Armed conflicts and attacks

• Myanmar civil war
  • Allied Karenni rebel groups and local PDF launch attacks on junta bases in Kawkareik, Karen State. (The Irrawaddy)
• 2023 Israel–Hamas war
  • 2023 Israel–Hamas ceasefire
    • The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas ends after a deadline expires on the seventh day. Mediator Qatar says efforts are ongoing to renew the ceasefire and expressed regret over the resumption of Israeli bombardments. (AP)
    • Israeli warplanes carry out airstrikes on different parts of the Gaza Strip, with dozens of Palestinians being killed. Airstrikes hit southern Gaza including the community of Abasan al-Kabira east of the town of Khan Younis. Another strike hit a home northwest of Gaza City. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
• Iraqi conflict
  • At least eleven civilians are killed in an attack by an armed group in Miqdadiyah, Diyala Governorate, Iraq. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • The Ukrainian air force reports Russian air strikes consisting of 25 Shahed drones and two missiles. (Spiegel)
  • British military intelligence reports that Russia is building an explosives-laden unmanned watercraft (kamikaze drone ship) that could go into series production in 2024. (Spiegel)

Arts and culture

• For his role in the film Passages, Franz Rogowski is honored by the New York Film Critics Circle as best leading actor of the year. (Spiegel) (Variety)

International relations

• Territorial disputes in the South China Sea
  • The Philippine Coast Guard establishes a surveillance station on the disputed Thitu Island in the South China Sea. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Malagasy presidential election
  • Madagascar's supreme court confirms Andry Rajoelina's election as president after dismissing several challenges against the provisional results. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2023 Israel–Hamas war
  • 2023 Givat Shaul shooting
    • Three Israeli civilians are killed and six are injured in a mass shooting in the Givat Shaul neighborhood of Jerusalem. Two Palestinian gunmen are shot and killed by security forces. An armed civilian is mistaken for an attacker and is also shot, later dying in a hospital. Hamas reportedly claims responsibility for the attack. (The Times of Israel) (Haaretz)
  • 2023 Israel–Hamas ceasefire
    • A deal is reached to extend the ceasefire for at least one more day, after the ceasefire had been due to expire. (The Times of Israel)
  • Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has expressed doubts that Israel is abiding by international law in during the war, due to the high number of civilian casualties and video footage of growing numbers of children dying. (Al Jazeera)
  • United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken steps up calls for Israel to comply with international law and protect civilians during its military operations in southern Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Ukraine says its special forces bombed a freight train as it was passing through the Severomuysky Tunnel in Buryatia, Russia. Russia's Investigative Committee acknowledges an explosion and fire inside the tunnel, and says that a preliminary probe is underway to determine the cause. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• The insolvency of the Austrian Signa Holding also leads to the insolvency of the German sporting goods retailer SportScheck. (rbb24)

Disasters and incidents

• At least 13 people are killed in a fire at a hostel in Almaty, Kazakhstan, with preliminary reports indicating carbon monoxide poisoning as the cause of death. (AFP via France 24)

Health and environment

• 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference
  • The United Nations Climate Change conference opens in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with an agreement to provide funding to underdeveloped countries that are most at risk from the effects of climate change. (The Guardian)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Argentina
  • Incoming Foreign Minister Diana Mondino announces that Argentina will not join the BRICS group of nations. (MyInd Markets)

Law and crime

• LGBT rights in Russia
  • The Supreme Court of Russia bans the LGBT movement, labelling participants as extremists. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele is granted a leave of absence prior to the 2024 general election and is succeeded by his private secretary Claudia Rodríguez de Guevara as acting president. (La Prensa Gráfica)

December 1: World AIDS Day; Great Union Day in Romania (1918)

• 1828 – Returning to Buenos Aires with troops who fought in the Cisplatine War, Juan Lavalle (pictured) deposed provincial governor Manuel Dorrego, reigniting the Argentine Civil Wars.

• 1918 – With the signing of the Act of Union, Denmark recognized the Kingdom of Iceland as a fully sovereign state in personal union through a common monarch.

• 1923 – The Gleno Dam in the Italian province of Bergamo failed due to poor workmanship, flooding the downstream valley and killing at least 356 people.

• 1971 – A period of political and economic reforms in the Socialist Republic of Croatia came to an end as the League of Communists of Yugoslavia decided to purge the state's reformist leadership.
• 1988 – Five armed men hijacked a bus carrying thirty schoolchildren and a teacher in Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz, Russia), and were later given an Ilyushin aircraft and ransom for the release of the hostages.