Portal:Current events/2016 November 22
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November 22, 2016 (Tuesday)
Business and economics
- The board of TransAsia Airways decides to dissolve the company after halting flights on Tuesday. (Bloomberg) (The Wall Street Journal) (The New York Times)
Disasters and accidents
- 2016 Fukushima earthquake
- A 6.9 magnitude earthquake off Japan's Fukushima Prefecture injures 15 people, and triggers a 1 meter tsunami that causes a temporary power disruption at Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant. (weather.com) (BBC) (News Corp via the West Australian)
- A 56-vehicle pile-up on the G5 Beijing–Kunming Expressway in China's northern Shanxi province, leaves at least 17 people dead and 37 others injured. (BBC)
- 2016 Atlantic hurricane season
- Hurricane Otto impacts Panama. A tropical storm watch is issued for Nicaragua from Bluefields to Sandy Bay Sirpi. (NOAA)
- European migrant crisis
- Rescuers recovered 8 bodies and saved 1400 migrants adrift on the Mediterranean Sea today. (IANS via the Indian Express)
- A German court acquits seven Islamists who formed a "Sharia police force" in the city of Wuppertal in 2014 after determining that they were not violating a law against "intimidating or militant uniforms". (RT) (Deutsche Welle)
Law and crime
- Former Egyptian Interior Minister Habib el-Adly is placed under house arrest on embezzlement charges. (Daily News Egypt)
Politics and elections
- Presidency of Donald Trump
- Trump's aide Kellyanne Conway announces that the president-elect will not seek new charges against Hillary Clinton for possible crimes related to her email server. (New York Times)
Sports
- In ice hockey, the identity of the Las Vegas team that will become the NHL's 31st franchise in the 2017–18 season is unveiled as the Vegas Golden Knights. (ESPN)