Portal:Current events/2022 November 24
November 24, 2022 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Kurdish–Turkish conflict
- Operation Claw-Sword
- Syrian Democratic Forces commander-in-chief Mazloum Abdi suspends military operations against the Islamic State in order to focus on preparations for a Turkish ground invasion of northern Syria. (Al Monitor)
- Operation Claw-Sword
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Southern Ukraine campaign
- At least 15 people are killed and 35 others are injured when Russian Armed Forces bombard Kherson. (AFP via NDTV)
- Southern Ukraine campaign
Business and economy
- Modern immigration to the United Kingdom
- Net migration to the United Kingdom reaches a record of 504,000 in 2022, according to the Office for National Statistics. The record increase is primarily due to non-EU migration, the resumption of post-pandemic travel, the arrival of Afghan and Ukrainian refugees, and immigration from Hong Kong. (BBC News)
International relations
- Mahsa Amini protests
- The United Nations Human Rights Council approves the establishment of a fact-finding mission into the allegations of human rights violations committed by the Iranian government in response to the protests. (AFP via News24)
Law and crime
- Philippine drug war
- Killings of Kian delos Santos, Carl Arnaiz and Reynaldo de Guzman
- A Regional Trial Court in Caloocan, Philippines, sentences a police officer to life imprisonment for torturing and fabricating evidence on drug war victims Carl Arnaiz and Reynaldo de Guzman in 2017. (Reuters)
- Killings of Kian delos Santos, Carl Arnaiz and Reynaldo de Guzman
- 2021 Algeria wildfires
- China–United Kingdom relations
- The Government of the United Kingdom orders its departments to remove and refrain from installing closed-circuit television systems manufactured by companies that are under China's national intelligence law at "sensitive" buildings, citing security concerns. (CNBC)
- Three people are killed and another is injured as a gunman opens fire at a shopping centre in Krymsk, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. The perpetrator commits suicide after the attack. (Outlook)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Malaysian general election
- Pakatan Harapan and long-time opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is sworn in as the Prime Minister of Malaysia. (Reuters)
- Russian gay propaganda law
- The lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, passes a bill banning all instances of "LGBT propaganda". (Reuters)
Sports
- 2022 FIFA World Cup
- Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo becomes the first player to score a goal at five FIFA Men's World Cup tournaments after scoring one in Portugal's 3–2 win against Ghana. (AP)