Armed conflicts and attacks

Five Palestinians are killed in two Israeli attacks in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-fire-kills-four-gaza-casting-further-doubt-ceasefire-2025-11-20/

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israeli forces and tanks move 300 m (980 ft) beyond the Yellow Line in Gaza City, violating the ceasefire. (Al Jazeera)

• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/20/palestinians-squeezed-as-israel-moves-beyond-yellow-line-in-gaza-city

Arts and culture

Frida Kahlo's 1940 self-portrait El sueño (La cama) sells for US$54.66 million at Sotheby's in New York City, United States, setting a auction record for the most expensive painting by a woman, surpassing the previous high set by Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed. (AFP via France 24)

• https://www.france24.com/en/culture/20251121-frida-kahlo-self-portrait-auction-record-female-artists

Business and economy

American telecommunications company Verizon announces it will lay off over 13,000 employees, nearly 20% of its management workforce, in a restructuring. (AP)

• https://apnews.com/article/verizon-layoffs-economy-jobs-1aa299fc28b8e7211188f9b084d1048c

Disasters and accidents

Sixteen people are killed and 24 are injured when a tourist bus plunges off a bridge into a river in Santuk district, Kampong Thom province, Cambodia. (Xinhua)

• https://english.news.cn/asiapacific/20251120/272374be8c5d4480be9a9d0351e9e799/c.html

Disasters and accidents

The toll from the landslides in Cilacap Regency, Indonesia, seven days ago, increases to 18 people killed and 34 others missing. (AP)

• https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-landslides-central-java-rescue-operation-c08377f2102bcd125e84628cea3b5e12

Law and crime

Clashes erupt across Nepal between supporters of ousted prime minister K. P. Sharma Oli and supporters of interim prime minister Sushila Karki. A curfew is imposed in various districts. (NDTV)

• https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/gatherings-banned-in-nepal-as-fresh-gen-z-protests-erupt-9669255

Law and crime

A Philippine regional trial court sentences former de facto Bamban mayor Alice Guo to life imprisonment after finding her guilty of human trafficking for a scam center in her town. (Bloomberg) (BBC News)

• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-20/philippine-court-convicts-ex-mayor-for-human-trafficking-on-role-in-scam-center
• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2l20jzp30o

Law and crime

A Nigerian court sentences Biafran separatist Nnamdi Kanu to life imprisonment on seven terrorism charges over his leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra militant group. (AP)

• https://apnews.com/article/nigeria-nnamdi-kanu-9708d396efd89ac07b90b77d02fd96ff

Law and crime

Spain's Supreme Court sentences Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz to two years of disqualification and a fine for revealing secrets about a tax fraud case involving Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso's partner. (RTVE)

• https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20251120/supremo-condena-fiscal-general-revelacion-datos-inhabilitacion-dos-anos-multa/16824031.shtml

Politics and elections

Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva appoints Attorney General Jorge Messias to the Supreme Federal Court to fill the seat that retired justice Luís Roberto Barroso vacated, pending Senate confirmation. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/lula-taps-brazils-solicitor-general-supreme-court-seat-2025-11-20/