Portal:Current events/2010 November 19
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Eleven people are killed in clashes between the rival al-Shabaab and Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a groups in central Somalia. (Press TV)
- A police officer dies in hospital after a suspected militant attack in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan. (RIA Novosti)
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- Responding to
- The war in Afghanistan. (The Washington Post) (AFP via Google)
- Namibia's main airport during loading of a flight to Munich was part of a security test, a day after German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière issued a warning of possible terror attacks next week. (Reuters) (MSNBC)
Arts and culture
- United States federal judge William Terrell Hodges orders actor Wesley Snipes to surrender to authorities so that he can start a three year sentence for tax-related crimes. (AP via Huffington Post)
Disasters
- Twenty-nine Pike River Coal Processing Plant at Atarau in the Grey District of the South Island of New Zealand. (Stuff.co.nz) (Sydney Morning Herald) (The Australian) (AFP via Yahoo! News) (BBC)
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- Residents of Los Angeles come under attack from rabid bats carrying a deadly disease. (BBC)
International relations
- Prime Minister EurAsEC Interstate Council. (premier.gov.ru)
- France rejects a demand by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb to leave Afghanistan in return for the freeing of French and African hostages kidnapped in Niger. (Al Jazeera)
- India summons the Iranian chargé d'affaires to protest against remarks by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei regarding Kashmir. It also abstains on a vote on Iranian human rights for the first time. (Times of India)
- NATO summit
- NATO agrees to extend its missile defence system. (Al-Jazeera)
- The UN General Assembly's human rights committee criticizes Iran for human rights abuses; Iranian diplomat Mohammad-Javad Larijani calls the UN censure a "politicization” of human rights. (Sify) (CNN) (UK Press Association)
- Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, says that cultural genocide is taking place in Tibet, particularly in light of the Chinese authority’s requirement of Mandarin as the language of instruction in schools in Tibet. (Hindustan Times)
- Demonstrators outside the migrant workers after a Saudi Arabian employer kills an Indonesian maid and another maid was severely beaten by her Saudi employer; the Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa summons the Saudi Arabian ambassador to protest. (The Jakarta Post) (CNN)
- Panama grants asylum to María del Pilar Hurtado, the former head of Colombia's Administrative Department of Security wanted for allegedly illegal wiretapping. (BBC)
- Major fishing nations meet in Paris to discuss quota limits for fishing of the critically endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna; many nations are urging that lower fishing rates are needed.(Reuters)
Politics
- The general election, defeating the incumbent Democratic Party. Henry Puna will become the next Prime Minister. (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Hundreds of people demonstrate in Malawi against a pension bill that would raise the retirement age of women to 55, and 60 for men. (BBC) (African Press Agency)[permanent dead link]
- Anti-government red shirt protesters return to the streets in Thailand. (Reuters) (Thai News Agency)
- Mahinda Rajapakse is sworn in for a second term as President of Sri Lanka in Colombo. (AFP via Google News)
- British Conservative Party politician Lord Young resigns as the coalition government's enterprise adviser after claiming that most Britons "have never had it so good" in spite of the recession. (BBC)