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Flash floods on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia during the hajj pilgrimage leave 77 dead and hundreds missing.
Wolfgang Schneiderhan (pictured), the Chief of Staff of the German Bundeswehr, resigns over allegations that he withheld information in the aftermath of the Kunduz airstrike.
The Murphy Report, the result of an investigation into sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin, is published.
The investment company Dubai World, owned by the Dubai government, asks creditors for a six-month moratorium on its US$59-billion debt.
More than 300,000 animals are ritually slaughtered in Gadhimai festival in southern Nepal amid controversy, in the world's largest animal sacrifice.

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November 27, 2009 (Friday)

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)
Members of the International Atomic Energy Agency vote 25–3 to censure Iran for constructing a second uranium enrichment plant. (The New York Times) (Voice of America)
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. (BBC)

November 27, 2009 Wikinews articles

77 dead after flooding in Saudi Arabia

November 26, 2009 (Thursday)

All pleas to halt British hacker Gary McKinnon being extradited to the United States to face trial for breaking into NASA and military computers looking for UFO evidence fail as UK Home Secretary orders his extradition. (The Daily Telgraph)
The Namibian National Society for Human Rights announces it will approach the High Court after the electoral commission withdraws its observer status for the general election on Friday. (The Namibian) (BBC)
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) labels the Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines the "single deadliest event for the press" ever documented. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
The Supreme Court in Bogotá convicts and sentences former general Jaime Uscátegui to 40 years in prison for his role in the Mapiripán Massacre in 1997 by far right militias. (The Guardian) (Colombia Reports)
A report commissioned by the Irish government finds that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin covered up widespread sexual abuse of children by priests until the mid 1990s. (Irish Times) (Reuters) (BBC)
Floods in Saudi Arabia kill around 77 people in Jeddah, Rabigh and Mecca, and a further 351 are missing in the heaviest rainfall in years. (AFP) (Saudi Gazette)
Germany's army chief Wolfgang Schneiderhan resigns over allegations of a cover up related to a September NATO airstrike in northern Afghanistan. (Deutsche Welle) (Xinhua)
South Korea's Constitutional Court strikes down a decades old law that punished men for making false promises of marriage to engage in sexual relations with women. (Yonhap) (Korea Herald) (Times of India)
A gunman attacks the University of Pécs in southern Hungary, killing one and injuring at least three people. (BBC) (Caboodle.hu)
Ceremonies are held in India to mark the first anniversary of a series of attacks in Mumbai by Pakistani militants which killed 166 people. (Hindustan Times) (BBC) (The Guardian)
China unveils its first firm target to cut greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of a United Nations summit in Copenhagen next month. (Xinhua) (The Times) (Reuters)
Police in Hong Kong attempt to find the founder of a Facebook group whose members claim to have planned to commit a mass suicide on December 21. (IOL) (China Daily) (Radio Television Hong Kong)
Citizens of St Vincent and the Grenadines reject a new constitution which would have replaced Queen Elizabeth II with a president as Head of State. (Antillean) (Caribbean News Agency)

November 26, 2009 Wikinews articles

November 25, 2009 (Wednesday)

President of French Polynesia Oscar Temaru is ousted in a motion of no confidence by the Assembly of French Polynesia. The Assembly elects Gaston Tong Sang as president. Gaston returns to power just nine months after leaving office. This is the eleventh new government in five years. (Radio Australia)
Dubai World, the state-owned real-estate and ports giant, asks for a moratorium on its 59 billion US dollars' in debt until at least May 30, 2010. (Bloomberg)
Two journalists kidnapped more than a year ago in Somalia, an Australian and a Canadian, are released. (AP) (ABC News)
Five people are killed at a rally demanding secession in Shabwa, southern Yemen. (Reuters) (BBC) (Xinhua)
A court in Pakistan charges seven suspects in connection with the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai. (Al Jazeera) (Hindustan Times) (AFP)
Prosecutors in the trial of a former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav request a 40 year prison sentence. (Phnom Penh Post) (AP) (Press TV)
Maguindanao massacre
- Philippine police name a political ally of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as prime suspect in the Maguindanao massacre. (ABS-CBN News)
- The Philippine National Police take full control of the province of Maguindanao to prevent an escalation of violence. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

November 25, 2009 Wikinews articles

November 24, 2009 (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)
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 Baha'i 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
- In the Northern Mariana Islands' first ever runoff, incumbent Governor Benigno Fitial of the Covenant Party leads Republican Party Rep. Heinz Hofschneider by 501 votes. (Saipan Tribune)
- An estimated 1,200 absentee ballots still need to be counted before a winner is declared on December 7, 2009. (Saipan Tribune)
Web browser Opera closes a loophole which allowed Chinese users to access websites banned by the government. (BBC)

November 24, 2009 Wikinews articles

November 23, 2009 (Monday)

Forty three people, including a local politician and about a dozen journalists, are killed in a massacre in Maguindanao, Philippines.(The Philippine Star)
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) (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
- Residents in Cockermouth, Cumbria, begin returning to their homes; meanwhile, the search resumes for a missing woman swept away near Brecon, Powys. (BBC) (BBC)
- Taoiseach Brian Cowen visits Ireland's worst hit areas in the recent flooding. (RTÉ)
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 23, 2009 Wikinews articles

November 22, 2009 (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) (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 400lb 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 22, 2009 Wikinews articles

November 21, 2009 (Saturday)

Protestors gather at the French Embassy in Dublin in a continuation of the dispute with FIFA over the controversial handball incident in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying match between France and Republic of Ireland. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times) (BBC)
President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak says on national television he will not tolerate the "humiliation" of Egyptian nationals abroad following the riots between Algeria and Egypt over a qualifying match for the 2010 World Cup. (BBC)
Italian police arrest two Pakistani nationals suspected of providing logistical support to the group responsible for the attacks in Mumbai in 2008. (The Hindu) (Reuters) (BBC News)
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Pope Benedict XVI agree to "seek closer relations" in a meeting in Rome. (BBC News) (The Daily Telegraph) (Associated Press)
Prime Minister Gordon Brown travels to Cumbria to meet victims of the recent floods that have affected the area. (BBC News)
Ireland's Emergency Co-Ordination Committee meets to discuss the flooding. Green Party leader and Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government John Gormley visits the scene of the worst damage in Cork and describes it as "a once in 800 years event". (RTÉ) (The Irish Times) (Sky News) (The Straits Times)
U.S. President Barack Obama's job approval rating slips below 50 percent in a daily tracking survey by Gallup poll. (Reuters)
Ireland's main opposition party Fine Gael reaches its highest ever level of support in the latest Red C opinion poll to be published in The Sunday Business Post. (RTÉ)
New research concludes that Homo floresiensis, discovered in 2003, is a distinct species and not a previously known species with dwarfism or microcephaly. (The Daily Telegraph) (U.S. News)
Sri Lanka's government announces that Tamil refugees held in camps since the end of the conflict with the Tamil Tigers will be free to leave the camps next month. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (The Island)
A gas blast at a coal mine in Heilongjiang province, northeastern China, kills 42 people and traps 66. (BBC) (Xinhua)(AP)
The Netherlands win the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song "Click Clack" by Ralf Mackenbach. (NOS)

November 21, 2009 Wikinews articles

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Economic Automotive industry crisis Financial crisis Worldwide recession Medical H1N1/09 flu pandemic West African meningitis outbreak HIV/AIDS in Africa Scientific Expedition 21 STS-129 November 2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods Political Health care reform debate Honduran constitutional crisis Maguindanao massacre Nigerien constitutional crisis edit sidebar

Recent deaths
November 24: Samak Sundaravej 22: Billy Joe Daugherty 22: Ali Kordan 22: Juan Carlos Muñoz 21: Konstantin Feoktistov 20: Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi 20: Lino Lacedelli 20: Celso Pitta 19: Daul Kim 18: Jeanne-Claude 16: Robert J. Frankel 16: Edward Woodward 15: Antonio de Nigris 15: Pierre Harmel 15: Patriarch Pavle of Serbia 13: Bruce King 12: Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer 10: Gheorghe Dinica 10: Robert Enke 10: Tomaž Humar 10: John Allen Muhammad 8: Vitaly Ginzburg edit sidebar

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Africa / Middle East Fourth Chadian Civil War Iraq War Israeli–Palestinian conflict Maghreb insurgency Niger Delta conflict Sa'dah insurgency Somali Civil War Turkey–PKK conflict Asia War in Afghanistan Balochistan conflict Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir Insurgency in the Philippines Ethnic conflict in Nagaland Naxalite-Maoist insurgency War in North-West Pakistan South Thailand insurgency Americas Colombian Civil War Mexican Drug War edit sidebar

Elections
Recent November 7: Northern Mariana Islands, Governor and Legislative 10: Moldova, President (indirect) 22: Romania, President (1^st Round) and constitutional referendum 23: Northern Mariana Islands, Governor (2^nd Round) 25: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, constitutional referendum Upcoming: November 27–28: Namibia, General 29: Equatorial Guinea, President 29: Honduras, General 29: Switzerland, Referendum 29: Uruguay, President (2^nd Round) edit sidebar

Trials
Recently concluded Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi Canada: Larry O'Brien New Zealand: Clayton Weatherston Peru: Alberto Fujimori Sweden: The Pirate Bay Republic of China: Chen Shui-bian United States: James Charles Kopp, Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Phil Spector, Bernard Madoff, William J. Jefferson Ongoing Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal China: Organized crime in Chongqing France: Church of Scientology Germany: Heinrich Boere Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal Italy: Raffaele Sollecito, Amanda Knox Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY) Palau: Tommy Remengesau Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra United States: Jena Six Upcoming Germany: John Demjanjuk Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein United Kingdom: Allen Stanford United States: Viktor Bout, Noshir Gowadia, Ehren Watada, Sheila Dixon, Joseph Bruno edit sidebar

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