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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 annual Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) is observed; it is a day in which people memorialize those who have been killed as a result of transphobia, and bring attention to the continued violence endured by the transgender community. (The Advocate)
The New South Wales Independent Commission against Corruption charges former ministers Eddie Obeid and Ian Macdonald for offenses of misconduct in public office in relation to mining licences. (AAP via Sky News Australia)
A knife attack in a sanatorium dormitory in the Northern China resort of Beidahe kills seven people, including six nurses. (Reuters via The Globe and Mail)
Sinking of the MV Sewol
- A South Korean court sentences Kim Han-sik, the chief executive of Chonghaejin Marine that operated the MV Sewol, to ten years in jail for negligence and embezzlement. (Reuters)
The President of the United States Barack Obama announces executive orders to defer the deportations of a certain group of illegal immigrants: parents whose children are already U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents who have lived in the United States for five years or more. (Washington Post)

The President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa calls an early election. (Washington Post)
Thousands of protestors gather in Mexico City for a national rally in memory of the 43 missing students. Demonstrators have also called for a nationwide strike. (BBC News)