Portal:Current events/2004 November 26
Appearance
- A anti-viral drugs. (TheDenverChannel)
- Pakistani President Palestinian disputes, which he sees as root causes of terrorism by Muslims. (Reuters)[permanent dead link]
- Ukraine presidential election, 2004:
- The Russian Federation. Several more regions, including Donetsk, have ruled to put autonomy on popular referendum.
- Supporters of opposition leader Kiev Friday, in a direct challenge to the Moscow-backed government's control of the country. (Reuters)[permanent dead link]
- Russian President Vladimir Putin said after a summit meeting with the European Union that the results of the Ukrainian presidential elections are absolutely clear. (AFP)
- Ukrainian President Aleksander Kwasniewski, Lithuanian president Valdas Adamkus and Russian parliament speaker Boris Gryzlov. Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko has requested a new vote to be held on December 12 (BBC)
- The
- School of Government, theorizes that the level of political freedom, not poverty, explains terrorism. Areas with intermediate levels of political freedom experience the most terrorism, while societies with high levels of political freedom or authoritarian regimes have low levels of terrorism. (PDF) (Harvard Gazette)
- People are evacuated from Manam in northern Papua New Guinea during eruption of the island's volcano. (New Zealand Herald)[permanent dead link] (Scotsman) (SwissInfo)
- In one of Canada's largest same-sex partners died after April 1985 are entitled to Canada Pension Plan survivors' benefits. (CBC News)
- The director for the western region of the Spanish Flu killed up to 40 million people.) The new virus is likely to develop out of avian influenza. (Reuters)
- PLO chairman, as its candidate for January's presidential elections. (BBC) (Reuters) Archived 2004-12-23 at the Wayback Machine
- The separatist movement. (BBC)
- Over 8,000 landless activists, including the Landless Workers' Movement (MST), march on Brasília, Brazil, to demand the speeding up of land reform promised by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. (Reuters) Archived 2005-04-11 at the Wayback Machine
- The Pakistani army states they find no evidence Osama bin Laden is hiding in the mainly tribal border with Afghanistan after combing through the area. (Reuters) Archived 2005-04-11 at the Wayback Machine
- A man kills eight and injures four people with a knife at a Chinese high school in Ruzhou, Henan. (BBC) (Xinhua)