Portal:Current events/2019 November 25
November 25, 2019
(
2019-11-25
)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Protestors storm the
MONUSCO
headquarters in
Beni
,
Democratic Republic of the Congo
, and set
UN
vehicles on fire in anger at the
peacekeepers
' failure to stop the
Allied Democratic Forces
insurgency
. Congolese security forces fire at the crowd to disperse them, killing at least two.
(Al Jazeera)
Business and economy
Transport for London
announces it will not grant a new license to operate to
Uber
, citing safety failures. The company will appeal.
(BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
2019 Ménaka helicopter crash
Thirteen
French soldiers
are killed in a helicopter crash during an operation against
jihadists
in
Mali
.
(BBC News)
Health and environment
2019 Samoa measles outbreak
Fijian
Health Minister
Ifereimi Waqainabete
warns that
police
will be deployed to areas under
quarantine
if people continue not to respect the order to stay at home if they have
measles
, amid an ongoing outbreak of the illness in various
Pacific island
nations.
(
Fiji Times
)
(RNZ)
International relations
Iran–Israel relations
,
Iran–Saudi Arabia relations
,
Iran–United States relations
,
2019 Iranian protests
Head of the
Revolutionary Guards
Hossein Salami
delivers a televised speech toward
Israel
,
Saudi Arabia
, the
United States
and those who are protesting against the government in which he says "We will destroy you" if they cross Iran's red line.
(
Haaretz
)
(
The Washington Post
)
Law and crime
Essex lorry deaths
The driver of the lorry in which 39 Vietnamese migrants were found dead in
Grays
,
Essex
,
England
, pleads guilty to conspiring to assist
unlawful immigration
.
(
The Independent
)
Catholic Church sexual abuse cases in Argentina
Two
Roman Catholic
priests are sentenced to more than 40 years in prison for
sexually assaulting
deaf children at a church school in
Mendoza Province
, Argentina; the school's gardener also receives an 18-year sentence.
(BBC News)
(
The Guardian
)
Science and technology
Tim Berners-Lee
, creator of the
World Wide Web
, launches a
World Wide Web Foundation
scheme
Contract for the Web
.
(CNBC)
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