Portal:Current events/2016 November 24
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Colombian peace process
- The FARC rebels sign a new peace deal after the failure of the original one. (Reuters)
- The
- Rohingya conflict
- A United Nations official 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 an airstrike by a Syrian warplane, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports an ISIL suicide bomber was responsible. (BBC) (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
- Three
- Syrian Civil War
- Al-Raqqah Governorate, becoming the first U.S. military casualty in the conflict. (ABC News)
- Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017)
- November 2016 Hillah suicide truck bombing
- At least 80
- November 2016 Hillah suicide truck bombing
- 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 suicide bomber at a checkpoint in northern Sinai. (New York Times)
- Eight
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)
- Hurricane Otto prepares to make landfall after killing at least three people in Panama. (The Guardian)
- Fengcheng power station scaffold collapse
- At least 74 people are dead and many others injured and trapped after a construction platform at a power plant in the
- November 2016 Israel wildfires
- Around 50,000 people are evacuated as fires rage throughout 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)
- Around 50,000 people are evacuated as fires rage throughout the
- A magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurs off the coast of El Salvador with the potential to cause a tsunami. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega declares a state of emergency because of the quake and Hurricane Otto. (Reuters via Yahoo! Canada) (USGS) (Reuters via NBC News)
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
- 2016 United States presidential election
- Former Presidential
- Around 11:00 p.m. EST, the effort surpasses its $4.5 million goal. (Jill2016)
- Hillary Clinton's lead in the popular vote over Donald Trump rises above 2 million. (The Atlantic)
- Former Presidential
- Haitian presidential election, 2016–17
- Tensions spread in Jovenel Moise of the Haitian Tèt Kale Party declare themselves winners. (NBC)
- Tensions spread in
- 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 should be more independent from the British legal system, among other amendments. (Jamaica Observer)