Portal:Current events/2021 November 14

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in the Maghreb
  • Gunmen open fire at a military post near a gold mine in Inata, Soum Province, Burkina Faso, killing 19 gendarmes and a civilian. (Al Jazeera)
• Liverpool Women's Hospital bombing
  • A passenger is killed and his driver injured when a taxi explodes in front of the Liverpool Women's Hospital in Liverpool, England. Three men are subsequently arrested under the Terrorism Act. (BBC News)
• Syrian civil war
  • A bomb explodes near a vehicle carrying troops in Deir ez-Zor, Syria, killing four soldiers and a general. (The New Arab)
• Somali Civil War; Capital punishment in Somalia
  • Two Ugandan soldiers are sentenced to death and three more receive 39-year prison sentences in Somalia for killing seven civilians during a gun battle in Golweyn, Lower Shabelle, three months ago. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Astroworld Festival crowd crush
  • A 9-year-old boy, injured during a crowd crush at the Astroworld Music Festival, who had been in a medically-induced coma, dies, bringing the death toll to 10. (CNN)
• European migrant crisis
  • Eight sub-Saharan African migrants are found dead on a boat adrift off the southern coast of the Canary Islands, with 54 other men being rescued from the boat. (El País)
• A fire at a COVID-19 ward in Sliven, Bulgaria, kills three patients. (ABC News)
• A magnitude 6.5 earthquake strikes Hormozgan Province, Iran, at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) and is felt in many southern Iranian cities. A man killed by a falling pole is the sole death reported. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Austria
    • Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announces a nationwide lockdown for those over the age of 12 years who are unvaccinated against COVID-19, which prohibits them from leaving their homes except for essential reasons beginning at midnight, amid a record increase in new COVID-19 cases. (AP)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt, COVID-19 vaccination in Egypt
    • The Egyptian government announces the start of clinical trials for COVI-VAX, which is the country’s first domestically-made COVID-19 vaccine. (Ahram Online)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Israel, COVID-19 vaccination in Israel
    • The Israeli Health ministry approves the usage of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11, two weeks after the U.S. FDA grants its own approval, with vaccination expected to begin next week. (Haaretz)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Peru
    • Peru announces that people over the age of 18 years who want to enter indoor spaces must show a proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 beginning in December, either physical or virtual vaccination cards. (AFP via Barron's)

Politics and elections

• 2021 Bulgarian general election
  • Bulgarians go to the polls to elect the President and the National Assembly. (MSN)
• 2021 Argentine legislative election
  • Argentines go to the polls to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. (24/7 News Agency)