Portal:Current events/2010 November 22
Disasters
- An army robot encounters water and breaks down 550 metres into the Pike River Mine in New Zealand where 29 miners are missing, but drilling of a shaft continues to allow air sampling. (The New Zealand Herald) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- All 29 Chinese miners trapped in the flooded Batian mine in Sichuan Province are rescued. (AP) (China Daily)
- At least Bon Om Thook (Khmer Water Festival) celebrations in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (BBC) (Xinhua) (AP) (Reuters)
International relations
- South Korean Defense Minister
- bill requiring a special parliamentary majority or a referendum before Israel could relinquish the Golan Heights or east Jerusalem for a peace deal. (BBC) (The Jerusalem Post)
Law and crime
- Ten pirate trial in 400 years. (Deutsche Welle) (Al Jazeera)
- Former Vice President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Jean-Pierre Bemba, goes on trial for crimes against humanity and war crimes at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. (IOL) (CNN)
- Chinese authorities begin a search for a batch of melamine-tainted products in Hubei. (Xinhua) (AFP via Google News) (RTHK)
- A Washington D.C. jury convicts Chandra Levy. (The Washington Post)
- CBC News leaks a suggestion that Hezbollah may have been responsible for the murder of Rafic Hariri. (CBC)
Politics and elections
- Irish financial crisis:
- Brian Cowen, the Taoiseach, states that he will call an early election once the Oireachtas passes an emergency budget to tackle the financial crisis. (The New York Times)
- Protesters, including TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh, gather in Dublin. Some enter Government Buildings. Protesters are struck with batons while trying to sit down. (The Irish Times)
- Former
- The visa to see her. (BBC) (Sify India)
- Minoru Yanagida resigns as the Japanese Minister of Justice for joking about how easy his job was. (BBC) (Japan Today)
Sport
- Canadian baseball player Most Valuable Player of the National League in Major League Baseball in an almost unanimous vote. (Major League Baseball)
- Brad Childress is sacked as head coach of the Minnesota Vikings National Football League team. (AP)