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Samantha Harvey

• Samantha Harvey (pictured) wins the Booker Prize for her novel Orbital.
• Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby announces his resignation as a result of the John Smyth abuse scandal in the Church of England.
• In Zhuhai, China, 35 people are killed in a vehicle-ramming attack.
• Alliance for Change, led by Navin Ramgoolam, wins the Mauritian general election.

Ongoing:

• Israel–Hamas war
• Israeli invasion of Lebanon
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
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• Sudanese civil war
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Recent deaths:

• György Pauk
• Elizabeth Nunez
• Eileen Kramer
• Vardis Vardinogiannis
• Frank Auerbach
• Bruce Degen

November 19, 2024 (2024-11-19) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Ukraine launches ATACMS ballistic missiles at targets in Bryansk Oblast, Russia, according to the Russian Defence Ministry. It is the first time that Ukraine has used the American-supplied missiles to strike targets inside Russia. (BBC News)
  • Nuclear risk during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia and weapons of mass destruction
    • Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a decree that allows his country to use nuclear weapons in response to conventional attacks by a non-nuclear state supported by a nuclear power. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Hong Kong 47
  • Forty-five pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong are sentenced to prison terms between four and 10 years over an unofficial primary held in 2020. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Abkhazian protests
  • Abkhazia President Aslan Bzhania resigns following negotiations with the opposition. Vice President Badra Gunba takes over as acting president. (Abkhaz World) (Reuters)

• 2024 Jubaland presidential election
  • The Supreme Court of Jubaland takes an oath in 75 newly Representatives MP's approved by the Traditional Leaders, the regional's election committee timetabled the election and 22 November is set to be elected Speaker of Parliament and 25 November set to be elected president and vice president. (Horseed Media) (Garowe Online)

November 18, 2024 (2024-11-18) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • Odesa strikes
      • Russian forces launch a missile attack on the city of Odesa, Ukraine, for the second consecutive day, killing at least ten civilians, injuring dozens of others and damaging civilian infrastructure, including residential buildings. (Ukrainska Pravda)
  • Ukrainian energy crisis, 17 November 2024 Russian strikes on Ukraine
    • Ukraine re-implements nationwide rolling blackouts primarily due to yesterday's destruction of energy infrastructure by Russian airstrikes. (Reuters)
  • A submarine data communications cable across the Baltic Sea between Finland and Germany has been damaged in what German officials suspect is sabotage. (The Guardian)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • Hezbollah launches more than 100 missiles at Israel, including Tel Aviv, killing one person and injuring dozens of others. (The Times of Israel)
    • Five people are killed and 24 others are injured in an Israeli airstrike on Zuqaq al-Blat, Beirut, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
    • Hezbollah and Lebanon both agree to a United States proposal for a ceasefire. However, Israel has refused to comment. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Security forces raid a Lashkar-e-Islam hideout in the Tirah Valley of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, killing ten militants and injuring several others. (ABC News)
  • A Pakistani Taliban ambush on a military convoy in Khyber district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, kills eight soldiers and wounds three others. Several gunmen are also killed. Separately, seven police officers are kidnapped in Bannu. (Voice of America)
• Somali Civil War
  • Three people are killed and another is injured when a land mine, believed to have been planted by Al-Shabaab, explodes on a highway between Afgooye and Wanlaweyn in Lower Shabele, Somalia. (Garowe Online)

Business and economy

• American airline Spirit Airlines files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after years of financial losses and a failed merger attempt with JetBlue. (NPR)

Disasters and accidents

• Three people are killed in an explosion at a fireworks factory in Ercolano, Italy. (Rai News)

International relations

• Denmark–Somalia relations
  • Denmark and Somalia reach an agreement to relieve more than $8.5 million of Somali debt. (Horseed Media)

Law and crime

• Three people are killed in a stabbing spree in Manhattan, New York, United States. The perpetrator is arrested. (CNN)

From today's featured article

Edith Roosevelt (1861–1948; née Carow) was the second wife of President Theodore Roosevelt and the first lady of the United States from 1901 to 1909. She grew up alongside the Roosevelt family, and married Theodore Roosevelt in 1886; they had five children. She became a public figure when her husband became a war hero in the Spanish–American War and was elected governor of New York. Theodore became vice president in March 1901, and president after the assassination of William McKinley in September. Edith controlled when and how the press reported on the Roosevelts, and regulated Washington social life, organizing weekly meetings of the cabinet members' wives, and becoming the gatekeeper of who could attend formal events. Her oversight of the 1902 White House renovations and her hiring the first social secretary for a first lady, Belle Hagner, are considered enduring legacies. She remained politically active, despite poor health from the 1910s. (Full article...)

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Elogio del Horizonte

• ... that Elogio del Horizonte (pictured) has been nicknamed "King Kong's toilet"?
• ... that after fleeing to Argentina as a Spanish Civil War refugee, Maria Muntañola Cvetković became one of Yugoslavia's first experts on microfungi?
• ... that a modern Polish fairy tale, written during the period of martial law in Poland in the 1980s, mixes the themes of real-world environmental protection and fantasy-like gnomes?
• ... that the Japanese TV show Iron Chef gained a cult following on a San Francisco TV station before it was dubbed into English and aired on the Food Network?
• ...that Malik Arslan was assassinated on the orders of the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt due to his ties with the Ottomans?
• ... that The Gust of Wind is Renoir's attempt to paint air?
• ... that Equatorial Guinea's national abortion law is, as of 2022, one of only eleven that requires a woman to get her spouse's approval to receive an abortion?
• ... that Wasswa Serwanga and his twin brother were the first two NFL players from Uganda?
• ... that "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" has been credited with bringing dubstep to the mainstream?

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Nominations that have been marked requesting a second opinion for 7 days or longer. Client Hints (talk | history | discuss review) (32 days) Pari Khan Khanum (talk | history | discuss review) (7 days)

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