Portal:Current events/2021 November 29

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Turkey offers to mediate between Ukraine and Russia over the conflict between the two nations. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal
      • Belenenses SAD football club. (AP)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
      • Spain reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in a person who travelled from South Africa. (El Pais)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden
      • Sweden reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in a person who travelled from South Africa. (Reuters)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Israel
      • Miss Universe France 2021, Clémence Botino, a contestant at the Miss Universe contest in Eilat, Israel, tests positive for COVID-19. (L'Independant)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, COVID-19 vaccination in the Philippines
      • The Philippines launches a campaign to vaccinate 9 million people in three days in order to achieve 70% vaccination target and to prevent the spread of the Omicron variant. (The Straits Times)
  • International aid related to the COVID-19 pandemic
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Angola, COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya, COVID-19 pandemic in Barbados
      • Omicron variant. (LMDiario)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Michigan
      • Michigan reports 4,181 hospitalizations from COVID-19, a new single-day record. (The Detroit News)
  • History of COVID-19 vaccine development
    • BioNTech says that it is developing a vaccine to combat the Omicron variant. (Reuters)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Turkey
  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reveals his intentions to rebuild his country's ties with Egypt and Israel. (TRT World)
• Holy See–Russia relations
  • Cardinal
    Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue began a six-day journey to Russia on November 23. Guixot met with Orthodox, Muslim, civil leaders. The parties discussed religious liberty and other human rights of minorities. (Catholic World News)

• 2021 Honduran general election
  • While votes are still being counted, both Xiomara Castro and Nasry Asfura declare that their respective tickets have won the presidential election. (Al Jazeera)
• Magdalena Andersson is re-elected as Prime Minister of Sweden by the Riksdag after she resigned last week. (Euronews)

Science and technology

• Jack Dorsey resigns as the CEO of Twitter and is succeeded by Chief technology officer Parag Agrawal. (CNBC)
• Researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico discover two new antibiotic molecules inside the venom of a scorpion from the Diplocentrus genus, which may hold the properties to stop several different kinds of harmful bacteria and tumour cells. (The Yucatan Times)