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The Original of Laura, a novel by Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, is published posthumously despite his wish that its manuscript be burned.
NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-129 (mission insignia pictured), bringing the first two ExPRESS Logistics Carriers to the International Space Station.
Patriarch Pavle of Serbia, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Serbs, dies at the age of 95.
Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao defeats Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico, becoming the first boxer to win a world title in seven different weight classes.
NASA announces that the LCROSS project has discovered evidence of water in the Cabeus crater on the Moon.
An illegal gold mine collapses in Dompoase, Ghana, killing 18 people.

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November 17, 2009 (Tuesday)

A chemical tanker, the Singapore-flagged MV Theresa VIII with 28 North Koreans on board, is seized by Somali pirates northwest of the Seychelles. (BBC) (AP)
South African human rights activist Kumi Naidoo becomes the executive director of Greenpeace, the first African to head the organisation. (AP)
U.S. President Barack Obama continues his first trip to China. (Reuters)
The Original of Laura, an incomplete novel by Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, is published 32 years after his death despite his wish that its manuscript be burned. (BBC News) (The Independent) (The Cornell Daily Sun)

November 17, 2009 Wikinews articles

November 16, 2009 (Monday)

Kevin Rudd, the Prime Minister of Australia, apologises to the "forgotten Australians" raised in orphanages and foster homes during the twentieth century. (The Australian)
NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-129 at 1928 UTC (2:28pm EST), bringing supplies and the first two ExPRESS Logistics Carriers to the International Space Station. (NASA)
At least 8 people are dead and dozens missing after a ferry collided with an oil barge in Burma's Irrawaddy Delta. (AP)
A Zambian court clears journalist Chansa Kabwela of Zambia Post newspaper of pornography charges after she sent pictures of a woman giving birth in a hospital car park to President Rupiah Banda in protest at the effects of a national strike. (Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation) (The Post) (BBC)
The United Nations "Hunger Summit" opens in Rome, Italy. (AFP)
The IAEA expresses concern after a late declaration of a second nuclear site by Iran. (Al Jazeera) (UPI)
One of the United Kingdom's most prolific rapists, known as the "Night Stalker" who it thought to have struck more than 200 times, is charged with 22 offences against the elderly from 1992 to 2009. (The Times)
Algeria deploys security at the Egyptian embassy in Algiers after Egyptian businesses are attacked in the capital, and security is also tightened in Sudan ahead of a World Cup play off between the two countries. (BBC) (Times of India)
The United Nations is criticised after a poster that made reference to China's internet censorship by the OpenNet Initiative at an international conference focussed on Internet freedom in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, is removed. (BBC) (CBC) (AP)
Kosovo's ruling party, the Democratic Party of Kosovo, claims victory in local elections, the first since the declaration of independence from Serbia. (Xinhua) (Deutsche Welle)

November 16, 2009 Wikinews articles

November 15, 2009 (Sunday)

The Metro Gold Line extension opens in East Los Angeles and Boyle Heights after decades of planning. (Los Angeles Times)
Domenico Raccuglia, considered one of Italy's 30 most dangerous fugitives, is arrested after 15 years on the run. (BBC) (AFP)
Belle de Jour, the best-selling author of The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl, identifies herself as Dr. Brooke Magnanti, a specialist in cancer epidemiology at the Bristol Initiative for Research of Child Health. (BBC) (Times Online) (AP)
Four people are hospitalised and at least 60 others are injured at Millennium Point in Birmingham during a performance by JLS. The rest of the event is cancelled. (BBC)
Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologises for the role of the United Kingdom in sending thousands of children to former colonies in the 20th century. (RTÉ)
Kosovars go to the polls for the first local elections since declaring independence from Serbia. (Deutsche Welle) (Xinhua)
U.S. President Barack Obama becomes the first U.S. President to meet with Burma's military government, calling for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners. (Reuters) (BBC) (Bangkok Post)
APEC leaders say a deal on climate change will not be possible before next month's United Nations summit in Denmark. (CNN) (The Times)
Colombia announces it will release four detained members of the Venezuelan National Guard who were arrested on Colombian territory. (BBC) (Press TV)
A group of Cuban dissidents holed up in a house in Havana begin a liquid-only fast. (CNN)
The Nigerian rebel group Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta announces it has begun peace talks with the government. (Afrique en ligne) (NEXT) (Reuters)
Iran's Parliament approves President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's final three ministerial choices. (Press TV) (Taiwan News) (Xinhua)
Chechen security forces kill up to 20 anti-government fighters southwest of the capital Grozny. (Al Jazeera)

November 15, 2009 Wikinews articles

November 14, 2009 (Saturday)

New Zealand qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup for the first time since 1982, by defeating Bahrain in a playoff billed as "the biggest sporting event ever staged in New Zealand" and the country's most attended football match ever. (BBC) (Arabnews)
U.S. evangelist Tony Alamo is sentenced to 175 years in prison for taking underage girls across several states for sexual intercourse. (CNN) (Telegraph.co.uk)
The Ogaden National Liberation Front, a separatist Somali rebel group in the southeast of Ethiopia, says it has begun a new offensive. (BBC) (Ethiopian Review)
A Peruvian court orders the arrest of two Chilean military officers on charges of spying, causing a diplomatic row between the two countries. (AFP) (BBC)
Two Saudi soldiers are killed and five wounded killed in fighting with Houthi rebels in northern Yemen. (Press TV) (Al-Sharq al-Awsat) (AFP)
More than 1,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews demonstrate outside the offices of U.S. firm Intel in Israel in protest at work taking place at the site on the Jewish Sabbath. (Jerusalem Post) (Reuters) (BBC)
A fire at a shooting range in Busan, South Korea kills 10 people including two Japanese tourists and injures six others. (Korea Times) (Japan Today) (UPI)
Slovenia signs an agreement with Russia to allow the South Stream gas pipeline to Europe pass through the country. (ITAR-TASS) (Bloomberg)
Thousands of protesters demonstrate in Taipei, Taiwan, against imports of certain U.S. beef products. (Radio Taiwan International) (AFP) (Taiwan News)
Several people are killed and dozens injured after an express train crashes near Jaipur, India. (NDTV) (BBC) (Indian Express)
The United Nations chief of the Food and Agriculture Organization completes a 24 hour hunger strike in Rome, Italy, ahead of a UN summit next week. (AP)
At least 11 people are killed and 24 injured after a bomb explodes in Peshawar, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera) (Geo TV) (Brisbane Times)
The Papal ban on discussion of the ordination of women priests is challenged by Willie Walsh, Bishop of Killaloe during his address to the Association of European Journalists in Dublin. (RTÉ) (BBC) (The Irish Times)
The body of veteran Slovenian mountaineer Tomaž Humar is located in the Himalayas days after going missing whilst climbing Langtang Lirung. (The Irish Times) (BBC)
Sweden returns 22 skulls stolen by Swedish scientists from indigenous cemeteries in Hawaii during the 19th century. (BBC)
Russian authorities in Perm detain three homeless males on charges of murder, cannibalism and the unlawful selling of body parts to a kebab shop. (BBC) (The Irish Times) (The Times of India) (ABC Online)

November 14, 2009 Wikinews articles

November 13, 2009 (Friday)

Philippines President Gloria Arroyo signs a law banning torture, making it a criminal offence punishable by up to 30 years imprisonment. (Philippine Inquirer) (Bangkok Post)
The Turkish government unveils a plan to improve rights of the Kurdish minority to end the decades long ethnic conflict in the southeast of the country. (Today's Zaman) (AFP) (Xinhua)
Cambodia detains a Thai man on charges of spying for Thailand. (Bangkok Post) (Times Live South Africa) (Sina)
Microsoft admits that the Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool contains code that is covered by the Gnu Public License and offers to make it available under the terms of that license. (PC Magazine)
American politician William J. Jefferson, former Democratic Party Congressman from the U.S. state of Louisiana, is sentenced to 13 years in prison for corruption. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
NASA claims to have discovered water after the LCROSS satellite crashes near the South Pole of the Moon. (New York Times)
South African President Jacob Zuma says the police do not have a "licence to kill" after recent incidents of innocent people being killed by police. (Eyewitness News) (BBC)
Two people are killed and 43 rescued from a bomb shelter in a fire that triggered multiple explosions at an arms depot near Ulyanovsk, western Russia. (BBC)(RIA Novosti) (Al Jazeera)
At least 240 villages in southwestern Saudi Arabia are evacuated due to fighting between Yemeni Houthi rebels and Saudi forces along the border. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
Chinese nationals in Angola say they are increasingly being targeted in "mafia-style" attacks by Angolan gangs. (AFP) (BBC)
Four members of Algeria's national football team are injured when their bus comes under attack by stone throwers in Cairo, Egypt. (BBC) (Taiwan News)
38 people are killed in collapsed school buildings and road accidents caused by heavy snowfall in China, the heaviest in 60 years. (BBC) (China Daily) (Times of India)
Czech Prime minster Jan Fischer deposits the Treaty of Lisbon ratification instrument at the Italian foreign ministry in Rome. (Foreign ministry of Italy)
Tens of thousands of Maoist supporters in Nepal block the headquarters for the Nepali government for a second day. (AP) (Al Jazeera)
The diaries of Gareth Jones, a British reporter who exposed the 1933 famine in Ukraine, are put on public display for the first time. (AP) (BBC)
A bomb hits the Peshawar office of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency with at least seven people dead and 35 injured. (BBC)
Jersey's Chief Minister Terry Le Sueur hosts the 13th summit of the British–Irish Council. (RTÉ)
The Japan Coast Guard evacuates 28 passengers and crew from the Ariake commercial ferry after it rolls over onto its side in rough seas off Mie Prefecture in the Pacific Ocean. (Mainichi Shimbun) (IOL)
Kosovo prepares for historic elections after a flare-up earlier this week targeted Prime Minister Hashim Thaci in the western town of Decan. (CNN)
Actor and film director Clint Eastwood is made a commander of the Légion d'honneur. (Xinhua) (ABC News) (Gulf Daily News)
A court in Buenos Aires declares Argentinean law restricting marriage to a man and a woman unconstitutional, allowing a same-sex couple to marry; the city government announces it will not appeal. (Reuters) (CNN)
The United States opens its first marijuana cafe. (Reuters)

November 13, 2009 Wikinews articles

November 12, 2009 (Thursday)

The discovery of two sunken World War II Japanese submarines off Oahu, Hawaii, is announced. (NY Times) (The Christian Science Monitor)
United States Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan will face 13 charges of murder for the Fort Hood shooting. (AP via New York Times)
United States Federal prosecutors begin legal action to seize properties owned by the Alavi Foundation on the grounds that it has ties with Iran. (New York Times)
In the Glasgow North East by-election, voters pick Labour candidate Willie Bain as the replacement for former House of Commons speaker Michael Martin. (BBC News)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev calls for an overhaul of the Russian economy and democratic modernisation in an annual state of nation address. (BBC) (Reuters South Africa) (ITAR-TASS)
The head of the Sri Lankan armed forces Sarath Fonseka resigns over reports he is suspected to contest the next presidential election. (AP)
U.S.-based rights group Human Rights Watch accuses Chinese authorities of running illegal "black jails" where Chinese citizens are detained for bringing up local complaints. (Al Jazeera) (Ghana Broadcasting Corporation) (The Independent)
Sheikh Mohamed Abdi Aware, a Somali judge known for issuing tough sentences to pirates and Islamists, is shot dead in Somalia's Puntland region. (IOL) (BBC) (Press TV)
At least 18 people are killed in an illegal mine collapse in western Ghana, Ghana's most devastating mining tragedy. (Times of India) (BBC) (RTÉ)
Thousands of Maoist supporters demonstrate in an anti-government protest in Nepal over the President's decision to overrule attempts to sack the head of the army. (Hindustan Times) (AFP) (Xinhua) (The Himalayan Times)
Former President of Palau Tommy Remengesau is convicted of 12 ethics code violations. (RNZI)
The government of Venezuela nationalizes the Fama de America and Cafea coffee producers. (Businessweek)

November 12, 2009 Wikinews articles

November 11, 2009 (Wednesday)

Raymond Jessup is sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexual assault of an underage girl after the April 2008 raid of the YFZ Ranch in Eldorado, Texas. (UPI).
Two bloggers from Azerbaijan, Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade, are sentenced by a court for "hooliganism" in a restaurant scuffle linked to the posting of a satirical video dressed as a donkey on Youtube that mocked government restrictions on civil liberties. (BBC) (Trend News Agency) (Taiwan News)
A gold mining operation is investigated by Chinese authorities after allegations it has damaged part of the Great Wall of China in Inner Mongolia. (Xinhua) (BBC) (Times of South Africa)
Iran protests to Oxford University's Queen's College over a scholarship in memory of the slain Iranian student Neda Agha Soltan. (AP)
Officials in Brazil investigate the cause of a massive power cut which may have affected a fifth of the population and neighbouring Paraguay. (BBC) (New York Times)
Yemen criticises "interference" by Iran in the conflict with Houthi rebels in the country, after Iran criticised Saudi Arabian intervention in the conflict. (Khaleej Times) (Yemen News Agency) (AFP)
Anti-monarchy protesters and riot police clash in Montreal, Quebec during a tour by Prince Charles. (Metro) (The Daily Telegraph) (CBC)
A Russian-born German man is sentenced to life imprisonment for fatally stabbing Marwa El-Sherbini in a court, an attack that caused uproar in the Muslim world. (AP) (NY Times) (Deutsche Welle)
The discovery of a new dinosaur species, named Aardonyx celestae, in South Africa is announced. (IOL) (AP) (AFP)
Cambodia rejects a request by Thailand to extradite ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. (Phnom Penh Post) (Thai News Agency) (BBC)
South Korean troops are put on high alert for possible retaliation after a naval clash with North Korea yesterday. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
Local government offices in southern Nepal shut in protest after a senior local official is slapped by Deputy Agriculture Minister Karima Begam. (BBC) (Telegraph Nepal) (IOL)
For the first time since World War I, the leaders of Germany and France appear together at a ceremony on Remembrance Day to commemorate the end of the conflict. (MSNBC)

November 11, 2009 Wikinews articles

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Ongoing events
Economic Automotive industry crisis Financial crisis Worldwide recession Medical H1N1/09 flu pandemic West African meningitis outbreak HIV/AIDS in Africa Scientific Expedition 21 Political Honduran constitutional crisis Nigerien constitutional crisis edit sidebar

Recent deaths
November 16: Robert J. Frankel 16: Edward Woodward 15: Antonio de Nigris 15: Pierre Harmel 15: Patriarch Pavle of Serbia 13: Bruce King 12: Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer 10: Gheorghe Dinica 10: Robert Enke 10: Tomaž Humar 10: John Allen Muhammad 8: Vitaly Ginzburg 7: Anselmo Duarte 4: Hubertus Brandenburg 3: Francisco Ayala 3: Carl Ballantine 2: Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg 2: Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez 1: Alda Merini edit sidebar

Ongoing conflicts
Africa / Middle East Fourth Chadian Civil War Iraq War Israeli–Palestinian conflict Maghreb insurgency Niger Delta conflict Sa'dah insurgency Somali Civil War Turkey–PKK conflict Asia War in Afghanistan Balochistan conflict Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir Insurgency in the Philippines Ethnic conflict in Nagaland Naxalite-Maoist insurgency War in North-West Pakistan South Thailand insurgency Americas Colombian Civil War Mexican Drug War edit sidebar

Elections
Recent November 7: Northern Mariana Islands, Governor and Legislative 10: Moldova, President (indirect) Upcoming: November 22: Romania, President (1^st Round) and Referendum 23: Northern Mariana Islands, Governor (2^nd Round) 25: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, constitutional referendum 27–28: Namibia, General 29: Equatorial Guinea, President 29: Honduras, General 29: Switzerland, Referendum 29: Uruguay, President (2^nd Round) edit sidebar

Trials
Recently concluded Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi Canada: Larry O'Brien New Zealand: Clayton Weatherston Peru: Alberto Fujimori Sweden: The Pirate Bay Republic of China: Chen Shui-bian United States: James Charles Kopp, Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Phil Spector, Bernard Madoff, William J. Jefferson Ongoing Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal China: Organized crime in Chongqing France: Church of Scientology Germany: Heinrich Boere Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal Italy: Raffaele Sollecito, Amanda Knox Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY) Palau: Tommy Remengesau Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra United States: Jena Six Upcoming Germany: John Demjanjuk Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein United Kingdom: Allen Stanford United States: Viktor Bout, Noshir Gowadia, Ehren Watada, Sheila Dixon, Joseph Bruno edit sidebar

Holidays and observances
November Ongoing 15 - December 24: Nativity Fast (Eastern Christianity) Current 17: International Students' Day 17: Queene's Day (Berry Pomeroy) 17: Shogi Day (Japan) 17: President’s Day (Marshall Islands) 17: Struggle for Freedom & Democracy Day (Czech Republic, Slovakia) Upcoming 18: Repentance Day (Bavaria, Saxony) 18: Armed Forces Day (Haiti) 18: Independence Day (Latvia) 18: Independence Day (Morocco) 18: National Day & Birthday of Sultan Qaboos (Oman) 19: GIS Day 19: World Toilet Day 19: Garifuna Settlement Day (Belize) 19: International Men's Day (India, Trinidad and Tobago) 19: Liberation Day (Mali) 19: National Day (Monaco) 19: Discovery of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico) 19: Equal Opportunity Day (United States) edit sidebar

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