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- After obtaining footage of a human auction in Libya, The UN secretary-general said he is "horrified" at reports showing African migrants sold as slaves and called for immediate investigations.
- Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has resigned after a rule of 37 years, parliament speaker Jacob Mudenda has said. A letter from Mr Mugabe said that the decision was voluntary and that he had made it to allow a smooth transition of power.
- Ajit Pai, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unveiled plans to repeal a landmark 2015 order that barred internet service providers from blocking or slowing down consumer access to web content, and said the regulator will prevent states and cities from adopting similar protections.
- Tillerson breached the Child Soldiers Prevention Act when he decided in June to exclude Iraq, Myanmar, and Afghanistan from a U.S. list of offenders in the use of child soldiers. A group of about a dozen U.S. State Department officials have taken the unusual step of formally accusing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson of violating a federal law designed to stop foreign militaries from enlisting child soldiers.
- Investigators found additional human remains in early November of U.S. Army Sergeant La David Johnson, who was killed in an ambush last month in Niger along with three other U.S. soldiers.
- The US Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit to block telecomms giant AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner, which is the owner of CNN and HBO.
- The US is to terminate a program that gives more than 50,000 immigrants from Haiti protection against deportation. Immigrants from the Caribbean nation received protected status in 2010 after a devastating earthquake.
- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad thanked his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for "saving" his country and for Russia's support in Syria during a rare visit by his Syrian counterpart. Mr Putin told Bashar al-Assad the military campaign was "wrapping up", but there was still "a long way to go”.
- The Palestinian leadership has reportedly cut off communications with the Trump administration. The move comes after the White House last week warned it could close the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) office in Washington.
- Israel plans to deport tens of thousands of asylum seekers to Rwanda, a third country in Africa, under threat of indefinite detention. A move that local human rights activists say violates international and Israeli laws.
- A new ground-breaking report by Amnesty International has described the situation of the Rohingya living in Rakhine State as one of "apartheid”. "They live under a system of repression that is upheld through the intricate web of laws, policies and practices, imposed by state officials at all levels - township, district, state and nation-wide.”
- President Trump appeared to throw his support behind child molester, Roy Moore, despite allegations of sexual misconduct lodged against the Republican Alabama Senate candidate.
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