Portal:Current events

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • 2024 Quetta railway station bombing
    • At least 26 people, including fourteen soldiers, are killed and more than 62 others are injured in a suicide bombing at a rail station in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. The Balochistan Liberation Army claims responsibility for the attack. (Al Jazeera)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war
    • At least one person is killed and two others are injured in a raid by Israeli soldiers in Aqqaba in the West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • At least 40 people, including several children, are killed in Israeli airstrikes on several cities in Lebanon. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Spanish floods
  • Thousands of protesters demonstrate in Valencia, Spain, to demand the resignation of President of the Valencian Government Carlos Mazón for his handling of the warnings and subsequent management of last week's deadly floods. (AP)

International relations

• China–Indonesia relations
  • Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto sign several cooperation deals worth $10 billion seeking partnership in key areas including water conservation, marine resources, and mining. (Bangkok Post) (Reuters)
• Foreign relations of Sudan, Sudanese civil war
  • The United Nations Security Council sanctions the head of operations of the Rapid Support Forces and the force's West Darfur commander for their human rights abuses and for promoting violence in Sudan. (Al Jazeera)
• North Korea–Russia relations
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin signs into law the North Korean-Russian Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, a mutual defense pact with North Korea. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• A man injures four friars at a monastery in Gilet, Province of Valencia, Spain, before fleeing the scene. (ABC.es)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Bolivia protests
  • The constitutional court of Bolivia prohibits former President Evo Morales from running for office in any position, thereby preventing him from contesting next year's election. (Al Jazeera)
• 2024 United States presidential election
  • 2024 United States presidential election in Arizona
    • Multiple news broadcasters call Arizona for Donald Trump, officially ending the 2024 United States presidential election. (NBC News) (CNN) (AP News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kharkiv strikes, Kyiv strikes, Odesa strikes
    • One person is killed and at least 38 others are injured in Russian overnight airstrikes in Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Odesa, Ukraine. (AP)
• 2024 Mozambican general election, Human rights in Mozambique
  • Human Rights Watch reports that at least 34 people have been killed and at least 66 others have been injured in the past three weeks in police crackdowns of violent protests following the Mozambican presidential election. Mozambican police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters in the capital city Maputo, with the Army later deployed to end the protests. (Al Jazeera) (DW)
• November 2024 Amsterdam attacks, Antisemitism in Europe
  • Pro-Palestinian locals attack supporters of Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. after a match with AFC Ajax in Amsterdam, Netherlands, following instances of anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab chants and vandalism by Maccabi ultras. At least 30 people are injured, with five hospitalized, and 62 people are arrested. Dutch authorities condemn the attacks as antisemitic with the government of Amsterdam subsequently banning protests and demonstrations in the city for three days. (CNN) (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• 67th Annual Grammy Awards
  • American musician Beyoncé receives eleven nominations for the 2025 Grammy Awards, making her the most nominated artist in the award's history with 99 total nominations. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• At least two people are killed and twelve others are missing when a fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Jeju Island, South Korea. (The Korea Herald)

Health and environment

• Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest
  • The Brazilian environment and climate change ministry reports that deforestation in the Amazon rainforest decreased by 30.6% compared to last year, the lowest level in nine years. Additionally, deforestation in the Cerrado tropical savannah region decreased by 25.7%, the first decrease in five years. (AP) (Semafor)

International relations

• Ukraine–United States relations
  • The United States lifts its ban on deploying military contractors to Ukraine, thereby enabling American companies to directly assist with the maintenance and repair of U.S.-made weapons, such as F-16 fighter aircraft and Patriot air defense systems. The U.S. says that its contractors will be positioned far from the front lines and will not engage in combat with Russian forces. (CNN)

Law and crime

• Security incidents involving Donald Trump, Iranian interference in the 2024 United States elections
  • The U.S. Justice Department announces that they have formally charged an Afghan national who confessed to a murder-for-hire plan linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targeting president-elect Donald Trump. (CNN)
• Former Prime Minister of Fiji Frank Bainimarama is released from prison early after serving six months for perverting the course of justice. (RNZ)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Siege of North Gaza, Refugee camp airstrikes in the Israel–Hamas war
      • At least twelve Palestinians are killed and several others are injured in Israeli airstrikes on a school used to shelter displaced people in the Al-Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
  • Military aid to Israel during the Israel–Hamas war, Israel–United States military relations
    • The Israeli Ministry of Defence announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire 25 F-15EX fighter jets from Boeing as part of a $5.2 billion aid package from the U.S. government. At least four jets will be delivered annually beginning in 2031. (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Zaporizhzhia strikes
    • Four people are killed and 33 others are injured when Russian guided bombs hit residences, an apartment building, and a medical center in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• Sudanese civil war
  • 2024 eastern Gezira State massacres
    • At least 73 people from the village of al-Hilaliya, Gezira State, Sudan, are killed by unknown causes during a siege of the village by Rapid Support Forces militants. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Hezbollah launches drones at the Israeli Defense Forces base in Kfar Bilu and the Haifa naval base in Haifa, Israel. No casualties are reported. (Al Jazeera) (Saba News Agency)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023–2024 South American drought
  • The United Nations reports that almost a half million children in the Amazon are currently experiencing significant food and water scarcity due to prolonged droughts. (The Guardian)
• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, 2024 Cuba blackouts
  • Cuba experiences a nationwide blackout as Hurricane Rafael makes landfall in Artemisa Province. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Russia–United Kingdom relations
  • International sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The British government announces 56 sanctions on individuals and entities based in countries including China and Turkey, as well as on the Africa Corps mercenary group, in order to target Russia's military-industrial complex and restrict the supply of military equipment to Russia. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
• France–Israel relations
  • Israel Police forcibly enter the French-administered Church of the Pater Noster compound in Jerusalem and detain two French consulate employees. French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot cancels his visit to the site while the French government summons the Israeli ambassador in response. (Le Monde) (AP)

Law and crime

• Chinese intelligence activity abroad
  • Germany arrests an American citizen suspected of spying on the U.S. military for China while working at a U.S. military installation in Germany. (Al Jazeera)
• Police in Argentina charge three people in the death of English singer Liam Payne. (Sky News) (People)

Politics and elections

• 2024 German government crisis
  • Volker Wissing, Germany's transport minister and the former Free Democratic Party (FDP) general secretary, announces that he will leave the FDP but will remain in the Scholz cabinet. (SZ)
• Second presidential transition of Donald Trump
  • U.S. President-elect Donald Trump announces Susie Wiles as his White House Chief of Staff, the first woman to serve in this position. (ABC News)
• The Labor Ministry of Ecuador temporarily suspends Vice President and ambassador to Israel Verónica Abad Rojas until April 2025 for failing to comply with an order to leave Israel due to security concerns in Gaza. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • 2024 Beqaa Valley airstrikes
      • Israeli airstrikes in the Beqaa Valley in eastern Lebanon kill 55 people and injure 59 others. (L'Orient le Jour)
  • Hezbollah fires rockets at Tel Aviv, Israel, with a rocket striking Ben Gurion Airport. (Yedioth Ahronoth)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • U.S. President Joe Biden announces the expedited granting of more than US$6 billion in military aid to Ukraine prior to president-elect Donald Trump's inauguration in January. (Reuters)
• Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency
  • Twelve Jaish ul-Adl militants are killed, including the group's leader Salahuddin Farooqui, in a joint operation by Iran and Pakistan. (Tehran Times) (Sedaye Bourse)

Business and economy

• The Institute of International Finance cautions that if U.S. president-elect Donald Trump follows through with the tariffs that he campaigned on, this will result in a renewal of inflation and higher U.S. banking loan interest rates. (CNBC)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Rafael approaches the southern coast of Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane, triggering mass evacuations amid warnings of life-threatening flash flooding and storm surges. (Reuters)
• 2024 California wildfires
  • Amid extreme fire weather conditions and a particularly dangerous situation red flag warning, the Mountain Fire in Ventura County, California, U.S., develops and grows to 10,400 acres (42 km²) in less than eight hours. (CBS News)
• A Honda HA-420 HondaJet crashes into a vehicle during take off from Falcon Field in Mesa, Arizona, U.S., killing five people. (CBS News)

Law and crime

• Protests against Donald Trump
  • Just Stop Oil protesters spray orange paint on the outside of the American Embassy in London, United Kingdom, following Donald Trump's re-election in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. (The Independent)
  • U.S. protesters gather in San Jose, Berkeley, Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York City to protest following the re-election of Donald Trump. (Mercury News) (Newsweek)
• Human trafficking in Greece
  • Four people are killed and 25 others are rescued after human traffickers force them from their boat into the water off the coast of Rhodes, Greece, and abandon them. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• 2024 U.S. elections
  • 2024 U.S. presidential election, Second presidency of Donald Trump
    • Republican candidates 45th U.S. president Donald Trump and U.S. Senator JD Vance are elected as the 47th U.S. President and 50th U.S. Vice President respectively. (The Washington Post) (AP)
      • Trump will become the first person since Grover Cleveland in 1892 to serve non-consecutive presidential terms, as well as the oldest presidential candidate and first convicted felon to be elected president. (BBC News) (The New York Times) (AP)
      • Vance is the first millennial to be elected U.S. Vice President. (DW)
  • 2024 U.S. Senate elections
    • The Republican Party wins a majority in the U.S. Senate. (Reuters) (The Guardian)
  • Second presidential transition of Donald Trump
    • U.S. Vice President and Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris concedes defeat to Donald Trump in a speech at Howard University in Washington, D.C., stating that she and U.S. President Joe Biden will commit to a peaceful transition of power. (Time)
• 2024 German government crisis
  • In Germany, the Scholz cabinet loses its majority following the dismissal of finance minister Christian Lindner and the resignation of all remaining Free Democratic Party members. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Refugee camp airstrikes in the Israel–Hamas war
      • At least 29 Palestinians are killed in Israeli airstrikes on several refugee camps across the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Zaporizhzhian strikes
    • Six people are killed and at least 20 others are injured in a Russian missile strike on Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. (Reuters)
  • The Ukrainian Defense Ministry claims that its troops has engaged with North Korean units recently deployed to help Russia for the first time. (DW)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Thirty people are killed after an Israeli airstrike against a residential building in Barja, Lebanon. (AP) (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 European floods
  • 2024 Spanish floods
    • Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez announces a €10.6 billion (US$11.5 billion) aid package to families affected by the flooding in the country, primarily in the Valencian Community, including a package of €5 billion (US$5.5 billion) in state-guaranteed loans. (Al Jazeera) (La Nación)
• At least five people, including two election poll workers are killed by flash flooding in the U.S. state of Missouri, caused by torrential rain. (CBS News)
• Two Egyptian Air Force officers are killed when a helicopter crashes during a training exercise in Suez Governorate, Egypt. (Al Arabiya) (Egypt Independent)

International relations

• Somalia–United States relations
  • The United States and Somalia reaches an agreement to write off over $1.1 billion of Somalian debt. (Al Arabiya) (The EastAfrican)

Law and crime

• English Channel migrant crossings
  • A court in Lille, France, convicts 18 people, including nine in absentia, for participating in an international human smuggling network that transported migrants across the English Channel. The sentences range from two to fifteen years in prison. (Al Jazeera)
• Seven men from the Saxonian Separatists group are arrested in Germany and another is arrested in Poland for plotting ethnic cleansing terrorist attacks and for plotting to take control of several areas of Saxony. (Al Jazeera)
• Railway workers launch an eight-hour strike in Italy after a train manager was stabbed and critically injured on a train near Rivarolo Ligure, Genoa, yesterday. Several trains are canceled, with only 30% of services guaranteed. (Ansa)
• Equatoguinean vice-president Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue warns that politicians caught having sex in their offices could face harsh consequences after a civil servant was caught having sex with multiple women while on the job. (BBC News)
• The Personal Information Protection Commission of South Korea fines Meta Platforms ₩21.6 billion (US$15 million) for illegally collecting personal information on Facebook users and sharing it with advertisers. (AP)
• French and Dutch police raid Netflix offices in Paris and Amsterdam as part of an investigation into tax fraud and unreported employment practices. (BBC News) (Deadline)
• A Swedish court sentences Danish-Swedish politican Rasmus Paludan to four months in jail for inciting hatred against Muslims at two protests in 2022. (The Guardian)
• Two Chinese nationals are shot by a security guard at a textile mill in Karachi, Pakistan. (ABC News)

Politics and elections

• 2024 United States elections
  • 2024 United States ballot measures
    • Voters in several U.S. states vote on abortion rights on the ballot. Amendments are passed in Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, and New York. (KCRA) (LGBT Nation)
  • 2024 United States presidential election
    • U.S. citizens vote in federal, state and local elections, including the presidential election. (CNN) (USA Today)
    • Multiple hoax bomb threats linked to Russian email domains target polling places in U.S. battleground states. (Reuters)
  • 2024 United States Senate elections
    • In New Jersey, Democrat Andy Kim defeats Republican Curtis Bashaw to replace former Senator Bob Menendez, making him the first Korean American to be elected to the Senate. (NBC News)
• 2024 Boeing machinists strike
  • Boeing machinists vote to end the 53-day labor strike, agreeing to a 38% pay increase over four years. (The Seattle Times) (Reuters)
• 2024 Palauan general election
  • Citizens of Palau vote for a President and members of the National Congress. (RNZ)
• 2024 Qatari constitutional referendum
  • Qataris hold a referendum to amend the 2004 constitution, voting to strengthen the emir's political power and to abolish elections for members of the Consultative Assembly. (AP) (QNA)
• Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse
  • Thousands of protesters demonstrate in Novi Sad, Serbia, to protest the deadly collapse of a railway station canopy on Friday, leading to violent confrontations with police and vandalism of the city hall. (Reuters)
• Protests against the firing of Yoav Gallant
  • Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu dismisses defense minister Yoav Gallant following disagreements over the execution of the war in the Gaza Strip which subsequently results in nationwide protests. (The New York Times)

Science and technology

• Fukushima nuclear accident
  • A remote-controlled robot retrieves a piece of melted fuel from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, the first time a piece of melted fuel has been retrieved from a nuclear meltdown. (AP)
• Researchers at Kyoto University in Japan launch LignoSat, the world's first wooden satellite constructed without screws or glue, into space. It will orbit Earth for six months. (DW)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, Attacks on health facilities during the Israel–Hamas war
    • Kamal Adwan Hospital sieges
      • At least twelve Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, including seven at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, North Gaza Governorate. (Al Jazeera)
  • 2024 Israeli secret document leak scandal
    • Israel Police arrest a top aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after opponents accused the aide of leaking allegedly false classified intelligence to prevent a potential Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal. (CNN) (BBC News) (The Times of Israel)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • At least three people are killed in an Israeli attack on residential buildings in Ghazieh and Sidon, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2024 Kursk offensive
    • Ukraine says that its forces have engaged North Korean troops for the first time in Kursk Oblast, Russia. (The Independent)

Arts and culture

• The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet, an unidentified song recorded from a German Norddeutscher Rundfunk station in 1984, is identified as "Subways of Your Mind" by the band FEX. (404 Media)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Almora bus accident
  • At least 36 people are killed and 27 others are injured when a bus plunges into a gorge near Marchula, Uttarakhand, India. (The Indian Express) (ABC News)
• At least ten people are killed in the eruption of Mount Lewotobi Lakilaki in Flores, Indonesia. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Indonesia–Russia relations
  • The Indonesian Navy and the Russian Navy begin their first ever joint military exercise in the Java Sea. (DW)

Law and crime

• Women's rights in Iran
  • The science and research girl
    • Amnesty International demands the release of Iranian university student Ahoo Daryaei, who was arrested after stripping to her underwear and marching through the Islamic Azad University campus in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday. (Sky News)
• Four teenagers are injured, two critically, in a fight involving an axe on a RER train at the Ozoir-la-Ferrière station in Seine-et-Marne, France. The main suspect is later arrested at his home. (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

• Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse
  • Serbian Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Goran Vesić resigns and accepts responsibility for the deadly canopy collapse at the Novi Sad railway station on Friday. (DW)