Portal:Current events/2010 November 23
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Shelling of Yeonpyeong:
- North Korea shells Yeonpyeong island, South Korea at 14:34 local time in response to South Korean shelling close to the North Korean border during military drills. The North's shelling kills two marines and prompts a military response by the South in one of the most serious clashes since the 1953 armistice of the Korean War. (YTN Television) (BBC) (Yonhap) (China Daily)(The Sun UK)
- The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta claims responsibility for the destruction of an oil pipeline feeding a refinery in the Niger Delta. (AFP via Google News) (CNN)
Arts and culture
Business and economy
- Qantas announces that its fleet of Airbus A380 superjumbos will start returning to service on Saturday. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- A SAP AG must pay Oracle Corporation $1.3 billion for copyright infringement, the largest ever damages payment for copyright infringement. (Bloomberg)
Disasters
- Cambodia declares a day of mourning for at least 378 people killed in a stampede in the capital Phnom Penh. (BBC)
- At least seven bodies are recovered following a mine collapse in Suriname. (Jamaica Observer)
Home Video
- Beauty and the Beast: Diamond Edition on 2-Disc DVD
International relations
- A Saudi woman accused of torturing her Indonesian maid is sent to jail while the maid is hospitalised, in a case that has caused tensions between the two countries. (AFP via Google News)
- The Gambia severs diplomatic and economic relations with Iran and orders Iranian government representatives to leave within 48 hours. The Gambia has given no reason for the move. (BBC) (Reuters)
- China. (BBC)
Law and crime
- mutiny in February 2009. (Xinhua)
Politics and elections
- The Irish financial crisis:
- Brian Cowen, the Taoiseach, claims in Dáil Éireann that he is "not clinging to power". (RTÉ)
- One of Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey's many offices is targeted with graffiti. (The Irish Times) (RTÉ)
- Morgan C Jones, actor and satirist from Dublin, announces a "you're fired" protest against the government for Dáil Éireann on Thursday. (The Irish Times)
- The opposition Labour Party grants its leader Eamon Gilmore "a free hand to take any initiative he deems appropriate over the coming days". (RTÉ)
- A candidate in a general election now due to occur in January. Some islands voted in the by-election yesterday. (RTÉ)
- Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is reunited with her son for the first time in a decade. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- King Abdullah II of Jordan commissions the Prime Minister Samir Rifai to form a new government following recent elections. (Bloomberg)