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November 10, 2022 (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Islamic terrorism in Europe, Terrorism in Belgium
- 2022 Brussels stabbing
  - A police officer is killed and another is injured in a stabbing attack in Brussels, Belgium. The perpetrator is shot and injured. The incident is being investigated as a terrorist attack. (BBC News)
Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  - 2022 Ukrainian southern counteroffensive
    - The Ukrainian military says that it recaptured the city of Snihurivka in Mykolaiv Oblast, the last remaining city controlled by Russia in the oblast. (Voice of America)
    - Ukrainian troops recapture the village of Kyselivka, advancing within nine miles of the city centre of Kherson. Explosions are reported near the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant. (The Guardian)
  - Foreign aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    - The Pentagon announces that it will send four AN/TWQ-1 Avenger surface-to-air missile systems, Stinger missiles, 400 grenade launchers, 100 humvees, and other artillery rounds and small arms ammunition to Ukraine as part of its latest $400 million weapons package to support the Ukrainian military. (The Hill)
Moro conflict
- Three soldiers and four Moro Islamic Liberation Front militants are killed in a gunbattle in Basilan, Philippines. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

2022 Atlantic hurricane season
- Two people are killed after Hurricane Nicole makes landfall in Florida, United States, thereby bringing the death toll from the hurricane to eight. (The Wall Street Journal)
Ten people are killed, nine of them Indians, and many others are injured after a fire occurs at a building housing migrant workers in Malé, Maldives. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

2022 G20 Bali summit
- The Russian embassy in Jakarta confirms that President Vladimir Putin will not attend the G20 summit in Bali on November 15–16. However, the embassy intends to have Putin attend the summit virtually. (AFP via The Manila Times)

Law and crime

Treatment of women by the Taliban
- A Taliban spokesman for the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice says that the group has issued an edict banning women from gyms, public parks and fun fairs because people were ignoring segregation orders and women were not wearing hijabs appropriately. (ABC News) (AFP via The Guardian)

Science and technology

NASA announces that an approximately 15 by 15 feet (4.6 m × 4.6 m) section of the Space Shuttle Challenger has been found by divers in the Atlantic Ocean. It is the first debris from the shuttle to be found since 1996. (AP)

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