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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 offenses of misconduct in public office in relation to mining licences. (AAP via Sky News Australia)
Seven people, including six nurses, 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)
The President of the United States 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)