Protesters set fires and looted businesses in the capital city of Santiago, as demonstrations continued despite a cabinet reshuffle (AP) by President Sebastian Pinera aimed at quelling the unrest. The protests erupted more than a week ago over economic inequality.

Pinera replaced eight members of his cabinet, but protesters kept up calls for the president’s resignation. Twenty people have died in the protests (CNN), the interior minister said, and more than a hundred have been partially blinded by pellet shots from security forces, according to human rights observers and health workers. The UN human rights commission said it will send a delegation to investigate the violence. Pinera welcomed the UN team, and said that Chile has changed (Guardian) and “the government also has to change.”

The government has barred (SCMP) prominent pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong from running in next month’s local elections, claiming Wong has supported self-determination for the territory. 

This CFR Backgrounder looks at democracy in Hong Kong.

Thailand: Bangkok will seek talks with Washington after it ended trade preferences (Al Jazeera) for $1.3 billion worth of Thai goods, the prime minister said. Washington cited the country’s failure to uphold workers’ rights.

Twenty-seven lawmakers from the bloc are in Kashmir today to speak with local officials and residents in the first visit by a foreign delegation (Reuters) since India revoked the region’s special status in August.

Afghanistan: China, Pakistan, Russia, and the United States held a second round of four-party talks in Moscow to support an Afghan peace process, the U.S. State Department said.

The spokesman, Abu al-Hassan al-Muhajir, was killed in a strike (WSJ) shortly after the U.S. commando raid in which Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died, according to a U.S. official.

CFR’s Philip H. Gordon writes that Baghdadi’s death will do little to ease concerns over Syria.

Iraq: Masked gunmen killed eighteen people (AP) at anti-government protests in the central city of Karbala, in one of the deadliest attacks since demonstrations began early this month.

New reports from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch detail a government crackdown on media and civil society organizations in the East African country. Both rights groups called on President John Magufuli’s administration to ease restrictions (VOA).

Burkina Faso: At least sixteen people in a village in the country’s north were reportedly killed in an attack by suspected jihadis (Reuters), according to local and security officials.

An eighty-four-year-old man who ran for political office under a far-right party in 2015 has been arrested after shooting two people (Guardian) at a mosque in southwestern France.

UK: Parliament rejected Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s proposal to hold an election (Guardian) on December 12 but is considering other proposed dates for an early election.

The United States will renew for another year (WaPo) temporary protected status for some two hundred thousand Salvadorans living in the country. The Trump administration had said in 2018 that it was ending El Salvador’s designation, a move that was challenged in federal court.

CFR looks at the history of Salvadorans’ temporary protected status in the United States.

The House of Representatives will vote on Thursday to formalize an ongoing impeachment inquiry against President Donald J. Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced in a letter (PBS). The White House has criticized the inquiry as illegitimate because no such vote has been held.