November 1, 2007 (2007-11-01 ) (Thursday)
The Swedish Mint (
Swedish :
Myntverket ) in
Eskilstuna ,
Sweden , loses the competition to produce
Swedish national coins to
Rahapaja Oy of
Finland , ending a more than 1000-year-long tradition of
minting Swedish coins in Sweden.
(Dagens Nyheter)
Automaker
Chrysler announces plans for cutting an additional 12,000 jobs worldwide as part of a major restructuring plan.
(AP via CNN)
The
Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges over 360 points, or 2.6%, in its worst daily loss since February 27. Similar percentage losses occurred in Europe earlier in the day.
(AP via Yahoo! Finance)
2007 Atlantic hurricane season :
Tropical Storm Noel strengthens into a Category 1
hurricane and heads towards
Bermuda having killed at least 108 people so far.
(Reuters)
Benazir Bhutto leaves
Karachi for
United Arab Emirates amidst speculations that President
Pervez Musharraf might impose
martial law in
Pakistan .
(Dailyindia.com/ANI) [
permanent dead link ]
2007 Tabasco flood : Massive flooding hits the Mexican state of
Tabasco , with
Governor
Andrés Granier estimating that 80% of its 25,000 km² surface area is underwater.
(BBC)
(El Universal)
The London
Metropolitan Police is found guilty of violations of
Health and Safety law over the shooting of
Jean Charles de Menezes on the
London Underground in July 2005, and is fined £175,000 and ordered to pay £385,000 in legal costs.
(Sky News)
(BBC)
Flash floods in central
Vietnam kill at least 13 people and injure 31 with 14,000 homes submerged in
Quảng Trị ,
Quảng Bình and
Quảng Nam provinces.
(Reuters)
A
suicide bomber attacks a bus carrying
Pakistan Air Force personnel in
Punjab resulting in at least five deaths and 40 people being injured.
(AP via NYT)
November 2, 2007 (2007-11-02 ) (Friday)
The
United Nations will send home 108 of the 950
Sri Lankan
peacekeepers in Haiti , accusing them of sexual abuse, including with underage girls.
(BBC)
2007 Georgian demonstrations : Tens of thousands of Georgians protest outside parliament in
Tbilisi , urging President
Mikhail Saakashvili to step down.
(BBC)
S. P. Thamilselvan , the political chief of the
Sri Lankan rebel group
Tamil Tigers , is killed in an attack by the
Sri Lanka Air Force near
Kilinochchi .
(Bloomberg)
Stocks across Asia drop sharply after a rough Thursday in
Europe and the
United States , with the
Hang Seng Index in
Hong Kong losing over 1,000 points, or 3.25%, the biggest loss of any Asian market. London's
FTSE 100 Index loses ground for a second day after the news in Asia.
(The Times)
ICANN celebrates
Vint Cerf years, names
Peter Dengate Thrush chairman, forms working group on
internationalized domain names .
(NZ Herald)
(AP)
(CBC.ca)
November 3, 2007 (2007-11-03 ) (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
November 4, 2007 (2007-11-04 ) (Sunday)
Rookie running back
Adrian Peterson of the
Minnesota Vikings sets the NFL single game rushing record with 296 yards in a 35-17 victory over the San Diego Chargers.
November 5, 2007 (2007-11-05 ) (Monday)
The
Hang Seng Index in
Hong Kong drops over 1,500 points, or 5%, three days after a previous sizable decline. The Hang Seng registers its largest daily loss since September 2001.
(Bloomberg)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency :
Italian
police arrest
Sicilian
mafia boss
Salvatore Lo Piccolo , his son Sandro and two other mafiosi in
Carini ,
Palermo .
(BBC)
A
fire at a
retirement home in a village near
Tula ,
Russia , kills at least 23 people.
(BBC)
The
Writers Guild of America asks 12,000 of its members to join a
Hollywood
screenwriters strike over a dispute over
residuals .
(BBC)
Álvaro Colom is elected
President of
Guatemala in the
2007 general election .
(Reuters)
Google and the
Open Handset Alliance announce the
Android operating system, a joint effort in
handheld computing .
(Ars Technica)
(CNN)
The number of people in southern
Mexico displaced by the
2007 Tabasco flood nears a million
(VOA) , with 300,000 more still trapped in their homes, waiting to be rescued.
(BBC)
Kimi Raikkonen wins the Formula One World Championship.
November 6, 2007 (2007-11-06 ) (Tuesday)
November 7, 2007 (2007-11-07 ) (Wednesday)
About 80,000 students march in
Caracas ,
Venezuela , to protest against a
constitutional referendum that would give more power to
President
Hugo Chávez . Nine students are injured by
riot controllers at the
Central University of Venezuela .
(NYT)
In
Belgium ,
government formation discussions have gone on for a record 150 days as
Flemish and
Walloon politicians clash over
Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde .
(Economist)
Astronomers in the
United States have found a
fifth planet in
orbit around the star
55 Cancri 41
light years from Earth.
(BBC)
Space Shuttle Discovery lands at the
Kennedy Space Center , ending
STS-120 , a 15-day mission to the
International Space Station .
(Spaceflightnow.com)
A
fire in
Gwalior ,
India , ruins over 400 small
stores . Losses are estimated at 10 million
rupees (
USD 250,000).[
citation needed ]
Taliban militants capture the
Pakistani town of
Madyan in
Waziristan 's
Swat region and hoist their flags over buildings.[
citation needed ]
Four
Albanian militants are killed in a
Macedonian police operation.
(Wikinews)
2007 Georgian demonstrations :
At least eight people are killed and several injured in a
school shooting in
Tuusula (Tusby) , north of
Helsinki ,
Finland .
(BBC)
The
U.S. dollar stumbles to new lows after
Cheng Siwei , vice chairman of the
Standing Committee of the National People's Congress , calls for
China to shift more of its $1.43 trillion of
currency reserves into "stronger currencies", such as the
euro .
(MarketWatch)
Brad Wall is elected as
Premier of Saskatchewan as his
Saskatchewan Party defeats the
Saskatchewan New Democratic Party by a 37-21 margin in the
26th Saskatchewan general election .
(CBC)
November 8, 2007 (2007-11-08 ) (Thursday)
November 9, 2007 (2007-11-09 ) (Friday)
November 10, 2007 (2007-11-10 ) (Saturday)
November 11, 2007 (2007-11-11 ) (Sunday)
Prince William , an officer in the
Blues and Royals , laid a
wreath for the first time by the
Cenotaph as his grandmother
The Queen and his father
The Prince of Wales , looked on.
(AP)
A majority of
French citizens would support a union with the French-speaking Belgian region of
Wallonia if
Belgium were to cease to exist, according to a survey.
(Journal du Dimanche)
A similar survey held in the
Netherlands shows that 45% of the Dutch would support a union with
Flanders , whereas 49% would oppose such a union.
(Trouw)
Danilo Türk wins the
2007 Slovenian presidential elections with a large margin.
(Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Former
Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister,
Ieng Sary and his wife,
Ieng Thirith are arrested in
Phnom Penh to face charges before that country's
U.N.
genocide tribunal .
(AP via FOX News)
The
Ulster Defence Association announces that its
Ulster Freedom Fighters ' units are to stand down from midnight.
(RTÉ)
Gabriele Sandri , a 26-year-old supporter of the sports club
S.S. Lazio is killed by
police in a
service station near
Arezzo ,
Italy .
Football fans later clash with police in most Italian
stadiums .
(BBC)
Transport for London takes over the
North London Line and the other suburban rail lines hitherto operated by
Silverlink to form the
London Overground . While remaining part of the
National Rail network, the contracting authority for the franchise is Transport for London, rather than central Government.
November 12, 2007 (2007-11-12 ) (Monday)
Didymus Mutasa , the Minister of Lands and Security of
Zimbabwe , admits in a court in Paris, France, that the
Mugabe government stole land from ten citizens of the Netherlands. If the government does not voluntarily compensate the citizens then they have the right to seize property owned by the Zimbabwean government of equal value.
(VOA)
The
Milan
Court of Appeal sentences
Giovanni Consorte ,
Ivano Sacchetti and
Emilio Gnutti to six months in jail for
insider trading in the
Unipol case.
(Rainews24)
Kenyan
President
Mwai Kibaki reappoints
Samuel Kivuitu as the head of Kenya's Electoral Commission ahead of the
2007 general election .
(BBC)
Georgian opposition parties choose
Levan Gachechiladze as their common candidate to challenge
President
Mikheil Saakashvili in the
2008 presidential election .
(BBC)
IBM announces it will buy
business intelligence firm
Cognos for US$5 billion.
(BBC)
A 16-year-old Spanish
anti-racism activist is killed during a
far-right anti-immigration protest in
Madrid .
(BBC)
The trial of
Yvan Colonna , a
Corsican
separatist accused of murdering former
Prefect of
Corse-du-Sud
Claude Érignac in 1998, opens in Paris.
(BBC)
Airbus and
Boeing both win a giant order of 100 planes from
Dubai Aerospace Enterprise , a
United Arab Emirates jet leasing corporation.
(BBC)
A new
government headed by the
Bharatiya Janata Party , India's main
opposition party , takes office in the state of
Karnataka .
(BBC)
Bank of America ,
Citigroup and
JPMorgan Chase agree to a US$75 billion plan designed to heal the
credit markets .
(BBC)
War in Afghanistan : The United States Army kills 15 insurgents and three civilians in the
Helmand Province .
(BBC)
Nigeria 's
State Security Service arrests a group of Islamic militants with suspected links to
al-Qaeda .
(BBC)
Thousands of
Fatah supporters gather in
Gaza to mark the third anniversary of
Yasser Arafat 's death.
Hamas security forces kill seven people and wound several.
(BBC)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency :
Russian
troops kill eight suspected
militants in
Makhachkala ,
Dagestan .
(BBC)
Ceferino Namuncurá is the first
indigenous
Argentinian to be
beatified by the
Roman Catholic Church . 100,000 people attend the ceremony in
Chimpay .
(BBC)
Four ships sink during a powerful storm in the
Sea of Azov and
Black Sea . 2,000
tonnes of
fuel oil are spilled into the
Strait of Kerch . Three sailors die and eight are missing.
(BBC)
Intel announces that it is using a
hafnium
compound instead of
silicon dioxide to insulate
transistors in its newly introduced
Penryn
microprocessor , eliminating power leakage through the
gate (but not through the
channel ).
(WSJ)
November 13, 2007 (2007-11-13 ) (Tuesday)
The
fossil of a new
prehistoric
great ape species, named
Nakalipithecus nakayamai , is discovered in
Kenya .
(BBC)
Turkish
helicopters bomb several
Kurdistan Workers Party positions in northern
Iraq .
(BBC)
21
Cameroonian soldiers are killed by unknown attackers in the
Bakassi peninsula.
(BBC)
Russian President
Vladimir Putin said that an overwhelming victory for
United Russia in the
legislative elections would give him the "moral right" to maintain a strong influence in the country.
(The Moscow Times)
In
France ,
rail workers and
Paris Métro personnel go on strike in the first wave of
public-sector strikes .
(Reuters)
An
explosion hits the south wing of the
House of Representatives of the
Philippines in
Quezon City , killing three people, including
Congressman
Wahab Akbar , and wounding 10.
(BBC)
Clean-up operations continue in the
Strait of Kerch after the
oil spill
disaster . Ten
ships have sunk, 2,000
tons of
fuel oil and 6,000 tons of
sulphur have been spilled, three
sailors have died and about 20 are missing.
(BBC)
Hamas security forces arrest 400
Fatah supporters after a rally to commemorate
Yasser Arafat 's death ended in gunfire.
(BBC)
The
President of Israel ,
Shimon Peres , meets the
President of Turkey ,
Abdullah Gül , in
Ankara , and he will also address the
Grand National Assembly of Turkey .
(BBC)
Danish
voters go to the polls for an early
parliamentary election called by
Prime Minister
Anders Fogh Rasmussen .
(BBC)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency : Backed by hundreds of police officers, the
Pakistani government again placed former Prime Minister
Benazir Bhutto under
house arrest to prevent a protest against President
Pervez Musharraf .
(NYT)
(BBC)
November 14, 2007 (2007-11-14 ) (Wednesday)
Strikes in France :
The 2007
National Book Awards go to
Denis Johnson (
Tree of Smoke ), fiction,
Tim Weiner (
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA ), non-fiction,
Sherman Alexie (
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian ), young people's literature, and
Robert Hass (
Time and Materials ), poetry.
(Reuters)
German
train drivers start a
62-hour train strike against
Deutsche Bahn , asking for a 31% pay increase.
(BBC)
The
European Parliament
far right bloc,
Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty , collapses after five
Romanian
MEPs resign following
Alessandra Mussolini 's claim that Romanians are "habitual law-breakers".
(BBC)
A 7.7-
magnitude
earthquake hits northern
Chile , near the town of
Calama . Two deaths and over a hundred injuries are reported.
(BBC)
President of
Ghana
John Kufuor is involved in a
car accident in
Accra , but is not hurt.
(BBC)
Hossein Mousavian , a former
Iranian
nuclear
negotiator , is charged with
espionage by Iran's
intelligence ministry. He allegedly gave
classified information to the
British
embassy .
(BBC)
Iraqi insurgency : A
roadside bomb kills two
civilians near
Baghdad 's
Green Zone .
(BBC)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency :
Danish prime minister
Anders Fogh Rasmussen's liberal-conservative government has secured a third term in office following
early parliamentary elections to the
Folketing .
(The Times)
High Speed 1 (formerly known as the Channel Tunnel Rail Link) opens for commercial use in Britain, linking London St. Pancras, which also opened for commercial use, to the
Channel Tunnel .
(BBC)
November 15, 2007 (2007-11-15 ) (Thursday)
Strikes in France :
French
transport workers'
strike against
President
Nicolas Sarkozy 's
pension reform enters its second day, but
energy workers and
CFDT members return to work.
(BBC)
German
train drivers extend their
strike action against
Deutsche Bahn , starting a 48-hour
passenger service strike.
(BBC)
The
United Nations
General Assembly
Third Committee approves a
resolution draft that calls for a
moratorium on the
capital punishment .
(Reuters)
The
City of Westminster
Magistrates' Court rules
Egyptian -born
Muslim cleric
Abu Hamza al-Masri can be
extradited from the
United Kingdom to the
United States , where he is accused of
terrorism .
(BBC)
A
New South Wales coroner concludes that a group of five journalists, known as the
Balibo Five , were deliberately killed by
Indonesian forces in 1975 in order to prevent them exposing Indonesia's 1975 invasion of
East Timor .
(AAP via stuff.co.nz)
Major League Baseball player
Barry Bonds is
indicted by a
federal
grand jury
in San Francisco for
perjury and
obstruction of justice , having allegedly lied under
oath about his use of
steroids .
(AP via ESPN)
Nuclear program of Iran :
The
Supreme Court of
Canada denies
asylum to
Jeremy Hinzman and
Brandon Hughey , two
United States soldiers who
deserted the
Iraq War .
(BBC)
Iraqi insurgency : The
United States
Army announces it has killed 25 insurgents in
Taji , but the
Taji Awakening Council says
airstrikes killed 45 pro-U.S. fighters.
(BBC)
A
Saudi Arabian
gang rape victim is sentenced to jail and 200
lashes for being in the car of an unrelated man.
(BBC)
Celestin Chibalonza, the governor of
Sud-Kivu , is
impeached for failing to curb violence and mismanaging finances.
(BBC)
The
United States
Treasury freezes all assets of the
Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation , claiming that it acts as a "front to facilitate fundraising" for the
Tamil Tigers .
(BBC)
The
execution of
Mark Dean Schwab in
Florida is suspended while the
United States
Supreme Court decides if
lethal injection is unconstitutional.
(BBC)
Powerful
aftershocks hit
Chile after the
Antofagasta earthquake , as
President
Michelle Bachelet visits the affected areas.
(BBC)
United Nations
human rights envoy
Paulo Sergio Pinheiro visits
political prisoners , including
Su Su Nway , in
Burma 's
Insein Prison .
(BBC)
Rift Valley fever kills at least 96 people in the
White Nile ,
Sennar and
Gazeera states of
Sudan .
(BBC)
The
Russian
Ground Forces shut down their last remaining base in
Georgia , located in the city of
Batumi .
(BBC)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency :
President of the
Palestinian National Authority
Mahmoud Abbas states in a speech that "we have to bring down"
Hamas .
(BBC)
Formed in the
Bay of Bengal ,
Category 4
Cyclone Sidr approaches the coastal districts of
Bangladesh , forcing tens of thousands of people to move away.
(BBC)
Farmway LRT station opened along the West Loop of the
Sengkang LRT line .
November 16, 2007 (2007-11-16 ) (Friday)
An
Airbus
A340-600 , scheduled to be delivered at
Etihad Airways ' base in
Abu Dhabi , crashes into a barrier at
Toulouse Blagnac International Airport during tests. Five people are injured.
(BBC)
Russia's deputy finance minister
Sergei Storchak , one of Russia's top officials on international financial relations, is detained as part of a criminal investigation.
(AP)
2007 Georgian demonstrations :
The
Nepali
Supreme Court rejects a plea for conducting a
Constituent Assembly election on November 22 saying the prescribed date is more of a
moral question rather than a
legal one.[
citation needed ]
Strikes in France :
French
train drivers '
strike against
President
Nicolas Sarkozy 's
pension reform enters its third day.
(BBC)
German
architect
Heike Hanada of
Weimar wins the international
competition for extending the
Stockholm Public Library .
(Dagens Nyheter)
(Asplund Competition)
The
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda sentences
Juvénal Rugambarara , the former
mayor of
Bicumbi , to 11 years in jail for crimes he committed during the
Rwandan Genocide .
(BBC)
United Nations
Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon holds talks with
Lebanese
political leaders , trying to break an
impasse over the election of the next
President .
(BBC)
The
German
train driver
strike enters its third day.
(BBC)
Turkish
prosecutors ask the
Constitutional Court to ban the Kurdish
Democratic Society Party , claiming it has links to the outlawed
Kurdistan Workers Party .
(BBC)
The
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe announces it will not be able to monitor the
2007 Russian legislative election since its staff has been denied
visas .
(BBC)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency :
Donald Tusk , leader of the
Civic Platform party, is sworn in as
Prime Minister of Poland in coalition with the
Polish People's Party .
(BBC)
Police in
Uttar Pradesh arrest three
Pakistani members of
Jaish-e-Mohammed who were plotting to
kidnap an
Indian politician.
(BBC)
Japanese
Prime Minister
Yasuo Fukuda flies to the
United States to hold talks with U.S.
President
George W. Bush .
(BBC)
The death toll from
Cyclone Sidr increases to 242 as the storm weakens and passes through the
Bangladeshi capital
Dhaka .
(BBC)
Former
Russian
frogman
Eduard Koltsov claims he killed
British
diver
Lionel Crabb while he was
spying on a
Soviet
warship in 1956.
(BBC)
U.S. Senator
John Kerry accepts
T. Boone Pickens ' one-million-dollar
Swift Boat challenge .
(AP)
November 17, 2007 (2007-11-17 ) (Saturday)
War in Afghanistan : Two
NATO
Canadian soldiers and an
interpreter are killed by a
roadside bomb in
Panjawi ,
Kandahar province. Three more soldiers are wounded.
(BBC)
2007 Burmese anti-government protests : The
State Peace and Development Council admits 15 people have died during the protests, while
United Nations envoy
Paulo Sergio Pinheiro meets with
ministers and
political prisoners , including
Win Tin .
(BBC)
Unicef announces
Mai-Mai forces have released 232 children they had abducted in
North Kivu ,
Democratic Republic of the Congo .
(BBC)
Cyclone Sidr : The death toll from the
cyclone rises to 2,000 after it hits central and southern
Bangladesh .
(BBC)
Algeria 's
People's National Army kills
Abdelhamid Sadaoui , the alleged
treasurer of
al-Qaeda in
North Africa , in
Tizi Ouzou ,
Kabylie ,
Algeria .
(BBC)
Kosovan voters go to the polls for a
parliamentary election , with
Hashim Thaci expected to win.
(BBC)
2007 Antofagasta earthquake :
Chile is hit by a magnitude 6.0
aftershock 41 miles northwest of
Antofagasta .
(Reuters)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency :
Russian prosecutors confirm the detention of Deputy Finance Minister
Sergei Storchak and two businessmen on suspicion of "attempting large-scale embezzlement from the Russian state budget through fraud".
(Interfax)
November 18, 2007 (2007-11-18 ) (Sunday)
Silvio Berlusconi ,
Italy 's former
Prime Minister , announces he will dissolve the
Forza Italia party and found a new one called
Freedom People's Party .
(BBC)
Japan resumes
whaling of
humpbacks for the first time in 40 years.
Greenpeace and other
environmentalist groups condemn the decision.
(BBC)
Cyclone Sidr :
Rescue efforts reach the most remote areas of
Bangladesh , as the death toll rises to 2,400 people.
(BBC)
2007 Burmese anti-government protests :
ASEAN
Secretary General
Ong Keng Yong says
Burma will not be suspended from the organization.
(BBC)
Hong Kong voters go to the polls in
District Council
elections , with pro-
Beijing
parties expected to recover.
(BBC)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency :
Venezuelan
President
Hugo Chávez opens the 2007
OPEC meeting in
Saudi Arabia , warning the
United States against attacking
Iran .
(BBC)
2007 Writers Guild of America strike :
Screenwriters announce they will resume
negotiations with
movie studios on November 26.
(BBC)
Cyclone Sidr :
Rescue efforts in
Bangladesh continue, with
helicopters and
ships being used to reach isolated areas.
(BBC)
28 people die in a
fire at a
Saudi Aramco
gas pipeline in
Hawiya ,
Saudi Arabia . Twelve more people are missing.
(BBC)
Strikes in France :
Transport workers
strike for the fifth consecutive day, rejecting an offer by public
railway company
SNCF .
(BBC)
George Charamba , the spokesman for
Robert Mugabe , the
President of Zimbabwe , says the Mugabe government is preparing for a British invasion.
(BBC)
Hashim Thaçi , a former rebel leader who has promised to declare
Kosovo 's independence if mediation efforts fail, declares victory for his party in the
parliamentary election .
(AP via Google News)
An
explosion in a coal mine in Zasyadko,
Ukraine , kills at least 63 people and leaves many more trapped below ground.
(BBC)
Jimmie Johnson wins his second straight
NASCAR
Nextel Cup championship for the
2007 season .
(NYT)
(Bloomberg)
(LA Times)
November 19, 2007 (2007-11-19 ) (Monday)
November 20, 2007 (2007-11-20 ) (Tuesday)
November 21, 2007 (2007-11-21 ) (Wednesday)
November 22, 2007 (2007-11-22 ) (Thursday)
Jordanian
King
Abdullah appoints
technocrat
Nader al-Dahabi as the new
Prime Minister .
(BBC)
Bangladeshi
feminist writer
Taslima Nasreen leaves
Kolkata after
riots against her in which at least 43 people were hurt.
(BBC)
Argentinian
defense minister
Nilda Garré sacks the head of
military intelligence ,
Brigadier General
Osvaldo Montero , for plotting to replace her.
(BBC)
Sri Lanka bans the
Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation charity, saying it "is funding the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ".
(BBC)
A
bomb attack on a
bus kills five people and hurts 12 in the
Russian republic of
North Ossetia-Alania .
(BBC)
England football coach
Steve McClaren and his deputy
Terry Venables are sacked after England lost 3-2 to
Croatia at
Wembley Stadium .
(BBC)
Danish Prime Minister
Anders Fogh Rasmussen says that
Denmark will hold
a new referendum on relinquishing its opt-outs , including an exemption from the
European
common currency , the
euro , during the next four years.
(AP via Google News)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency
The head of
IAEA ,
Mohamed ElBaradei , says the agency cannot be sure "about the absence of undeclared
nuclear material and activities" in
Iran .
(BBC)
A report by the
EMCDDA says the number of
cocaine users in the
European Union has increased by one million in one year.
(BBC)
Two
Iraqi
soldiers and eight members of the
Hawr Rajab Awakening Council are killed by
al-Qaeda
militants in
Hawr Rajab .
(BBC)
Aid agencies say they have reached all areas of
Bangladesh struck by
cyclone Sidr , but more aid is needed for the survivors.
(BBC)
Farid Babayev , a
Russian
politician with the
Yabloko party, is shot and seriously wounded in
Makhachkala ,
Dagestan .
(BBC)
Nur Hassan Hussein , head of the
Somali
Red Crescent and former
policeman , is named the new
Prime Minister of Somalia .
(BBC)
Despite talks between the
transport
workers , the
management and the
government , the
November 2007 strikes in France continue for a ninth day.
(BBC)
Tens of thousands of
Venezuelan
students march in
Caracas in two different rallies, one to oppose
Hugo Chávez and the other one to support him.
(BBC)
2008 United States presidential election :
November 23, 2007 (2007-11-23 ) (Friday)
Polish parliament speaker
Bronisław Komorowski said that Poland's new government is set to be the first to ratify the
EU 's
Reform Treaty .
(EUobserver)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency :
The term of
Lebanese
President
Émile Lahoud ends with no successor and a political dispute over who is in power.
(BBC)
A court in
Copenhagen , Denmark, convicts three men for plotting
terrorist attacks using
triacetone triperoxide .
(BBC)
An
Israeli
psychiatrist and
reserve
officer is charged with giving
classified information to
Iran , Russia and
Hamas .
(BBC)
The
Senate of
Nigeria declares the
handover of the
Bakassi
peninsula to
Cameroon was "illegal".
(BBC)
A bomb explosion kills at least 13 people and hurts 50 in the
Ghazil pet market of
Baghdad ,
Iraq .
(BBC)
The
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control finds that the
rate of new cases of
AIDS in Europe has doubled since 1999.
(BBC)
Louise Christian , the lawyer for
Alexander Litvinenko 's wife, reveals that the
polonium-210 that killed him probably came from a Russian
nuclear plant .
(BBC)
Many employees of
Paris Métro cross picket lines and return to work, defying the ongoing
public-sector strikes . Transit officials report near-normal operation.
(BBC)
Typhoon Mitag remains stationary but threatens the
Bicol Region , east of the
Philippines , and is expected to make
landfall in
Virac ,
Catanduanes tomorrow.
(GMANews.TV)
The
icebreaker /
cruise ship
MS Explorer sinks in the
Southern Ocean after striking an
iceberg . Everyone aboard is rescued.
November 24, 2007 (2007-11-24 ) (Saturday)
United States and Iraqi forces arrest at least 20 suspected
militants in
Kirkuk ,
Iraq .
(BBC)
An explosion at a petrol station kills four people and hurts at least 30 in Shanghai, China.
(BBC)
2007 UK child benefit data scandal :
HM Revenue and Customs confirms that a further six data discs have gone missing in transit between its offices in
Preston and London.
(BBC)
Polish Prime Minister
Donald Tusk declares that Poland should concentrate on getting its economy ready for
euro-zone entry as quickly as possible rather than setting a concrete target date to adopt the
euro .
(WSJ via Onet.pl) [
permanent dead link ]
12 people are killed when a students' union
rally turns violent in
Guwahati , India.[
citation needed ]
Wildfires in
Malibu, California , cause 100 homes in 3 separate communities to be evacuated. 250 acres (1.0 km2 ) of
state park land burned south of Malibu Lake.
(AFP via Google News)
Typhoon Mitag remains static over the
Philippine Sea but changes course, and is expected to make
landfall in
Aurora -
Isabela provinces of the
Philippines on Monday due to the very slow and unusual movement.
(BBC)
(GMANews.tv)
Russian
opposition leader
Garry Kasparov is arrested during a
The Other Russia rally in Moscow.
(BBC)
Pope Benedict XVI creates 23 new
cardinals in a ceremony in
St. Peter's Basilica in the
Vatican City .
(BBC)
At least six people, most of them children, are killed by a
suicide bomber in
Paghman ,
Afghanistan .
(BBC)
Australian federal election, 2007 :
2007 Pakistani state of emergency :
November 25, 2007 (2007-11-25 ) (Sunday)
At least eight
football fans die when part of the
Fonte Nova stadium in
Salvador de Bahia ,
Brazil , collapses.
(BBC)
Riots break out in the
Villiers-le-Bel and
Arnouville suburbs of Paris, France, after a car accident between a police car and a motorbike kills two teenagers.
(BBC)
Syria accepts a United States invitation to participate in the
2007 Mideast peace conference .
(BBC)
Croatia 's opposition
Social Democrats take a narrow lead on
in a close national election , according to exit polls, after a campaign fought over corruption, the economy and future
European Union membership.
(Reuters)
A
wildfire in
Malibu, California , destroys 51 structures, including 49 homes. The fire has also burned 4,720 acres (1,910 hectares) and caused the evacuation of 10,000 people. It is currently 40% contained, being fueled by
Santa Ana winds that gusted up to 60 mph (96 km/h) on November 24.
(Reuters)
Russia protests of 2007 :
2007 Pacific typhoon season :
The bodies of five
Singaporeans are found after their
dragon boat capsized two days ago at the end of a 1,500-metre
Cambodia -
ASEAN Traditional Boat Race event during the
Bon Om Thook races on the
Tonlé Sap in
Phnom Penh . 17 other members of the team survived.
(CNA)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency :
President of Georgia
Mikheil Saakashvili resigns his position to re-run for the
early presidential election scheduled in January 2008.
(Civil Georgia)
Police fire
tear gas and chemical-laced water cannon to disperse a
rally of approximately 30,000 people organized by
HINDRAF in
Kuala Lumpur .
(Al-Jazeera)
(Malaysiakini)
November 26, 2007 (2007-11-26 ) (Monday)
November 27, 2007 (2007-11-27 ) (Tuesday)
November 28, 2007 (2007-11-28 ) (Wednesday)
An explosion and fire southeast of
Clearbrook ,
Minnesota , kills two workers and forced the closure of a
pipeline that carries nearly a fifth of
U.S.
crude oil imports from
Canada .
(MarketWatch)
Striking
Broadway stagehands and producers reach a deal.
(WABC) [
permanent dead link ]
Arlington High School (LaGrange, New York) announces that a
Columbine-style attack on the school was thwarted by
New York State Police , who arrest three students.
(Poughkeepsie Journal)
Google announces plans to invest tens of millions of dollars on
renewable energy research, including
solar thermal power ,
wind power and
geothermal power .
(InfoWorld)
Ford Motor Company settles
class action
lawsuits in
California ,
Connecticut ,
Illinois and
Texas over 1991-2001 models of the
Ford Explorer .
(AP via Google News) [
permanent dead link ]
The
United States Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice announces that retired
United States Marine Corps General
James L. Jones will be a special envoy for
Middle East security.
(Reuters)
Harry Redknapp , the
manager of
Portsmouth F.C. , is one of five men arrested as part of an ongoing investigation of
alleged corruption in
British
football .
(The Times)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency :
A
suicide bomber blows herself up outside
Sri Lankan Minister's office, killing one and injuring two.[
citation needed ]
The
Chinese
Type 051B
destroyer Shenzhen visits
Tokyo in the first visit of a Chinese warship to
Japan since
World War II .
(AP via Google News)
Authorities in
Sudan charge a British school teacher at
Unity High School in
Khartoum with the crime of insulting
Islam for letting students name a
teddy bear
Muhammad .
(AP via Yahoo! News)
November 29, 2007 (2007-11-29 ) (Thursday)
November 30, 2007 (2007-11-30 ) (Friday)
Colombian authorities release seized videos of 16 hostages being held by the
FARC rebel group; these include former senator and presidential candidate
Íngrid Betancourt , last heard from in 2002, and three
U.S. defence contractors abducted in 2003.
(Independent)
The
Miami-Dade Police Department arrests four people in relation to the killing of
Washington Redskins player
Sean Taylor .
(AP via ABC News)
A man takes
hostages at
U.S. Senator
Hillary Clinton 's campaign office in
Rochester ,
New Hampshire . He has a package strapped to his
chest . The siege ends at 6pm with his arrest.
(Boston Channel)
(WMUR-TV)
(NYT)
Amtrak
Pere Marquette train #371 en route from
Grand Rapids, Michigan , to
Chicago, Illinois , collides with a parked freight train on the south side of Chicago, seriously or critically injuring five Amtrak employees and slightly injuring 100 to 150 of the 187 passengers on board.
(Fox News)
(AP via the Daily Herald)
Protesters in
Sudan demand execution of
Gillian Gibbons for insulting the prophet
Muhammad after she let students name a
teddy bear after him.
(BBC)
The wreckage of
Atlasjet Flight 4203 carrying 56 passengers and crew is found in central
Turkey with no survivors.
(BBC)
(Reuters via the Melbourne Age)
Wang Qishan resigns as the
Mayor of Beijing , being succeeded by acting Mayor
Guo Jinlong , who left his post in
Anhui .
(Xinhua)
DNA tests confirm that "Baby Grace", the deceased two-year-old found floating on
Galveston Bay in
Texas , is indeed
Riley Ann Sawyers . Earlier in the week, her mother and stepfather confessed to beating the child to death.
(Houston Chronicle)
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