Thursday, November 28
James Crumbley, the father of the Michigan school shooter, wants jurors from a different county due to widespread publicity. His wife was recently convicted. Ethan Crumbley, the 15-year-old shooter, killed four students. The trial is scheduled for March 5, and the judge will consider defense objections and a gag order on prosecutors.
Over 1,000 people lined up at the Thai embassy in Yangon seeking to leave Myanmar after the junta announced the enforcement of military service. The junta faces widespread armed opposition due to its 2021 coup and recent losses to armed minority groups. The junta is also arming pro-military militias. The junta faces widespread armed opposition to its rule three years after seizing power from an elected civilian government.
US President Joe Biden on Thursday again told Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he should not proceed with military action in Rafah without a credible and executable plan to protect Palestinian civilians, the White House said. The call between the two leaders on Thursday was the second time in less than a week that Biden warned Netanyahu.
A former general with ties to the brutal regime of former dictator Suharto, Indonesia's likely new president has tried to soften his image and promised to continue the populist policies of President Joko Widodo. Prabowo Subianto, a former-general-turned-defense minister, is set to become Indonesia's next president after taking a huge lead in unofficial results and declaring victory in Wednesday's general election.
Britain's opposition Labour Party delivered a crushing blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives by securing victories in contests for two new lawmakers on Friday, indicating that the opposition party may have a good chance of winning the upcoming national election expected later this year. This double defeat highlights the declining fortunes of the ruling party.
Two Palestinian-American teenagers, Mohammad Khdour and Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, were killed in separate incidents in the West Bank. The families of the victims expressed a lack of confidence in the Israeli justice system, prompting American probes into the shootings. The shootings occurred amid a surge in violence across the occupied territory, with calls for thorough investigations and accountability.
