Portal:Current events/2016 November 14
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November 14, 2016 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Terrorism in Indonesia
- 2016 India–Pakistan military confrontation
- Pakistan Army's Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) reports seven Pakistani soldiers have been killed by Indian cross-border shelling in Bhimber District, Azad Kashmir. (Reuters)
- Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017)
- At least nine Shia pilgrims have been killed and several injured after police opened fire on a religious procession by the Islamic Movement in Nigeria in the city of Kano, Nigeria. (BBC News) (Al-Jazeera)
Business and economics
- Samsung Electronics agrees to buy the U.S.-based Harman International Industries for $8 billion in the biggest overseas acquisition ever by a South Korean company. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2016 Kaikoura earthquake
- A 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes north of Christchurch, New Zealand, in the early hours Monday, triggering tsunami warnings and causing widespread damage. At least two people are reported killed. (Metro) (Reuters)
- A Russian MiG-29 crashes in the Mediterranean Sea off the Syrian coast. The pilot ejected safely from the plane and is unhurt. (BBC)
Law and crime
- A report states that Malaysia does not successfully deal with child sexual abuse cases due to weaknesses in the nation's criminal justice system, and the country's failure to increase public awareness of this crime by not releasing relevant data. (Reuters)
- A judge orders the release of Brendan Dassey, the subject of the Netflix series Making a Murderer. Wisconsin's Attorney General announces he intends to file an emergency appeal. (WTMJ-TV)
- Breach notification website LeakedSource.com reports information for over 412 million users of FriendFinder Networks Inc. adult websites, as well as records from Penthouse.com, were compromised last month in the largest hack of the year. This attack potentially exposes 10 times the number in 2015's hack of infidelity website Ashley Madison. (Reuters) (The Washington Post) (LeakedSource.com)
Politics and elections
- Aftermath of the Bulgarian presidential election, 2016
- Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov resigns as a result of Socialist-backed Rumen Radev winning the presidential election. (Reuters)
- Augustin Matata Ponyo resigns as Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Africa News)
- Moldovan presidential election, 2016
- Igor Dodon, of the Socialists’ Party, wins Sunday's Moldovan presidential election run-off with 52.2 percent of the vote, besting former Education Minister Maia Sandu of the Action and Security Party. Sandu has not yet accepted these preliminary results because of voting irregularities which she will present to the Central Election Commission for review. (AP via The Washington Post) (Euronews)
- Presidential transition of Donald Trump
- President-elect Donald Trump is seeking top secret security clearances for his children, according to CBS News. (Reuters) (CBS News)
Science and technology