On the evening of November 20, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced her decision to run for the fourth time as head of the German government in 2017. Merkel noted that "these elections will be more difficult than the previous ones, due to the strong polarization [of society]". Merkel's intention to participate in the elections again in mid-November was announced by the Bundestag deputy from the Christian Democratic Union Norbert Rettgen.

In Egypt, the cases of 292 militants involved in the commission of terrorist attacks and the preparation of assassination attempts on President Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi and Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Muhammad ibn Naif were transferred to the military court. This was reported by the state news agency MENA. The defendants in the case belonged to 22 terrorist cells organized by the Sinai division of the Islamic State, reports Ynetnews.

Photo: Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Scanpix / Leta on November 20, US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin met during the APEC summit in the capital of Peru Lima. The meeting lasted four minutes. The conversation was dedicated to Syria and Ukraine.

US President-elect Donald Trump called the musical "Hamilton" overrated, the actors of which turned from the stage to the future Vice President Mike Pence, who attended the performance, with a speech on human rights. “The company and producers of Hamilton, which I hear is grossly overrated, should immediately apologize to Mike Pence for their terrible behavior,” the future US president tweeted.

115 people were killed and more than 200 were injured in the crash of a passenger train in northern India on November 20. It is reported by the Times of India with reference to the police. Earlier it was reported about the death of 104 people. On the night of November 20, a passenger train traveling from Indore to Patna derailed near the city of Pukhrayan in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

On the night of November 20, the authorities of the Pskov region prevented the suicide of a young man, provoked by a discussion in the media of the death of teenagers in the village of Strugi Krasnye. This is reported by the regional department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. The authorities became aware of the young man's intention to commit suicide by monitoring correspondence in social networks in connection with the death of teenagers.

At Brussels airport, a group of 41 people was disembarked from a plane preparing to fly to the Spanish city of Alicante. This is reported by Le Soir, citing a statement from Brussels Airlines. It happened on November 19th. The reason was the unsafe behavior of passengers, some of whom were drunk, while taxiing to the runway. According to the TV channel VRT, they behaved violently and threatened the crew members. “The crew commander called for calm, but this had no effect.

Former Russian Minister of Economic Development Alexey Ulyukaev, accused of receiving a bribe for a positive assessment of Rosneft’s deal to buy Bashneft, threatened to delay work on Rosneft’s affairs due to a “lack of gratitude” for expedited work. Rosbalt reports this with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies.

More than 100 people died, 150 suffered Photo: Jitendra Prakash / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta On the night of November 20, a passenger train came off the rails in the state of Uttar-Pradesh in the north of India. Most passengers slept at the time of the crash. More than 100 people died , more than 200 were injured; Search and rescue work continues. According to unconfirmed reports, the collapse could occur due to a poor state of paths.

At Domodedovo Airport on the night of November 20, a passenger on the Moscow-Dubai flight was detained for threatening to make an explosion on board the aircraft. It is reported by TASS. According to a TASS source at the airport, the man and his wife boarded the plane drunk, after which he began to threaten to set off an explosion and tried to get into the cockpit.

Patriarch Kirill, in an interview with RIA Novosti, said that a ban on abortion is impossible in modern Russia. “When I was asked to sign a petition [to ban abortion], of course I signed it because the Church is against abortion. But we are walking the earth - and the Church has a completely realistic agenda, there is a dialogue with the state. We understand that it is not possible to ban abortion at the moment,” he said.

The Tatstroy, Vodokanalservis and Tatselzhilkomkhoz companies, which, according to Transparency International Russia, belonged to the mother of the former Minister of Construction and Housing and Public Utilities of Tatarstan and the current Deputy Mayor of Moscow, Marat Khusnullin, earned about 10 billion rubles on government contracts. RBC writes about this with reference to SPARK-Marketing data.

Stories about how the proposals of the hand and heart ended in failure Photo: DMYTRO ZINKEVYCH / ALAMY / VIDA Press Reddit users told how they received a refusal to get married. Stories are very different: people were said “no” because of alcoholism and sexual orientation; After five years of life together - and just a month after acquaintance. There were cases with a happy ending, when, for example, the girls changed their decision and still agreed to get married.

In Moscow, a monument to the ballerina Maya Plisetskaya was opened on Bolshaya Dmitrovka. The ceremony was dedicated to the 91st anniversary of her birth. Photo: Ilya Putalev / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta In the work on the monument, the sculptor Viktor Mitroshin used the image of Carmen, whose party Plisetskaya performed in the ballet Carmen-Suite , RIA Novosti reports.

In Las Vegas, Russian boxer Sergey Kovalev lost to American Andre Ward and lost his WBA, WBO and IBF light heavyweight titles. At the end of the fight, the judges unanimously awarded Ward the victory with a score of 114-113. According to Sports.ru, this is the first defeat of Sergei Kovalev in his career. Kovalev said that he did not agree with the decision of the judges, considered it "absurd" and wanted to hold a rematch.