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This article covers daily news and events in November 2020 . An overview of articles on thematic "long-running hits" and on longer-lasting events can be found on the page on current events .
Daily events
Sunday 1st November 2020
- International : The Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between the EFTA member states (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland) and Ecuador comes into force.
- Poland : Protests in Poland
- Berlin / Germany : The Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt , Reiner Haseloff , takes up his post as President of the German Federal Council .
Monday 2nd November 2020
- Nordenham : A transport ship with Castor containers from Sellafield for the Biblis interim storage facility has arrived in Germany.
- Manila / Philippines : Typhoon Goni hit land in Luzon and causes severe mudslides. At least 16 people are killed.
- Kabul / Afghanistan : 19 people are killed in an armed attack on the University of Kabul .
- Vienna / Austria : In an alleged terrorist attack in Vienna in the immediate vicinity of a synagogue, four people are killed and at least 15 are seriously injured. It is unclear whether the synagogue was the target of the attack.
Tuesday 3rd November 2020
Wednesday 4th November 2020
Thursday 5th November 2020
Friday 6th November 2020
Saturday 7th November 2020
- Germany / Leipzig : More than 20,000 people are demonstrating in Leipzig against the current Corona measures . After the demonstration broke up prematurely, there were attacks against journalists and police officers. According to the police, there were also problems with counter-demonstrators.
Sunday 8th November 2020
- Germany : Politicians criticize the police and the Bautzen Higher Administrative Court in connection with the demonstration against the current corona measures that escalated the day before in Leipzig .
Monday 9th November 2020
- Germany / Belgium : ALEGrO opens the first electricity connection between Germany and Belgium.
Tuesday November 10, 2020
Wednesday November 11, 2020
Thursday November 12, 2020
Friday 13th November 2020
- Maputo / Mozambique : Supporters of the terrorist militia Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jammah are said to have beheaded 50 people.
- Guerguerat / Sahara Democratic Arab Republic : The Moroccan military marches into the buffer zone near Guerguerat to end a demonstration. The Polisario then declared the 1991 armistice over.
Saturday November 14th 2020
Sunday 15th November 2020
- International : Together with 14 other Asia-Pacific -Staaten has People's Republic of China to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) of the world's largest free trade agreement agreed.
- Berlin / Germany : Prince Charles gives the speech on Memorial Day in the German Bundestag .
Monday, November 16, 2020
Tuesday 17th November 2020
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania / Germany : Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Lorenz Caffier (CDU) resigns.
Wednesday November 18, 2020
- Berlin / Germany : Protests in Berlin against the current Corona measures are being resolved by the police. For the first time in 17 years, water cannons are being used in Berlin .
- Berlin / Germany : In the German Bundestag , Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier and other politicians are harassed and molested by guests invited by the AfD .
Thursday 19th November 2020
- Germany : The day before of the Bundestag and Bundesrat adopted Third Act to protect the public in an epidemic situation of national importance comes into force.
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The suspect Stephan Ernst, accused in the murder case Walter Lübcke , is found by an expert opinion to be fully culpable.
- Bonn / Germany : The Federal Cartel Office approves the merger of the two book retailers Thalia and Osiander .
- Arecibo / Puerto Rico : The US National Science Foundation decides to shut down the Arecibo Observatory due to severe damage from two broken steel cables .
Friday 20th November 2020
Saturday 21 November 2020
- Germany : 15th award of the German Theater Prize Der Faust . The Lifetime Achievement Award goes to William Forsythe .
- Riyadh / Saudi Arabia : G20 summit (until November 22nd)
- Åland / Finland : The Viking Grace runs aground.
Sunday 22nd November 2020
- Ouagadougou / Burkina Faso : presidential and parliamentary elections
- Washington, DC / United States : The United States' withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty comes into force.
Monday 23 November 2020
Tuesday 24th November 2020
- Vienna / Austria : Election and inauguration of the state government and city senate Ludwig II
- Edinburgh / Scotland : The Scottish Parliament was the first country in the world to pass a law to make menstrual hygiene products available free of charge in the future.
Wednesday November 25, 2020
- International : The Kingdom of Bhutan and the Federal Republic of Germany establish diplomatic relations .
Thursday, November 26, 2020
- Sincan (Ankara) / Turkey : In one of the most extensive trials of the attempted coup in Turkey in 2016 , the so-called Akıncı trial that began in August 2017 (after one of the locations of the coup attempt, the Akıncı military airfield ), the court, which is held in a maximum security prison, pronounces the verdicts against the 475 defendants. 337 defendants are sentenced to life imprisonment under more stringent prison conditions ( Type F prison ) for, among other things, an attempted coup, an assassination attempt on the president and willful homicide , including 15 officers and four civilians 79 times life as a substitute for the abolished death penalty. 60 other accused also received prison sentences, 75 accused were acquitted.
- Berlin / Germany : As part of an amendment to the Packaging Act, the Bundestag passed a legal ban on plastic bags with a wall thickness of 15 to 50 micrometers.
- Berlin / Germany : Dagmar Ziegler (SPD) is elected as the successor to the late Thomas Oppermann as Vice President of the German Bundestag . The candidate of the AfD Harald Weyel fails in the first ballot,
Friday November 27, 2020
- Tehran / Iran : The nuclear physicist Mohsen Fachrisadeh is murdered near Tehran . Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif accuses Israel of being responsible for the attack.
Saturday November 28, 2020
Sunday 29th November 2020
Monday 30th November 2020
See also
- Nekrolog November 2020 for deaths this month
- List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in November
- Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in November
Web links
Commons : November 2020 - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Notice that the CEPA economic agreement will come into force on November 1st, 2020. admin.ch , October 30, 2020, accessed on November 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Dispute over abortion law. The ruling party in Poland loses its approval massively. spiegel.de , November 2, 2020, accessed on November 2, 2020 .
- ^ Nuclear waste from Great Britain. Castor transport ship reaches port in Nordenham. sueddeutsche.de , November 2, 2020, accessed on November 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Typhoon "Goni". Number of dead has risen to at least 16. deutschlandfunk.de , November 2, 2020, accessed on November 2, 2020 .
- ^ Afghanistan: IS terrorist militia claims deadly attack on Kabul University. deutschlandfunk.de , November 2, 2020, accessed on November 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Large-scale police operation - at least two dead in terrorist attack in Vienna. srf.ch , November 2, 2020, accessed on November 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Major manhunt after terrorist attack in Vienna. deutschlandfunk.de , November 3, 2020, accessed on November 3, 2020 .
- ↑ dpa / oht: How the "lateral thinkers" break the rules. Demonstration in Leipzig against the Corona measures on November 7, 2020. In: lr-online.de. Lausitzer Rundschau , November 7, 2020, accessed on November 8, 2020 .
- ↑ mkl / dpa: Politicians are calling for a major “lateral thinking” demo to be dealt with. Demonstration in Leipzig against the Corona measures on November 7, 2020. In: spiegel.de. Spiegel Online , November 8, 2020, accessed November 8, 2020 .
- ↑ German-Belgian Alegro power link on track for November start | S&P Global Platts. October 29, 2020, accessed on November 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Mozambique is plagued by terrorist militias and the resource curse. Standard.at , November 14, 2020, accessed on November 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Western Sahara Conflict: Morocco and Polisario accuse each other. Euronews , November 13, 2020, accessed November 25, 2020 .
- ^ German Theater Prize DER FAUST 2020 - Nominations and Prize for Lifetime Achievement . Article dated September 24, 2020, accessed September 24, 2020.
- ↑ Faust Prize digital. In: lifepr.de. November 6, 2020, accessed November 6, 2020 .
- ↑ SPÖ-NEOS focuses on jobs and education. In: ORF.at . November 16, 2020, accessed November 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Henriette Engbersen: World premiere - In Scotland, pads and tampons will be free in future. In: srf.ch . November 25, 2020, accessed November 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Foreign Office for the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Kingdom of Bhutan. Federal Foreign Office, November 25, 2020, accessed on November 25, 2020 .
- ↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/tuerkei-putsch-prozess-103.html
- ↑ https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/turkish-court-sentences-feto-masterminds-pilots-to-life-over-2016-coup-attempt/news
- ↑ Bundestag.de: Government wants to ban light plastic bags , November 26, 2020
- ↑ Murder of nuclear scientist: Iran accuses Israel. In: tagesschau.de. November 28, 2020, accessed November 28, 2020 .