Portal:Current events/2016 November 22
November 22, 2016
(
2016-11-22
)
(Tuesday)
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Business and economics
The
board
of
TransAsia Airways
decides to dissolve the company after halting flights on Tuesday.
(Bloomberg)
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The Wall Street Journal
)
(
The New York Times
)
Disasters and accidents
2016 Fukushima earthquake
A 6.9 magnitude earthquake off
Japan
's
Fukushima Prefecture
injures 15 people, and triggers a 1 meter tsunami that causes a temporary power disruption at
Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant
.
(weather.com)
(BBC)
(News Corp via the
West Australian
)
A 56-vehicle
pile-up
on the
G5 Beijing–Kunming Expressway
in
China
's northern
Shanxi province
, leaves at least 17 people dead and 37 others injured.
(BBC)
2016 Atlantic hurricane season
Hurricane Otto
impacts
Panama
. A tropical storm watch is issued for
Nicaragua
from
Bluefields
to Sandy Bay Sirpi.
(NOAA)
European migrant crisis
Rescuers recovered 8 bodies and saved 1400 migrants adrift on the
Mediterranean Sea
today.
(IANS via the
Indian Express
)
A
German
court acquits seven
Islamists
who formed a "
Sharia police force
" in the city of
Wuppertal
in 2014 after determining that they were not violating a law against "intimidating or militant uniforms".
(RT)
(Deutsche Welle)
Law and crime
Former
Egyptian
Interior Minister
Habib el-Adly
is placed under house arrest on
embezzlement
charges.
(Daily News Egypt)
Politics and elections
Presidency of Donald Trump
Trump's aide
Kellyanne Conway
announces that the president-elect will not seek new charges against
Hillary Clinton
for possible crimes related to her
email server
.
(New York Times)
Sports
In
ice hockey
, the identity of the
Las Vegas
team that will become the
NHL's
31st franchise in the
2017–18 season
is unveiled as the
Vegas Golden Knights
.
(ESPN)
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