Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022 

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) 

Germany says 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 he has accepted the German proposal. (International Business Times) 

Widespread blackouts are reported in Western Ukraine as Russian forces launch another wave of cruise missile strikes, including the city of Lviv which has experienced a total blackout. Moldova also reports “massive” power cuts, though it has not been directly hit. (BBC News) 

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, according to UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace. (The Telegraph) 

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom unanimously denies the Scottish government of holding a second referendum on Scottish independence from the United Kingdom without approval from the British government. (The Guardian) 

At least five people are killed in a mass shooting at a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Xinhua) 

Two people were killed and 68 others are injured by a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Düzce, Turkey. (DW) 

Tuesday,  November 22nd, 2022 

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) 

A 5.6-magnitude earthquake kills at least 268 people and injures over 1,000 others in West Java, Indonesia. (BBC) 

The Australian parliament ratifies a free trade agreement with India. (Times Now News) 

Six people are killed and five more are 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. (BBC) 

A helicopter crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, killing the pilot and a meteorologist, both WBTV news station employees. (CNN) 

One person is killed and 30 others are injured in a car bombing at a police compound in Narathiwat, Thailand. (Al Jazeera) 

At least 14 people, including eight Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland members, are killed in two separate attacks by unidentified armed individuals in northern Burkina Faso, with one occurring near Markoye, Oudalan. (AFP via Free Malaysia Today) 

Monday,  November 21st, 2022 

At least one person is killed and 19 others are injured when a vehicle crashes into an Apple Store in Hingham, Massachusetts, United States. (BBC News) 

The Iranian team chooses not to sing the Iranian national anthem prior to a match against England amid ongoing civil unrest in Iran. (Reuters) 

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) 

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) 

Three people are killed and 22 others are injured after an ambush on a major highway in Central Equatoria, South Sudan. (AP) 

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) 

Twelve people are injured in an explosion at a school in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. (OneNews) 

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) 

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) 

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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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