Current events: 2023-11-03

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Arab–Israeli conflict
  • 2023 Israel–Hamas war
    • Several people are killed and many more wounded during an Israeli airstrike against a convoy of ambulances carrying wounded people from the al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip to Rafah, Egypt. (Al Jazeera)
    • At least 14 people are killed by an Israeli airstrike against civilians fleeing to southern Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
    • International reactions to the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
      • Kyrgyzstan warns their citizens to not travel to fight against Israel. (New Age)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • 2023 Dera Ismail Khan bombing
    • Five people are killed and 20 others injured by a motorcycle bomb at a bus stop in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, when a police bus carrying officers passed by. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Nepal earthquake
  • Fifty-four people are killed and many houses are destroyed by a magnitude 5.6 earthquake in Karnali Province, Nepal. Twenty-eight deaths occurred in Rukum District, while 26 more in Jajarkot District. (AP)
• Langarud drug rehabilitation center fire
  • Thirty-two people are killed and 16 others are hospitalized following a fire at a drug rehabilitation center in Langarud, Gilan, Iran. (AFP via The Guardian)
• A small plane en route from Zagreb, Croatia, crashes as it approached Salzburg, Austria, killing four people. (AP)

International relations

• The Government of Honduras recalls its ambassador to Israel as a response to Israel's military actions in the Gaza Strip. (Yahoo News)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Israel–Hamas war protests
  • Protesters gather in Amman, Jordan to call for King Abdullah II to press for a ceasefire. (Barron's)
• War in Sudan
  • Transitional Sovereignty Council
    • El Hadi Idriss, a member of the Sudan Liberation Movement - Transitional Council, is fired from the ruling Transitional Sovereignty Council of Sudan for unknown reasons. (El Taghyeer)

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