Wikipedia 1h Portal:Current events/2022 December 2 Armed conflicts and attacks Afghanistan conflictTwo men disguised in burqas attack a mosque in Kabul while former Afghan prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is inside. The attackers killed a civilian and injured two others before being shot dead by security guards. Hekmatyar was not injured in the attack. (ANInews) International relations The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom adds Cuba, Nicaragua, and the Russian paramilitary organization Wagner Group to its blacklist of countries and organizations violating international religious freedom, signalling possible sanctions by the U.S. government. (AFP via France 24) Law and crime Russia–Ukraine relationsUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signs a decree that bans religious organizations with links to Russia and imposes personal sanctions against their representatives. Zelenskyy also announces that the Ukrainian government will draft a law banning churches affiliated with Russia, which he says is necessary in order to counter Russian government efforts to "weaken Ukraine from within." (AP) (Reuters)It is announced that the Indonesian parliament will pass a new Criminal Code, which will replace the previous one which was inherited from the Dutch East Indies. (Reuters)
Wikipedia 6h Portal:Current events/2022 December 1 Armed conflicts and attacks Israeli–Palestinian conflictTwo Al-Quds Brigades leaders are killed and another person is injured by Israeli soldiers during a raid at a refugee camp in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. (Al Jazeera) 2022 Haitian crisisTwelve people are killed by armed gangs in the town of Cabaret, Haiti. (Al Jazeera) 2022 Spain letter bomb attacksThe Spanish Ministry of the Interior reports that several letter bombs have been sent to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, the Ministry of Defence and the Torrejón Air Base. A sixth letter bomb is intercepted at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid. (El Plural) (Reuters) (La Sexta) Business and economy COVID-19 recessionIt is reported that the eurozone's unemployment rate declined to 6.5 per cent at the start of the fourth quarter, the lowest rate since Eurostat started recording employment data in 1998. (WION) Law and crime Missing and murdered Indigenous womenA man is charged in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada for the murders of four indigenous women earlier this year. (BBC)