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November 30, 2014
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2014-11-30
)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Coalition forces
launch over 30 airstrikes on
Raqqa
, the
de facto
capital of ISIL.
(
The Guardian
)
Colombian conflict
FARC
releases
Colombian Army
general Rubén Alzate and two of their other prisoners.
(AP via Fox News)
Disasters and accidents
Heavy flooding in the
south of France
claims five lives and forces more than 3000 people to leave their homes.
(NDTV)
Law and crime
The
Simon Wiesenthal Center
presumes that
Nazi war criminal
Alois Brunner
, former assistant to
Adolf Eichmann
, is dead.
(
Express
)
Politics and elections
Uruguayan general election
Voters in
Uruguay
go to the polls for the second round of voting in the presidential election with former
President
Tabaré Vázquez
of the ruling
Broad Front
winning another term in government.
(BBC)
,
(CNN)
Swiss immigration referendum
By 74% voters in
Switzerland
reject the proposal to reduce immigration from about 80,000 to 16,000 people a year.
(BBC)
(Al Jazeera)
By a similar margin Swiss voters reject a monetary-policy initiative that would require the
central bank
to buy
gold
.
(Bloomberg)
Moldovan parliamentary election
Pro-
European Union
parties achieve a majority in the
Parliament of Moldova
.
(
The New York Times
)
Sports
Police in
Columbus, Ohio
, USA, discover the body of
Ohio State University
football
player and
wrestler
Kosta Karageorge. On November 26 he committed suicide.
(ESPN)
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