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Current events of November 20, 2014 (2014-11-20) (Thursday)

North Korea threatens to conduct another nuclear test in response to a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution passed on Tuesday recommending the Security Council authorise a probe into human rights abuses. (BBC)

The New South Wales Independent Commission against Corruption charges former ministers Eddie Obeid and Ian Macdonald for offices in misconduct in public office in relation to mining licences. (AAP via Sky News Australia)
Seven people have been killed in a knife attack in a sanatorium dormitory in the Northern China resort of Beidahe. (Reuters via The Globe and Mail)
Sinking of the MV Sewol
- Kim Han-sik, the chief executive of Chonghaejin Marine that operated the MV Sewol, is sentenced to ten years jail for negligence and embezzlement. (Reuters)