Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that Russian missile strikes have left at least 10 million Ukrainians without electricity as the death toll from yesterday's missile strikes increases to seven with many more people injured.
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November 18, 2022 (Friday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
North Korea fires a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile that lands 200 kilometres off the coast of Japan, within Japan's exclusive economic zone.
Protesters set fire to the house of the Islamic Republic of Iran's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Khomein, Markazi Province.
Business and economy
It is announced that inflation in Japan increased by 3.6% in October, which is the highest level of inflation recorded in the country since 1982.
Disasters and accidents
Twenty people are killed and 13 others are injured when a van falls off the Indus Highway in Sindh, Pakistan, into a flooded ditch.
A LATAM Airlines A320neo jet collides with a fire truck at Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima, Peru, killing two firefighters and injuring 25 other people.
Health and environment
Beijing starts to provide Convidecia Air, the world's first inhalable COVID booster vaccine, manufactured by CanSino Biologics.
Law and crime
United States Attorney General Merrick Garland appoints special counsel Jack Smith to investigate Donald Trump's actions regarding the January 6 United States Capitol attack and taking classified documents to Mar-a-Lago.
Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced by a court in the U.S. state of California to more than 11 years in prison on four counts of fraud, and for misleading investors on the reliability of her company's technology. Her sentence will begin on April 27, 2023.
Science and technology
The General Conference on Weights and Measures votes to stop synchronizing UTC to the standard mean solar time measurement UT1 by 2035.
Sports
F1 launches a female racing category, which is expected to begin next year.
The United States loses its top rank at the FIBA Men's World Ranking for the first time since 2010 after being surpassed by Spain in the latest update.
Qatar bans alcohol from World Cup host stadiums two days before the world football championship starts.
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