Portal:Current events/2022 November 30

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)
• 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)
• 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)

Technological development

• OpenAI officially released the freely available generative AI chatbot ChatGPT, the stable release became available on 8th of August 2024

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)