November 1, 2009 (2009-11-01 ) (Sunday)
At least two women are killed and six people trapped after a landslide in
Los Gigantes ,
Tenerife .
(The Daily Telegraph )
(RTÉ)
(Reuters)
(BBC)
South Sudan 's leader,
Salva Kiir , announces he will back the independence of the semi-autonomous region in a 2011 referendum.
(BBC)
(Al Jazeera)
A ship carrying 100 tons of
hydrochloric acid sinks in a section of the
Yangtze River in China's central
Hubei province after colliding with another vessel.
(AFP)
(Xinhua)
Nigeria 's main rebel group, the
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta , threatens to call off its ceasefire with the government if foreign oil companies do not leave their land.
(Al Jazeera)
At least 14 people are dead after
Typhoon Mirinae hits the
Philippines .
(CNN)
(Philippine Inquirier )
China's legislature sacks the country's education minister,
Zhou Ji , amid a
corruption scandal, replacing him with his deputy
Yuan Guiren .
(Times of India )
(Associated Press)
(Xinhua)
Six
Uyghurs detained at
Guantanamo Bay detention camp are released by the United States and resettled in
Palau .
(Associated Press)
(Press TV)
11 people are killed after a Russian military cargo plane belonging to the Interior Ministry crashes in
Yakutia .
(RIA Novosti)
(Press Trust of India)
The
West Atlas
oil rig that has leaked oil and gas for 10 weeks into the
Timor Sea catches fire after an attempt to plug the leak.
(BBC)
(The Australian ) [
permanent dead link ]
Several events are held to celebrate the
125th anniversary of the
Gaelic Athletic Association .
(RTÉ)
Afghan
Presidential candidate
Abdullah Abdullah pulls out of the
run-off election versus
Hamid Karzai due to concerns over the independence of
Azizullah Lodin , the head of the
Independent Election Commission .
(The Guardian )
Police in Italy detain two more suspected
mafia bosses, one day after the seizure of their brother in a raid near
Naples .
(BBC)
(France 24)
The composer and
pianist
Elton John postpones three more concerts on
The Red Piano Tour , this time in the United States, due to illness.
(BBC)
U.S. Republican Party candidate
Dede Scozzafava , who withdrew her bid for New York's
23rd Congressional District in the
House of Representatives Friday, endorses the
Democratic challenger.
(The New York Times )
November 2, 2009 (2009-11-02 ) (Monday)
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November 3, 2009 (2009-11-03 ) (Tuesday)
After 29 years of
decriminalized prostitution in the U.S. state of
Rhode Island ,
Governor
Donald Carcieri signs a bill into law outlawing prostitution.
(Providence Journal)
Voters
go to the polls in elections in the
United States for Governors of
Virginia and
New Jersey , special elections for
two Congressional districts , and several municipal elections.
(CNN)
Czech President
Václav Klaus signs the
Lisbon Treaty after it was upheld by the
Constitutional Court , thus fulfilling the final step in
its ratification .
(euronews)
(BBC )
North Korea says it has completed reprocessing 8,000 spent
nuclear fuel rods as part of its
nuclear program .
(CNN)
(Yonhap)
(Al Jazeera)
African countries boycott the
United Nations climate talks in
Barcelona ,
Spain , after saying goals set by industrialised countries are too low.
(Associated Press)
(Bloomberg)
Former
Bosnian Serb leader
Radovan Karadžić attends his war crimes trial for the first time after boycotting previous sittings.
(BBC)
(Al Jazeera)
(Reuters)
India 's
Supreme Court judges disclose their assets online.
(Indian Express )
(BBC)
(AFP)
China accuses the
Dalai Lama of damaging
Sino-Indian relations ahead of his visit to the disputed border region of
Arunachal Pradesh .
(Times of India )
(China Daily )
Dubai announces it is to appoint female
muftis for the first time in 2010.
(The National )
(Philippine Inquirer )
Two senior
United States officials arrive in
Burma for talks with the
military junta and
National League for Democracy leader
Aung San Suu Kyi .
(CNN)
(Xinhua)
Fiji expels envoys from
Australia and
New Zealand over alleged interference in the
country's judiciary .
(Fiji Times )
(AFP)
An
oil leak on the West Atlas oil rig in the
Timor Sea is plugged.
(The Australian )
(BBC)
A former
KGB agent,
Russian -
Israeli businessman Shabtai von Kalmanovic, is shot dead in
Moscow ,
Russia .
(The Guardian )
(RIA Novosti)
November 4, 2009 (2009-11-04 ) (Wednesday)
November 5, 2009 (2009-11-05 ) (Thursday)
November 6, 2009 (2009-11-06 ) (Friday)
November 7, 2009 (2009-11-07 ) (Saturday)
A
British tourist is shot dead by a masked gunman in the U.S. state of
Texas .
(The Guardian )
(BBC)
(The Times )
Saudi forces bomb a
Houthi rebel stronghold in northern
Yemen
for a third day .
(AP)
(Press TV)
Thousands of people in
Bermeo ,
Spain , demonstrate for the release of 36 Spanish fishermen being held by
Somali pirates .
(AFP)
At least two workers are killed after a bridge under construction collapses in
Andorra .
(euronews)
(IOL)
A
NATO airstrike kills 7 members of the
Afghan security force in the western province of
Badghis .
(CNN)
(Bangkok Post ) [
permanent dead link ]
Rival factions in
Madagascar agree to form a
unity government to end the
political crisis in the country.
(Xinhua)
(BBC)
Scientists in the
South Island ,
New Zealand , discover the first
dinosaur footprints in the country, thought to be 70 million years old.
(AFP)
(New Zealand Herald )
11 people are confirmed dead after the crashing of a
Russian military plane into the sea in the
Tatar Strait , in the far east of Russia, yesterday.
(AFP)
(RIA Novosti)
Voters in the
Northern Mariana Islands
go to the polls to elect the
governor ,
legislature and local
municipal offices.
(Marianas Variety )
Venezuela deploys 15,000 soldiers to its border with
Colombia .
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
(The Scotsman )
Two
Australian researchers compile new details on the dead from a
World War I battlefield in
Fromelles .
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
Lebanon 's political opposition agrees to join a unity government under Prime Minister designate
Saad Hariri .
(BBC)
Luigi Esposito , one of
Italy 's 30 most wanted men, is detained at a
villa in
Naples .
(BBC)
(ABC News)
Ecuador rations its electricity, leading to some blackouts in areas, including the capital
Quito .
(BBC)
Cuba removes peas and potatoes from its list of rationed foods but increases their prices.
(The Daily Telegraph )
Caracas is put under widespread water rationing for the first time in several years.
(The Washington Post )
Ashmolean Museum in
Oxfordshire , the UK's oldest museum, reopens after renovations.
(BBC)
(Heart Radio Oxfordshire)
(Kings Lynn News ) [
permanent dead link ]
November 8, 2009 (2009-11-08 ) (Sunday)
Venezuelan
President
Hugo Chavez tells the country's army and civilians to "prepare for war" with
Colombia .
(AP)
(Xinhua)
Sudan 's
President
Omar Hassan al-Bashir , indicted by the
International Criminal Court , cancels his trip to
Turkey .
(Hurriyet )
(Sudan News Agency)
(IOL)
(BBC)
El Salvador declares a state of emergency as
91 people drown from the effects of a coastal low.
(BBC)
(CNN)
(CBC)
The
21st summit of
APEC begins in
Singapore .
(Channel News Asia)
(Straits Times )
At least 13 people are killed and at least 35 are injured in a
suicide attack in
Adezai ,
Pakistan .
(Al Jazeera)
(Hindustan Times )
(BBC)
(Reuters India)
(RTÉ)
Speaking at
Sharm el-Sheikh 's
Forum on China-Africa Cooperation ,
China 's
Premier
Wen Jiabao , pledges $10 billion (£6 billion) loans to Africa over a three-year period, in order to increase
Sino-african cooperation .
(BBC)
(France 24)
(RTÉ)
(Bangkok Post ) [
permanent dead link ] (The Age )
North Korean leader
Kim Jong-il sacks a top TV official after
state television begins broadcasting advertisements, out of concern that they were "increasing the influence of
capitalism ".
(RTHK)
(Joongang Daily )
(The Independent )
Sharon Commins and her Ugandan colleague Hilda Kawuki are awarded the
Hugh O'Flaherty Humanitarian Award.
(RTÉ)
Thousands of people in
Okinawa ,
Japan protest, demanding the removal of a
U.S. military base.
(BBC)
(Reuters)
Police in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo arrest 100 people accused of killing dozens and displacing thousands in a conflict over fishing rights.
(IOL)
The
United States House of Representatives votes 220-215 to pass the highly debated
health care reform act .
(New York Times )
The
Dalai Lama begins a visit to
Tawang , in the disputed territory of
Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern
India , amid objections from
China .
(Indian Express )
(Hindustan Times )
(BBC)
Northern Mariana Islands general election, 2009 results are released
November 9, 2009 (2009-11-09 ) (Monday)
November 10, 2009 (2009-11-10 ) (Tuesday)
November 11, 2009 (2009-11-11 ) (Wednesday)
Raymond Jessup is sentenced to 10 years in prison for
sexual assault of an underage girl after the
April 2008 raid of the
YFZ Ranch in
Eldorado, Texas .
(UPI) .
Two bloggers from
Azerbaijan ,
Emin Milli and
Adnan Hajizade , are sentenced by a court for "hooliganism" in a restaurant scuffle linked to the posting of a satirical video dressed as a donkey on
YouTube that mocked government restrictions on civil liberties.
(BBC)
(Trend News Agency)
(Taiwan News )
A gold mining operation is investigated by
Chinese authorities after allegations it has damaged part of the
Great Wall of China in
Inner Mongolia .
(Xinhua)
(BBC)
(Times of South Africa )
Iran protests to
Oxford University 's
Queen's College over a scholarship in memory of the slain Iranian student
Neda Agha Soltan .
(AP)
Officials in
Brazil investigate the cause of a massive power cut which may have affected a fifth of the population and neighbouring
Paraguay .
(BBC)
(New York Times )
Yemen criticises "interference" by
Iran in the
conflict with
Houthi rebels in the country, after Iran criticised
Saudi Arabian
intervention in the conflict .
(Khaleej Times )
(Yemen News Agency)
(AFP)
Anti-monarchy protesters and riot police clash in
Montreal ,
Quebec , during a tour by
Prince Charles .
(Metro ) [
permanent dead link ] (The Daily Telegraph )
(CBC)
A Russian-born German man is sentenced to
life imprisonment for
fatally stabbing Marwa El-Sherbini in a court, an attack that caused uproar in the
Muslim world .
(AP)
(NY Times)
(Deutsche Welle)
The discovery of a new
dinosaur species, named
Aardonyx celestae , in
South Africa is announced.
(IOL)
(AP)
(AFP)
Cambodia rejects a request by
Thailand to
extradite ousted Thai
Prime Minister
Thaksin Shinawatra .
(Phnom Penh Post )
(Thai News Agency)
(BBC)
South Korean troops are put on high alert for possible retaliation after a
naval clash with
North Korea yesterday.
(Al Jazeera)
(AP)
Local government offices in southern
Nepal shut in protest after a senior local official is slapped by Deputy Agriculture Minister
Karima Begam .
(BBC)
(Telegraph Nepal )
(IOL)
For the first time since
World War I , the leaders of
Germany and
France appear together at a ceremony on
Remembrance Day to commemorate the end of the conflict.
(MSNBC)
The classic Yahoo homepage retired today.
November 12, 2009 (2009-11-12 ) (Thursday)
November 13, 2009 (2009-11-13 ) (Friday)
November 14, 2009 (2009-11-14 ) (Saturday)
New Zealand qualify for the
2010 FIFA World Cup for the first time since 1982, by defeating
Bahrain in a playoff billed as "the biggest sporting event ever staged in New Zealand" and the country's most attended football match ever.
(BBC)
(Arabnews)
U.S.
evangelist
Tony Alamo is sentenced to 175 years in prison for taking underage girls across several states for sexual intercourse.
(CNN)
(Telegraph.co.uk)
The
Ogaden National Liberation Front , a separatist
Somali rebel group in the southeast of
Ethiopia , says it has begun a new offensive.
(BBC)
(Ethiopian Review)
A
Peruvian court orders the arrest of two
Chilean military officers on charges of
spying , causing a diplomatic row between the two countries.
(AFP)
(BBC)
Two
Saudi soldiers are killed and five wounded
killed in fighting with
Houthi rebels in northern
Yemen .
(Press TV)
(Al-Sharq al-Awsat )
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(AFP)
More than 1,000
ultra-Orthodox
Jews demonstrate outside the offices of
U.S. firm
Intel in
Israel in protest at work taking place at the site on the Jewish
Sabbath .
(Jerusalem Post )
(Reuters)
(BBC)
A fire at a
shooting range in
Busan ,
South Korea , kills 10 people, including two
Japanese tourists, and injures six others.
(Korea Times )
(Japan Today)
(UPI)
Slovenia signs an agreement with
Russia to allow the
South Stream gas pipeline to Europe pass through the country.
(ITAR-TASS)
(Bloomberg)
Thousands of protesters demonstrate in
Taipei ,
Taiwan , against imports of certain
U.S. beef products.
(Radio Taiwan International)
(AFP)
(Taiwan News )
Several people are killed and dozens injured after an express train crashes near
Jaipur ,
India .
(NDTV)
(BBC)
(Indian Express )
The
United Nations chief of the
Food and Agriculture Organization completes a 24 hour
hunger strike in
Rome ,
Italy , ahead of a UN summit next week.
(AP)
At least 11 people are killed and 24 injured after a bomb explodes in
Peshawar ,
Pakistan .
(Al Jazeera)
(Geo TV)
(Brisbane Times )
The
Papal
ban on discussion of the
ordination of women priests is challenged by
Willie Walsh ,
Bishop of Killaloe , during his address to the
Association of European Journalists in
Dublin .
(RTÉ)
(BBC)
(The Irish Times )
The body of veteran
Slovenian
mountaineer
Tomaž Humar is located in the
Himalayas days after going missing whilst climbing
Langtang Lirung .
(The Irish Times )
(BBC)
Sweden returns 22 skulls taken by Swedish scientists from indigenous cemeteries in
Hawaii during the 19th century.
(BBC)
Russian authorities in
Perm detain three homeless males on charges of murder,
cannibalism and the unlawful selling of body parts to a
kebab shop.
(BBC)
(The Irish Times )
(The Times of India )
(ABC Online)
November 15, 2009 (2009-11-15 ) (Sunday)
November 16, 2009 (2009-11-16 ) (Monday)
Kevin Rudd , the
Prime Minister of Australia , apologises to the "forgotten Australians" raised in
orphanages and
foster homes during the twentieth century.
(The Australian )
NASA launches
Space Shuttle
Atlantis STS-129 at 1928 UTC (2:28pm EST), bringing supplies and the first two
ExPRESS Logistics Carriers to the
International Space Station .
(NASA)
At least 8 people are dead and dozens missing after a ferry collided with an oil barge in
Burma 's
Irrawaddy Delta .
(AP)
A
Zambian court clears journalist
Chansa Kabwela of
Zambia Post newspaper of pornography charges after she sent pictures of a woman giving birth in a hospital car park to President
Rupiah Banda in protest at the effects of a national strike.
(Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation)
(The Post )
(BBC)
U.S. President
Barack Obama arrives in Shanghai, China, and holds a town-hall-style meeting with students.
(AJNews) [
permanent dead link ]
The
United Nations "Hunger Summit" opens in Rome, Italy.
(AFP)
The
IAEA expresses concern after a late declaration of a
second nuclear site by
Iran .
(Al Jazeera)
(UPI)
One of the United Kingdom's most prolific rapists, known as the "
Night Stalker " who it thought to have struck more than 200 times, is charged with 22 offences against the elderly from 1992 to 2009.
(The Times )
Algeria deploys security at the
Egyptian embassy in
Algiers after Egyptian businesses are attacked in the capital, and security is also tightened in
Sudan ahead of a
World Cup play off between the two countries .
(BBC)
(Times of India )
The
United Nations is criticised after a poster that made reference to
China 's
internet censorship by the
OpenNet Initiative at an international conference focussed on Internet freedom in
Sharm El Sheikh ,
Egypt , is removed.
(BBC)
(CBC)
(AP)
Kosovo 's ruling party, the
Democratic Party of Kosovo , claims victory in local elections, the first since the
declaration of independence from
Serbia .
(Xinhua)
(Deutsche Welle)
November 17, 2009 (2009-11-17 ) (Tuesday)
November 18, 2009 (2009-11-18 ) (Wednesday)
November 19, 2009 (2009-11-19 ) (Thursday)
November 20, 2009 (2009-11-20 ) (Friday)
The
Large Hadron Collider , the largest
atom collider in the world, is restarted after a fourteen-month delay for repairs.
(The Daily Telegraph )
(BBC)
(Reuters)
Three political parties file a
motion of no confidence against
French Polynesian President
Oscar Temaru .
(Tahitipresse )
The
United States
Senate clears Senator
Roland Burris of legal wrongdoing in relation to his appointment to the Senate.
(WLS Chicago)
At least 100 people are killed and around 50,000 displaced in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo , with some fleeing to the
Republic of the Congo , in an ethnic conflict over fishing rights.
(BBC)
(Times LIVE ) [
permanent dead link ] (People's Daily )
Officials from the
United Kingdom ,
France ,
Germany ,
Russia ,
China and the
United States express "regret" at
Iran 's refusal to accept nuclear proposals.
(Reuters)
200
European
football matches are under investigation in a match-fixing inquiry, at least three from the
UEFA Champions League and 12 from the
UEFA Europa League as
Europe's biggest ever match-fixing scandal is revealed.
(BBC)
(IOL)
(Bangkok Post )
FIFA turns down the
Football Association of Ireland 's request for a rematch between
France and
Republic of Ireland , after a
controversial handball decided the
2010 FIFA World Cup
qualification playoff between the two countries.
(RTÉ)
(Sky News)
(CNN)
The
Iraq Football Association is suspended by
FIFA following government interference.
(FIFA)
35 people are injured and fire bombs are thrown after
Egyptian riot police clash with protesters at a demonstration outside the
Algerian embassy in
Cairo , following Egypt's defeat in a
World Cup qualifying playoff match .
(BBC)
(Ennahar )
Floods in Great Britain and Ireland :
The
Irish Defence Forces are deployed to assist civil authorities after widespread flooding hits the west and south of Ireland after the heaviest rainfall in over thirty years falls in one night. The worst affected areas are
Cork and
Galway , where there is widespread disruption to public transport and services and several major roads are closed. Lectures at
University College Cork are cancelled as the university is submerged.
(RTÉ)
(The Irish Times )
(Ireland Online)
Cumbria ,
England : A high volume of people, including one policeman, are declared missing, more than 200 people are rescued in
Cockermouth and a bridge collapses in
Workington during floods. The body of a policeman is later recovered.
(BBC)
Somalia announces it is to ratify the
United Nations
Convention on the Rights of the Child , leaving the
United States the only country not to ratify it.
(BBC)
Colombia accuses
Venezuelan troops of blowing up two border bridges between the two countries.
(Colombia Reports)
(El Universal )
(Al Jazeera)
At least five people are killed, including the gunman, and a further eight injured in a
spree shooting in
Saipan ,
Northern Mariana Islands .
(Saipan Tribune )
(BBC)
(AP)
MS Oasis of the Seas , the world's largest cruise ship, is officially unveiled at
Fort Lauderdale, Florida , live on an
American
morning television show .
(The Independent ) Brenda, a
transsexual named in a sex scandal involving former
Lazio governor
Piero Marrazzo , is found burned alive following a fire at her
Rome flat.
(BBC)
(The Daily Telegraph )
(Reuters)
Two fingers and a tooth belonging to astronomer
Galileo Galilei are located more than 100 years after their disappearance.
(BBC)
November 21, 2009 (2009-11-21 ) (Saturday)
November 22, 2009 (2009-11-22 ) (Sunday)
An
Algerian court acquits
Abdulli Feghoul , who had been detained at
Guantanamo Bay detention camp without trial for almost seven years.
(AP)
(BBC)
Efren Peñaflorida , who started a "pushcart classroom" in the
Philippines to provide education to poor children, is named the 2009
CNN Hero of the Year .
(The Philippine Star ) [
permanent dead link ] (UPI)
(CNN)
Three
Royal National Lifeboat Institution crew members are located "in good condition" after their boat capsizes off
County Wexford in
Ireland .
(RTÉ)
At least seven people are killed and more than 55 injured in a bombing in
Assam , northeastern
India .
(Times of India )
(Al Jazeera)
(UPI)
A 400
lb bomb partially explodes outside the headquarters of the
Policing Board in
Belfast ,
Northern Ireland . In another incident, three men are arrested after a shooting incident involving
PSNI officers in the border village of
Garrison ,
County Fermanagh .
(The Daily Telegraph )
(CNN)
(RTÉ)
Romanians go to the polls for the
first round of the presidential election and to vote on
proposed parliamentary reform .
(Agerpres)
(BBC)
Jeong Nam-gyu , one of
South Korea 's most prolific serial killers, commits suicide in his cell on death row.
(Joongang Daily )
(BBC)
(New York Times )
Former
Iranian
Vice President
Mohammad-Ali Abtahi who was sentenced to six years imprisonment in connection with the
June election protests is released on bail.
(Xinhua)
(AFP)
2009 Azerbaijan-Armenia negotiations in Munich :
Azerbaijan and
Armenia hold talks on the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Azerbaijan has warned that the meeting of presidents in
Munich will be "decisive" and that
its troops are ready to take the territory by force unless there is a breakthrough in negotiations.
(Reuters)
Debate is stoked over whether scientists have overstated the case for man-made
climate change after
computer hackers
break into a server at
University of East Anglia , the well-respected climate change research center.
(Wall Street Journal )
(Washington Post )
An
Indonesian
ferry carrying over 200 passengers sinks off the cost of
Sumatra .
(Jakarta Post )
(AFP via News Limited)
(China Daily )
The
United States Senate votes to allow a debate on the
healthcare reform bill . The debate is to begin on November 30, 2009.
(The Guardian )
(BBC News)
(Voice of America )
(MSNBC)
The number killed in
an explosion in
Heilongjiang province,
China rises to 92.
(BBC News)
(Reuters)
(Associated Press)
(New York Times )
November 23, 2009 (2009-11-23 ) (Monday)
Forty three people, including a local politician and about a dozen journalists, are killed in a
massacre in
Maguindanao ,
Philippines .
(The Philippine Star) [
permanent dead link ]
The first atom collisions have taken place in the
Large Hadron Collider at
CERN , near
Geneva ,
Switzerland .
(The Times )
(BBC News)
A second fire at an arms depot plant in
Ulyanovsk ,
Russia , kills at least eight people, 10 days after a
previous explosion at the same site .
(RIA Novosti)
(Al Jazeera)
The family of
Jean Charles de Menezes , who was mistakenly shot dead by the
Metropolitan Police in
London in 2005, reach a compensation deal with police, resolving "all litigation" between them.
(BBC)
India 's main opposition
BJP party condemns a leaked
Liberhan Commission report that implicated opposition figures in the destruction of the
Babri Mosque in 1992 by
Hindu nationalists .
(IBN)
(Times LIVE ) [
permanent dead link ] (BBC)
Voters in the
Northern Mariana Islands participate in the Commonwealth's first ever
gubernatorial runoff election between
Governor
Benigno Fitial and challenger
Heinz Hofschneider . Hofschneider had bested Fitial in the first round by just 8 votes on November 7, the closest gubernatorial election in history.
(Saipan Tribune )
The
war crimes trial of the
Khmer Rouge in
Cambodia hears its final arguments.
(Phnom Penh Post )
(CNN)
(Al Jazeera)
The world's largest mass immunisation against
yellow fever begins in
West Africa , targeting 12 million people.
(BBC)
21 bodies are discovered so far after a convoy of around 50 people including politicians, journalists and supporters is hijacked by dozens of armed gunmen in
Maguindanao , southern
Philippines .
(AP)
(Philippine Inquirer )
(GMA News)
Clashes break out between refugees from
Sri Lanka and
Afghanistan at an
Australian immigration centre on
Christmas Island .
(BBC)
(Xinhua)
(ABC News)
Flooding in Great Britain and Ireland
Relatives protest about the recent
mine disaster in China.
(Daily Mail )
(RTÉ)
(Reuters)
Chinese human rights activist
Huang Qi , who campaigned for the parents of the children killed in schools in the
2008 Sichuan earthquake , is sentenced to three years in prison for "illegally holding
state secrets ".
(BBC)
(AFP)
November 24, 2009 (2009-11-24 ) (Tuesday)
An appeal court in
Casablanca ,
Morocco , upholds a three year jail term against a human rights activist,
Chahib Khayari , for "offending the authorities" after accusing top officials of being involved in drug networks.
(Reuters)
(IOL)
Two
French charity workers are kidnapped in the
Central African Republic , in the latest in a series of kidnappings.
(IOL)
(Afrik.com) [
permanent dead link ]
Four people are killed in a helicopter crash off the coast of
Netanya in northern
Israel .
(Jerusalem Post )
(RTT News)
(Trend News Agency)
A nationwide public service strike involving medical staff, teachers and civil servants takes place in areas of
Ireland not badly affected by
recent ongoing flooding .
(The Irish Times )
(BBC)
(Irish Independent )
The
Government of Ireland announces a €10 million humanitarian fund for the worst affected by
ongoing floods in the country.
(RTÉ)
Over 1,500 complaints are received from
American viewers after a
gay kiss involving
Adam Lambert is televised during an awards ceremony.
(BBC)
Iran lifts a ban on one of its best-selling newspapers,
Hamshahri , a day after it was banned from publication after publishing a picture of a temple from the
banned
Baháʼí faith .
(Press TV)
(Reuters)
The trial of two
Congolese militia leaders,
Germain Katanga and
Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui , begins at the
International Criminal Court in
The Hague .
(BBC)
(Al Jazeera)
(AP)
Russian
President
Dmitry Medvedev orders an investigation into the death of an anti-corruption lawyer
Sergei Magnitsky who died in prison while awaiting trial on charges of
tax evasion .
(RIA Novosti)
(The Daily Telegraph )
The
European Parliament approves a major overhaul of telecommunications systems in the
European Union aimed at boosting the rights of mobile and internet users.
(AFP)
(euronews)
An
inquiry opens in the
United Kingdom over the country's involvement in the
Iraq War .
(BBC)
(CNN)
(Angola Press)
Pirates kill a
Ukrainian sailor after an oil tanker is attacked off the coast of
Benin .
(BBC)
(Press TV)
China executes two people for their role in the
tainted milk poisoning scandal .
(Xinhua)
(The Guardian )
(Al Jazeera)
In a tribute to
Hindu
goddess
Gadhimai , approximately 20,000 buffalo and 300,000 birds, sheep and goats are
ritually slaughtered in a
festival in
Bariyapur ,
Nepal .
(BBC)
(Times of India )
(CNN)
Philippine President
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declares a state of emergency in the entire
Maguindanao province in southern
Philippines following the bloodiest election-related
massacre in Philippine history which left at least 40 people dead, including a local politician and about a dozen journalists.
(ABS-CBN News)
Northern Mariana Islands gubernatorial election, 2009
Web browser
Opera closes a loophole which allowed
Chinese users to access websites
banned by the government .
(BBC)
Chilean
writer and
historian ,
José Arraño Acevedo dies at the age of 88.
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November 25, 2009 (2009-11-25 ) (Wednesday)
November 26, 2009 (2009-11-26 ) (Thursday)
November 27, 2009 (2009-11-27 ) (Friday)
A
Russian high-speed
passenger train traveling on the
Moscow – Saint Petersburg Railway
derails near
Uglovka in a suspected terrorist attack, killing 26 people and injuring more than 100.
(RIA Novosti)
(BBC)
Tiger Woods , the
world's number one
golfer , is hospitalised after sustaining injuries in a car crash in
Orlando, Florida ,
USA .
(The Daily Telegraph )
(BBC)
(The Irish Times )
The
World Health Organization reports a one-week global increase of more than 1,000 deaths (85% increase in Europe) from the
pandemic H1N1/09 virus .
(BBC)
(World Health Organization)
A ferry carrying over 1000 people
partially sinks in the
Tetulia river in southern
Bangladesh , trapping an unknown number of people.
(BBC)
(IOL)
(The Daily Star )
The
International Atomic Energy Agency passes a resolution 25-3 condemning
Iran for
developing a secret
uranium enrichment site.
(BBC)
(Xinhua)
(Press TV)
(RIA Novosti)
Vanuatu 's Prime Minister
Edward Natapei loses his parliamentary seat after he missed three consecutive sittings without submitting an explanation.
(AFP)
(BBC)
(Xinhua)
Voters in
Namibia vote in a
general election .
(The Namibian )
(Al Jazeera)
(AFP)
At the
Khmer Rouge
war crimes trial ,
Kaing Guek Eav , known as Duch, pleads to be released.
(Phnom Penh Post )
(AP)
Great Britain and Ireland floods :
Multibillion-dollar debt problems of
Emirati
investment company
Dubai World , including the possibility of
default , upset markets worldwide.
(MarketWatch)
The
China National Space Administration sets a launch date of October 2010 for
Chang'e 2 , its second lunar orbiter.
(AP)
The
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2009 opens with the following issues on its agenda: discussion of climate change ahead of the December
United Nations Climate Change Conference ;
Rwanda 's admission into the
Commonwealth of Nations ; and
Sri Lanka 's bid to host the 2011 meeting.
(BBC)
South Korea 's
Truth and Reconciliation Commission acknowledges the government's execution of 5,000 civilians accused of sympathizing with
North Korea during the early months of the
Korean War .
(Los Angeles Times )
The
Ugandan parliament passes a controversial land bill, criticised by the
Buganda kingdom .
(Daily Monitor )
(BBC)
(New Vision )
Franz Josef Jung resigns as
Germany 's
Minister of Labour and Social Affairs following allegations of covering up the
Kunduz airstrike , during which he served as
Minister of Defence .
(Deutsche Welle)
(BBC)
President of the European Commission
José Manuel Barroso nominates a
new team of commissioners for his second five-year term.
(BBC)
(The New York Times )
Space Shuttle Atlantis returns to Earth following the completion of its
STS-129 mission.
(Reuters)
A mass
shooting at a
Thanksgiving party in
Jupiter ,
Florida ,
United States kills four people and critically wounds a fifth.
(CNN)
November 28, 2009 (2009-11-28 ) (Saturday)
November 29, 2009 (2009-11-29 ) (Sunday)
November 30, 2009 (2009-11-30 ) (Monday)
A court in
Argentina blocks
Latin America 's first
gay marriage , overturning an earlier ruling, saying the
Supreme Court should decide on its constitutionality.
(Buenos Aires Herald )
(AFP)
(BBC)
On
St. Andrew's Day , the
Scottish Government concludes the
National Conversation into Scotland's constitutional future by publishing a
white paper for their proposed
referendum on independence .
(The Independent )
(Scotland.gov.uk)
Officials in
Equatorial Guinea announce that incumbent President
Teodoro Obiang Nguema won the
presidential election with 96.7% of the vote, as the opposition claims irregularities.
(AFP)
(Press TV)
In a major provincial leadership reshuffle in the
People's Republic of China ,
Lu Zhangong was appointed secretary of the
Henan CPC Provincial Committee, replacing
Xu Guangchun .
Sun Chunlan was appointed secretary of the
Fujian CPC Committee. Former Jilin Party chief
Wang Min was appointed secretary of the Liaoning CPC Committee, replacing
Zhang Wenyue . Former Minister of Agriculture
Sun Zhengcai took over as Party chief of Jilin Province. And former governor of
Hebei
Hu Chunhua was appointed Party chief of
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, replacing
Chu Bo , who retired.
(Xinhua)
An explosive device goes off under a train travelling from
Tyumen ,
Russia , to
Baku in
Azerbaijan , in the northern
Caucasus republic of
Dagestan .
(RIA Novosti)
(Azeri Press Agency)
(Times of India )
Three
Spanish aid workers are kidnapped in northern
Mauritania , after they became separated from an aid convoy.
(CNN)
(The Guardian )
Former rebel leader
Agathon Rwasa , of the
National Liberation Forces in
Burundi , is selected as a candidate in next year's presidential election.
(Reuters)
(BBC)
A
new railway station opens in
Workington , providing a link across the
River Derwent after all but one of the bridges in the town were put out of action by
floods .
(BBC)
John Demjanjuk goes on trial in
Munich accused of war crimes relating to the killing of 27,000
Jews in the
Holocaust .
(Deutsche Welle)
(BBC)
(Reuters)
(Sydney Morning Herald )
The
Large Hadron Collider sets a new world record for particle accelerations.
(The Times )
(BBC)
(The Daily Telegraph )
Police in
Seattle report that the suspect,
Maurice Clemmons , shot in the
murder of four police officers in
Parkland, Washington , is on the run.
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer )
Argonne National Laboratory announces that
nanodiscs , made from an
iron -
nickel
alloy and subjected to a
magnetic field , destroy 90 percent of
cancer cells in tests.
(AFP)
(Scientific American )
Philippine President
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo announces she will
run for Congress.
(ABS-CBN News )
A study in the journal Pediatrics indicates that if a child is diagnosed with autism early, intervention can raise IQ levels while improving language skills and behavior.
(CNN )
