Sunday, December 4th, 2022 

The Indonesian government raises the volcanic alert status to the highest level after the Semeru in East Java erupts, forcing the evacuation of around 2,000 people. (AFP via The Hindu) 

Iran says that it has executed four prisoners convicted of spying for Israel. (Arab News) 

Iranian prosecutor-general Mohammad Jafar Montazeri announces the dissolution of the Guidance Patrol, though Iranian state media disputes this. (AFP via Khaleej Times) (The New York Times) (BBC News) 

Over 40,000 customers are without power after two power substations in Moore County, North Carolina, United States, are deliberately damaged by gunfire on Saturday night. A curfew has been ordered, and power restoration is expected to take until Thursday. (CNN) 

The African National Congress meets to debate the political future of South African president Cyril Ramaphosa amid an emerging scandal concerning Ramaphosa’s ownership of a farm in alleged breach of anti-corruption laws. Ramaphosa has stated that he does not intend to resign. (AP) 

Donald Trump claims in his social media platform Truth Social that the alleged fraud during the 2020 American presidential elections justifies the “termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution“. (BBC News) 

Saturday, December 3rd, 2022 

The Iranian government gives its first official report regarding deaths from the protests that followed the death of Mahsa Amini in September. The report states that more than 200 people have died in what the government has labelled as “riots”. (Al Jazeera) 

Internal documents released by Twitter CEO Elon Musk show that staff at the company suppressed posts discussing the October 2020 New York Post article on the Hunter Biden laptop story. (Forbes) 

Former South Korean national security director Suh Hoon is arrested on charges of tampering with evidence related to the killing of a Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries official by North Korean agents near the Northern Limit Line in September 2020. (AP) 

Australia, the European Union, and the G7 member states decide to impose a US$60-per-barrel price ceiling on Russian seaborne oil. (AP) 

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom adds Cuba, Nicaragua, and the Russian paramilitary organization Wagner Group to its blacklist of countries and organizations violating international religious freedom, signalling possible sanctions by the U.S. government. (AFP via France 24) 

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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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