Portal:Current events/2010 November 26
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Three armed men are killed in a shootout in the Russian republic. (rferl)
- A suicide bomb explodes at a rebel
Arts and culture
- marijuana possession. (AP via MSN)[permanent dead link]
Business and Economics
- Irish financial crisis. Widespread speculation that senior bondholders of Irish banks will have to take a "haircut" -- i.e. share in the costs of an EU bailout -- leads to downgrades in the credit worthiness of the institutions that hads the most at stake in the ballooning property values of recent years. (CNBC)
Disasters
- A third explosion within a week occurs at the Pike River Mine on the South Island of New Zealand, where 29 men are presumed dead. (ABC Australia)
International relations
- Korean peninsula:
- North Korea issues warnings about a planned exercise by South Korea and the United States this weekend. (Jerusalem Post)
- North Korea holds an shelled earlier this week. (Times of India) (Jerusalem Post)
- U.S. against performing any military acts within their exclusive economic zone, ahead of joint South Korean-U.S. military exercises aimed at threatening North Korea. (Reuters)
- Rafiq Hariri, and 21 others in a car bombing (Reuters Africa)
Law and crime
- A Victoire Ingabire, for another 30 days for prosecutors to complete building their case against her. (Bloomberg)
- Pakistani police arrest two Islamist militants planning a suicide bombing attack against a mosque and a government building in Islamabad. (UK Press Asscociation) (VOA)
- Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrest 149 people with links to al-Qaeda suspected of planning attacks on government officials and journalists. (Al-Jazeera)
- Authorities find the largest cache of homemade explosives ever discovered in the United States, in two houses near Escondido, California. (CNN) (Los Angeles Times)
- Human Rights Watch criticizes the punishment of Israeli soldiers who forced a Palestinian child to open bags thought to be booby-trapped as inadequate and a sign that the "Israeli military justice system will not seriously sanction soldiers convicted for offenses that are war crimes". (Human Rights Watch) (Press TV)
Politics
- A gunman opens fire at a Taiwan; prominent member Sean Lien is shot in the face. (Focus Taiwan News Channel) (The Independent)
- shelling of Yeonpyeong. (Yonhap)
- Donegal South–West constituency in the Irish parliament reducing the majority of Fianna Fáil and the Green Party to two. (BBC)
- judicial oversight. (BBC)