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WikiLeaks (editor-in-chief Julian Assange pictured) releases a collection of more than 250,000 American diplomatic cables, including 100,000 marked "secret" or "confidential".
Tom DeLay, former Republican Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, is convicted of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
The Russian State Duma declares Joseph Stalin and other officials of the Soviet Union to have been responsible for the 1940 Katyn massacre.
In a parliamentary election in Tonga, the Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands wins a majority of the elected seats.
Twenty-nine miners are presumed to have died after a second explosion in the Pike River Mine, New Zealand's deadliest mining disaster in 96 years.
North Korea shells Yeonpyeong Island, prompting a military response by South Korea.

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29 November 2010 (Monday)

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Iranian nuclear scientist Majid Shahriari is killed and his wife injured, while another scientist is wounded during two attacks in Tehran. Iran says Western governments and Israel may have carried out the killing. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
Four Islamist militants are killed in a raid by security forces in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. (BBC) (24.kg News Agency)
Somali pirates hijack a Malaysian cargo vessel with 23 crew 900 miles off the coast of Somalia. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

Pablo Picasso's electrician says he has 271 previously unknown works given to him as gifts by the artist. (BBC)

Business and economy

Irish financial crisis:
- Fine Gael speaks out against the high interest rate imposed by the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank and their insistence that the country pay €17 billion out of its own national pension fund. (The Guardian)
- The markets fall. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- The Central Bank says Anglo Irish Bank's brand name is to "disappear" within weeks. (RTÉ)
Workers at the London Underground go on strike for 24 hours, causing widespread peak-hour disruption in the capital of the United Kingdom. [1]

Disasters

Ash from Mount Bromo in Indonesia forces the closure of a nearby airport. (Bernama) (Times of India)

Politics and elections

12 of the 18 candidates in Haiti's presidential election call for a cancelled vote, describing it as fraudulent and favouring the ruling party, as the UN expresses "deep concern" and thousands of people march in Port-au-Prince . (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest opposition bloc, claims fraud in the parliamentary elections and says it has won no seats. (Al-Masry Al-Youm) (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
The Constitutional Court of Thailand dismisses a case brought against the ruling Democrat Party by the election commission, saying the commission did not follow legal procedures. (Thai News Agency) (Al Jazeera) (Xinhua)
John Brumby concedes defeat in the Victorian election; Ted Baillieu becomes the new Premier of the Australian state of Victoria. (The Herald Sun)
The Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya's David Kuria criticises Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga after he announces the imminent arrest of the country's homosexuals. (BBC)

Sport

The BBC Panorama programme accuses Nicolás Léoz, Issa Hayatou and Ricardo Teixeira, three senior FIFA officials due to vote on the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, of accepting bribes in the 1990s. (BBC News)

November 29, 2010 Wikinews articles

28 November 2010 (Sunday)

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United States diplomatic cables leak and attack on WikiLeaks:
- The WikiLeaks website is attacked by a computer-hacking operation and undergoes a "a mass distributed denial of service attack" as it prepares to release more secret U.S. documents. Julian Assange says U.S. authorities are afraid of being held accountable for their actions. (BBC)
- The United States Department of State says the planned release of a new batch of classified documents would place its military operations at risk, and warns of possible legal action if they were found to have been provided in violation of U.S. law. (CNN) (Reuters) (The Washington Post)
- Wikileaks releases 250,000 messages sent by U.S. embassies, including messages discussing corruption, criticisms of the UK, Guantánamo Bay prison camp, a Chinese cyber attack, the relationship between Vladimir Putin and Silvio Berlusconi, and a possible unified Korea. 70-553 (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian) (Reuters) (The New Zealand Herald) (Sky News)
- The White House issues a statement of condemnation "in the strongest terms [of] the unauthorised disclosure of classified documents and sensitive national security information". (BBC)
Korean peninsula:
- The United States Navy and South Korean Navy hold exercises in the waters west of the Korean Peninsula despite warnings from North Korea. (Bloomberg via Houston Chronicle) (Reuters)
- Artillery fire is heard on Yeonpyeong Island after residents are ordered to take shelter. (AP)
- China calls for emergency “six-party talks” on resolving the crisis. (Reuters) (CNN)
- North Korea deploys surface-to-air missiles near its disputed border in the Yellow Sea. (Arirang) (Press TV) (The New York Times)

Business and economy

Central China's Hunan Province begins building the country's third National Supercomputing Center (NSCC), where the world's fastest supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A, will be installed. (Xinhua)(Sina)
Irish financial crisis:
- European Union finance ministers meet to work out the details for rescuing the Irish economy, and to outline an agreement for a fund to rescue other economically troubled euro-zone nations. (CNN Money) (The New York Times) (AP via Google News) (Bloomberg)
- The EU approves an €85 billion rescue deal for Ireland, which includes €10 billion for bank recapitalisation, €25 billion for banking contingencies and €50 billion for financing the budget. (RTÉ) (BBC)

Disasters

Fire damages Turkey's historic Haydarpaşa Terminal in Istanbul. (Today's Zaman) (euronews)
At least 8 people are killed when a Russian Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane bound for Khartoum, Sudan, crashes minutes after take off in a residential area of Karachi, Pakistan. (Tribune) (Reuters) (The Star)
Parts of the UK experience their coldest temperatures on record for November overnight. (BBC) (The Guardian) (Sky News) (The Daily Telegraph)
Ireland experiences heavy snow which causes disruptions to its transport system and its finance minister. (RTÉ) (The Wall Street Journal)

International relations

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni becomes the first foreign leader to visit the Somali capital Mogadishu in 20 years. (AFP) (Daily Nation)
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is to boycott an African Union-European Union meeting in the Libyan capital Tripoli to "avoid embarassment to Libya". (AFP)

Law and crime

More than 2,000 Brazilian police and military personnel enter the Alemão slum of Rio de Janeiro in search of drug traffickers, in efforts to boost security well ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games. (Voice of America) (The New York Times)(CNN)

Politics and elections

Haitian general election, 2010:
- Voters in Haiti go to the polls for a general election, amid confusion and disorganization resulting from the cholera epidemic and the aftermath of the January earthquake (AP via Google News) (Reuters) (Voice of America)
- 12 of the 18 candidates call for the election to be cancelled, alleging widespread voter fraud. (AP via Yahoo! News)
Voters in the Ivory Coast go to the polls for the second round of the Ivorian presidential election with violent clashes having occurred between rival supporters. (BBC)
Voters in Egypt go to the polls for parliamentary elections amid reports of the detention of hundreds of opposition supporters, scattered violence, vote buying and the ejection of independent monitors as the government cracks down on the opposition; 21 people are wounded in skirmishes connected with the poll. (Bloomberg) (AP) (Tehran Times) (People)
Voters in Moldova go to the polls for parliamentary elections. (ITAR TASS)
Voters in Catalonia, Spain, go to the polls for parliamentary elections. (Euro News)
Voters in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, go to the polls for the gubernatorial election with anti-US base governor Hirokazu Nakaima reelected. (Japan Times), (BBC)

November 28, 2010 Wikinews articles

27 November 2010 (Saturday)

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Disasters and accidents

Seven people are killed after steel box girders used for building an overpass overturn in Nanjing, China. (Xinhua via Shanghai Daily)
Christians flee from their homes in Saeedabad, Karachi, following violence sparked by a Muslim-Christian marriage. (Daily India)

International relations

Shelling of Yeonpyeong:
- North Korea accuses South Korea of using "human shields" during the incident. (BBC)
- International diplomats work to ease hostilities in the Korean Peninsula, after North Korea warned of unpredictable "consequences" if the United States deploys an aircraft carrier to the Yellow Sea. (CNN) (Voice of Russia)
A senior United Nations official, Vijay Nambiar, meets with Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon. (Al Jazeera) (The Irrawaddy) (Reuters)

Law and crime

Somali-born teenager Mohamed Osman Mohamud is arrested in Portland, Oregon, for allegedly plotting a bombing attack on a Christmas tree lighting ceremony. (BBC)
At least three people die in protests in the Ivory Coast over a curfew imposed ahead of the second round of the Ivorian presidential election. (BBC)
Hundreds of Pakistani Muslims demonstrate in Lahore against a potential pardon for a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy against Islam. (news.com.au)

Politics and elections

Côte d'Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo declares a curfew, amid clashes that killed three people ahead of the second round of the presidential election on Sunday. (Channel News Asia) (IOL)
Two Japanese ministers are censured by the House of Councillors over a territorial dispute with China. (Straits Times)
Voters in the Australian state of Victoria go to the polls for the state election. (ABC News)
Ed Miliband launches a two-year review of British Labour Party policy, saying that the Party must move beyond New Labour and calling on activists to make it the "People's Party" again. (BBC)
Tens of thousands of people march through Dublin in protest at the Irish government's austerity measures. (BBC)
Icelanders vote for the creators of a new constitution. (AP via MSNBC)

November 27, 2010 Wikinews articles

26 November 2010 (Friday)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

Three armed men are killed in a shootout in the Russian republic. (rferl)
A suicide bomb explodes at a rebel Houthi procession in northern Yemen, killing several people. (BBC) (The Hindu)

Arts and culture

United States country music singer Willie Nelson is charged with marijuana possession. (AP via MSN)

Business and Economics

Irish financial crisis. Widespread speculation that senior bondholders of Irish banks will have to take a "haircut" -- i.e. share in the costs of an EU bailout -- leads to downgrades in the credit worthiness of the institutions that hads the most at stake in the ballooning property values of recent years. (CNBC)

Disasters

A third explosion within a week occurs at the Pike River Mine on the South Island of New Zealand, where 29 men are presumed dead. (ABC Australia)

International relations

Korean peninsula:
- North Korea issues warnings about a planned exercise by South Korea and the United States this weekend. (Jerusalem Post)
- North Korea holds an artillery drill near Yeonpyeong Island, which it shelled earlier this week. (Times of India) (Jerusalem Post)
China warns the U.S. against preforming any military acts within their exclusive economic zone, ahead of joint South Korean-U.S. military exercises aimed at threatening North Korea. (Reuters)
Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri visits Iran, seeking help to prevent violence if a U.N.-backed tribunal indicts Hezbollah members for killing former prime minister, Rafiq Hariri, and 21 others in a car bombing (Reuters Africa)

Law and crime

A Rwandan court reschedules the trial date of the United Democratic Forces opposition party leader, Victoire Ingabire, for another 30 days for prosecutors to complete building their case against her. (Bloomberg)
Pakistani police arrest two Islamist militants planning a suicide bombing attack against a mosque and a government building in Islamabad. (UK Press Asscociation) (VOA)
Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrest 149 people with links to al-Qaeda suspected of planning attacks on government officials and journalists. (Al-Jazeera)
Authorities find the largest cache of homemade explosives ever discovered in the United States, in two houses near Escondido, California. (CNN) (Los Angeles Times)
Human Rights Watch criticizes the punishment of Israeli soldiers who forced a Palestinian child to open bags thought to be booby-trapped as inadequate and a sign that the "Israeli military justice system will not seriously sanction soldiers convicted for offenses that are war crimes". (Human Rights Watch) (Press TV)

Politics

A gunman opens fire at a Kuomintang political rally in Taiwan; prominent member Sean Lien is shot in the face. (Focus Taiwan News Channel) (The Independent)
Kim Kwan-jin becomes the new Minister for Defense in South Korea, replacing Kim Tae-Young who resigned following the shelling of Yeonpyeong. (Yonhap)
Pearse Doherty of Sinn Féin wins a by-election for the Donegal South West constituency in the Irish parliament reducing the majority of Fianna Fáil and the Green Party to two. (BBC)
Police in the UK are seeking the power to take down websites they deem "criminal", with critics worried over the lack of judicial oversight. (BBC)

November 26, 2010 Wikinews articles

25 November 2010 (Thursday)

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At least one person is killed and more than 40 left wounded after hundreds of Christian protesters clash with riot police in Cairo, Egypt. (Pravda)

Business and economy

Del Monte Foods is purchased in a US$5 billion leveraged buyout led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. (Financial Times)

Disasters and accidents

Seven are killed and three injured in the rough landing of a Mi-8 helicopter in the Omsk region of Siberia, Russia. (ITAR-TASS) (KazInform)

International relations

Korean peninsula:
- North Korea warns that it will launch further attacks on South Korea if it continues "reckless military provocation". (CNN)
- South Korea increases its military strength on the islands near the border since the shelling of Yeonpyeong on Tuesday. (Reuters)
- The South Korean Defense Minister Kim Tae-Young resigns over the handling of the incident. (Yonhap)
The heads of government of the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meet in Dushanbe for their annual summit. (Xinhua)
A court in Nigeria charges an Iranian man over an illegal weapons shipment discovered in Lagos. (BBC) (AFP)
Israel demolishes several buildings in the West Bank, including one Palestinians say was a mosque; Israeli officials said the structures were temporary and built without Israeli issued permits in a military fire zone. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)

Law and crime

Brazilian police begin an operation in a shanty town in Rio de Janeiro to end a surge of violence; at least 30 people have been killed in recent days. (BBC) (RTHK)
The European Commission passes a ban on the use of bisphenol A in baby bottles. (BBC)

Politics and elections

156 people are detained in Egypt following clashes between police and Copts after authorities blocked construction of a church. (Reuters)
Tongans go to the polls in the first general election in the nation's history in which the majority of parliament will be popularly elected. (Sydney Morning Herald)

Science

The United States Government sets aside an area in Alaska twice the size of the United Kingdom as a "critical habitat" for polar bears. (BBC)
The United Kingdom experiences its earliest widespread snowfall for 17 years, with large parts of Scotland and north east England particularly affected. (BBC)
A new species of ancient crocodile, Khoratosuchus jintasakuli, is identified from a fossil in Thailand. (NPR) (Geol. Soc., Lond., Spec. Pub.)
A World Health Organization study estimates that 600,000 deaths a year are attributable to second hand smoking. (Reuters)

Sport

The 2010–11 Ashes series begins at The Gabba in Brisbane, with Australian bowler Peter Siddle taking a hat-trick on his birthday. (BBC Sport)

November 25, 2010 Wikinews articles

24 November 2010 (Wednesday)

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Shelling of Yeonpyeong:
- The bodies of two civilians killed in the attack are discovered on Yeonpyeong. (BBC) (Yonhap)
- South Korea suspends flood aid to North Korea following the attack. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)

Arts and culture

Debut novellist Amy Sackville wins the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her novel The Still Point. (BBC)

Business and economy

Workers in Portugal hold a general strike to protest against proposed cuts to wages. (BBC)
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visits Moscow and meets with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Chinese companies sign deals worth over $8.6 billion with Russian counterparts. (AFP via Yahoo! Finance)
Don Chu, an executive of a hedge fund networking fund Primary Global Research, is arrested on insider trading charges in the United States. (Reuters)
Ireland unveils a 15 billion euro austerity package to secure a bailout from the financial crisis. (Sydney Morning Herald)
American corporations posted record profits of $1.67trillion for last quarter, amidst high unemployment rates. (Democracy Now!) (CNN)

Disasters

29 miners in a New Zealand mine are confirmed dead after a second explosion, following a first explosion on November 19 which trapped them. (TVNZ) (3 News), (Sydney Daily Telegraph)
An Australian Government report on the Montara oil spill blames it on oil rig operator PTTEP. (AP via Forbes)
The United Nations and Pan American Health Organization estimate that the number of cases in the 2010 Haiti cholera outbreak could reach more than 200,000 in the next three months. (AFP via Google), (BBC)

Law and Crime

Former United States House of Representatives Majority Leader and former Dancing with the Stars contestant Tom DeLay is convicted of money laundering and conspiracy in relation to Republican fundraising for the 2002 Texas state elections. (CNN) (Reuters)
Brazilian police shoot dead at least thirteen people in Rio de Janeiro following a wave of violence by suspected drug traffickers. (BBC)

Politics and elections

One protester is killed during clashes between riot police and Egyptian copts after permission was refused for a new church. (AP) (RFI)
Blaise Compaoré is re-elected as President of Burkina Faso following a presidential election with 81% of the vote. (Times Live South Africa)
Protests occur in Kabul follow the announcement of most of the results of the Afghan parliamentary election. (Reuters)
UK Independence Party MEP Godfrey Bloom is expelled from the chamber of the European Parliament after calling German Socialist MEP Martin Schulz an "undemocratic fascist". (BBC) (The Independent)
University students throughout England and Wales stage a day of demonstrations against increases in tuition fees and cuts to higher education funding. (BBC)

November 24, 2010 Wikinews articles

23 November 2010 (Tuesday)

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Shelling of Yeonpyeong:
- North Korea shells Yeonpyeong island, South Korea at 14:34 local time in response to South Korean shelling close to the North Korean border during military drills. The North's shelling kills two marines and prompts a military response by the South in one of the most serious clashes since the 1953 armistice of the Korean War. (YTN Television) (BBC) (Yonhap) (China Daily)(The Sun UK)
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta claims responsibility for the destruction of an oil pipeline feeding a refinery in the Niger Delta. (AFP via Google News) (CNN)

Arts and culture

Clarence House confirms that Prince William and Kate Middleton are to be married at Westminster Abbey on Friday 29 April 2011. (BBC)

Business and economy

Qantas announces that its fleet of Airbus A380 superjumbos will start returning to service on Saturday. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
A United States federal court jury decides that SAP AG must pay Oracle Corporation $1.3 billion for copyright infringement, the largest ever damages payment for copyright infringement. (Bloomberg)

Disasters

Cambodia declares a day of mourning for at least 378 people killed in a stampede in the capital Phnom Penh. (BBC)
At least seven bodies are recovered following a mine collapse in Suriname. (Jamaica Observer)

International relations

A Saudi woman accused of torturing her Indonesian maid is sent to jail while the maid is hospitalised, in a case that has caused tensions between the two countries. (AFP via Google News)
The Gambia severs diplomatic and economic relations with Iran and orders Iranian government representatives to leave within 48 hours. The Gambia has given no reason for the move. (BBC) (Reuters)
India forms two new military divisions, comprised of more than 36,000 men, to be deployed in Arunachal Pradesh near the border with China. (BBC)

Law and crime

Bangladesh sentences a further 23 soldiers from the Bangladesh Rifles to imprisonment over a mutiny in February 2009. (Xinhua)

Politics and elections

The Irish financial crisis:
- Brian Cowen, the Taoiseach, claims in Dáil Éireann that he is "not clinging to power". (RTÉ)
- One of Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey's many offices is targeted with graffiti. (The Irish Times) (RTÉ)
- Morgan C Jones, actor and satirist from Dublin, announces a "you're fired" protest against the government for Dáil Éireann on Thursday. (The Irish Times)
- The opposition Labour Party grants its leader Eamon Gilmore "a free hand to take any initiative he deems appropriate over the coming days". (RTÉ)
- A candidate in Thursday's by-election withdraws calling it a complete farce with a general election now due to occur in January. Some islands voted in the by-election yesterday. (RTÉ)
Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is reunited with her son for the first time in a decade. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
King Abdullah II of Jordan commissions the Prime Minister Samir Rifai to form a new government following recent elections. (Bloomberg)

November 23, 2010 Wikinews articles

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Ongoing events
Economic Automotive industry crisis Global Financial Crisis European sovereign debt crisis Greek economic crisis Medical HIV/AIDS in Africa Haiti cholera outbreak Political 2007–2010 Belgian political crisis Scientific Expedition 25 Sports Asian Games Disasters Pike River mine accident

Recent deaths
November 29: Irvin Kershner 28: Giorgos Fountas 28: Leslie Nielsen 25: Bernard Matthews 25: Alfred Balk 24: Peter Christopherson 22: Frank Fenner 20: Chalmers Johnson 20: David Nolan 19: Pat Burns 19: Atama Zedkaia 18: Freddy Beras Goico 15: Larry Evans 15: Moira Hoey 13: Luis García Berlanga 13: Allan Sandage 12: Henryk Górecki 10: Dino De Laurentiis 8: Emilio Eduardo Massera 6: Jo Myong-Rok 5: Jill Clayburgh 5: Shirley Verrett 4: Sparky Anderson 4: Eugénie Blanchard 4: James Freud 3: Jerry Bock 3: Viktor Chernomyrdin 2: Rudolf Barshai 2: Andy Irons 1: Charlie O'Donnell edit sidebar

Ongoing conflicts
Global War on Terror War on Drugs Africa OEF - Trans Sahara Chadian Civil War Darfur conflict Maghreb insurgency Somali Civil War War in Somalia (2009–) Piracy in Somalia Sudanese nomadic conflicts OEF - Horn of Africa LRA insurgency Europe Basque Conflict Insurgency in the North Caucasus Civil war in Ingushetia Middle East Iraq War Iraqi insurgency Baluchi insurgency Palestinian political violence Rocket attacks Israeli–Lebanese conflict Fatah–Hamas conflict Arab-Israeli conflict Israeli–Palestinian conflict Conflicts in Yemen Terrorism South Yemen insurgency Yemeni al-Qaeda crackdown Sa'dah insurgency Conflicts in Kurdistan Turkey–PKK conflict Iran–PJAK conflict Asia Afghanistan war Military operations Taliban insurgency Conflicts in Pakistan War on Terror North-West Pakistan war Balochistan conflict Drone attacks Sectarian violence Conflicts in India Terrorism in India Jammu and Kashmir insurgency Naxalite-Maoist insurgency Insurgency in Northeast India Nagaland ethnic conflict Kashmir conflict Siachen conflict Burma border clashes South Thailand insurgency Cambodian–Thai border stand-off Philippines insurgency OEF - Philippines Americas Colombian conflict Plan Colombia FARC Mexican Drug War Mérida Initiative Peru internal conflict edit sidebar

Elections
Recent: November 21: Burkina Faso, President 23: Jordan, Parliament 25: Tonga, General 27: Iceland, Constitutional Assembly 28: Catalonia, Parliament 28: Côte d'Ivoire, President (2^nd Round) 28: Moldova, Parliament 28: Haiti, General 28: Egypt, Parliament Upcoming: December 12: Kosovo, Parliament 12: Transnistria, Parliament 13: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, General 19: Belarus, President 26: Comoros, President (2^nd Round) edit sidebar

Trials
Recently concluded Cambodia: Kang Kek Iew Egypt: Hisham Talaat Moustafa France: Jérôme Kerviel Germany: Nadja Benaissa India: Ajmal Kasab Iran: Hossein Derakhshan Portugal: Casa Pia child sexual abuse scandal Singapore: Alan Shadrake United States: Faisal Shahzad Ongoing Argentina: Jorge Rafael Videla Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Canada: David Russell Williams China: Organized crime in Chongqing France: Church of Scientology, Air France Flight 4590 Germany: Heinrich Boere, John Demjanjuk Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal Iran: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY), Geert Wilders Palau: Tommy Remengesau Peru: Joran van der Sloot Philippines: Andal Ampatuan, Jr. Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra Turkey: Ergenekon network United States: Buju Banton, David Headley, Rod Blagojevich, Ahmed Ghailani Upcoming Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein United States: Viktor Bout, Noshir Gowadia, Allen Stanford, Nidal Malik Hasan edit sidebar

Holidays and observances
November 2010 Upcoming 30: St. Andrew's Day (Scotland) December 2010 Upcoming 2 (Sundown): Hanukkah (Jewish) 5: Saint Nicholas Day (The Netherlands) 6: Saint Nicholas Day (Belgium) 21: Winter solstice 24: Christmas Eve 25: Christmas Day 26: St Stephen's Day (Europe), Boxing Day (Commonwealth countries) 26-1 January: Kwanzaa (United States 31: New Year's Eve edit sidebar

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