Current events: 2024-11-05

Wikipedia Current Events · Nov 5, 2024

Armed conflicts and attacks

Health and environment

2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference
- European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announces that she will step down from participating in and speaking at the United Nations COP29 global climate conference due to conflicting European political matters. (Politico)

Law and crime

Right-wing terrorism in Germany
- Seven men are arrested in Germany and another in Poland for plotting ethnic cleansing terrorist attacks and for the aim of taking control of several areas of Saxony. All of those arrested belonged to the Saxonian Separatists, a Neo-Nazi armed and separatist group. (Al Jazeera)
Railway workers launch an eight-hour-long strike in Italy after a train manager was stabbed and critically wounded yesterday aboard a train near Rivarolo Ligure, Genoa. 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 would face harsh consequences after a civil servant was caught having sex with multiple women on the job. (BBC)

Politics and elections

2024 United States elections
- Polls open for U.S. voters to cast ballots on federal, state and local candidates, notably the presidential election. Millions of Americans have already voted early or by mail. (CNN) (USA Today)
2024 Palauan general election
- Citizens of Palau vote for a President and for 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)
Protests against the firing of Yoav Gallant
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismisses Israel's defense minister Yoav Gallant after disagreements over the execution of the war in the Gaza Strip, and as a result protests began due to the firing. (The New York Times)
Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse
- Thousands of Serbian protesters demonstrate in Novi Sad to protest the deadly collapse of a local railway station canopy, leading to violent confrontations with police and vandalism of the city centre's 19th-century city hall. (Reuters)

Science and technology

Researchers at Kyoto University in Japan launches the world's first wooden satellite, made without screws or glue, into space to orbit Earth for six months. (DW)