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The maker of Sakuma’s Drops, a popular Japanese confection featured in the 1988 Studio Ghibli film Grave of the Fireflies, will go out of business in January 2023. Sakumaseika said on November 9, 2022, that the company was forced to fold because of the pressure of inflation and rising energy prices. The candy has been Sakumaseika’s flagship product since the company was established in 1908.

A drone air taxi has successfully completed its first test flight in conventional air traffic. The pilot manoeuvre, which took place on November 10, 2022 just outside Paris, marks an important step forward in drone aviation. The German company behind the technology hopes to debut the aircraft at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris.

Sparks and smoke were seen coming from an empty train in Shanghai. The incident was caused by a power supply failure that led to a short circuit, according to the metro company.

Sniffer dogs found bat meat stuffed in a passenger's luggage at an airport in Thailand. The beagles from the Quarantine and Inspection Canine Unit detected 2.5kg (5.5lbs) of smoked bat and 7kg (15lbs) of processed pork at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport, serving the capital Bangkok, on November 8, 2022. The meat products were found in a suitcase from the Chinese city of Kunming. Bat meat may harbour viruses and was previously blamed for the spread of Covid-19, a theory that has since been debunked.

Residents in Kherson greeted Ukrainian soldiers with hugs and kisses as Kyiv retook the region over the weekend. The Kremlin said the withdrawal was not a climbdown but rather it was to save the lives of soldiers amid difficulties to maintain supply lines.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has dismissed a report that he had been taken to hospital for a heart condition. Lavrov arrived in the Indonesian island of Bali on November 13, 2022, to represent President Vladimir Putin at a Group of 20 summit scheduled to start on November 15.

Nearly 15 months after they returned to power in Afghanistan, the Taliban have ordered full implementation of sharia law in the country. The group’s spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid wrote in a tweet on November 13, 2022, that judges have been asked to follow punishments prescribed by the Islamic legal code, including executions, stonings, floggings and amputations of limbs for crimes such as theft.

Customs officials at a port in Zhuhai in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong made a surprise discovery of a new species of cockroach while inspecting a shipment of logs infested with the insects on November 10, 2022. Experts at a laboratory at Gongbei Port later determined that the cockroaches found were a previously unidentified species from the Periplaneta latina genus.

Turkish security forces have released footage of the moment they raided a house near Istanbul on November 14, 2022, and arrested a woman described as the main suspect in the November 13 bombing in the city that killed six people and injured dozens more.

Billed by China as the world’s largest all-terrain crane, the XCA 2600 carried out its first hoist on November 14, 2022. Developed by China’s Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group, the crane lifted 171 tonnes to a height of 160 metres (525ft) and installed a large onshore wind turbine unit in East China’s Shandong province.

Poland has elevated its military readiness following a missile explosion in the eastern village of Przewodów on November 15, 2022, in which two people were killed. Poland’s President Andrzej Duda said the missile was “most likely” Russian-made. The incident has drawn the attention of Poland’s Nato allies, who have called a snap meeting to discuss next steps at the G20 summit in Indonesia.

This Chinese-made robot dog is a combat specialist

Russian forces fired nearly 100 missiles at targets across Ukraine, damaging energy infrastructure and plunging many areas into darkness in northern and central regions of the country. At least one person was reported killed in the capital Kyiv, where some of the projectiles landed on residential buildings during the November 15, 2022, barrage.

A man rescued a four-year-old girl who was dangling from a fifth-floor window at a residential building in Shanghai.

Nasa launches Artemis 1 in first US attempt to return astronauts to the moon in 50 years

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China’s Xi rebukes Trudeau at G20, chides Canadian leader for ‘leaking’ meeting details

Global pressure on Russia over the war in Ukraine continued to grow as most world leaders gathered for the G20 summit in Indonesia agreed to a joint statement on November 16, 2022, condemning Moscow’s invasion and subsequent conflict that have killed thousands of people and roiled the global economy.

Six people were killed after two World War II-era aircraft collided and crashed to the ground during an air show at Dallas in the southern US state of Texas on November 12, 2022. Footage from the scene shows the planes exploded into a ball of fire, sending plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky.

China announced major changes to its strict Covid-19 measures for inbound travellers on November 11, 2022, reducing quarantine on arrival from seven days down to five, followed by three days of isolation at home. More international flights will also be launched. Arriving travellers will now be allowed to enter the country after showing just one negative PCR test within 48 hours before boarding.

Videos circulating on social media show migrant workers in the Chinese southern city of Guangzhou staging a rare protest on November 14, 2022, amid continued lockdowns and a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases.

Divers from a documentary crew looking for the wreckage of a World War II aircraft off the coast of Florida have found more than they bargained for. The operation on May 22, 2022, instead uncovered a 20-foot (6.1 metres) section of the space shuttle 'Challenger', which exploded and broke apart soon after launch in 1986. Nasa has confirmed that the piece belonged to the 'Challenger'.