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Jiang Zemin
- Jiang Zemin (pictured), former general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, dies at the age of 96.
- A deadly fire in Ürümqi escalates ongoing protests across China in response to the government's zero-COVID policy.
- Anwar Ibrahim of the Pakatan Harapan coalition becomes Prime Minister of Malaysia after the general election produces the nation's first hung parliament.
- An earthquake centred near Cianjur in Indonesia's West Java kills at least 323 people and injures more than 7,000 others.
December 3, 2022 (Saturday)
Law and crime
- Mahsa Amini protests
- The Iranian government gives its first official report regarding deaths from the protests that followed the death of Mahsa Amini last September. The report states that more than 200 people have died in what the government labelled as "riots". (Al Jazeera)
- Former South Korean national security director Suh Hoon is arrested on charges of tampering with evidence related to the killing of a Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries official by North Korean agents near the Northern Limit Line in September 2020. (AP)
- Hunter Biden laptop controversy
- Internal company documents released by Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, reveal how some staff at the company suppressed posts sharing the Hunter Biden laptop story. (Forbes)
December 2, 2022 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Afghanistan conflict
- Two men disguised in burqas attack a mosque in Kabul while former Afghan prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is inside. The attackers killed a civilian and injured two others before being shot dead by security guards. Hekmatyar was not injured in the attack. (ANInews)
International relations
- 2021–2022 global energy crisis
- International sanctions during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Russian oil price cap
- Australia, the European Union, and the G7 member states decide to impose a US$60-per-barrel price ceiling on Russian seaborne oil. (AP)
- 2022 Russian oil price cap
- International sanctions during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom adds Cuba, Nicaragua, and the Russian paramilitary organization Wagner Group to its blacklist of countries and organizations violating international religious freedom, signalling possible sanctions by the U.S. government. (AFP via France 24)
Law and crime
- Russia–Ukraine relations
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signs a decree that bans religious organizations with links to Russia and imposes personal sanctions against their representatives. Zelenskyy also announces that the Ukrainian government will draft a law banning churches affiliated with Russia, which he says is necessary in order to counter Russian government efforts to "weaken Ukraine from within." (AP) (Reuters)
- The Indonesian parliament announces that it will pass a new Criminal Code to replace the current one, which dates back from its colonial era. (Reuters)
- The United States Department of Justice announces that the Swedish-Swiss corporation ABB has acceded to a US$315-million fine for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by extorting the South African state-owned public utility Eskom to secure government contracts from 2014 to 2017. (AFP via RFI)
December 1, 2022 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Two Al-Quds Brigades leaders are killed and another person is injured by Israeli soldiers during a raid at a refugee camp in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
- 2022 Haitian crisis
- Twelve people are killed by armed gangs in Cabaret, a town in the department of Ouest. (Al Jazeera)
- 2022 Spain letter bomb attacks
- The Spanish Ministry of the Interior reports that several letter bombs have been sent to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, the Ministry of Defence and the Torrejón Air Base. A sixth letter bomb is intercepted at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid. (El Plural) (Reuters) (La Sexta)
Business and economy
- COVID-19 recession
- It is reported that the eurozone's unemployment rate declined to 6.5 per cent at the start of the fourth quarter, the lowest rate since Eurostat started recording employment data in 1998. (WION)
Law and crime
- Missing and murdered Indigenous women
- A man is charged in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, for the murders of four indigenous women earlier this year. (BBC News)
November 30, 2022 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian civil war
- American-led intervention in the Syrian civil war
- The United States Central Command announces that the Free Syrian Army killed Islamic State caliph Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi during an operation in the Daraa Governorate in mid-October. (AFP via The Brussels Times)
- American-led intervention in the Syrian civil war
- Afghanistan conflict
- 2022 Aybak bombing
- At least 15 people are killed and 20 others injured in a bombing at a religious school in Aybak, Samangan Province. (Al Jazeera)
- 2022 Aybak bombing
- November 2022 Quetta bombing
- Three people are killed and 24 others injured by a Pakistani Taliban suicide bomber at a polio vaccination centre in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
- 2022 Spain letter bomb attacks
- A staff member at the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid, Spain, suffers minor injuries when opening a letter bomb that was addressed to ambassador Serhii Pohoreltsev. (Reuters)
Arts and culture
- UNESCO officially adds several inscriptions to its intangible cultural heritage list, including French baguettes, Korean talchum dance, and Chinese tea making. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Brazil floods and landslides
- Two people have been killed and thirty others are feared missing after a landslide in Guaratuba, Paraná, Brazil. (Sky News)
Law and crime
- Capital punishment in Singapore
- The Singaporean government approves legislation that will only allow the Court of Appeal to grant a last-ditch clemency petition prior to an execution on consideration or on the basis of new evidence presented by the defendant. (Al Jazeera)
Politics and elections
- Scott Morrison ministerial positions controversy
- The Australian House of Representatives votes 86–50 to censure former prime minister Scott Morrison for failing to disclose to the parliament and the public his secret appointments to a number of ministries during his premiership. Morrison is the first former Australian prime minister to be censured. (AP)
November 29, 2022 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Four Palestinians, one in Hebron, one in al-Mughayir and two brothers in Kafr Ein, are killed during clashes with Israeli forces. Eight others are injured. A man is also killed in Kokhav Ya'akov after ramming and seriously injuring a female soldier. (AP) (Times of Israel)
Business and economy
- Germany–Qatar relations
- 2021–2022 global energy crisis
- 2022 Russia–European Union gas dispute
- Germany signs a 15-year deal with Qatar's state-owned petroleum company QatarEnergy to have its liquefied natural gas supplied by the company from 2026. (AP)
- 2022 Russia–European Union gas dispute
- 2021–2022 global energy crisis
Disasters and accidents
- Nineteen people are injured after an ethane gas explosion in Agua Dulce, Veracruz, Mexico. (AP)
International relations
- China–United Kingdom relations
- 2022 COVID-19 protests in China
- The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the United Kingdom summons Chinese ambassador Zheng Zeguang over the arrest of BBC News journalist Edward Lawrence while covering the protests in Shanghai. (AFP via CNA)
- 2022 COVID-19 protests in China
Law and crime
- LGBT rights in Singapore
- The Parliament of Singapore repeals Section 377A, thereby decriminalising sex between consenting male adults in the country. (The New York Times)
- November 2021 English Channel disaster
- The Gloucestershire Constabulary arrest a man near Cheltenham, Cotswolds, England, as a prime suspect in conspiring to transport 30 illegal immigrants from France to the United Kingdom on an inflatable boat, of which all but three died when the boat capsized in transit along the English Channel in 2021. (AFP via The Star)
- Janusz Waluś, the convicted assassin of South African anti-apartheid politician Chris Hani, is stabbed and wounded in prison in Pretoria a few days before his scheduled release on parole. (AFP via The Guardian)
November 28, 2022 (Monday)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa
- Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano, erupts for the first time since 1984, triggering an ash advisory for Hawaii's biggest island. (CNN)
Law and crime
- Comoros passport sales scandal
- A court in the Comoros sentences former president Ahmed Abdallah Sambi to life in prison after Sambi was convicted of high treason for selling passports to stateless people in the Persian Gulf, and for other crimes, including embezzlement. (AFP via France 24)
- Aftermath of the 2022 Buffalo shooting
- Payton S. Gendron, who shot and killed 10 people and injured three others at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, United States, in May, pleads guilty to all state charges: first-degree murder, domestic terrorism motivated by hate, and attempted murder as a hate crime. (PBS NewsHour)
Science and technology
- The Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland fines American technology company Meta for €265 million (US$275 million) for a data breach on its international users. (AFP via The Philippine Star)
November 27, 2022 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Somali Civil War
- November 2022 Mogadishu attack
- Eight civilians and a soldier are killed and several others, including Somalia's internal security minister, are injured when al-Shabaab jihadists attack a hotel in Mogadishu frequented by Somali politicians. Five insurgents are also killed. (BBC) (The New York Times)
- November 2022 Mogadishu attack
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi jointly announce that 40 Burundian rebels of the National Forces of Liberation have been killed recently in eastern DRC. (AFP via RFI)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 14 people are killed and dozens of others are missing after a landslide hits Yaoundé, Cameroon. (AP)
- Five people are killed in a helicopter crash in Yangyang County, Gangwon, South Korea. (Yonhap)
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