Tuesday

November 22, 2016

Business and economics

The board of TransAsia Airways decides to dissolve the company after halting flights on Tuesday. (Bloomberg) (The Wall Street Journal) (The New York Times)

Disasters and accidents

A 56-vehicle pile-up on the G5 Beijing–Kunming Expressway in China's northern Shanxi province, leaves at least 17 people dead and 37 others injured. (BBC)

2016 Fukushima earthquake

A 6.9 magnitude earthquake off Japan's Fukushima Prefecture injures 15 people, and triggers a 1 meter tsunami that causes a temporary power disruption at Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant. (weather.com) (BBC) (News Corp via the West Australian)

2016 Atlantic hurricane season

Hurricane Otto impacts Panama. A tropical storm watch is issued for Nicaragua from Bluefields to Sandy Bay Sirpi. (NOAA)

European migrant crisis

Rescuers recovered 8 bodies and saved 1400 migrants adrift on the Mediterranean Sea today. (IANS via the Indian Express)

A German court acquits seven Islamists who formed a "Sharia police force" in the city of Wuppertal in 2014 after determining that they were not violating a law against "intimidating or militant uniforms". (RT) (Deutsche Welle)