Thursday, November 28
Defeated candidates in the Indonesian election demand an inquiry into irregularities, including voter intimidation and manipulation of state institutions. Outgoing President Joko Widodo faces criticism for alleged attempts to influence the outcome.
South Korean trainee doctors are protesting a government medical policy to increase medical students. Over half of the 13,000 trainee doctors have submitted resignations opposing the plan. The walkouts could cause disruptions in South Korea's overall medical service.
Israel ordered evacuations from parts of Gaza City as a U.N. study found one in six children are acutely malnourished in the devastated north of the territory. The situation in Gaza is poised for an explosion in preventable child deaths due to a food crisis and the obstruction of aid groups.
Pakistan's upper house of the national assembly rejected a Bill seeking public execution of sex offenders and rapists. Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan highlighted the high number of rape cases in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. While some senators supported public hanging, others opposed it, emphasizing the need for improving policing and the justice system.
Arriving ahead of the two-day case, Assange's wife Stella thanked a crowd of protesters, saying: "Please keep on showing up, be there for Julian and for us, until Julian is free." The crowd outside London HC chanted "Free Julian Assange". Washington wants Assange extradited after he was charged there multiple times between 2018 and 2020 over WikiLeaks' 2010 publication of files relating to the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Jailed Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin vowed on Tuesday to continue fighting for democracy in Russia after learning his friend and colleague, Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, had died in prison. He said he learned the news of Navalny's death in his prison near Smolensk in western Russia and -- like much of the opposition -- laid blame on the Kremlin.
A vote in Hungary's parliament on Sweden's application to join Nato might take place as early as Monday, according to a senior member of the country's ruling Fidesz party. It would end the nationalist government's more than 18-month delays, which has irritated Hungary's friends. Hungary is the only one of Nato's 31 existing members not to have ratified Sweden's bid.
The Ukrainian military's exit from Avdiivka marked a significant Russian triumph, marked by the order: "Leave the 300 (wounded)," and "burn everything". According to a CNN report, Russian forces quickly overtook Avdiivka, and distressing reports surfaced about injured soldiers left behind, later found deceased. Ukrainian forces from the 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade faced brutal attacks, particularly at the Zenit position.
