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- Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's former Prime Minister, announces he will dissolve the Forza Italia party and found a new one called Freedom People's Party. (BBC)
- Japan resumes whaling for the first time in 40 years. Greenpeace and other environmentalist groups condemn the decision. (BBC)
- Cyclone Sidr: Rescue efforts reach the most remote areas of Bangladesh, as the death toll rises to 2,400 people. (BBC)
- 2007 Burmese anti-government protests: ASEAN Secretary General Ong Keng Yong says Burma will not be suspended from the organization. (BBC)
- Hong Kong voters go to the polls in District Council elections, with pro-Beijing parties expected to recover. (BBC)
- 2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez opens the 2007 OPEC meeting in Saudi Arabia, warning the United States against attacking Iran. (BBC)
- 2007 Writers Guild of America strike: Screenwriters announce they will resume negotiations with movie studios on November 26. (BBC)
- Cyclone Sidr: Rescue efforts in Bangladesh continue, with helicopters and ships being used to reach isolated areas. (BBC)
- 28 people die in a fire at a Saudi Aramco gas pipeline in Hawiya, Saudi Arabia. Twelve more people are missing. (BBC)
- Strikes in France: Transport workers strike for the fifth consecutive day, rejecting an offer by public railway company SNCF. (BBC)
- George Charamba, the spokesman for Robert Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwe, says the Mugabe government is preparing for a British invasion. (BBC News)
- Hashim Thaçi, a former rebel leader who has promised to declare Kosovo's independence if mediation efforts fail, declares victory for his party in the parliamentary election. (AP)
- An explosion in a coal mine in Zasyadko, Ukraine, kills at least 63 people and leaves many more trapped below ground. (BBC)
- Jimmie Johnson wins his second straight NASCAR Nextel Cup championship for the 2007 season. (NY Times) (Bloomberg) (LA Times)
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- An Airbus A340-600, scheduled to be delivered at Etihad Airways' base in Abu Dhabi, crashes into a barrier at Toulouse Blagnac International Airport. Five people are injured. (BBC)
- Russia's deputy finance minister Sergei Storchak, one of Russia's top officials on international financial relations, is detained as part of a criminal investigation. (AP)
- 2007 Georgian demonstrations:
- The Nepali Supreme Court rejects a plea for conducting a Constituent Assembly election on November 22 saying the prescribed date is more of a moral question rather than a legal one. (ANI via AndhraNews.net)
- Strikes in France: French train drivers' strike against President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reform enters its third day. (BBC)
- German architect Heike Hanada of Weimar wins the international competition for extending the Stockholm Public Library. (Dagens Nyheter) (Asplund Competition)
- The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda sentences Juvénal Rugambarara, the former mayor of Bicumbi, to 11 years in jail for crimes he committed during the Rwandan Genocide. (BBC)
- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon holds talks with Lebanese political leaders, trying to break an impasse over the election of the next President. (BBC)
- The German train driver strike enters its third day. (BBC)
- Turkish prosecutors ask the Constitutional Court to ban the Kurdish Democratic Society Party, claiming it has links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party. (BBC)
- The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe announces it will not be able to monitor the 2007 Russian legislative election since its staff has been denied visas. (BBC)
- 2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- Donald Tusk, leader of the Civic Platform party, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Poland in coalition with the Polish People's Party. (BBC)
- Police in Uttar Pradesh arrest three Pakistani members of Jaish-e-Mohammed who were plotting to kidnap an Indian politician. (BBC)
- Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda flies to the United States to hold talks with U.S. President George W. Bush. (BBC)
- The death toll from Cyclone Sidr increases to 242 as the storm weakens and passes through the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka. (BBC)
- Former Russian frogman Eduard Koltsov claims he killed British diver Lionel Crabb while he was spying on a Soviet warship in 1956. (BBC)
- U.S. Senator John Kerry accepts T. Boone Pickens' one-million-dollar Swift Boat challenge. (AP)
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- Strikes in France: French transport workers' strike against President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reform enters its second day, but energy workers and CFDT members return to work. (BBC)
- German train drivers extend their strike action against Deutsche Bahn, starting a 48-hour passenger service strike. (BBC)
- The United Nations General Assembly Third Committee approves a resolution draft that calls for a moratorium on the capital punishment. (Reuters)
- The City of Westminster Magistrates' Court rules Egyptian-born Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri can be extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States, where he is accused of terrorism. (BBC)
- A New South Wales coroner concludes that a group of five journalists, known as the Balibo Five, were deliberately killed by Indonesian forces in 1975 in order to prevent them exposing Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor. (AAP via stuff.co.nz)
- Major League Baseball player Barry Bonds is indicted by a federal grand jury in San Francisco for perjury and obstruction of justice, having allegedly lied under oath about his use of steroids. (AP via ESPN)
- Nuclear program of Iran:
- The Supreme Court of Canada denies asylum to Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Hughey, two United States soldiers who deserted the Iraq War. (BBC)
- Iraqi insurgency: The United States Army announces it has killed 25 insurgents in Taji, but the Taji Awakening Council says airstrikes killed 45 pro-U.S. fighters. (BBC)
- A Saudi Arabian gang rape victim is sentenced to jail and 200 lashes for being in the car of an unrelated man. (BBC)
- Celestin Chibalonza, the governor of Sud-Kivu, is impeached for failing to curb violence and mismanaging finances. (BBC)
- The United States Treasury freezes all assets of the Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation, claiming that it acts as a "front to facilitate fundraising" for the Tamil Tigers. (BBC)
- The execution of Mark Dean Schwab in Florida is suspended while the United States Supreme Court decides if lethal injection is unconstitutional. (BBC)
- Powerful aftershocks hit Chile after the Antofagasta earthquake, as President Michelle Bachelet visits the affected areas. (BBC)
- United Nations human rights envoy Paulo Sergio Pinheiro visits political prisoners, including Su Su Nway, in Burma's Insein Prison. (BBC)
- Rift Valley fever kills at least 96 people in the White Nile, Sennar and Gazeera states of Sudan. (BBC)
- The Russian Ground Forces shut down their last remaining base in Georgia, located in the city of Batumi. (BBC)
- 2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas states in a speech that "we have to bring down" Hamas. (BBC)
- Formed in the Bay of Bengal, Category 4 Cyclone Sidr approaches the coastal districts of Bangladesh, forcing tens of thousands of people to move away. (BBC)
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- Strikes in France:
- The 2007 National Book Awards go to Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke), fiction, Tim Weiner (Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA), non-fiction, Sherman Alexie (The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian), young people's literature, and Robert Hass (Time and Materials), poetry. (Reuters)
- German train drivers start a 62-hour train strike against Deutsche Bahn, asking for a 31% pay increase. (BBC)
- The European Parliament far right bloc, Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty, collapses after five Romanian MEPs resign following Alessandra Mussolini's claim that Romanians are "habitual law-breakers". (BBC)
- A 7.7-magnitude earthquake hits northern Chile, near the town of Calama. Two deaths and over a hundred injuries are reported. (BBC)
- President of Ghana John Kufuor is involved in a car accident in Accra, but is not hurt. (BBC)
- Hossein Mousavian, a former Iranian nuclear negotiator, is charged with espionage by Iran's intelligence ministry. He allegedly gave classified information to the British embassy. (BBC)
- Iraqi insurgency: A roadside bomb kills two civilians near Baghdad's Green Zone. (BBC)
- 2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's liberal-conservative government has secured a third term in office following early parliamentary elections to the Folketing. (The Times)
- High Speed 1 (formerly known as the Channel Tunnel Rail Link) opens for commercial use in Britain, linking London St. Pancras, which also opened for commercial use, to the Channel Tunnel. (BBC)
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- The fossil of a new prehistoric great ape species, named Nakalipithecus nakayamai, is discovered in Kenya. (BBC)
- Turkish helicopters bomb several Kurdistan Workers Party positions in northern Iraq. (BBC)
- 21 Cameroonian soldiers are killed by unknown attackers in the Bakassi peninsula. (BBC)
- Russian President Vladimir Putin said that an overwhelming victory for United Russia in the legislative elections would give him the "moral right" to maintain a strong influence in the country. (The Moscow Times)
- In France, rail workers and Paris Métro personnel go on strike in the first wave of public-sector strikes. (Reuters)
- An explosion hits the south wing of the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Quezon City, killing three people, including Congressman Wahab Akbar, and wounding 10. (BBC)
- Clean-up operations continue in the Strait of Kerch after the oil spill disaster. Ten ships have sunk, 2,000 tons of fuel oil and 6,000 tons of sulphur have been spilled, three sailors have died and about 20 are missing. (BBC)
- Hamas security forces arrest 400 Fatah supporters after a rally to commemorate Yasser Arafat's death ended in gunfire. (BBC)
- The President of Israel, Shimon Peres, meets the President of Turkey, Abdullah Gül, in Ankara, and he will also address the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. (BBC)
- Danish voters go to the polls for an early parliamentary election called by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. (BBC)
- 2007 Pakistani state of emergency: Backed by hundreds of police officers, the Pakistani government again placed former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto under house arrest to prevent a protest against President Pervez Musharraf. (NYT) (BBC)
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