Portal:Current events/2016 November 14

November 14, 2016 (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Terrorism in Indonesia
- A child is killed and three other children are wounded in an attack in Samarinda. (ABC)
2016 India–Pakistan military confrontation
- Pakistan Army's Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) reports seven Pakistani soldiers have been killed by Indian cross-border shelling in Bhimber District, Azad Kashmir. (Reuters)
Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017)
- A suicide bomber kills six people near Karbala. (Reuters) (RFERL)
- At least eight people are killed and 20 others are injured in car bomb attacks in Fallujah. (Reuters)
At least nine Shia pilgrims have been killed and several injured after police opened fire on a religious procession by the Islamic Movement in Nigeria in the city of Kano, Nigeria. (BBC News) (Al-Jazeera)

Business and economics

Samsung Electronics agrees to buy the U.S.-based Harman International Industries for $8 billion in the biggest overseas acquisition ever by a South Korean company. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

2016 Kaikoura earthquake
- A 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes north of Christchurch, New Zealand, in the early hours Monday, triggering tsunami warnings and causing widespread damage. At least two people are reported killed. (Metro) (Reuters)
A Russian MiG-29 crashes in the Mediterranean Sea off the Syrian coast. The pilot ejected safely from the plane and is unhurt. (BBC)

Law and crime

A report states that Malaysia does not successfully deal with child sexual abuse cases due to weaknesses in the nation's criminal justice system, and the country's failure to increase public awareness of this crime by not releasing relevant data. (Reuters)
A judge orders the release of Brendan Dassey, the subject of the Netflix series Making a Murderer. Wisconsin's Attorney General announces he intends to file an emergency appeal. (WTMJ-TV)
Breach notification website LeakedSource.com reports information for over 412 million users of FriendFinder Networks Inc. adult websites, as well as records from Penthouse.com, were compromised last month in the largest hack of the year. This attack potentially exposes 10 times the number in 2015's hack of infidelity website Ashley Madison. (Reuters) (The Washington Post) (LeakedSource.com)

Politics and elections

Science and technology

Spanish archaeologists in Luxor announce the discovery of an approximately 3000 year old mummy in "near perfect" condition. (MSN)

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