Portal:Current events/2022 November 21

November 21, 2022 (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Kurdish–Turkish conflict
- Spillover of the Syrian civil war
  - A rocket attack on the Turkish border town of Karkamış, kills three people, including a child. Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu blames Kurdish militants in Syria and vows a "strong response". Kurdish groups have denied being behind the attack. (DW)
  - A Turkish soldier is killed and seven police officers are injured after the Bab al-Hawa Border Crossing is shelled by suspected Kurdish militants. (ABC News)
  - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatens to launch a ground operation in northern Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan in response to the rocket attacks on Turkish territory. (France 24)
Afghanistan conflict
- Two people are killed in a bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Reuters)
Three people are killed and 22 others are injured after an ambush on a major highway in Central Equatoria, South Sudan. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

2022 West Java earthquake
- A 5.6-magnitude earthquake kills at least 310 people and injures over 2,000 others in West Java, Indonesia. (RTÉ)
2022 Anyang factory fire
- At least 38 people are killed and two others are injured by a fire at a factory in Anyang, Henan, China. Local officials report evidence of electric resistance welding violating workplace safety standards as the likely cause of the fire. (AFP via NDTV)
A Piper PA-31 crashes into a residential area in the Belén Rosales, Medellín, Colombia, killing the eight people on board. (El Tiempo)
One person is killed and 16 others are injured when a vehicle crashes into an Apple Store in Hingham, Massachusetts, United States. (BBC News)
Twelve people are injured in an explosion at a school in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. (OneNews)

International relations

Law and crime

A court in Tel Aviv rules that former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert committed defamation against the family of prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu by claiming that members of Netanyahu's family are mentally ill and orders Olmert to pay $18,000. (BBC News)

Science and technology

Artemis program
- Artemis 1
  - NASA's Orion spacecraft performs a flyby of the Moon, coming within 130 kilometres (81 mi) of the lunar surface before entering into a lunar orbit. (BBC News)

Sports