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Portal:Current events/2019 November 18

November 18, 2019 (2019-11-18) (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
  • 2019 Hong Kong protests
    • Police seal off and trap hundreds of students and protesters inside Hong Kong Polytechnic University amid fears of a crackdown. After a police officer is injured, security forces threaten to fire live bullets if protesters do not give up lethal weapons. (Reuters)
    • Protesters manage to escape from the university by shimmying down plastic hosing from a bridge and fleeing on waiting motorbikes as the police fire projectiles. (Reuters)
  • Second Libyan Civil War
    • An airstrike on a biscuit shop kills five Bangladeshi nationals and two Libyans and wounds 33 others in Tripoli, Libya. A U.N. envoy to Libya claims that it could be a war crime. (The Seattle Times)
  • Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)
  • 2019 Iranian fuel protests
  • Northern Mali conflict
    • Militants kill 24 soldiers and wound 29 others on an army patrol in northern Mali. Seventeen militants were also killed in the melee. 6 injured soldiers later die increasing the death toll to 42. (Reuters) (The New York Times)
Business and economy
  • Japan opens its first military arms show, as it tries to improve its military technology to combat external threats from China and North Korea. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
International relations
Law and crime
Politics and elections
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