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Portal:Current events/2018 November 26

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;Armed conflicts and attacks

  • Kerch Strait incident
  • Russia asks for an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council to convene. [http://tass.com/politics/1032461 (TASS)]
  • The Kerch Strait is re-opened to commercial shipping. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-russia/russia-reopens-kerch-strait-to-shipping-after-standoff-with-ukraine-idUSKCN1NV0N1 (Reuters)]
  • Martial law in Ukraine
  • The Verkhovna Rada approves the introduction of martial law in 10 oblasts of Ukraine for a period of 30 days. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46352367 (BBC)]
  • War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
  • Taliban insurgents ambush a police convoy in the western Farah Province, killing 20 officers, including the newly appointed provincial police chief. [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/26/at-least-20-police-killed-in-taliban-ambush-in-afghanistan-officials (The Guardian)]
  • Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Three Israel Defense Forces soldiers are injured, one moderately and two lightly, in a vehicle-ramming attack in the West Bank. The assailant was shot dead by one of the soldiers. [https://www.yahoo.com/news/palestinian-injures-three-israeli-soldiers-car-ramming-shot-115525946.html (Yahoo)]
  • Somali Civil War
  • An Islamic cleric and 17 of his followers are killed by Al-Shabaab militants for playing music during their religious sessions. [http://time.com/5463064/somalia-islamic-leader-killed-al-shabab-attack/ (TIME)]
  • A car bomb explodes in the capital Mogadishu, killing at least six people. [http://www.charlotteobserver.com/entertainment/music-news-reviews/article222178825.html (The Charlotte Observer)]

;Arts and culture

;Business and economy

;Disasters and accidents

  • A UH-1 Iroquois military helicopter crashes during a training flight in the Sancaktepe district of Istanbul, Turkey, killing four soldiers and leaving one injured. [https://www.hln.be/nieuws/buitenland/militaire-helikopter-crasht-in-woonwijk-istanbul-vier-doden-een-gewonde~a0e81881/ (Anadolu, Belga via Het Laatste Nieuws)]

;International relations

  • United Arab Emirates–United Kingdom relations
  • Matthew Hedges, the British student who was sentenced last week by a judge in the United Arab Emirates to life in prison on espionage charges, is pardoned and released by authorities. The UAE maintains that he was an MI6 agent. [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/26/world/middleeast/matthew-hedges-pardoned-uae.html (The New York Times)] [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/26/matthew-hedges-jailed-british-academic-pardoned-by-uae (The Guardian)]

;Law and crime

  • Trial of 6ix9ine
  • American rapper 6ix9ine pleads not guilty to racketeering and firearms charges and is denied bail as his trial date is set for September 4, 2019. [https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/rapper-tekashi-6ix9ine-pleads-not-guilty-to-racketeering-firearms-charges (Fox News)]
  • A court in Milan, Italy, examines evidence submitted by the campaign group Global Witness, that alleges bribery around the attribution of the OPL 245 oil prospecting license in 2011 led to a loss for the Nigerian state estimated at US$6 billion. [https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46336733 (BBC)]

;Politics and elections

;Science and technology

  • Exploration of Mars
  • The NASA robotic lander InSight lands safely on the Elysium Planitia plain of Mars to study the geology of the red planet. [https://blogs.nasa.gov/insight/2018/11/26/nasas-insight-spacecraft-has-touched-down-on-mars/ (NASA)]
  • Genome editing
  • A Chinese scientist claims to be the first person to edit the genome of a human baby, by targeting an immune-receptor which is used by HIV (CCR5). This has provoked denial from the hospital and international outcry. [https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/26/health/china-crispr-gene-editing-twin-babies-first-intl/index.html (CNN)] [https://www.apnews.com/4997bb7aa36c45449b488e19ac83e86d (AP)]

;Sports

  • World Chess Championship 2018
  • After twelve consecutive draws, Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana will enter a tie-breaker on Wednesday, for the first match in WCC history to have no decisive games before the tie-breaker. [https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2018/nov/26/magnus-carlsen-v-fabiano-caruana-world-chess-championship-game-12-live (The Guardian)]

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