Portal:Current events/2018 November 12
November 12, 2018 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza–Israel clashes (November 2018)
- Israel and Hamas exchange missile fire with 300 rockets being launched from Gaza within the span of three hours. (The New York Times)
- The Israeli Air Force bombs Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV's headquarters in Gaza City. (Reuters)
- A rocket fired from Gaza strikes an apartment building in Ashkelon, killing a man and injuring two others. The victim was a middle aged Palestinian illegal immigrant from Hebron. This is the first person killed on Israeli soil due to Palestinian rocket fire since 2014. (Ynetnews)
Arts and culture
- Amnesty International strips Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi of its highest honor, the Ambassador of Conscience Award, which she received in 2009, because of her inaction regarding the persecution of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim population in Rakhine State and the military operations in Kachin and Shan State. (BBC) (CNN)
- Pope Francis asks the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, now meeting in Baltimore, to delay voting on proposals to address the sexual abuse crisis until he leads a global summit in February. (CNN) (Axios)
- Marvel Comics editor and comic book writer Stan Lee dies at the age of 95. (The New York Times) (The Guardian)
Disasters and accidents
- 2018 California wildfires
- The Camp Fire in Butte County is now ranked as the deadliest wildfire in Californian history, with 42 people confirmed dead and 228 people missing. (HuffPost)
International relations
- Killing of Jamal Khashoggi, Foreign relations of Saudi Arabia
- Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau confirms that Canadian intelligence officials have listened to the recording provided by Turkey of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, though he himself had not heard it. (CTV News)
Law and crime
- Parviz Kazemi, former Iranian welfare minister, is arrested and transferred to Tehran's Evin Prison on charge of causing disruption in the country's economic system. (PressTV)
- Antisemitism in Canada, History of the Jews in Toronto
- Toronto police investigates a hate crime against four Jewish teens. 1 person is arrested and 9 other teenagers are being sought. (Huffington Post Canada) (CBC CA)
- Three men are convicted at the Western Cape High Court of kidnapping, raping and killing Stellenbosch University student Hannah Cornelius, whose body was found outside Stellenbosch. They are also convicted of the attempted murder of a friend of Hannah's who was abducted at the same time and left for dead near Kraaifontein. The three men receive life sentences. (News24)
Politics and elections
- United States Senate election in Arizona, 2018
- A week after the election, which was initially too close to call, Democratic Party candidate Kyrsten Sinema is elected to the United States Senate, defeating GOP candidate Martha McSally. Sinema is the first woman elected to represent Arizona in the Senate and first Democrat to win a Senate election in the state since 1988. (BBC)
- Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine narrowly survives a 16-16 vote of no confidence. 17 votes were needed to remove Heine from office. (Marianas Variety)
Science and technology
- The Irish Aviation Authority launches an investigation after several airliner pilots report extremely fast moving bright lights off the south-west coast of Ireland. (BBC) (Irish Examiner)