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November 29, 2013
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2013-11-29
)
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Defence
Chief of Army Staff (Pakistan)
Genral Raheel Sharif
took over the command of army chief of
Pakistan Army
.
(
New Army Chief - Dawn News
)
Armed conflicts and attacks
Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal)
:
A wave of violence in
Iraq
kills 52 people, most of whom were kidnapped and then shot dead.
(
Dawn
)
Syrian civil war
:
Four people are killed in a mortar attack on the
Umayyad Mosque
in
Damascus
.
(Al Jazeera)
Senkaku Islands dispute
:
China
deploys fighter jets to the Chinese
Air Defense Identification Zone
, as tensions escalate further over the disputed islands in the
East China Sea
.
(
Bloomberg
)
Arts and culture
Three previously unpublished short stories by
J. D. Salinger
are leaked online against the late author's wishes.
(BBC)
Spanish channel
Canal Nou
cease broadcasting when the police pull the plug at 12:19 AM GMT, ending its 23 years of broadcasting.
Business and economy
Joe Hockey
, the
Treasurer of Australia
, rejects a proposed
A$
3.4 billion takeover bid by American company
Archer Daniels Midland
for agribusiness
GrainCorp
.
(ABC)
Disasters and accidents
LAM Mozambique Airlines
Flight 470
carrying 27 passengers and six crew members disappears in
Namibia
.
(BBC)
An unknown number are dead as a result of a
police helicopter that crashed
into a crowded
pub
on the north bank of the
River Clyde
in
Glasgow
,
Scotland
.
(BBC)
(AFP via NineMSN)
Politics and elections
2013 Thai protests
:
Several opposition parties including the Civil Movement for Democracy hold a protest march on the headquarters of
Thailand
's ruling
Puea Thai
party in
Bangkok
.
(Reuters)
(IBN Live)
A thousand protesters enter the headquarters of the
Royal Thai Army
.
(RTE)
2013 Ukraine pro-European Union protests
:
With their demands not being met, protests are scheduled to continue until at least Sunday 1 December 2013.
(Seven News)
Science and technology
At least part of
Comet
C/2012 S1
(also known as Comet Ison) emerged from behind the
Sun
's
corona
.
(CNN)
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