Portal:Current events/November 2018

• 2018 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from landslides and floods caused by Typhoon Yutu in the Philippines rises to 15 people. One man died in Hong Kong, China. (News.com.au), (Asia Times)
• Lion Air Flight 610
  • Indonesian divers retrieve the flight data recorder from the ocean near Karawang, Indonesia, where the plane had crashed three days prior. (Reuters)
• 2018 European floods
  • The death toll from heavy floods and strong winds affecting Italy rises to 17 people. (La Repubblica)
• 2018 Chongqing bus crash
  • Chinese police announce that the driver of the bus that plunged into the Yangtze River in Chongqing, China, on October 28 was arguing and fighting with a passenger moments earlier, causing the accident. (BBC)

• Legality of cannabis, Cannabis in the United Kingdom
  • Medical cannabis becomes legal in the United Kingdom as the National Health Service can now prescribe it to some patients, including those with cancer, severe forms of epilepsy, and multiple sclerosis. (BBC)

• Greece–Republic of Macedonia relations, Macedonia naming dispute
  • Commercial air travel resumes between Greece and Macedonia for the first time since 2006. (BBC)

• Capital punishment in Tennessee
  • The state of Tennessee executes Edmund Zagorski, a man convicted of the April 1983 murders of John Dotson and Jimmy Porter, making it the first time the state has executed an inmate by electrocution since 2007. Zagorski requested that he be executed via electrocution. (NBC News), (ABC News)

• Meaza Ashenafi becomes the first woman in Ethiopia's history to preside over the Supreme Court. (CNN)
• British Sports Minister Tracey Crouch resigns amid controversy over a delay on regulating fixed odds betting terminals. (Sky News)

• Asteroid belt exploration
  • NASA's Dawn spacecraft exhausts all of its hydrazine fuel propellant and without a functioning maneuvering system enters into uncontrolled motion around dwarf planet Ceres, thus ending its 11-year mission. (CNN)
• Astronomers from Harvard University suggest that the interstellar object 'Oumuamua may be an extraterrestrial solar sail from an alien civilization, in an effort to help explain the object's "peculiar acceleration". (The Independent)

• Unknown attackers kill Maulana Sami-ul-Haq, a former Pakistani senator widely known as the "Father of the Taliban", at his residence in Rawalpindi. (Geo TV), (Reuters)
• 2018 Minya bus attack
  • An attack on a bus carrying Copts from Sohag Governorate to the Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor in Egypt kills seven people and injures several others. (Euronews and Reuters)

• 2018 European floods
  • In the floods that are affecting Italy, the death toll rises to 19 people. (Quotidiano)

• Sanctions against Iran, Iran–United States relations, United States withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
  • The Trump administration announces the reimposition of all sanctions on Iran that were lifted under the July 2015 deal governing the nuclear program of Iran. (The Washington Post)
• Brazil–Israel relations, Presidency of Jair Bolsonaro
  • The president-elect of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, states that he will honor his campaign pledge to move the country's embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. (AP via Deutsche Welle)

• Blasphemy law in Pakistan
  • According to a pact between Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) and two Federal & Provincial Religious Affairs Ministers of Pakistan, the name of Asia Bibi will be placed on the Exit Control List which would prevent her leaving the country. TLP has already filed a review petition against the verdict of Supreme Court of Pakistan in the Asia Bibi blasphemy case. (Dawn News) (The Guardian)
• 2018 Tallahassee shooting
  • A gunman kills two people and injures five others before killing himself at a yoga studio in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. (CBS News)
• 2017–18 Spanish constitutional crisis
  • The Spanish Attorney General seeks jail terms for Catalan independence leaders for the crime of rebellion with the highest requested penalty being 25 years against Oriol Junqueras. The State's Advocacy is asking for prison sentences for only the lesser crimes of sedition and embezzlement. (Reuters)

• Twitter suspensions, Foreign electoral intervention
  • Twitter deletes 10,000 bot accounts that were discouraging people from voting in the midterm elections in the United States. (Reuters)

• War in Afghanistan
  • An Afghan commando in Kabul kills Major Brent Taylor of the Utah National Guard, who was also the mayor of North Ogden, Utah. (The New York Times)

• Lion Air Flight 610
  • An Indonesian Diving Rescue Team member dies while searching the debris from the passenger jet that crashed earlier this week near Jakarta. (ABC News)
• A lorry loses control at a toll station in Lanzhou, China, killing at least 15 people and injuring 44 others. (BBC)
• Colten Treu faces charges of vehicular homicide and drug related charges after he drove his car into a group of Girl Scouts collecting trash by the road, killing 3 and a mother along a Wisconsin highway (KSTP) Treu claimed his passenger was huffing Dust-Off and caused the accident by grabbing the wheel as he saw the scouts (Oxygen)

• Foreign fighters in the Syrian and Iraqi Civil Wars
  • A 17-year-old Kashmir student who disappeared from Sharda University, Ahtesham Bilal Sofi, is found to have joined the Islamic State. (NDTV), (The Times of India)

• Japan Series, Nippon Professional Baseball
  • The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks defeat the Hiroshima Toyo Carp to win the 2018 Japan Series. (The Japan Times)

• 2018 Minya bus attack
  • Egyptian police kill 19 Islamist militants accused of involvement in an attack on Coptic Christians in central Egypt two days ago. (BBC)

• Ross Edgley becomes the first person to swim around Great Britain. The 1,780-mile (2,860 km) swim lasted 156 days. (BBC)

• 2018 European floods
  • Heavy floods affect Palermo in Sicily, Italy, killing twelve people. The total death toll of the floods and strong winds in the country rises to 31 people. (Teleacras)
• 69.1 tonnes of C9 aromatic hydrocarbon are leaked into the ocean at a port in Quangang District, Quanzhou, China when a petrochemical company loads the cargo from its terminal into a chemical tanker and the aged hose coupling gasket breaks. Nearby aquaculture farms are contaminated, resulting in huge loss. Many fishermen and residents get sick from the leaked chemical, and 52 of them are hospitalized. Local authorities are accused of playing down the severity of the leakage. Discussion of the accident is suppressed on Weibo after the accident has become a hot topic. The company lies that the amount of leakage is 6.97 tonnes. (Splash 247) (Sing Tao Daily) (Shanghaiist) (Global Times)

• 2018 New Caledonian independence referendum
  • New Caledonians vote against becoming an independent country from France. (BBC)

• 2017–2018 Spanish constitutional crisis
  • The leading judge presiding over the investigation of the 2017 Catalan independence referendum and the director of the Operation Anubis Juan Antonio Ramírez Sunyer dies suddenly at the age of 71. (El Mundo)
• Corruption in Ukraine
  • Kateryna Handziuk, an anti-corruption activist, dies of the injuries that she suffered in an acid attack on 31 July in Kherson. (BBC)
• 2011 Bahraini uprising
  • Bahrain's Court of Appeal rules that the former leader of the now outlawed Al Wefaq party, Sheikh Ali Salman, will receive a life sentence over his conviction for 2011 spying for Qatar. (BBC)

• Anglophone Crisis
  • A kidnapping occurs at a school in Bamenda, the capital of the North-West region of Cameroon, with at least seventy-eight students and three staff taken, including the principal. The Anglophone Crisis is a conflict between separatists and the government of Cameroon. (BBC)
• Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)
  • Days of heavy fighting between Houthi and Saudi-led coalition forces around the port city of Al Hudaydah, Yemen, leave at least 150 people dead. (FRANCE 24)

• In Port Hedland, Australia, authorities deliberately derail a runaway train after the driver left the train for an inspection. The assemblage consisted of four locomotives and two hundred sixty-eight wagons, was operated by BHP Billiton on the Pilbara Railways, and traveled ninety-two kilometers. The train was en route from Newman to Port Hedland. (ABC Australia)

• Oman–United Kingdom relations
  • British Defence Minister Gavin Williamson announces that a joint British-Omani military training base will open in Oman next year. (Reuters)
• Foreign relations of the Holy See, Foreign relations of Andorra
  • Pope Francis, head of state of the Vatican City and leader of the Roman Catholic Church, threatens to order the abdication of Andorran co-monarch Joan Enric Vives Sicília, Archbishop-Bishop of Urgell, if the country decriminalises or legalises abortion. (Diari d'Andorra - Catalan)

• Me Too movement
  • Seo Ji-hyeon, a leading figure of the Me Too movement in South Korea, files a suit against former South Korean chief prosecutor Ahn Tae-keun and the government for physical and psychological distress. (YJC)
• Cyberwarfare in Iran, Iran–Israel relations
  • The Iranian telecommunication minister Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi accuses Israel of a failed cyberattack on its telecommunications infrastructure, and vows to respond with legal action. (Reuters), (Channel NewsAsia)

• Demographics of Colombia
  • With the previous Colombia census thirteen years ago, the National Administrative Department of Statistics registered 45.5 million Colombians and legal foreign residents living in the country. This latest census reveals that there are five million fewer people in Colombia than previously estimated. (El Tiempo)

• European migrant crisis
  • In two separate incidents, there are a total of at least seventeen migrants killed after they attempted to cross the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa to Spain. (Reuters)
• A pair of buildings collapsed yesterday in Marseille, France, with today four people being found dead while others remain missing. (The Guardian)

• Based upon information from the General Directorate for Internal Security, French authorities arrest five men and one woman suspected of planning an attack on French President Emmanuel Macron. Police report the suspects are radical far right citizens. (Reuters)
• 2017 New York City Subway bombing
  • A jury in the Manhattan Federal Court finds Akayed Ullah guilty of a pipe bomb attack on the Port Authority Bus Terminal in December 2017. (New York Daily News)
• Cannabis in Michigan, Legality of cannabis by U.S. jurisdiction
  • Voters in Michigan legalize recreational marijuana. (Forbes)

• Antiguan constitutional referendum, Grenadian constitutional referendum
  • Referenda are held in Antigua and Barbuda and Grenada to decide whether to maintain the UK-based Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as the final court of appeal, or to adopt the appellate jurisdiction of the Caribbean Court of Justice; both are rejected by voters. (Antigua Observer)
• United States elections, 2018
  • The United States holds midterm elections for all 435 House seats, for 35 Senate seats (including two special elections in Minnesota and Mississippi), for 39 state and territorial governorships, and for numerous state and local races. (The Guardian), (NPR)
  • The Democratic Party takes over control of the House, while the Republican Party increases their majority in the Senate. (FiveThirtyEight)
  • At least 95 women attain congressional office, bringing the total number of women in all parts of Congress to a record 118. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar share the distinction of becoming the first Muslim congresswomen, while Sharice Davids and Deb Haaland become the first Native American congresswomen. (USA Today), (NPR), (CNN)
  • Colorado gubernatorial election, 2018
    • Jared Polis becomes the first openly gay person and second openly LGBT person elected as a governor in the United States. (Time)

• Jean-Claude Arnault, Postponement of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature
  • Jayne Svenungsson announces she is leaving the Swedish Academy, the body that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature. She is the eighth person to quit amid sex abuse and financial crime scandals at the exclusive group. (AP via The New York Times)
• Premiership of Justin Trudeau, History of the Jews in Canada
  • Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issues an apology for the country's role in turning away the MS St. Louis, a ship carrying over 900 Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in Nazi Germany. (BBC) (Washington Post)

• Authorities find the bodies of two other men in the two collapsed buildings in Marseille, France, two days ago, bringing the death toll to six. (The Journal.ie)
• A pair of buses collide on a road between Harare and Rusape, Zimbabwe, killing at least 47 people. (e News Channel Africa)

• An unidentified attacker fatally shoots Benjamin Ramos, a Philippines lawyer opposing President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs, in Kabankalan. (The New York Times)
• Asia Bibi blasphemy case
  • Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi, sentenced to death by hanging in 2010 and recently acquitted, is released from prison. Bibi has reportedly boarded a plane; however, its destination was not known. Several countries have offered her asylum. (BBC)
• Thousand Oaks shooting
  • At least 12 people, including a police sergeant, are killed while ten others are injured by a gunman at the Thousand Oaks Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, California at around 11:15 p.m. PST (UTC-8). The gunman committed suicide at the end of the attack after a stand-off with police. (BBC)
• The FBI and police find new clues in the search for Ashley Summers, who had been missing from her residence in Cleveland, Ohio since 2007. (Fox 8)
• John Chau
  • The Sentinelese people kill John Allen Chau, with fishermen finding his body lying on a beach. (NDTV)

• Trump administration dismissals and resignations
  • Jeff Sessions asked to resign as United States Attorney General at the request of President Donald Trump. Matthew Whitaker, Sessions' chief of staff, is appointed acting Attorney General. (The Guardian)

• French authorities impound a Ryanair jet, because of payments owed to the European Union for illegal subsidies, at the Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport just before 149 London-bound passengers boarded. (AP)

• 2018 California wildfires
  • Camp Fire
    • Evacuations are prompted in Butte County, California, after the Camp Fire erupts. (CBS News)
    • The Honey Run Covered Bridge that crosses Butte Creek is destroyed by the wildfire. It was said to be the last surviving three-span timber pratt-type covered bridge. (Chico Enterprise-Record) (SFGate)
• Royal Norwegian Navy frigate HNoMS Helge Ingstad collides with a Maltese oil tanker in the Heltefjord while returning from NATO military exercises, prompting the evacuation of all 137 crew members. Seven sailors were injured in the collision. (BBC)

• Police in Ethiopia say they have discovered a mass grave with 200 bodies near the border between the Somali and Oromia regions of the country. (BBC)
• The Mossos d'Esquadra announces that on September 19, 2018, they arrested a man planning to assassinate the Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez. (BBC) (The New York Times)
• A riot at a high-security prison in Khujand, Tajikistan, known for holding convicted terrorists, including ISIL members, leaves at least 27 people dead. (Reuters)
• A federal judge in Montana orders a suspension of construction on the Keystone XL pipeline, citing an inadequate review of the potential environmental impact of the pipeline. (NPR) (Great Falls Tribune)

• White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders receives widespread condemnation after tweeting an allegedly altered video from a press conference the day before. The video, which was allegedly doctored by the far-right conspiracy website InfoWars, is claimed to falsely depict CNN's White House correspondent Jim Acosta physically assaulting an intern. (Sky News) (HuffPost UK)

• 2018 in science
  • NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory confirms earlier observations by Indian Space Research Organisation's Astrosat space observatory of a rotating black hole in the binary star system 4U1630-47, which is spinning close to the speed of light, one of the fastest ever observed. (India Today) (Metro)
  • A new study from Eötvös Loránd University confirms the existence of two Kordylewski clouds orbiting Earth. Kazimierz Kordylewski first observed the faint clouds of dust around the L₄ and L₅ Lagrangian points in the 1960s. (India Times) (Inquisitr)
• Automated journalism
  • China's Xinhua News Agency unveils the world's first AI news anchor. Xinhua says the AI presenters can work "24 hours a day", thus reducing news production costs. (BBC)

• War in Afghanistan
  • Officials say that an attack by the Taliban on an army outpost killed 10 soldiers and 7 policemen in Khwaja Ghar District after 7 policemen were killed in Farah yesterday. (AP via The Fresno Bee)
• 2018 Melbourne stabbing attack
  • One person is killed and two others are injured by a knife-wielding man in Melbourne, Australia. The suspect, a 31-year-old Australian resident originally from Somalia, randomly stabbed pedestrians after exiting his burning, crashed utility truck that held multiple gas canisters. He was shot and killed attempting to stab responding police. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility. (ABC News) (The Age) (NPR)

• Camp Fire, 2018 California wildfires
  • At least 11 people have been killed and more than 150,000 evacuated as two big wildfires rage in California, the Camp Fire in Butte County and the Hill Fire in Ventura. (BBC)
• Flash floods caused by heavy rain in Petra, Jordan, kill 11 people while 24 others are injured. (BBC)
• Two additional bodies are found in the rubble of the two buildings that collapsed four days ago in Marseille, France, bringing the final death toll to eight. (LCI)
• A convoy accident involving British Prime Minister Theresa May and Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel interrupts an Armistice Day trip after two police motorbikes were knocked over. (Sky News) (Reuters)

• Former Philippine First Lady and Ilocos Norte Representative Imelda Marcos has been convicted on seven counts of graft for transferring funds to private foundations in Switzerland and is sentenced to at least six years and one month imprisonment for each count. (Rappler) (South China Morning Post)

• United States Senate election in Florida, 2018
  • As the Florida Senate election heads to a mandatory recount, United States President Donald Trump and Rick Scott claim, without evidence, that widespread voter fraud occurred in Florida during the recent midterm election. (NPR)
  • State judges order election officials from Broward and Palm Beach Counties to release absentee ballot information as they continue to count the ballots. (WINK News)
• List of executive actions by Donald Trump, List of lawsuits involving Donald Trump
  • The American Civil Liberties Union files a lawsuit in response to President Trump's proclamation that denies asylum to immigrants who enter the country illegally. (USA Today)
• Opposition to Brexit in the United Kingdom
  • British MP Jo Johnson resigns as transport minister over Theresa May's Brexit plan and calls for a second referendum. (The Guardian) (BBC)
• 2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis
  • President Maithripala Sirisena dissolves Parliament. (BBC) (CNN)

• Presidential Medal of Freedom
  • Elvis Presley, Babe Ruth, Roger Staubach, Antonin Scalia, Orrin Hatch, doctor and philanthropist Miriam Adelson, and Alan Page are expected to be recipients for the Presidential Medal of Freedom award. (Entertainment Weekly), (The Washington Post)

• Camp Fire, Woolsey Fire, 2018 California wildfires
  • The town of Paradise, California, with a population of 27,000, is largely burned down. More than 6,700 buildings have been destroyed, making it California's most destructive wildfire since record-keeping began. (CBC)
  • Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea reports 14 additional bodies have been found in the city of Paradise bringing the death toll to 23; Honea added there are 110 outstanding reports of missing people. (AP via MSN.com)
  • Two people have been confirmed killed by the Woolsey Fire, which has burned 70,000 acres and hundreds of homes near Los Angeles. (BBC)
• 2018 Kivu Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola virus outbreak
  • The death toll of the ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that started in August, rises to 200 people. This is the deadliest ebola outbreak in the history of the country. (BBC)
• A landslide leaves at least 10 people dead while eleven others are injured in Niterói, Brazil. (The Guardian)

• RCMP confirm one of two explosions at the Strathcona County Community Centre in Sherwood Park, Alberta on November 6th was deliberate, and the other was accidentally set off. They also disclose the suspect shot himself and later died from his wounds. No one else was hurt in the incident, and a motive for the incident is still under investigation. (CTV News)

• Florida elections, 2018
  • Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner orders machine recounts in the U.S. Senate race and the state's governor and agriculture commissioner races as required by law when the lead is less than 0.5 percent. Results are due by 3 p.m. EST Thursday. Should the results still be within 0.25 percentage points, a manual recount will be triggered, with results due on November 18. (CNBC) (NPR)

• Japanese side Kashima Antlers wins 2018 AFC Champions League after winning 2–0 on aggregate against Iranian Persepolis in the final. (Sporting News)

• Israel-Palestine confrontation (November 2018)
  • Seven Palestinians, including commander Nour Baraka and three other militants, are killed during a raid by the Israel Defense Forces in the southeastern Gaza Strip, that was supported by air attacks. One IDF officer was killed and another was injured. Over a dozen rockets were subsequently fired from Gaza, three of which were shot down. (KUNA) (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
• World War I centenary
  • Around 70 world leaders in Paris mark the centenary of the 1918 Armistice which ended World War I. (ABS-CBN News)

• Camp Fire, Woolsey Fire, 2018 California wildfires
  • The death toll in the Camp and Woolsey wildfires has risen to 31 with more than 200 people still missing. (BBC)

• Killing of Jamal Khashoggi, Foreign relations of Saudi Arabia
  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says that recordings related to the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi were issued to Saudi Arabia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and France. (CNN)

• • Ten people are injured after a man steals a car by stabbing its owner and drives into pedestrians on a sidewalk and at a shopping mall in Brăila, Romania. (Star Tribune)
• 2018 Australian strawberry contamination
  • A 50-year-old former strawberry farm supervisor is arrested in Queensland in connection with 230 reports of sewing needles found hidden in strawberries. The "strawberry scare" spread throughout the country and to New Zealand, and devastated Australia’s multimillion-dollar strawberry industry. (BBC) (The Mail)

• Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, 2018
  • The opposition coalition chooses lawmaker Martin Fayulu, leader of the Engagement for Citizenship and Development party, as its joint presidential candidate. (Reuters) (AFP via Yahoo News)

• Gaza–Israel clashes (November 2018)
  • Israel and Hamas exchange missile fire with 300 rockets being launched from Gaza within the span of three hours. (The New York Times)
  • The Israeli Air Force bombs Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV's headquarters in Gaza City. (Reuters)
  • A rocket fired from Gaza strikes an apartment building in Ashkelon, killing a man and injuring two others. The victim was a middle aged Palestinian illegal immigrant from Hebron. This is the first person killed on Israeli soil due to Palestinian rocket fire since 2014. (Ynetnews)

• Amnesty International strips Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi of its highest honor, the Ambassador of Conscience Award, which she received in 2009, because of her inaction regarding the persecution of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim population in Rakhine State and the military operations in Kachin and Shan State. (BBC) (CNN)
• Pope Francis asks the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, now meeting in Baltimore, to delay voting on proposals to address the sexual abuse crisis until he leads a global summit in February. (CNN) (Axios)
• Marvel Comics editor and comic book writer Stan Lee dies at the age of 95. (The New York Times) (The Guardian)

• 2018 California wildfires
  • The Camp Fire in Butte County is now ranked as the deadliest wildfire in Californian history, with 42 people confirmed dead and 228 people missing. (HuffPost)

• Killing of Jamal Khashoggi, Foreign relations of Saudi Arabia
  • Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau confirms that Canadian intelligence officials have listened to the recording provided by Turkey of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, though he himself had not heard it. (CTV News)

• Parviz Kazemi, former Iranian welfare minister, is arrested and transferred to Tehran's Evin Prison on charge of causing disruption in the country's economic system. (PressTV)
• Antisemitism in Canada, History of the Jews in Toronto
  • Toronto police investigates a hate crime against four Jewish teens. 1 person is arrested and 9 other teenagers are being sought. (Huffington Post Canada) (CBC CA)
• Three men are convicted at the Western Cape High Court of kidnapping, raping and killing Stellenbosch University student Hannah Cornelius, whose body was found outside Stellenbosch. They are also convicted of the attempted murder of a friend of Hannah's who was abducted at the same time and left for dead near Kraaifontein. The three men receive life sentences. (News24)

• United States Senate election in Arizona, 2018
  • A week after the election, which was initially too close to call, Democratic Party candidate Kyrsten Sinema is elected to the United States Senate, defeating GOP candidate Martha McSally. Sinema is the first woman elected to represent Arizona in the Senate and first Democrat to win a Senate election in the state since 1988. (BBC)
• Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine narrowly survives a 16-16 vote of no confidence. 17 votes were needed to remove Heine from office. (Marianas Variety)

• The Irish Aviation Authority launches an investigation after several airliner pilots report extremely fast moving bright lights off the south-west coast of Ireland. (BBC) (Irish Examiner)

• Amazon HQ2
  • Amazon announces it will split their second headquarters in New York City and National Landing in northern Virginia (outside Washington D.C.) (CNN)

• 2018 California wildfires
  • The death toll of the Camp Fire in Butte County, the deadliest wildfire in Californian history, rises to 48 people while dozens are missing. (BBC)

• CNN v. Trump
  • CNN files a lawsuit against the Trump administration, claiming its revocation of White House correspondent Jim Acosta's press pass on November 7 violated their First and Fifth Amendment rights. (The Washington Post)
  • Several media organizations file amicus briefs in support of CNN. (Vox)
  • One America News Network files an amicus brief in support of the Trump administration. (CNBC)
• Pike County, Ohio shootings
  • Four suspects have been arrested for the murders of eight members of a family in 2016. Police believe custody of a child plays a role in this case. One of the suspects has a child with one of the victims. (CNN)
• Bishop International Airport incident
  • Amor Ftouhi is found guilty of three federal charges in the stabbing of an airport police officer last year in Flint, Michigan. (NBC News)

• 2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis
  • The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka reverses President Maithripala Sirisena's decisions to dissolve Parliament and to hold snap elections. (Al Jazeera)
• Brexit
  • The Government of the United Kingdom says that UK and EU negotiators reached a draft agreement and that it will be discussed by Cabinet tomorrow. (AP via ABC News)
• 2026 Winter Olympics
  • Residents of the city of Calgary head to the polls to vote on a non-binding plebiscite to determine if the city should make a bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympic Games. (CTV News)
  • The unofficial results suggest the No vote is in the lead, and only a 40% voter turnout. Official results will be released Friday, November 16. (City of Calgary)
• First Lady of the United States Melania Trump calls for the ousting of Deputy National Security Advisor Mira Ricardel. (Toronto Star) (Reuters)
• The Islamic City Council of Tehran appoints Pirouz Hanachi as the new mayor of Tehran, the third in 18 months. (RFE/RL)

• Timeline of nuclear fusion
  • China's Hefei Institutes of Physical Science announces that its Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor in Hefei has reached a milestone of 100 million degrees celsius. (CGTN)

• Anglophone Crisis
  • The Cameroonian Armed Forces kill at least 30 Ambazonian separatists in two-days of intense clashes in Cameroon's English-speaking region. A mayor in Donga-Mantung is also shot dead. (Al Jazeera)

• 2018 California wildfires
  • The death toll in the Camp Fire rises to 56, with the statewide total at 59. Authorities release the names of 130 people who are missing, including many in their 80s and 90s, with the potential that dozens more are unaccounted for. (CBS News)
• A hot air balloon filled with fireworks and other pyrotechnics explodes midair during Tazaungdaing festival celebrations in Taunggyi, Myanmar, injuring nine people on the ground. (ABC News)

• Brexit negotiations
  • British Prime Minister Theresa May wins approval of her Brexit plan from her cabinet, although many Conservative and opposition MPs voice strong disapproval. (The Guardian) (Politics Home)
• The United Nations Security Council unanimously votes to lift sanctions on Eritrea. (BBC)

• 2018 California wildfires
  • A lawsuit is filed against Pacific Gas and Electric Company, alleging company negligence and health and safety code violations in the Camp Fire, which has killed at least 48 people. (Reuters) (Los Angeles Times)
• Persecution of Muslims in Myanmar, Inn Din massacre
  • U.S. Vice President Mike Pence condemns Myanmar's treatment of Rohingya Muslims and called for Aung San Suu Kyi to pardon Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, the two Reuters journalists imprisoned in the country. (Huffington Post)
• Tampon tax
  • The Constitutional Court of Colombia unanimously rules to strike down a five per cent tax on feminine hygiene products on gender equality grounds. (El Tiempo)

• 2018 Fijian general election
  • Citizens of Fiji head to the polls, electing all members of their Parliament and the consequent Prime Minister. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
  • Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama of the FijiFirst party wins a second term. Bainimarama's party holds on to a slim majority of seats in the parliament. (Stuff NZ)
• 2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis
  • The Sri Lankan Parliament reconvenes. The Speaker says it passed a motion of no confidence against the disputed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. (Al Jazeera)
• Cabinet of Israel
  • Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman announces his resignation with effect in 48 hours in response to the Egyptian-mediated ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
• White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says Deputy National Security Advisor Mira Ricardel is "to transition to a new role within the administration", a day after First Lady Melania Trump called for Ricardel's ousting. (Reuters)

• Astronomers announce, through the journal Nature, the discovery of Barnard's Star b, a Super-Earth exoplanet orbiting Barnard's Star, the fourth-nearest-known individual star to the Sun. (BBC)

• Kivu conflict
  • The United Nations announce that seven MONUSCO peacekeepers were killed in clashes with militia yesterday in Beni, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
• War in Afghanistan
  • Taliban kill 30 policemen in an attack on an outpost in Farah Province. (AP via Fox News)

• Rail transport in Morocco
  • The Kenitra–Tangier high-speed rail line, the first in Africa, is inaugurated. (AP via KSLA News)
• Criticism of Walmart
  • US Senator Bernie Sanders proposes the Stop Walmart Act, which would prohibit big employers from repurchasing shares until they adopt a $15-an-hour minimum wage. (CNN) (Market Watch)

• Killing of Jamal Khashoggi, Foreign relations of Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia accuses five of its officials of killing and dismembering journalist Jamal Khashoggi. (Times Now)
  • The Donald Trump administration announces sanctions on 17 Saudi officials, not including Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, for their alleged involvement in killing Khashoggi. (ABC News) (Politico)

• Cabinet of the United Kingdom, Brexit negotiations
  • Minister of State for Northern Ireland Shailesh Vara, Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union Dominic Raab, and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Esther McVey resign in protest of Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plan. (BBC) (Bloomberg) (The Telegraph)
  • Conservative Party backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg, with the backing of at least a dozen Tory MPs, says he will submit a letter to the chair of the 1922 Committee, Graham Brady, to trigger a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Theresa May. (The Guardian)

• Johnston Press, which owns i, The Scotsman, the Yorkshire Post and other UK newspapers, enters administration after failing to secure a buyer. It is set to be de-listed on the London Stock Exchange on 19 November 2018. (The Guardian)

• 2018 California wildfires
  • The death toll in the Camp Fire rises to 71, with the statewide total at 74. The number of missing and unaccounted-for people rises to more than 1000. (CNN)
• At least 42 people have died while more than 20 others are injured in a deadly fire aboard a bus in Zimbabwe. (BBC)
• A total of eight people die when a strong winter storm strikes the eastern United States, causing tens of thousands of people to lose power. (CNN)
• Iran's Social Security Organization chairman Mohammad Taghi Nourbakhsh and his deputy die after a car accident during a visit to Gorgan. (Mehr News)
• Disappearance of ARA San Juan
  • The Argentine Navy announces that ARA San Juan (S-42), an Argentine submarine that disappeared on November 15, 2017, with 44 crew onboard, has been found on the seabed in the South Atlantic Ocean. (BBC)

• Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (July–December 2018)
  • An unrelated court filing accidentally reveals that Julian Assange, a major target of the investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 United States election, has been charged. (The Guardian) (The New York Times)
• CNN v. Trump
  • U.S. federal district judge Timothy J. Kelly orders the Secret Service to temporarily restore Jim Acosta's White House press pass. (ABC News)
• Immigration officials from Myanmar intercept a boat of Rohingya refugees 30 km (18.6 mi) off the coast of Yangon, and arrest all 106 passengers. The boat was en route to Malaysia, after setting off from Sittwe, Rakhine State, with human smugglers and Rohingyas fleeing persecution. (ABC News)

• Politics of the United Kingdom
  • British Prime Minister Theresa May appoints Stephen Barclay as Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, and Amber Rudd as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions following yesterday's resignations of Dominic Raab and Esther McVey. (Evening Standard)
• 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election
  • Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams ends her campaign, acknowledging that Brian Kemp will be the next Governor of Georgia. In a speech at her election headquarters in Atlanta, Abrams emphasized that her statement was not a concession, and announced her intention to file a federal lawsuit against the state of Georgia for alleged mismanagement during the election. (CNN)

• The first genetic analysis of hemimastigotes reveals they are distinct enough from other forms of life to be classified in a separate supra-kingdom. (CBC)
• Redefinition of SI base units
  • A new definition of SI units, e.g., the kilogram, the ampere, etc., is decided by the General Conference on Weights and Measures. They are now entirely defined by physical constants, and no longer dependent on any physical object, as was previously the case for the kilogram. (National Physical Laboratory)

• Syrian Civil War
  • After months of fighting, Syrian government forces retake control of Tulul al-Safa in southern Syria from ISIL. (The New Arab)

• 2018 California wildfires
  • U.S. President Donald Trump visits victims of the Camp Fire and Woolsey Fire as the death toll rises to 79: 76 in the Camp Fire and three in the Woolsey Fire. (CNN) (NBC News) (BBC)

• Florida gubernatorial election, 2018
  • Florida Democratic candidate for governor Andrew Gillum concedes defeat to Republican candidate Ron DeSantis. (CBS News)
• Gilets jaunes protests
  • Hundreds of thousands protest against fuel taxes in France by blocking roadways. One person is killed and more than 200 are injured in subsequent altercations. (The New York Times)
• The medical records of British monarch George III are released, solving the mystery of the King's illness, which has plagued historians for hundreds of years. Doctors say he would have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder had he lived today. (People)
• Ibrahim Mohamed Solih takes the oath of office and becomes the 7th President of the Maldives. (Al Jazeera)

• Boko Haram fighters loyal to ISIS attacked a military base in the Nigerian town of Metele, killing at least 118 soldiers while at least 153 others were missing after the attack, the militants also seized tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, weapons, and ammunition (Reuters)

• 2018 California wildfires
  • The number of structures destroyed in the Woolsey Fire rises to 1,452. (Los Angeles Times)

• APEC Papua New Guinea 2018
  • The APEC summit in Papua New Guinea ends without a communiqué for the first time in the forum's history. (Reuters)

• Myanmar police fire warning shots at a crowd of Rohingya Muslims after arresting two human smugglers at a camp for displaced persons near Sittwe, Rakhine State. Four people are injured directly by the gunfire, prompting the U.N. Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator to call for "calm and restraint". (Reuters) (VOA News)

• A planned transgender rights rally in Kyiv, Ukraine, is attacked by far-right radicals. (CBC News)
• Central American migrant caravans
  • Hundreds of residents take to the streets in the Mexican city Tijuana, in protest of the arrival of thousands of migrants trying to get to the United States. (BBC)

• 2018 ATP Finals
  • In tennis, Alexander Zverev upsets Novak Djokovic 6–4, 6–3 to win his first ATP Finals title. (ESPN)
• 2018 NASCAR Cup Series
  • In motorsport, Joey Logano wins the season finale, the Ford EcoBoost 400, to claim his first career Cup Series title. (ESPN)

• Nissan chairman and former CEO Carlos Ghosn is arrested in Japan for breaching the country's financial trading laws, prompting Nissan to recommend that he and director Greg Kelly step down for misconduct. Ghosn is also the chairman and CEO of Renault. (The Irish Times)
• The 930-kilometre (580 mi) offshore section of the TurkStream gas pipeline, between Russia and Turkey, is completed. (Bloomberg)
• David's Bridal files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. (USA Today)

• 2018 Vietnam floods
  • Landslides due to rains from a tropical storm have killed 13 people and left four others missing in south-central Vietnam. (News24)

• President of the Maldives Ibrahim Mohamed Solih and his Cabinet announce that the Maldives is set to return to be a member of the Commonwealth of Nations as a republic in the Commonwealth of Nations. (Times Now)

• Watts family homicides
  • Chris Watts of Frederick, Colorado, is sentenced to three consecutive terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing his pregnant wife Shanann and their two young daughters. (CBS News)
• Mercy Hospital shooting
  • A shooting takes place at Mercy Hospital in Chicago, leaving four dead, including the gunman. (ABC)
• CNN v. Trump
  • CNN drops its lawsuit against the Trump administration after the White House restores reporter Jim Acosta's press pass. (The Washington Post)
  • The White House also issues a set of four guidelines reporters must follow at press conferences to avoid further press pass revocations. (ABC News)
• List of executive actions by Donald Trump
  • A federal judge blocks an order by President Trump that denies asylum to illegal immigrants. (The Washington Post)

• Exploration of Mars
  • NASA selects Jezero crater on Mars as the landing site for the Mars 2020 rover. The crater was once a large lake and may hold evidence of ancient life. (BBC)

• 2018 NFL season
  • The Los Angeles Rams defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 54–51 on Monday Night Football in the third-highest scoring NFL game in history. (The Guardian)

• November 2018 Kabul attack
  • At least 50 people are killed and 83 others injured in a suicide bombing on a Mawlid gathering in Kabul, Afghanistan. (BBC)

2018 Brussels stabbing attack

• A policeman is stabbed near the Grand Place in Brussels historic centre by a man carrying two small kitchen knives. The attacker is shot in the chest and in a critical condition while the policeman suffers non-life threatening injuries. (ABCNEWS)

• One person is killed and six others are injured after a train derails due to a landslide in the Catalonian town of Vacarisses, Province of Barcelona. (CNN)

• The general assembly of Interpol elects Vanuatu and Kiribati as new members, but not Kosovo. (The Washington Post)
• Poland and Israel join Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Australia and Austria in announcing that, despite their agreement in July, they will not sign the United Nations Global Compact for Migration in Marrakech on 10–11 December 2018. (Fox News) (Yeni Şafak) (Jerusalem Post)
• Erik Solheim resigns as head of the United Nations Environment Programme over allegations of expenses abuse and a lack of accountability. (BBC News)
• North Korea–South Korea relations
  • North Korea blows up ten of its front-line guard posts in the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in accordance with agreements made with South Korea earlier this year. (ABC News)

• Nikola Gruevski, former Prime Minister of Macedonia, says he is granted political asylum in Hungary after he fled his home country last week to avoid a two-and-a-half-year jail sentence for corruption. (The Washington Post) (The Guardian)

• Disgruntled police officers and soldiers storm the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea due to unpaid allowances related to the APEC Papua New Guinea 2018 conference last weekend. (The Guardian)
• The European Union reaches a provisional agreement on a system to investigate foreign investments into Europe. (Reuters)
• Gilets jaunes protests
  • France's "Yellow Vest" protests over fuel taxes enter their fourth day as around 10,000 people continue to block roads around the country. (The Local)
• Ivanka Trump, elder daughter of U.S. President Donald Trump, is found to have used a private e-mail account to handle government business e-mails. (BBC)

• War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
  • The death toll in the suicide bomb attack at a gathering of religious scholars in Kabul rises to 55. (Reuters)
• Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)
  • A report by charity Save the Children estimates that 85,000 children died of starvation as a result of the war. (The Guardian)

• One person is killed and five people are injured in an auto wreck on New York City's Brooklyn Bridge, which sparked a fire that engulfed three vehicles. (ABC News) (The New York Times)

• A 27-year-old American Christian missionary is killed upon landing on North Sentinel Island in an effort to convert the indigenous Sentinelese people. He is the first person killed by the isolated islanders since two Indian nationals in 2006. (BBC)
• Matthew Hedges, a British academic student studying at Durham University, is sentenced to life imprisonment in the United Arab Emirates after being convicted of spying. (BBC) (The Guardian)

• 2018 Iranian general strikes
  • Workers of the Haft Tappeh sugar mill company in the ancient city of Shush, southwest Iran, continued their strike and protests to the unpaid salaries for the 15th consecutive day. (Al Arabiya)
• Interpol elects South Korean Kim Jong-yang as its president, beating Russian candidate Alexander Prokopchuk. (BBC)
• Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts replies to President Donald Trump who described the judge who ruled on Monday against his migrant asylum order as an "Obama judge." (Associated Press)
• Kosovo puts a 100% trade tariff on all goods imported from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The European Union says this is a "clear violation" of the Central European Free Trade Agreement. (BBC)

• World Chess Championship 2018
  • After nine consecutive draws, a record for the 132-year-old championship, Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana are tied 4½ points each in the best-of-12-games match. (The Guardian)

• The Leaning Tower of Pisa Surveillance Group reports the structure is leaning less, by 4 cm (1.6 in) over the past two decades. (BBC)

• A 500-kilometre-wide (310 mi) dust storm, that engulfed parts of Australia’s outback, reaches Sydney. (BBC) (Irish Times)

• Dog meat
  • South Korea shuts down the country's largest dog meat slaughterhouse. The move is lauded by animal rights activists. (CNN)

• Foreign relations of Denmark
  • Denmark suspends future weapons export licenses to Saudi Arabia in response to the killing of Jamal Khashoggi and the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen. (Reuters)
• Brexit negotiations
  • President of the European Council Donald Tusk says there is agreement "in principle" on a political deal that can be endorsed at an EU summit. (RTÉ)
  • Spain threatens to vote against if there is no agreement on Gibraltar by which it demands new guarantees. (The Daily Mail)
• The United States urges their allies not to use Huawei network equipment, reportedly out of national security concerns. (The Hill)

• 2017 Jewish Community Center bomb threats
  • An Israeli-American man, Michael Kadar, is sentenced to 10 years in prison in Israel for making 2,000 hoax bomb threats that forced evacuations of Jewish community centers in the United States. The threats, made by phone and email in 2016 and 2017, raised concern that antisemitism was on the rise in the United States. (Reuters)
• Chinese state media report that five people are killed and 18 others are injured after a car plowed into children outside a primary school in Huludao, Liaoning, China. (Toronto Star)
• Me Too movement in South Korea
  • Lee Jae-rock, a South Korean pastor and leader of Manmin Central Church, is sentenced to 15 years in prison over 42 counts of sexual harassment and sexual assault against eight of his followers. According to the Seoul Central District Court, the victims could not resist his advances "due to their absolute faith in the infallibility of the accused." (CNN)

• Global warming
  • The World Meteorological Organization reports that average global carbon dioxide concentrations rose to 405.5 parts per million in 2017. They say this level was not seen since at least 3 million years ago. (Associated Press)

• World Chess Championship 2018
  • After ten consecutive draws, a record for the 132-year-old championship, Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana are tied 5 points each in the best-of-12-games match. (The Guardian)

• 2018 Karachi Chinese consulate attack
  • Four people are killed in an armed assault on the Chinese consulate in Karachi, Pakistan. Three attackers are also dead. The attack is claimed by the Balochistan Liberation Army. (CNN)
• 2018 Orakzai bombing
  • An explosion kills at least 35 people and injures at least 55 at a market in Kalaya, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northern Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
• War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
  • At least 26 Afghan security forces are killed and 50 are injured by a suicide blast in a mosque inside an army base in Khost Province, Afghanistan. (Reuters via U.S. News & World Report)
• Witnesses say that gunmen in pickup trucks attacked a police station in Tazirbu, southeast Libya. At least five people were killed and several civilians were abducted. (AP via WETM TV18)

• Four Finnish tourists and a Zimbabwean pilot are killed when a Cessna S206 crashes in Masvingo Province, in southern Zimbabwe. Two Finnish business leaders were among the dead: Pekka Ojanpää [fi], the CE of the maintenance services and circular economy company Lassila & Tikanoja [fi], and Heikki Vappula [fi], a director of the forestry company UPM. (Yle)
• Margaash, an eight year old snow leopard, is shot dead by staff at Dudley Zoological Gardens, England after escaping its enclosure. (BBC)

• Khadim Hussain Rizvi, chief of Pakistani political party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), together with his party leaders, is arrested after TLP's refusal to postpone their call for a public rally planned for 25 November at Liaqat Bagh, Rawalpindi. Pakistan's Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry clarifies that the action has no connection with the Asia Bibi case. (Dawn), (Pakistan Today)

• 2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis
  • Lawmakers opposed to Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister win a vote for control of a new 13-member parliamentary main committee. (Reuters)
• Workers at Amazon distribution centers in Germany and Spain protest labour conditions in a strike coinciding with the Black Friday shopping peak. (AP via WSFA) (Reuters)
• The London Metropolitan Police Service releases video footage of police cars being driven into suspected criminals on scooters. They say the tactic isn't new. (BBC)

• Phil Mickelson defeats Tiger Woods after 22 holes of match play at Shadow Creek Golf Course to win $9 million USD. (BBC)

• Syrian Civil War
  • Syrian state media report that more than 50 civilians are injured in a suspected poison gas attack by Syrian rebels on Aleppo. (The Sydney Morning Herald)

• Traffic accidents in India
  • A bus crash in Karnataka, India, leaves at least 25 people dead as the vehicle sinks into a canal. (The Guardian)
• At least 35 people died after a cruise boat carrying party revellers capsized on Lake Victoria, Uganda. (CNN)

• Brexit negotiations
  • The Spanish government and the UK government reach an agreement on Gibraltar whereby Spain lifts its threat of boycotting Sunday's summit on Brexit. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says there are now "sufficient guarantees" that any future decisions regarding Gibraltar would be made with Spain. (The New York Times) (Reuters)
• Mexico–United States relations
  • U.S. President Donald Trump announces that migrants seeking asylum at the southern border will wait in Mexico while their claims are processed in U.S. courts. Mexico's incoming foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard denies an agreement has been reached, and says "(no) specific proposal" has been received from the United States. Andrés Manuel López Obrador's administration will take power next Saturday, December 1. (USA Today) (BBC)

• Politics of Taiwan
  • Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen resigns as leader of the Democratic Progressives and refuses Prime Minister William Lai's offer to quit after a major defeat in local elections. (Reuters) (Associated Press)
  • Same-sex marriage in Taiwan
    • Referendum voters in Taiwan reject a proposal to allow same-sex marriage. A March 2017 Constitutional Court ruling found the ban on these unions unconstitutional and ordered parliament to change the law within two years. Earlier, the government said the results of this vote would not affect its complying with the court's decision. (BBC)
• Yellow vests movement
  • Violent clashes between French police and protesters last well into the night on the Champs-Élysées in Paris over rising fuel taxes. (Reuters)
• United Kingdom national security, Russia–United Kingdom relations
  • The British Army Chief of the General Staff, Mark Carleton-Smith, says Russia is a "far greater threat" to the United Kingdom's national security than the Islamic State. (BBC)

• World Chess Championship 2018
  • After eleven consecutive draws, a record for the 132-year-old championship, Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana are tied 5.5 points each in the best-of-12-games match. (The Guardian)

• Kerch Strait incident
  • Russia stops three Ukrainian Navy vessels from passing under the Kerch Strait Bridge by blocking it with a cargo ship. Russia claims they violated her territorial waters and ignored warnings. The navy vessels and their crews are seized after shots were fired. Russia says three Ukrainians were wounded. According to Ukraine, six of their sailors are wounded. Ukraine denies their ships did anything wrong. (Reuters) (AP)
  • An emergency National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine meeting is convened in response to the Russian blockade of the Kerch Strait and the seizure of its vessels, after which President Petro Poroshenko says he will ask the Verkhovna Rada to support a declaration of martial law in Ukraine. The parliament is set to have an emergency meeting at 4 p.m. local time on November 26. (Kyiv Post)

• At least 21 people have died, 180 have been injured and tens of thousands have been displaced by heavy rains that have affected Iraq. (Times Now)
• A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near Sarpol-e Zahab, Iran, and close to the Iraqi border. A person died in Iraq while more than 700 others are injured. (BBC)
• Camp Fire
  • Two more bodies are found in Paradise and one in nearby Magalia, raising the death toll to 85. Another 249 people are still missing. (CNN)
• The chemical spill accident in Quangang District, Quanzhou, China on November 4 is found to be 10 times worse than initially reported. According to the government of Quanzhou, the actual leak of C9 aromatics was 69.1 tonnes instead of 6.97 tonnes understated by the Fujian Donggang Petrochemical Company. Several officials of Quangang District have been suspended from their posts and seven company employees have been arrested by the police in connection with the cover-up. (Global Times)

• Mexico–United States relations, Central American migrant caravans
  • The San Ysidro Port of Entry, the largest border crossing on the Mexico–United States border, is closed after U.S. border patrol agents fire tear gas at asylum-seeking Central American migrants attempting to enter into the United States. The events were triggered by Mexican police breaking up a migrant protest, resulting in a rush toward the border. (Reuters)

• Cannabis in South Korea
  • South Korea becomes the first East Asian country to legalize medical cannabis. (Sputnik News)

• Brexit negotiations
  • European Union leaders approve the proposed Brexit deal, at a summit in Brussels. (BBC)
• Swiss referendums, 2018
  • A referendum to give national law precedence over international law fails. (SRF)

• Kerch Strait incident
  • Russia asks for an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council to convene. (TASS)
  • The Kerch Strait is re-opened to commercial shipping. (Reuters)
  • Martial law in Ukraine
    • The Verkhovna Rada approves the introduction of martial law in 10 oblasts of Ukraine for a period of 30 days. (BBC)
• War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
  • Taliban insurgents ambush a police convoy in the western Farah Province, killing 20 officers, including the newly appointed provincial police chief. (The Guardian)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Three Israel Defense Forces soldiers are injured, one moderately and two lightly, in a vehicle-ramming attack in the West Bank. The assailant was shot dead by one of the soldiers. (Yahoo)
• Somali Civil War
  • An Islamic cleric and 17 of his followers are killed by Al-Shabaab militants for playing music during their religious sessions. (TIME)
  • A car bomb explodes in the capital Mogadishu, killing at least six people. (The Charlotte Observer)

• Cinema of Italy
  • Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, whose film The Last Emperor won nine Oscars, dies of lung cancer. (The Guardian)

• History of General Motors
  • General Motors announces it will cease production at the Oshawa Car Assembly in Oshawa, Lordstown Assembly in Lordstown, Ohio, and the Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly in Detroit. Two transmission plants, the Baltimore Transmission in Baltimore and the Warren Transmission in Warren, Michigan, are also expected to stop production. (Global News) (GM Authority) (NPR)

• A UH-1 Iroquois military helicopter crashes during a training flight in the Sancaktepe district of Istanbul, Turkey, killing four soldiers and leaving one injured. (Anadolu, Belga via Het Laatste Nieuws)

• United Arab Emirates–United Kingdom relations
  • Matthew Hedges, the British student who was sentenced last week by a judge in the United Arab Emirates to life in prison on espionage charges, is pardoned and released by authorities. The UAE maintains that he was an MI6 agent. (The New York Times) (The Guardian)

• Trial of 6ix9ine
  • American rapper 6ix9ine pleads not guilty to racketeering and firearms charges and is denied bail as his trial date is set for September 4, 2019. (Fox News)
• A court in Milan, Italy, examines evidence submitted by the campaign group Global Witness, that alleges bribery around the attribution of the OPL 245 oil prospecting license in 2011 led to a loss for the Nigerian state estimated at US$6 billion. (BBC)

• George Soros' Open Society Foundations says it will cease operations in Turkey, stating that "baseless claims" in the media and a government investigation into its alleged role in the Gezi Park protests make its work impossible. (Reuters)
• Killing of Jamal Khashoggi
  • Human rights activists in Tunisia stage protests against a planned visit by Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the killing of Saudi Arabia journalist Jamal Khashoggi. (Africa News) (VOA News)

• Exploration of Mars
  • The NASA robotic lander InSight lands safely on the Elysium Planitia plain of Mars to study the geology of the red planet. (NASA)
• Genome editing
  • A Chinese scientist claims to be the first person to edit the genome of a human baby, by targeting an immune-receptor which is used by HIV (CCR5). This has provoked denial from the hospital and international outcry. (CNN) (AP)

• World Chess Championship 2018
  • After twelve consecutive draws, Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana will enter a tie-breaker on Wednesday, for the first match in WCC history to have no decisive games before the tie-breaker. (The Guardian)

• War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
  • Three U.S. troops are killed and three others are wounded in an IED blast near Ghazni, Afghanistan. (BBC)

• The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures names Green Book the best film in 2018. A Star Is Born won three awards. (The Hollywood Reporter) (NBR press release)

• Russia–United States relations
  • U.S. President Donald Trump says he may cancel his scheduled meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin during this week's 2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit because of Russia's maritime clash with Ukraine. (The Washington Post)
• Nicaragua–United States relations, Corruption in Nicaragua
  • The Donald Trump administration announces sanctions on Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo and national security advisor Néstor Moncada Lau for corruption, violence against protesters, and human rights violations. (BBC) (The Washington Times)

• Fake news in South Korea
  • Prosecutors raid the house of Gyeonggi Province governor Lee Jae-myung amid suspicions that his wife used a pseudonymous Twitter handle to spread fake news about President Moon Jae-in and other political rivals of her husband. (Korea Herald) (english chosun)

• United States Senate special election in Mississippi, 2018
  • Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith defeats Democratic candidate Mike Espy in a run off election in Mississippi. (CBS News)

• The World Meteorological Organization and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology predict a weak El Niño forming within three months. (BBC)

• War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
  • A series of U.S. airstrikes kills at least 30 Afghan civilians, including 16 children, in Garmsir District, Helmand Province. Additional civilians were left injured or buried in the rubble. The target of the strikes was a suspected Taliban compound. The United States' strategy aims to push the Taliban into talks. (Reuters)
  • At least 10 people are killed and 19 are wounded in an attack on a compound of the G4S security contracting company in the Afghan capital Kabul. The Taliban's strategy seeks to strengthen its position before any formal negotiations. (Al Jazeera)

• A chain reaction of exploding trucks triggered by a blast during the delivery of acetylene gas at a chemical plant in Zhangjiakou, China, kills 23 people and injures at least 22 others. (Reuters)
• Flash flooding kills two people and causes major power outages in Sydney, Australia. (BBC)

• India–Pakistan relations
  • Personalities from both countries inaugurate a corridor that will enable Sikh pilgrims to travel visa-free between the Indian town of Dera Baba Nanak and the Sri Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara in Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)

• Malagasy presidential election, 2018
  • Two former presidents, Andry Rajoelina and Marc Ravalomanana, advance to the second round, due to be held on December 19. Incumbent president Hery Rajaonarimampianina is eliminated. (Reuters)
• Doctors and firefighters strike in Catalonia, Spain, over budget cuts, ending with clashes between demonstrators and Mossos d'Esquadra at the doors of Catalan Parliament. Students and teachers start a two-day strike. (El País)

• World Chess Championship 2018
  • Magnus Carlsen retains the title after a 3–0 victory against Fabiano Caruana in the best-of-four rapid tiebreaking series. (The Guardian)

• Vietjet Air flight VJ 356 crashed upon landing at Buon Ma Thuot International Airport while carrying 207 passenger and crew. Six people were injured but all survived. (VnExpress)

• Reggae music is added to the UNESCO Representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. (NPR) (UNESCO)

• The German chemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer is to cut 12,000 jobs by the end of 2021 as part of an overhaul following its acquisition of Monsanto earlier in 2018. (CNN)
• CNN announces it has severed ties with liberal commentator Marc Lamont Hill after he gives a U.N. speech advocating for Palestinian rights in which he used the phrase, "free Palestine from the river to the sea". (CNN) (The Washington Post)

• Russia–Ukraine relations
  • Ukraine's Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan says the ports of Berdiansk and Mariupol are effectively under blockade as Russia refuses to let any Ukrainian vessels leave or enter the Sea of Azov. President Petro Poroshenko calls on NATO to send warships to patrol the Sea of Azov. (Reuters) (The Guardian)
• Russia–NATO relations
  • The Belgian Air Component informs on Twitter that yesterday, Belgian F-16s operating in the Baltic region for NATO's Baltic Air Policing mission, "intercepted" Russian Flanker jets, allegedly because they had no flight plan. (Belga via Het Laatste Nieuws)
• 2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit
  • An emergency landing delays German chancellor Angela Merkel's arrival at the summit due to a complete shutdown of the onboard-ground communication system aboard the official Airbus A340-313 Konrad Adenauer. (Der Spiegel) (BBC News)
  • Russia–United States relations
    • After Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin during the summit is still on, while flying to Argentina, President Trump tweets that, after conferring with his top National Security advisers, he decided to cancel the meeting, adding that it was not a good time since Russia has not returned the ships and sailors to Ukraine. Less than an hour earlier, Trump said that he would "probably" meet Putin and that he believed it was "a good time to have the meeting." (USA Today) (Reuters) (USA Today²)

• Mueller special counsel investigation
  • Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump and The Trump Organization, pleads guilty to lying to Congress about Trump's Russian business contacts. (ABC News)
• German police raid Deutsche Bank's offices in Frankfurt in connection with money laundering allegations that two staff members helped clients set up off-shore businesses as tax havens. Police officers, prosecutors and tax inspectors search six of the bank's offices and seize numerous written and electronic business documents. Deutsche Bank says the investigation stems from the 2016 Panama Papers leak. (CNBC)
• Convicted murderer Samuel Little confesses to murdering 90 women between 1970 and 2005, making him one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has confirmed 34 of his confessions and are now working to confirm the others. (BBC) (FBI)

• Former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui is rushed to Taipei Veterans General Hospital after falling and hitting his head. (Taiwan News)
• 2018 Georgian presidential election
  • Voters in Georgia elect Salome Zurabishvili as president. She will be the first woman elected to hold the position when she assumes office on 16 December 2018. (BBC)
• 2017–18 United States political sexual scandals
  • Eric C. Bauman resigns as California Democratic Party chairman after accusations of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior toward party staff members and activists. (Los Angeles Times)

• 2018 Anchorage earthquake
  • A magnitude 7.0 earthquake hits Alaska, with the epicenter in Anchorage. Severe damage is reported. (USGS) (CBS News)
• Tornadoes of 2018
  • A severe storm system brings tornado watches and warnings throughout the U.S. states of Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Missouri. A "large and dangerous" tornado is confirmed near Gore, Oklahoma. Several other tornadoes are seen by storm chasers. (4029 News)

• Marriott International discloses that its Starwood Hotel brand had been subject to a data breach. (CNN)

• North Korea���South Korea relations
  • A South Korean train arrives towards Panmun Station and crosses the DMZ border for the first time since 2008, when a South Korean cargo train operated five times a week. (The Washington Post) (BBC) (South China Morning Post)
• Russia–Ukraine relations, Martial law in Ukraine
  • Ukraine bans Russian men aged between 16 and 60 from entering the country following the imposition of martial law. President Petro Poroshenko says the ban is to prevent the formation of "private armies" in Ukraine. Russia says it does not plan to retaliate. (BBC)
• 2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit
  • The United States, Canada and Mexico sign the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement in Buenos Aires, replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement. (TTNews) (NPR)

• Nigerian police killed 104 cattle thieves in operations in the north-western state of Zamfara. (BBC)
• The Supreme Court of Canada says that Vice Media reporter Ben Makuch must give the Royal Canadian Mounted Police material he gathered for stories about an accused Islamic State terrorist. (CBC)

• Brexit negotiations
  • Sam Gyimah resigns as British Minister of State for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in protest to Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal deal. (The Guardian)
• Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush dies of Parkinsonism at the age of 94, at about 10:10 p.m. CST. (NPR) (CNN)