Business and economy

• Gold prices reach a new peak of US$2,135.39 per ounce, surpassing the previous record in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. (AFP via The Economic Times)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2023 Israel–Hamas war
  • 2023 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • At least 700 Palestinians have been killed during the last 24 hours by Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip. Rights groups object to Israel's increased attacks in southern Gaza, which Israel had declared as a "safe zone". (Al Jazeera)
  • Houthi involvement in the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
    • 2023 attack on the USS Carney
      • The USS Carney and multiple civilian-owned commercial ships are attacked by Houthis in the Red Sea. (The Washington Post)
• Kivu conflict
  • The East African Community's task force begins withdrawing from North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, after the country refused to renew the force's mandate. (AFP via France 24)
• Moro conflict, Terrorism in the Philippines
  • 2023 Marawi bombing
    • Four people are killed and around 50 others are injured in a bombing during a Catholic Mass at Mindanao State University in Marawi, Bangsamoro, Philippines. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the bombing. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Alaska Airlines announces their intent to acquire Hawaiian Airlines in a deal worth $1.9 billion. The new company will maintain separate operations for both brands. (Honolulu Star-Advertiser)

Disasters and incidents

• 2023 Africa floods
  • At least 47 people are killed and 85 others are injured in landslides caused by flooding in Katesh, Manyara, Tanzania. (AFP via Arab News)
• At least 11 hikers are killed and 12 others are missing following Mount Marapi's eruption in West Sumatra, Indonesia. (AFP via CNA)

Health and environment

• 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference
  • COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber dismisses proposals for a fossil fuel phase-out, with some attendees accusing Al Jaber of climate change denial. (The Guardian)

Law and crime

• 2023 Queens stabbing
  • A man kills four of his family members and injures another in a mass stabbing in Queens, New York, United States. The man also injures two responding police officers before he is shot dead by police. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Guayana Esequiba crisis
  • 2023 Venezuelan referendum
    • Venezuelans vote in a referendum on the territorial claim to Guayana Esequiba, which is disputed with Guyana. (BBC News)
• Human rights in Ukraine
  • In an interview with Der Spiegel, Mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko says that Ukraine is heading toward authoritarianism and that the President's Office views mayors as an impediment to power consolidation. (Kyiv Independent)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2023 Israel–Hamas war
  • 2023 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • More than 190 Palestinians are killed and hundreds more are wounded by Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, including Khan Younis in the south. (Al Jazeera)
    • The United Nations say the fighting will worsen the extreme humanitarian emergency in Gaza. UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said that the people of Gaza had nowhere safe to go and very little to survive on. (Al Jazeera)
  • The United States provides BLU-109 bunker buster bombs and other munitions to Israel. Similar bombs made by the US have been used by Israel in the Jabalia refugee camp airstrikes, including a strike that levelled an apartment block, killing more than 100 people. (Al Jazeera)
• Islamic terrorism in Europe, Terrorism in France
  • 2023 Paris attack
    • One person is killed and two others are injured in a knife and hammer attack near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. The suspect is arrested by police. (Reuters)
• Moro conflict
  • Abu Sayyaf Group leader and bomb maker Mundi Sawadjaan, suspect in the 2020 suicide bombings in Sulu, is killed by security forces during a military operation in Basilan, Philippines. (The Star)
• Spillover of the Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Chilas bus shooting
    • Eight people are killed and 26 others injured in a mass shooting against a bus on the Karakoram Highway near the town of Chilas, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• The cooling tower of the decommissioned Voerde power station in NRW, Germany is blown up. (NRZ) (RWE) (WDR)

Disasters and accidents

• December 2023 Mindanao earthquake
  • A person is killed when a 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Mindanao, Philippines. Tsunami warnings are issued for the Philippines and Japan, but are later lifted. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Al-Qadir Trust case
  • The Pakistan Movement for Justice party appoints Gohar Ali Khan as its new chairman, replacing party founder and former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who remains detained on various charges. (AFP via The Daily Star)
• Human rights in Ukraine
  • Ukraine's security service stops former president Petro Poroshenko from leaving the country. Poroshenko's political party, European Solidarity, said he had scheduled meetings in Poland and the United States. (Reuters via France 24)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2023 Israel–Hamas war
  • 2023 Israel–Hamas ceasefire
    • The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas ends after a deadline expires on the seventh day. Mediator Qatar says that efforts are ongoing to renew the ceasefire and expressed regret over the resumption of Israeli bombardments. (AP)
    • More than 180 Palestinians are killed and hundreds more are injured by Israeli airstrikes on different parts of the Gaza Strip, including the community of Abasan al-Kabira and a home northwest of Gaza City. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
    • Aid is stranded near Egypt’s border with Gaza, with truck drivers saying they expected further delays to a complex delivery process that had briefly speeded up during the weeklong truce. (Al Jazeera)
  • 2023 Israel–Lebanon border conflict
    • Israeli shelling kills a woman and her son in Hula in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
  • Hundreds of Malawians travel to Israel to work as farm labourers. Kondwani Nankhumwa, leader of the Democratic Progressive Party has questioned the secrecy of the deal amidst the governments awareness of the ongoing war. (Al Jazeera)
• Iraqi conflict
  • Kurdish–Turkish conflict
    • The Turkish Air Force launches airstrikes on Kurdistan Workers' Party positions in northern Iraq, reportedly destroying 16 of their targets and killing a number of militants. (Reuters)
  • At least eleven civilians are killed in an attack by an armed group in Miqdadiyah, Diyala Governorate, Iraq. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. (AP)
• Moro conflict
  • Eleven Dawla Islamiyah and Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters militants are killed during a raid by the Philippine Army in Datu Hoffer Ampatuan, Maguindanao del Sur. (AP)
• Myanmar civil war
  • Allied Karenni rebel groups and local PDF forces launch attacks on junta bases in Kawkareik, Karen State. (The Irrawaddy)
• Somali Civil War
  • The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) lifts an arms embargo on the Somali Armed Forces and the Somali government, while continuing sanctions against the Al-Shabaab jihadist group. (AFP via The Defense Post)
• War in Sudan
  • The UNSC adopts a resolution to end the mandate of its United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) by December 3. (Radio Dabanga)

Arts and culture

• For his role in the film Passages, Franz Rogowski is honored by the New York Film Critics Circle as best leading actor of the year. (Der Spiegel) (Variety)

Business and economy

• Sri Lankan economic crisis
  • Sri Lanka's efforts to restructure its debt run into difficulty when an ad hoc group of private creditors object that the official creditors and Sri Lanka itself are being insufficiently transparent about their talks. (Reuters)

International relations

• 2023 Guayana Esequiba crisis
  • The International Court of Justice (ICJ) orders Venezuela to refrain from any action that would alter the status quo in Guayana Esequiba ahead of a referendum on its rights to the disputed territory, but does not forbid Venezuela from going ahead with the referendum as Guyana requested. (Reuters)
• Child abductions in the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • The International Committee of the Red Cross suspends the Belarus Red Cross after its Secretary General Dzmitry Shautsou refuses to resign following statements that the organization was involved in bringing Ukrainian children to Belarus for health improvement purposes. (AP) (Nasha Niva)
• Territorial disputes in the South China Sea
  • The Philippine Coast Guard establishes a surveillance station on the disputed Thitu Island in the South China Sea. (AP)

Law and crime

• A serial killer is suspected of having fatally shot three homeless men over the past week in Los Angeles, California, United States. (ABC News)

Politics and elections

• 118th United States Congress
  • George Santos is expelled from the United States House of Representatives over criminal corruption charges and accusations of misspending campaign money. (Reuters)
• 2023 Malagasy presidential election
  • Madagascar's supreme court confirms Andry Rajoelina's election as president after dismissing several challenges against the provisional results. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• South Korea launches its first military reconnaissance satellite from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, United States, carried by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. (AFP via SCMP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2023 Israel–Hamas war
  • 2023 Givat Shaul shooting
    • Three Israeli civilians are killed and sixteen are injured in a mass shooting in the Givat Shaul neighborhood of Jerusalem. Two Palestinian gunmen are shot and killed by security forces. An armed civilian who shot down the Palestinian attackers, Yuval Doron Castleman, is mistaken for an attacker and is also shot, later dying in a hospital. Hamas reportedly claims responsibility for the attack. (The Times of Israel) (Haaretz)
  • 2023 Israel–Hamas ceasefire
    • A deal is reached to extend the ceasefire for at least one more day, after the ceasefire had been due to expire. (The Times of Israel)
  • Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has expressed doubts that Israel is abiding by international law in the war, due to the high number of civilian casualties and video footage of growing numbers of children dying. (Al Jazeera)
  • United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken steps up calls for Israel to comply with international law and protect civilians during its military operations in southern Gaza, while reaffirming US support. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Ukraine says its special forces bombed a freight train as it was passing through the Severomuysky Tunnel in Buryatia, Russia. Russia's Investigative Committee acknowledges an explosion and fire inside the tunnel, and says that a preliminary probe is underway to determine the cause. (Reuters)
• Gunfire breaks out between the National Guard of Guinea-Bissau and the Presidential Guard after the National Guard frees two ministers from the opposition PAIGC from police custody. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• Russian grain exports
  • Somalia receives 25,000 tons of grain as humanitarian aid from Russia. The humanitarian assistance is part of an agreement announced at the 2023 Russia–Africa Summit to provide food assistance to African nations. (Anadolu)
• The insolvency of the Austrian Signa Holding leads to the insolvency of the German sporting goods retailer SportScheck. (rbb24)

Disasters and incidents

• At least 13 people are killed in a fire at a hostel in Almaty, Kazakhstan, with preliminary reports indicating carbon monoxide poisoning as the cause of death. (AFP via France 24)

Health and environment

• 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference
  • The United Nations Climate Change conference opens in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with an agreement to provide funding to underdeveloped countries that are most at risk from the effects of climate change. (The Guardian)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Argentina
  • Incoming Foreign Minister Diana Mondino announces that Argentina will not join the BRICS group of nations, as it already has members of the BRICS bloc as the country's primary trading partners. (MyInd Markets)

Law and crime

• LGBT rights in Russia
  • The Supreme Court of Russia bans the LGBT movement, labelling participants as extremists. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2023–24 Bhutanese National Assembly election
  • Citizens of Bhutan vote in the preliminary round of elections to elect members of the National Assembly. (Reuters)
• Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele is granted a leave of absence prior to the 2024 general election and is succeeded by his private secretary Claudia Rodríguez de Guevara as acting president. (La Prensa Gráfica)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2023 Guayana Esequiba crisis, Brazil–Venezuela relations
  • The Brazilian Army mobilizes towards the border of Venezuela and Guyana, anticipating a possible Venezuelan military invasion of Guayana Esequiba. (Escenario Mundial)
• 2023 Israel–Hamas war
  • 2023 Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis
    • 2023 Israel–Hamas ceasefire
      • Hamas releases four Thai migrant workers and 12 Israeli hostages while Israel releases 30 Palestinian prisoners. In a separate gesture to Russian President Vladimir Putin, two dual citizens of Israel and Russia are also freed by Hamas. (The Times of Israel)
  • October-November 2023 Jenin incursion
    • Israel Defense Forces, Shin Bet, and Israel Border Police announce in a joint statement that they killed Muhammad Zubeidi, the commander of the Jenin branch of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. (The Jerusalem Post)
    • Two children, aged 14 and 8, are shot dead by IDF troops in Jenin during the raid. The shootings are caught by security cameras. (BBC)
• Myanmar civil war
  • Operation 1027
    • The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army captures the town of Konkyan in Shan State, Myanmar, after the military's Light Infantry Battalion 125 surrendered to it. (The Irrawaddy)

Arts and culture

• The 15th-century painting Madonna delle Grazie by Sandro Botticelli, with an estimated value of €100 million, which was believed to be missing, is recovered from a residence near Naples, Italy. (The Guardian)

Business and economy

• Austria's largest privately owned real estate company Signa Holding files for insolvency. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Yakushima V-22 Osprey crash
  • A United States Air Force V-22 Osprey crashes off the coast of Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture with six crew members onboard. A search and rescue operation has been launched, according to the Japan Coast Guard. (CNN)

International relations

• Finland–Poland relations, Finland–Russia relations
  • National Security Bureau chief Jacek Siewiera announces that Poland will send "a team of military advisors" to the Finland–Russia border in response to an official request for allied support. Finland says it was unaware of the Polish offer. Russia warns against the move, viewing the concentration of troops on the border as a threat. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Recognition of same-sex unions in Nepal
  • A village authority in Gandaki Province, Nepal, registers the nation's first same-sex marriage. (Reuters)
• German authorities launch major raids and arrests against the right-wing Wehrsportgruppe Knockout 51 and the Reichsbürger group "Königreich Deutschland". (Taz) (Zeit)
• French Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti is acquitted of a charge of conflict of interest by the Cour de Justice de la République. (France 24)

Science and technology

• Right Livelihood Award
  • Eunice Brookman-Amissah, Mother Nature Cambodia, Phyllis Omido and SOS Méditerranée are honored with the Right Livelihood Award in Stockholm, Sweden. (Tagesschau)
• Solar Cycle 25
  • NASA says that a coronal mass ejection directed at Earth will result in a geomagnetic storm causing disruption to radio and GPS communications on November 30, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere. (The Times of India)

Sports

• Winter Olympic Games
  • The International Olympic Committee announces that a French Alps/Nice bid is the preferred candidate to host the 2030 Winter Olympics and that Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, is the preferred candidate to host the 2034 Winter Olympics. (CBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2023 Israel–Hamas war
  • 2023 Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis
    • 2023 Israel–Hamas ceasefire
      • Hamas releases two Thai migrant workers, 10 Israeli hostages and a pet dog, while Israel releases 30 Palestinian prisoners. (The Times of Israel) (AP via ABC News)
  • Israeli incursions in the West Bank
    • Two Palestinians are killed during clashes with Israeli Defense Forces in the West Bank. (The Times of Israel)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Battle of Avdiivka
      • Russian forces advance on "all sides" of Avdiivka in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine as they move to encircle the city. Heavy fighting is reported for control of the Avdiivka Coke Plant. (Reuters) (The Independent)
• New People's Army rebellion
  • The Philippine government and communist rebels, represented by the National Democratic Front, agree to resume peace talks after six years. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Uttarakhand tunnel rescue
  • Rescuers in Uttarakhand, India, successfully drill through to 41 men trapped for over two weeks following a tunnel collapse. (CNN)
• A rock burst at a coal mine in Shuangyashan, Heilongjiang, China, kills eleven miners. (AP via ABC News)
• Four miners are killed and another is injured after a water pipeline ruptured inside a coal mine in Jaworzno, Poland. (AP)
• Three people are killed in an explosion at a business in Hillsboro, Ohio, United States. (WHIO)

International relations

• Expo 2030
  • Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh is chosen to host the 2030 World Expo, over South Korean port city Busan and Rome for the event expected to draw millions of visitors. (GDN Online)
• Finland–Russia relations
  • Finland closes the entire border with Russia after accusing the Russian government of facilitating the entry of asylum seekers into the country. (The Guardian)
• Russia–United States relations
  • A Russian district court extends American journalist Evan Gershkovich's detention on espionage charges until January 30, 2024. (AFP via France 24)

Law and crime

• Hijab and burka controversies in Europe
  • The Court of Justice of the European Union rules that employees can be banned from wearing "signs of religious belief", such as Islamic hijabs, in all European Union member states. (The Independent via Yahoo! News)
• Regulation of electronic cigarettes
  • The Australian government announces a ban on the import of disposable electronic cigarettes, effective January 1, 2024, in an effort to reduce nicotine addiction in children and young adults. (BBC News)