The Spanish general election is on Sunday, November 29, 2026, the date set by Royal Decree 806/2026, which was published in Spain's official state gazette on October 6, 2026. The decree dissolved the Congress of Deputies and the Senate that were elected on July 23, 2023, and called an election for both chambers.

Key dates

The decree sets the election day, the campaign and the first meeting of the new parliament. The other dates come from the election calendar published by the Junta Electoral Central.

How the election was called

The decree is signed by King Felipe VI and countersigned by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, and it took effect on the day it was published, October 6. The Junta Electoral Central lists the vote as its election in progress and cites the same decree.

What voters elect

Voters choose both chambers of the Cortes Generales, the Spanish parliament. The decree gives the number of deputies for each constituency in an annex; Madrid elects 38 and Barcelona elects 32, the two largest totals, while Ceuta and Melilla elect 1 each.

For the Senate, the same decree says each provincial constituency elects four senators. Among the island constituencies, Gran Canaria, Mallorca and Tenerife elect three each, and Ibiza, Formentera, Menorca, Fuerteventura, La Gomera, El Hierro, Lanzarote and La Palma elect one each. Ceuta and Melilla elect two each.

When the campaign runs

The campaign lasts 15 days. The decree starts it at midnight as Friday, November 13, begins and ends it at midnight at the close of Friday, November 27, two days before the vote on Sunday, November 29.

What happens after the vote

The provincial electoral boards hold the official count from December 4 to December 7, according to the election calendar. The decree then calls the new Congress and Senate to their opening sessions on December 23, 2026, at 10 a.m.

This page will be updated at this address with the official result after the vote on November 29.

The 2026 G20 summit has not happened yet. The U.S. Treasury Department said in a February 19, 2026, release that the United States' G20 host year will culminate with President Trump's Leaders' Summit on December 14 to 15, at Trump National Doral in Miami, Florida. Those dates fall on a Monday and a Tuesday.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative repeated the same dates and venue in a May 19, 2026, release, which said President Trump will host the summit as the United States marks its 250th anniversary.

G20 summit dates

The 2026 row comes from the Treasury release and the 2027 row from the UK government announcement.

Where the 2026 summit is held

The venue is Trump National Doral, which the federal releases place in Miami, Florida. The City of Doral lists the summit for December 14 to 15, 2026, at Trump National Doral Miami in Doral, Florida.

The city's page, last updated on October 29, 2026, said the leaders' summit itself is a closed diplomatic event. The city said it expects road closures, detours, security checkpoints and access restrictions, with significant traffic effects near the venue, particularly along NW 87th Avenue and NW 36th Street. It said some security activity and traffic effects may begin as early as December 10, and that Doral Central Park will be closed to the public from December 11 to 16.

Meetings scheduled before the summit

The Treasury release listed four in-person finance meetings for 2026.

The trade office's release set the G20 Trade Ministerial for September 30 to October 1 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

When the 2027 G20 summit is

The United Kingdom hosts next. The UK government said on September 23, 2026, that the G20 Leaders' Summit will take place on November 27 and 28, 2027, at the Manchester Central Convention Centre in Manchester city centre. Those dates fall on a Saturday and a Sunday.

See also when the APEC summit is.

This page will be updated at this address when the 2026 summit ends.

The International Maritime Organization says seafarers remain "stranded on vessels unable to exit the Strait of Hormuz", and it describes its evacuation plan for those ships as "currently paused". The agency's list of confirmed incidents showed 134 confirmed incidents and 25 confirmed seafarer fatalities as of November 11, 2026.

The most recent confirmed incidents

The agency says its data on attacks on commercial ships in the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman are compiled after validation with flag states, coastal states and verified third-party sources. Its list, as of November 11, 2026, carries eight entries dated in November. Each of the eight is described as damaged, and the list does not say who carried out any of them.

The list records one seafarer fatality on the Velos Sapphire. In a statement on the Council session published on November 6, 2026, the agency said its secretary-general highlighted that death as bringing "the number of confirmed casualties to 25 since the conflict in the Middle East began", and that it had verified at least 130 attacks against commercial vessels in the region.

What the agency's Council said in November

The Council of the International Maritime Organization met for its 138th session in London from November 2 to 6, 2026. According to the agency's summary, the Council "reiterated that vital shipping lanes should remain open, safe and secure" and called on member states to refrain from unlawful measures that would jeopardize the safety of seafarers and international shipping.

The same summary says thousands of seafarers are at risk, "including those on ships that have been unable to leave the Persian Gulf".

Ships that have not been able to leave

The agency dates the start of the current conflict in the Middle East to February 28, 2026. In a statement on August 28, 2026, Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez said: "While some ships and their crews have been able to leave the Persian Gulf, up to 400 ships carrying around 6,000 seafarers have been unable to depart safely since the conflict began."

The agency built a voluntary evacuation plan for merchant ships confined in the Gulf region. On June 25, 2026, after an attack in the Gulf of Oman on a vessel that had passed through the strait, Dominguez said that "the evacuation plan will be paused until further clarity is obtained". The agency's Middle East page still describes the plan as "currently paused".

How many ships are passing through

There is no current daily count from the agency. Its transit data page says: "IMO no longer compiles data on daily ship transits through the Strait of Hormuz." The page shows average daily transits per month from March to September 2026 and says the figures are provided for general awareness only.

Where the official warnings are posted

The agency's Middle East page links to the warnings and advisories of United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, the Joint Maritime Information Center and the Maritime Security Center Indian Ocean, and to the NAVAREA IX warnings. It also notes that the traffic separation scheme in the strait, which sets the shipping lanes, was proposed by Iran and Oman and adopted by the agency in 1968.

This page will be updated at this address when the agency's incident list or its statements change.

No one had been appointed as the next Secretary-General of the United Nations as of October 22, 2026, the date on the page kept by the president of the General Assembly. That page lists the current stage as consideration by the Security Council and lists the appointment by the General Assembly as still to come, with the date to be announced.

Where the selection stands

The Security Council began considering the candidates on July 30, 2026, according to the General Assembly president's page. The Council does this in private, through informal straw polls. The Council's president announces after each round that a poll took place, and the Council does not publish the results.

That page lists six straw polls, by the date each was announced: July 30, August 21, September 18, September 29, October 7 and October 16, 2026. It states that no date has been announced for the Council's recommendation or for the meeting of the General Assembly to appoint the Secretary-General.

The same page says the Council will make its recommendation "in a timely manner so that the appointment by the Assembly allows the newly appointed Secretary-General sufficient time to prepare for the job". The current term of office ends on December 31, 2026, and the page lists the swearing-in of the person chosen for the last quarter of 2026, before the new term begins on January 1, 2027.

Who has been nominated

The United Nations selection page lists 11 nominations and marks 3 of them as withdrawn. The eight nominations it does not mark as withdrawn are below, in the order the page lists them.

The General Assembly president's page counts six candidates as at October 22, 2026. The two most recent names in the table, Lana Zaki Nusseibeh and Feridun Hadi Sinirlioğlu, appear on the United Nations selection page and not on the president's page.

Nominations withdrawn

The United Nations selection page marks three nominations as withdrawn.

How the Secretary-General is chosen

The Security Council recommends and the General Assembly appoints. The General Assembly president's page says the Secretary-General is appointed by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council, under Article 97 of the United Nations Charter, and that the Assembly makes the appointment by resolution in a plenary meeting.

The steps for this selection are set out in General Assembly resolution 79/327, adopted on September 5, 2025, according to the United Nations selection page. A joint letter from the president of the General Assembly and the president of the Security Council, published on November 25, 2025, opened the process and invited nominations. A candidate is nominated by one member state or a group of member states and provides a vision statement, a curriculum vitae and campaign financing disclosures. The president of the General Assembly then holds a webcast dialogue with each candidate.

This page will be updated at this address when the Security Council makes its recommendation or the General Assembly sets a date for the appointment.

The 2026 APEC summit has not happened yet. The APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting is listed among the upcoming events on the APEC website for November 18 to 19, 2026, in Shenzhen, People's Republic of China. Those dates fall on a Wednesday and a Thursday.

The APEC Secretariat's November 3 news release describes the schedule this way: the APEC Economic Leaders' Week begins on November 14 with meetings of senior officials and business representatives and culminates in the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting on November 19. The same release said APEC economic leaders meet in Shenzhen on November 19.

APEC 2026 leaders' week dates

The APEC website lists four upcoming events, all in Shenzhen.

Who hosts APEC in 2026

China hosts APEC in 2026, for the third time, the APEC website says. The host theme is "Building an Asia-Pacific Community to Prosper Together". The Secretariat's news release said APEC has focused on three priorities under that theme: openness, innovation and cooperation.

Where the last APEC summit was held

The previous leaders' meeting took place in Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, from October 31 to November 1, 2025, according to the declaration the leaders issued there.

Who hosts APEC after 2026

The Gyeongju declaration names the host years that follow China's.

The declaration does not give dates for those meetings, and it names no host for 2029.

This page will be updated at this address when the 2026 meeting ends.

Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of Likud, is the prime minister of Israel. President Isaac Herzog called him "the Prime Minister and Likud Leader, Benjamin Netanyahu" in remarks his office published in its statement of November 8, 2026, the day Herzog tasked a different party leader, Gadi Eisenkot of Yashar, with forming a new government.

The president's office has not announced that a new government has been formed, and this page will be updated at this address when an official record states one.

Who has been asked to form the next government

President Herzog tasked Gadi Eisenkot, the leader of the Yashar party, with forming a government at a ceremony at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on November 8, 2026, the president's office said. The statement describes Eisenkot as a lieutenant general in the reserves and the 21st Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.

The decision followed consultations with the factions elected to the 26th Knesset. The statement of November 7, 2026 gives the count.

The three groups add up to 120 members. In his remarks on November 8, Herzog said: "I am well aware that Likud is the largest faction in the incoming Knesset." He said he based the decision on the recommendations and on precedents in which earlier presidents tasked the leader of a party that was not the largest.

How long forming a government can take

A member of the Knesset who is tasked with forming a government has 28 days to do so under Basic Law: The Government, the president's office said on November 7. If more time is needed, the president is authorized by law to grant an extension of up to 14 additional days.

What has happened since

President Herzog addressed the opening session of the 26th Knesset on November 10, 2026. In that speech he told the members: "You must do everything to avoid a repeat election."

What is not yet in the official record

The statements from the president's office do not say whether Eisenkot has formed a government, and they give no date for a Knesset vote on one. Until an official record states that a new government has taken office, the president's office statements of November 7 and 8, 2026 are the latest official record opened for this page that names the prime minister, and they name Benjamin Netanyahu.

Likud, the list led by Benjamin Netanyahu, won the most seats in the election for Israel's 26th Knesset, held on Tuesday, October 27, 2026. The official final results from the Central Elections Committee give Likud 27 seats on 1,167,591 votes, or 20.51 percent of the valid votes. The 11 lists that won seats share 120 seats between them, and the largest holds 27.

Winning the most seats did not give Likud the task of forming a government. President Isaac Herzog tasked Gadi Eisenkot, the leader of Yashar, with forming a government on November 8, 2026, the president's office said. The results page itself reports votes and seats only.

Seats won by each list

The committee marks these figures as "Official Final Results" on the English version of its results page. The committee prints the list names in Hebrew, and the names below are translations or the common English names.

The seats in the table add up to 120. Ra'am and Yisrael Beiteinu were separated by 270 votes, and Ra'am received 8 seats to Yisrael Beiteinu's 7.

Lists that won no seats

The results page states an electoral threshold of 3.25 percent, and 27 of the 38 lists on the page have no seats.

The largest list below the threshold was the Reservists and the Economic Party list, headed by Yoaz Hendel and Yaron Zelekha, with 155,199 votes, or 2.73 percent. The next was Amcha Yisrael, headed by Ofer Winter, with 95,764 votes, or 1.68 percent. Every other list received less than 1 percent.

Turnout

The committee's final figures show how many people took part.

Who was asked to form a government

President Isaac Herzog tasked Gadi Eisenkot, the leader of Yashar, with forming a government on November 8, 2026, in a ceremony at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, the president's office said. In the same statement, Herzog said: "I am well aware that Likud is the largest faction in the incoming Knesset."

No official record opened for this page says that a new government has been formed. For who holds the office now and how the recommendations divided, see who is the prime minister of Israel.