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Current events of
November 26, 2009
(
2009-11-26
)
(Thursday)
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Ireland
's
Taoiseach
Brian Cowen
is confronted by displeased residents in
Athlone
during his half-day tour of
flood-hit areas
in
Galway
,
Offaly
,
Roscommon
and
Westmeath
.
(
The Irish Times
)
(RTÉ)
The
Murphy Report
, commissioned by the
Irish government
, finds that the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin
covered up widespread
sexual abuse
of children by
priests
until the mid 1990s.
(
Irish Times
)
(Reuters)
(BBC)
All pleas to halt
British
hacker
Gary McKinnon
being extradited to the
United States
to face trial for breaking into
NASA
and military computers looking for
UFO
evidence fail as
UK
Home Secretary
orders his extradition.
(
The Daily Telegraph
)
The
Namibian
National Society for Human Rights announces it will approach the High Court after the electoral commission withdraws its observer status for the
general election
on Friday.
(
The Namibian
)
(BBC)
The
Committee to Protect Journalists
(CPJ) labels the
Maguindanao massacre
in the
Philippines
the "single deadliest event for the
press
" ever documented.
(
Philippine Daily Inquirer
)
The
Supreme Court
in
Bogotá
convicts and sentences former general
Jaime Uscátegui
to 40 years in prison for his role in the
Mapiripán Massacre in 1997
by
far right militias
.
(
The Guardian
)
(Colombia Reports)
Floods in Saudi Arabia
kill around 77 people in
Jeddah
,
Rabigh
and
Mecca
, and a further 351 are missing in the heaviest rainfall in years.
(AFP)
(
Saudi Gazette
)
Germany
's army chief
Wolfgang Schneiderhan
resigns over allegations of a cover up related to a September
NATO
airstrike
in northern
Afghanistan
.
(Deutsche Welle)
(Xinhua)
South Korea
's
Constitutional Court
strikes down a decades old law that punished men for making false promises of marriage to engage in
sexual relations
with women.
(Yonhap)
(
Korea Herald
)
(
Times of India
)
A gunman attacks the
University of Pécs
in southern
Hungary
, killing one and injuring at least three people.
(BBC)
(Caboodle.hu)
Ceremonies are held in
India
to mark the first anniversary of a series of attacks in
Mumbai
by
Pakistani
militants which killed 166 people.
(
Hindustan Times
)
(BBC)
(
The Guardian
)
China
unveils its first firm target to cut
greenhouse gas
emissions, ahead of a
United Nations
summit in
Copenhagen
next month.
(Xinhua)
(
The Times
)
(Reuters)
Police in
Hong Kong
attempt to find the founder of a
Facebook
group whose members claim to have planned to commit a
mass suicide
on December 21.
(IOL)
(
China Daily
)
(Radio Television Hong Kong)
Citizens of
St Vincent and the Grenadines
reject
a new
constitution
which would have replaced
Queen Elizabeth II
with a president as
Head of State
.
(Antillean)
(Caribbean News Agency)
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