Portal:Current events/2010 November 24
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Shelling of Yeonpyeong:
- The bodies of two civilians killed in the attack are discovered on
- South Korea suspends flood aid to North Korea following the attack. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
Arts and culture
- Debut novellist Amy Sackville wins the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her novel The Still Point.
Business and economy
- Workers in Portugal hold a general strike to protest against proposed cuts to wages. (BBC)
- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visits Moscow and meets with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Chinese companies sign deals worth over $8.6 billion with Russian counterparts. (AFP via Yahoo! Finance)
- Don Chu, an executive of a hedge fund networking fund Primary Global Research, is arrested on insider trading charges in the United States. (Reuters)
- Ireland unveils a 15 billion euro austerity package to secure a bailout from the financial crisis. (Sydney Morning Herald)
- American unemployment rates. (Democracy Now!) (CNN)
Disasters
- 29 miners in a are confirmed dead after a second explosion, following a first explosion on November 19 which trapped them. (TVNZ) (3 News), (Sydney Daily Telegraph)
- An Australian Government report on the Montara oil spill blames it on oil rig operator PTTEP. (AP via Forbes)
- The 2010 Haiti cholera outbreak could reach more than 200,000 in the next three months. (AFP via Google), (BBC)
Law and Crime
- Former conspiracy in relation to Republican fundraising for the 2002 Texas state elections. (CNN) (Reuters)
- drug traffickers. (BBC)
Politics and elections
- One protester is killed during clashes between riot police and
- presidential election with 81% of the vote. (Times Live South Africa)
- Protests occur in Afghan parliamentary election. (Reuters)
- UK Independence Party MEP Godfrey Bloom is expelled from the chamber of the European Parliament after calling German Socialist MEP Martin Schulz an "undemocratic fascist". (BBC) (The Independent)
- tuition fees and cuts to higher education funding. (BBC)