Portal:Current events/2022 November 17

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 missile explosion in Poland
      • Germany offers to deploy its Air Force jets to protect Polish airspace in response to Tuesday's missile explosion in Przewodów, Lublin Voivodeship, that killed two people. (A News)
    • October–November 2022 nationwide missile strikes on Ukraine
      • Russia carries out another wave of cruise missile strikes on Ukraine, with strikes reported in Dnipro, Odesa, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia, where two people were confirmed to have been killed overnight by a missile. In Dnipro and Odesa, critical infrastructure is also targeted. (The Guardian)

Arts and culture

• 23rd Annual Latin Grammy Awards
  • The 23rd Annual Latin Grammy Awards are held at the Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Uruguayan singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler was the most awarded artist with six wins. (Billboard)

Business and economy

• 2021–2022 inflation surge
  • November 2022 United Kingdom autumn statement
    • Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt delivers the delayed autumn statement to parliament, announcing measures to stabilize the economy amid a cost of living crisis, including raising the National Living Wage from £9.50 an hour to £10.42 beginning next year, increasing pensions and welfare payments in line with rising inflation, introducing a higher rate windfall tax on the profits of energy firms, introducing a new "temporary tax" on companies that generate electricity, and capping rent increases in the social sector to 7% until 2024. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Jabalia fire
  • At least 21 people are killed in a fire at a residential building in Jabalia, Gaza Strip. (Times of Israel)
• Fifteen people are killed and 16 more injured by an explosion caused by a gas leak at a residential building in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• France–Mali relations, Mali War
  • The French foreign ministry announces the temporary suspension of development aid to Mali, citing the controversial relationship between the Assimi Goïta-led military junta and Russia's Wagner Group in the war. (AFP via RFI)

Law and crime

• Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
  • A court in the Netherlands sentences two Russians, Igor Strelkov-Girkin and Sergey Dubinsky, and a Ukrainian pro-Russian separatist Leonid Kharchenko to life imprisonment for shooting down the Malaysia Airlines flight over Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine in 2014. The verdict was delivered in absentia of the defendants. (AP)
• 2021–2022 Myanmar civil war
  • The State Administration Council of Myanmar grants an amnesty to 5,774 prisoners, including former British ambassador Vicky Bowman and Australian economist Sean Turnell, a former economic policy advisor to jailed state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. (AFP via France 24)