begin next year. (Al Arabiya) 

Protesters set fire to the house of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. (France 24) 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russian missile strikes have left at least 10 million Ukrainians without electricity as the death toll from yesterday’s missile strikes rises to seven with many more injured. (BBC News) 

A court in the Netherlands sentences two Russians, Igor Strelkov-Girkin and Sergey Dubinsky, and a Ukrainian pro-Russian separatist Leonid Kharchenko to life imprisonment for shooting down the Malaysia Airlines flight over Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine in 2014. The verdict was delivered in absentia of the defendants. (AP) 

North Korea fires a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that lands 200 kilometres off the coast of Japan and within its exclusive economic zone. (Reuters) 

Inflation in Japan accelerates by 3.6% in October; the highest level of inflation recorded in the country since 1982. (Al Jazeera) 

Swedish authorities confirms intentional sabotage as the cause of the Nord Stream gas pipeline explosions after traces of explosives were found at the site of the leaks. (Reuters) 

Beijing starts to provide inhalable COVID booster shots. (Al Arabiya) 

Qatar bans alcohol during two days before the world football championship starts. (The New York Times) 

Thursday, November 17th, 2022 

The economy of Russia enters a recession, after gross domestic product decreased by four percent in the third quarter. (AFP via Al Arabiya) 

Russia carries out another wave of cruise missile strikes on Ukraine, with strikes reported in Dnipro, Odesa, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia, where two people were confirmed to have been killed overnight by a missile. In Dnipro and Odesa, critical infrastructure is also targeted. (The Guardian) 

Germany offers to deploy its Air Force jets to protect Polish airspace in response to Tuesday’s missile explosion in Przewodów, Lublin Voivodeship, that killed two people. (A News) 

The two Greek tankers that Iran impounded in May to reciprocate Greece’s seizure of an Iranian tanker are discharged. (AFP via The Times of Israel) 

Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt delivers the delayed autumn statement to parliament, announcing measures to stabilize the economy amid a cost of living crisis, including raising the National Living Wage from £9.50 an hour to £10.42 beginning next year, increasing pensions and welfare payments in line with rising inflation, introducing a higher rate windfall tax on the profits of energy firms, introducing a new “temporary tax” on companies that generate electricity, and capping rent increases in the social sector to 7% until 2024. (BBC News) 

The State Administration Council of Myanmar grants an amnesty to 5,774 prisoners, including former British ambassador Vicky Bowman and Australian economist Sean Turnell, a former economic policy advisor to jailed state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. (AFP via France 24) 

Five people are killed and 15 others are injured in a mass shooting at a market in Izeh, Khuzestan province, Iran. (Reuters) 

Germany announces the withdrawal of its Bundeswehr personnel in the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali until the end of 2023. (AFP via Al Mayadeen) 

The World Food Programme resumes its deployment of humanitarian aid to the Tigray Region for the first time since the signing of the peace agreement. (AFP via RFI) 

Twenty-five recruits of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department are injured, five of them critically, in a collision with a wrong-way driver in Whittier, California, United States. The driver is arrested. (CBS News) 

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