Portal:Current events/2007 November 21
November 21, 2007 (Wednesday)
- 2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- Opposition politician and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Imran Khan is released from prison in Punjab. (BBC)
- Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry tries to leave his house in Islamabad but is blocked by security forces. (BBC)
- Major General Waheed Arshad announces the Pakistan Army has killed 40 pro-Taliban militants in the Shangla District in the last two days. (BBC)
- Pakistani security forces kill senior Balochistan Liberation Army leader Balach Marri. (BBC)
- November 2007 strikes in France:
- Transport unions start talks with management and the government over pension reforms in the eighth consecutive day of strike. (BBC)
- Public railway company SNCF says its TGV train network has been disrupted by a "concerted campaign of sabotage". (BBC)
- President Nicolas Sarkozy asks the police to make sure those who sabotaged the TGV network are "punished with the most extreme severity". (BBC)
- United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the White House wants to broker a permanent deal between Israel and the Palestinian Authority before President George W. Bush leaves office. (BBC)
- Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs Luís Amado says Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is not welcome at the December European Union-African Union summit in Lisbon. United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he will not attend if Mugabe is present. (BBC)
- England fail to qualify for Euro 2008 after 3-2 loss to Croatia. (CNN)
- Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan claims that United States President George W. Bush was involved in the Plame affair. (BBC)
- Former President of France Jacques Chirac is probed by a judge for alleged embezzlement of public funds when he was Mayor of Paris. (BBC)
- Researchers in Kyoto, San Francisco, and Wisconsin publish evidence of turning human skin cells into stem cells by the retroviral insertion of genes. (NYT)
- The death toll from flooding caused by cyclone Guba in the Oro Province of Papua New Guinea rises to 150. (BBC)
- The Islamic Action Front loses most of its seats in the 2007 Jordanian parliamentary election. (BBC)
- The Bangladesh Army says it has reached almost all areas affected by cyclone Sidr. (BBC)
- The Nigerian Army is deployed in Kano State after six people died in clashes during local elections. (BBC)
- After a standoff lasting two hours, one of the German Spezialeinsatzkommando hostage rescue units successfully resolves a situation with a man held at knife-point outside a cafe at Berlin's Hauptbahnhof main train station. No one was hurt or injured. [1]
- The United Nations General Assembly approves Resolution 62/9, stating that the "emergency phase" in Chernobyl is over, and the "recovery phase" should start. (BBC)
- About 1,000 people a day are returning to Iraq from Syria and Jordan. (BBC)
- A South African Police Oryx helicopter crashes near Wepener, killing 14 officers. (BBC)
- The Indian Army is deployed in Kolkata after a riot against Bangladeshi feminist writer Taslima Nasreen erupts into violence. (BBC)