Friday, December 2nd, 2022 

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) 

Twelve people are killed by armed gangs in the town of Cabaret, Haiti. (Al Jazeera) 

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) 

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) 

A man is charged in Winnipeg, Canada for the murders of four indigenous women earlier this year. (BBC) 

Thursday, December 1st, 2022 

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) 

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) 

At least 15 people are killed and 20 others injured in a bombing at a religious school in Aybak, Samangan Province. (Al Jazeera) 

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) 

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Wednesday, November 30th, 2022 

Germany signs a 15-year deal with Qatar’s stateowned petroleum company QatarEnergy to have its liquefied natural gas supplied by the company from 2026. (AP) 

UNESCO officially recognizes several works, including French baguettes, Korean talchum, and Japanese furyu-odori as part of its intangible cultural heritage list. (UNESCO) 

The Australian House of Representatives votes, by 86 votes to 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) 

A bill is passed in Singapore regarding last-ditch clemency petitions before an execution. Henceforth, only the Court of Appeal will grant a clemency petition on consideration or on the basis of new evidence presented by the defendant. (Al Jazeera) 

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) 

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) 

Tuesday,  November 29th, 2022 

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) 

The Parliament of Singapore repeals Section 377A, thereby decriminalising sex between consenting male adults in the country. (The New York Times) 

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) 

Three Palestinians are killed during clashes with Israeli forces; one in Hebron and two brothers in Kafr Ein. Eight others are injured. A man is also killed in Kokhav Ya’akov after ramming and seriously injuring a female soldier. (Times of Israel) 

Monday,  November 28th, 2022 

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) 

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) 

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Sunday, November 27th, 2022 

A court in the Comoros sentences former president Ahmed Abdallah Sambi to life in prison after he was convicted of high treason for selling passports to stateless people in the Gulf and other crimes, including embezzlement. (AFP via France24) 

At least four people 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. (AFP via NDTV)

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 DR Congo. (AFP via RFI.fr) 

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 recent fire in Ürümqi, Xinjiang. (Reuters) 

Saturday, November 26th, 2022 

One person is killed and five others are injured during a mass shooting in Atlantic Station in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. (ABC News) 

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) 

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 the party suffers a major defeat in the elections. (AP) 

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) 

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) 

President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the world’s longest-serving president, is re-elected to a seven-year term. (AFP via Barron’s) 

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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