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Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (pictured) becomes Bhutan's fifth dragon king and world's youngest monarch.
Barack Obama of the Democratic Party becomes the first African American to be elected President of the United States.
An airplane crashes amidst rush-hour traffic in Mexico City, killing Mexican Secretary of the Interior Juan Camilo Mouriño and 12 others.
Rupiah Banda, of the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy, is elected President of Zambia.
Lewis Hamilton wins the 2008 Formula One Drivers' Championship, beating Felipe Massa by one point.
Sébastien Loeb of the Citroën team becomes the first driver to win the World Rally Championship for a fifth consecutive time.
Heavy floods affect Vietnam and southern China, flooding Hanoi and killing at least 100.

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November 6, 2008 (Thursday)

An explosion kills at least 10 people aboard a minibus in the North Caucasus city of Vladikavkaz, Russian officials in the region say. (BBC)
Coronation of Bhutan's new king Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck takes place making him world's youngest monarch. (BBC)
2008 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Paloma forms off the coast of Nicaragua with the potential to become a hurricane by Friday. (AP via Yahoo News)

November 6, 2008 Wikinews articles

November 5, 2008 (Wednesday)

California Proposition 8, a referendum that amended the State Constitution, passes and defines marriage as being between a man and a women, thus ending same-sex marriage in California. (Los Angeles Times)
In a continuation of the Kivu conflict, General Nkunda's forces capture Kiwanja, near Rutshuru in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after a two-day battle with the pro-government militias. (BBC News)
India's Gagan Narang wins a gold medal in the men's 10 metre air rifle event at the 2008 ISSF World Cup Final, breaking the world record. (IBNLive.com)
President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev announces that his country will place short-range conventional warhead missiles in Kaliningrad in order to counter United States missile defense facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic, however, he expressed hope that Russia–United States relations would be mended with the presidency of Barack Obama. (CBC)

November 5, 2008 Wikinews articles

November 4, 2008 (Tuesday)

Mexican Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mouriño dies along with at least 12 others after the airplane he was on crashes into rush-hour Mexico City traffic. (BBC News)
The Straits Exchange Foundation and the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits sign four agreements for the Three Links across the Taiwan Strait, a major step in normalizing Cross-Strait relations. (CNN)
United States general elections:
- Democrat Barack Obama wins the 2008 United States presidential election after beating Republican John McCain, becoming the first African American to be elected to the office of President of the United States. (CNN)
- The Democratic Party picks up at least five seats in the Senate and retains control of the House of Representatives. (BBC News)

November 4, 2008 Wikinews articles

November 3, 2008 (Monday)

A report issued by an independent investigator hired by the Alaska Personnel Board finds that Republican Vice Presidential candidate and Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin did not violate the law with regards to the so called "Troopergate scandal". However, a previous, separate legislative investigation concluded that she did abuse her office. (MSNBC)
ARATS president Chen Yunlin, the official delegation of the People's Republic of China, arrives in Taiwan for talks with SEF chairman Chiang Pin-kung. (CNN)
Itaú and Unibanco announce they will merge their banking, credit, and insurance operations, creating the largest financial services group in Brazil and the Southern Hemisphere. (Folha de S. Paulo)
The Bangladeshi government schedules general elections on December 18, 2008, which will end the rule of the one and half year military-backed interim government. (BBC News)

November 3, 2008 Wikinews articles

November 2, 2008 (Sunday)

Lewis Hamilton wins the 2008 Formula One Drivers' Championship, beating Felipe Massa by one point to become the youngest and first black Formula One World Champion in history. (Sky News)
Sébastien Loeb of Citroën becomes the first World Rally Championship driver to become World Champion for the fifth consecutive time. (BBC News)
Rupiah Banda of the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy is sworn in as President of Zambia after being elected on October 30. (Canadian Press via Google)

November 2, 2008 Wikinews articles

November 1, 2008 (Saturday)

Floods kill 24 people in Vietnam including 11 in the central province of Nghe An. (BBC News)
Nineteen Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebels are killed by Filipino military air strikes in the southern part of the island of Mindanao. (AFP via ABC)
A strong aftershock measuring 5.0 on the Richter magnitude scale hits southwestern Pakistan three days after it was struck by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake. (AFP via ABC)
India's first lunar mission, Chandrayaan-1, transmits two pictures of the Earth while en route to the Moon. (The Hindu)

November 1, 2008 Wikinews articles

October 31, 2008 (Friday)

Libya pays $US1.5 billion in compensation for past terrorist attacks to the United States, clearing the way for normal diplomatic ties between the two countries. (AFP via ABC)
Seven people are killed in Tibet's worst snowstorm in recorded history. (Xinhua).
A new study by the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit shows that the warming of Earth's polar regions is caused by humans. (CNN)
Three African trade blocs – COMESA, SADC, and the EAC – agree to merge to form a bloc consisting of 26 countries and 757 million people. (Xinhua)
The third pipeline bombing in the month of October targets an EnCana-operated gas pipeline near the town of Dawson Creek, British Columbia in Canada. (CBC)

October 31, 2008 Wikinews articles

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Ongoing events
Diplomatic response to Abkhazian and South Ossetian independence Diplomatic response to Kosovar independence Global financial crisis Icelandic financial crisis Piracy in Somalia Russian financial crisis Treaty of Lisbon ratification World food price crisis

Recent deaths
November 5: B.R. Chopra 4: Michael Crichton 4: Juan Camilo Mouriño 4: Byron Lee 4: Lennart Bergelin 3: Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham 2: Ahmed al-Mirghani 1: Yma Sumac 1: Jimmy Carl Black 1: Jacques Piccard October 31: John Daly 31: Studs Terkel 29: William Wharton 26: Tony Hillerman 25: Muslim Magomayev 25: Gerard Damiano 25: Anne Pressly 24: Merl Saunders edit sidebar

Ongoing conflicts
War in Afghanistan Acholiland insurgency Civil war in Chad Second Chechen War Colombian armed conflict War in Darfur Fatah–Hamas conflict Iraq War Israeli–Palestinian conflict Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir Turkey-PKK conflict Iran-PJAK conflict Mexican drug war War in North-West Pakistan Insurgency in Ogaden Insurgency in the Philippines War in Somalia Sa'dah insurgency South Thailand insurgency Sri Lankan Civil War

Elections
Recent October 8 October: Maldives, President 12 October: Lithuania, Parliament (1^st Round) and nuclear power referendum 14 October: Canada, Parliament 15 October: Azerbaijan, President 15 October: Jersey, General (1^st Round) 16 October: United Nations, Security Council 17/18 October and 24/25 October: Czech Republic, Senate (one third) 26 October: Lithuania, Parliament (2^nd Round) 26 October: Chile, Municipal 29 October: Maldives, President (2^nd Round) 30 October: Zambia, President November 4 November: United States: President, House of Representatives, Senate (one third: "Class II" Senators) 4 November: American Samoa, General 4 November: Guam, General 4 November: Puerto Rico, Governor, Legislative 4 November: Palau, President, Senate and House of Delegates Upcoming November 8 November: New Zealand, General 9 November: San Marino, Parliament

Trials
Upcoming Austria: Josef Fritzl Canada: Larry O'Brien Estonia: Herman Simm Italy: Raffaele Sollecito, Amanda Knox Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim Netherlands: ICTY Radovan Karadžić Singapore: Peter Lloyd U.S.: Aníbal Acevedo Vilá U.S.: Viktor Bout U.S.: Tom DeLay U.S.: Noshir Gowadia U.S.: William J. Jefferson U.S.: Kwame Kilpatrick U.S.: James Charles Kopp U.S.: Ehren Watada Ongoing Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Iraq: Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal Netherlands: ICC Thomas Lubanga Netherlands: ICTY Peru: Alberto Fujimori Sierra Leone: SCfSL Charles Taylor Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra US: Jena Six US: Brian Nichols US: José Padilla US: Phil Spector US: Ted Stevens

Upcoming holidays and observances
November 6: Jakar Dzong Tsechu (Bhutan) 6: Constitution Day (Dominican Republic) 6: Finnish Swedish Heritage Day (Finland) 6: Anniversary of the Green March (Morocco) 6: Gustavus Adolphus Day (Sweden) 6: Constitution Day (Tajikistan) 7: Constitution Day (Federated States of Micronesia) 7: October Revolution Day (Former Soviet Republics) 7: National Day (Northern Catalonia) 7: New Era of Government (Tunisia) 8: Saint Michael’s Day (Eastern Orthodox Church) 8: Mitrovdan (Former Yugoslavia) 8: National Parents As Teachers Day (United States) edit sidebar

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