Current events: 2024-11-20

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • United Kingdom and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • British-produced Storm Shadow missiles are launched into Russian territory by Ukraine for the first time, following the Starmer cabinet approval. (The Guardian)
  • The U.S., Italian, Greek, and Spanish governments close their embassies in Kyiv, Ukraine, temporarily following threats of a "significant air attack" from Russia. (The Washington Times)
  • The embassies of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan urge their citizens to leave areas near Ukrainian combat zones or to leave the nation altogether via designated land and air routes following escalating risk of Russian retaliatory attacks. (The Times of Central Asia)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Calls for a ceasefire during the Israel–Hamas war
    • The United States vetoes a United Nations Security Council proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, citing its lack of a provision to immediately return hostages taken during the conflict. (The New York Sun) (Reuters)
• Syrian civil war
  • Israel's role in the Syrian civil war
    • Thirty-six people are killed and over 50 injured after Israeli airstrikes in Palmyra, Syria. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Twelve Pakistani soldiers are killed and several others are wounded when a suicide bomber targets a security post in Mali Khel, Buner District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The Hafiz Gul Bahadur faction of the Pakistani Taliban claims responsibility for the attack. (Miami Herald) (Hindustan Times)

Business and economy

• German economic crisis
  • Ford announces that it will cut 4,000 jobs in Europe, with 2,900 in Germany, citing economic instability and conflicts with environmental regulations. (Newsweek)
• American aerospace company Boeing announces it will layoff 17,000 workers by the end of 2024, 10% of its global workforce, due to financial difficulties following the machinists strike. (Assembly Magazine) (WAFB9)

Disasters and accidents

• Two people are killed and over 570,000 people are without power as a bomb cyclone makes landfall over the West Coast of the United States. Nearly 100,000 people are without power in British Columbia, Canada. (CNN) (NBC News)

International relations

• 2024 Baltic Sea submarine cable disruptions
  • The Russian government denies accusations made by European governments of their involvement in sabotaging two submarine telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea as a means of hybrid warfare. (DW)
  • The Royal Danish Navy boards the Chinese cargo ship {{ill|Yi Peng 3|fi}} in the Baltic Sea after it is suspected to be involved in the sabotage of the submarine cables. (EurAsia Daily)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Indonesia
  • Philippine President Bongbong Marcos confirms the return of Mary Jane Veloso to the country after 14 years on death row in Indonesia, after the Indonesian government implemented a policy for the repatriation of foreign prisoners. (South China Morning Post)

Politics and elections

• 2024 United Kingdom farmers' protests
  • Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner dismisses concerns brought on by protests in London from United Kingdom farmers against new agricultural inheritance taxation policies as "scaremongering". (Sky News)
• Iraq imposes a two-day curfew nationwide as it conducts its first national census since 1987. (Al Jazeera)

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