Portal:Current events/2022 November 26
November 26, 2022 (Chisulo)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Ischia landslide
- Ten people are killed, five others are injured, and two are missing after a landslide hits Ischia, Naples, Italy. (Il Messaggero)
Law and crime
- Mass shootings in the United States
- One person is killed and five others are injured during a mass shooting in Atlantic Station in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. (ABC News)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Taiwanese local elections
- Residents of Taiwan head to the polls to elect mayors, city council members and other local leaders in nine cities and 13 counties. (BBC News)
- The Kuomintang Party, who has consistently advocated economic engagement and unification with mainland China, wins 13 of the 21 seats contested in the elections. (CNN)
- Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen resigns as leader of the Democratic Progressive Party after the party suffers a major defeat in the elections. (AP)
- 2022 Taiwanese constitutional referendum
- Residents of Taiwan head to the polls for a constitutional referendum on the issues of lowering the voting age from 20 to 18 and lowering the age of candidacy from 23 to 18. (BBC News)
- The propositions on lowering voting and candidacy ages to 18 fail to pass as they do not receive the required approval of half of the eligible voters. (Focus Taiwan)
- 2022 Equatorial Guinean general election
- President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the world's longest-serving president, is re-elected to a seven-year term. (AFP via Barron's)
- 2017–present Peruvian political crisis
- Betssy Chávez is sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Peru after Aníbal Torres' resignation. (MSN)
Sports
- 2022 FIFA World Cup controversies
- FIFA announces that they will discipline the Serbian national football team for hanging a banner in their locker room that showed the territory of Kosovo as part of Serbia. Kosovar authorities condemned the incident. (ABC News)