Current events: 2024-11-19

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Ukraine launches ATACMS ballistic missiles at targets in Bryansk Oblast, Russia, according to the Russian Defence Ministry. It is the first time that Ukraine has used the American-supplied missiles to strike targets inside Russia. (BBC News)
  • Nuclear risk during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia and weapons of mass destruction
    • Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a decree that allows his country to use nuclear weapons in response to conventional attacks by a non-nuclear state supported by a nuclear power. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • Three Lebanese soldiers are killed and eight other people are injured by an Israeli airstrike in Sarafand, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera), (Times of Israel)
• Haitian crisis
  • Twenty-eight suspected gang members are killed by police and residents in Pétion-Ville, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Hong Kong 47
  • Forty-five pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong are sentenced to prison terms between four and 10 years over an unofficial primary held in 2020. (Reuters)
• School attacks in China
  • Several people are injured in a vehicle-ramming attack outside a primary school in Changde, Dingcheng District, China. (ABC News)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Abkhazian protests
  • Abkhazia President Aslan Bzhania resigns following negotiations with the opposition. Vice President Badra Gunba takes over as acting president. (Abkhaz World) (Reuters)

• 2024 Jubaland presidential election
  • The Supreme Court of Jubaland takes an oath in 75 newly Representatives MP's approved by the Traditional Leaders, the regional's election committee timetabled the election and 22 November is set to be elected Speaker of Parliament and 25 November set to be elected president and vice president. (Horseed Media) (Garowe Online)

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