Portal:Current events/2021 November 3

November 3, 2021 (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

2021 Algeria–Morocco crisis
- Algeria accuse Moroccan forces of being behind the bombing of a truck at the border area between Mauritania and the disputed territory of Western Sahara, resulting in the death of three Algerian citizens. The attack was carried out two days ago. (Al Jazeera)
Tigray War
- A United Nations report accuses all sides of committing war crimes on civilians, including torture, killings, gang rapes and arrests based on ethnicity. The head of the Human Rights office, Michelle Bachelet, especially accused the forces of Ethiopia and Eritrea for most of the human rights violations. (The Guardian)
2019–2021 Persian Gulf crisis
- Iranian state media reports that the United States Navy attempted to capture an Iranian oil tanker; it was boarded, commandeered and then returned by Iranian NEDSA marines in a heliborne operation. U.S. officials refute the report, saying that the Iranians had captured a Vietnamese flagged tanker and that U.S. forces were monitoring the situation. (Reuters)
2021 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks
- Around 40 fighters storm the city of Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, singing songs calling for the liberation of the country and opening fire against security forces, killing two soldiers and a police officer. Six attackers are killed and 36 others arrested. (Thomson Reuters Foundation)

Disasters and accidents

2021 Lagos high-rise collapse
- The death toll from the collapse of a high-rise building under construction in Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria, rises to 22, as the search-and-rescue operations enter their third day. (Al Jazeera)
A passenger bus plunges down a ravine in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan, killing at least 22 people. (DAWN)
A Belarusian-owned Antonov An-12 cargo plane crash-lands in Siberia, killing all the nine people on board. (Reuters)
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake strikes Mendoza Province, Argentina. No casualties are reported but minimal damage to buildings is. The earthquake hit at 00:17 (Argentina Time), near the border with Chile. (Hola News)

Health and environment

International relations

Foreign relations of Antigua and Barbuda, Foreign relations of Tuvalu
- A lawyer representing the governments of Antigua and Barbuda and the government of Tuvalu says that a new commission is being formed to sue big polluters and claim damage reparations for climate change effects on those nations before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. (CBS News)

Politics and elections

Next Portuguese legislative election
- Portuguese president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa dissolves the Assembly of the Republic after Prime Minister António Costa's Budget project for 2022 was rejected by lawmakers last week. The date of the snap elections has not yet been disclosed. (Reuters)
Corruption in the United Kingdom
- The House of Commons votes to approve a government-sanctioned amendment to replace the Commons Select Committee on Standards. The vote means that Tory MP Owen Paterson avoids a 30-day suspension from parliament over a "egregious breach" of lobbying rules. The vote was widely condemned by opposition parties. (Sky News)

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