Armed conflicts and attacks
Business and economy
Health and environment
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- Russo–Ukrainian war
- Kyiv strikes, Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Six people in Kyiv, Ukraine, and three more in Rostov, Russia, are killed as both countries launches airstrikes at each other. Several more people are wounded in both countries. (Al Jazeera)
- Kyiv strikes, Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
- Nine children and a woman are killed when a civilian home is hit by a Pakistani airstrike in Khost, Afghanistan. (Al Jazeera)
Business and economy
- Insurance in Australia
- The Australian Federal Court fines United Super, the Cbus pension fund's trustee, A$23.5 million (US$15.2 million) for systemic failures that caused extensive delays in processing death and disability insurance claims affecting over 7,000 members. (Reuters)
Health and environment
- Food security in Nigeria, Islamic extremism in Northern Nigeria
- The World Food Programme reports that escalating instability in northern Nigeria is increasing acute food insecurity to record levels, with nearly 35 million people projected to face hunger in 2026 as the agency exhausts its funding by December. (Reuters)
- The Hayli Gubbi volcano in the Afar Region of Ethiopia erupts, sending ash plumes across Yemen and Oman, and prompts flight cancellations in northern India. (DW) (AP)
Law and crime
- LGBTQ rights in the European Union, Same-sex union legislation
- The European Court of Justice, the highest court in the European Union, rules for all countries in the bloc to recognize same-sex marriage and not discriminate against same-sex couples. The ruling does not force individual countries to legalize same-sex marriages. (DW)
- Arrest of Jair Bolsonaro
- Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro starts his 27-year sentence for leading the 2022–2023 Brazilian coup plot. (AP)
Science and technology
- Chinese space program
- The Shenzhou 22 spacecraft enters orbit after China conducts its first emergency space launch to restore a safe return option for the three astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station following damage to the Shenzhou 20 return capsule earlier in November. The uncrewed spacecraft, launched on a Long March 2F rocket, carries replacement parts and supplies and aims to return the current crew to Earth in 2026. (Reuters)
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