Portal:Current events/2016 November 24

Current events of November 24, 2016 (2016-11-24) (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Colombian peace process
  • The Colombian government and FARC rebels sign a new peace deal after the failure of the original one. (Reuters)
• Rohingya conflict
  • The United Nations accuses Myanmar of committing genocide against the Rohingya. (BBC)
• A suspected car bomb outside the office of the governor of the southern Turkish province of Adana kills at least two people and injures 16. (AP via ABC News America)
• Turkish military intervention in Syria
  • Three Turkish Army soldiers are killed and 10 others wounded in an attack in Syria's al-Bab District; however, there are conflicting reports on who carried out the attack. The Turkish military says the soldiers were targeted in a airstrike by a Syrian warplane, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports an ISIL suicide bomber was responsible. (BBC) (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
• American-led intervention in Syria, Syrian Civil War
  • CENTCOM reports a U.S. service member has been killed in a IED blast near the town of Ayn Issa, Al-Raqqah Governorate, becoming the first U.S. military casualty in the conflict. (ABC News)
• Iraqi Civil War (2014–present)
  • November 2016 Hillah suicide truck bombing
    • At least 80 Shia pilgrims are killed in a truck bomb attack in Iraq. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility. (BBC) (RTE)
• Insurgency in the North Caucasus, Ingushetia insurgency
  • Two Russian special forces and two suspected militants are killed in a gunfight in Nazran, Ingushetia. (RFERL)
• 2016 India–Pakistan military confrontation, Kashmir conflict
  • Pakistani Chief of Air Staff Sohail Aman warns India not to escalate tensions in the disputed territory of Kashmir under the threat of a full-scale war. British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson urges both sides to restrain themselves while on a diplomatic mission to Islamabad. (FOX News)
• Amnesty International reports Nigerian security forces have killed more 150 pro-Biafra demonstrators since August 2015. (BBC) (Amnesty)
• Sinai insurgency
  • Eight Egyptian Army soldiers are killed by a suicide bomber at a checkpoint in northern Sinai. (New York Times)

Disasters and accidents

• 2016 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Otto makes landfall in Nicaragua, becoming the southernmost hurricane on record to hit Central America. (ABC News)
  • Costa Rica declares a national emergency as Hurricane Otto prepares to make landfall after killing at least three people in Panama. (The Guardian)
• Fengcheng power station collapse
  • At least 74 people are dead and many others injured and trapped after a construction platform at a power plant in the Chinese city of Fengcheng in Jiangxi province collapses. (BBC) (ITV)ref
• November 2016 Israel wildfires
  • Around 50,000 people are evacuated as fires rage throughout the Israeli city of Haifa. The Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan says at least half the fires are to due to arson. (BBC)
  • Four Palestinians have been arrested in connection to the fires. (FOX News)
• A magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurs off the coast of El Salvador with the potential to cause a tsunami. (Reuters via Yahoo! Canada) (USGS)

Law and crime

• An Iraqi court has issued arrest warrants for two correspondents with a London-based pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat over a false news report accusing Iranian pilgrims of sexually harassing Iraqi women. (The Huffington Post) (The Independent) (The National)

Politics and elections

• United States presidential election, 2016
  • Green Party candidate Jill Stein is seeking donations to determine the accuracy of the election results in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. (CNN)
  • Hillary Clinton's lead in the popular vote over Donald Trump rises above 2 million. (The Atlantic)
• Haitian presidential election, 2016–17
  • Tensions spread in Haiti after both Maryse Narcisse of the Fanmi Lavalas party and Jovenel Moise of the Haitian Tèt Kale Party declare themselves winners. (NBC)
• Austrian presidential election, 2016
  • Freedom Party of Austria presidential candidate Norbert Hofer intends to hold a referendum on European Union membership if elected. (BBC)
• Grenadian constitutional referendum, 2016
  • Voters in Grenada choose whether they be more independent from the British legal system among other amendments. (Jamaica Observer)