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- At least eight football fans die when part of the Fonte Nova stadium in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, collapses. (BBC)
- Riots break out in the Villiers-le-Bel and Arnouville suburbs of Paris, France, after a car accident between a police car and a motorbike kills two teenagers. (BBC)
- Syria accepts a United States invitation to participate in the 2007 Mideast peace conference. (BBC)
- Croatia's opposition Social Democrats take a narrow lead on in a close national election, according to exit polls, after a campaign fought over corruption, the economy and future European Union membership. (Reuters)
- A wildfire in Malibu, California, destroys 51 structures, including 49 homes. The fire has also burned 4,720 acres (1,910 hectares) and caused the evacuation of 10,000 people. It is currently 40% contained, being fueled by Santa Ana winds that gusted up to 60 mph (96 kph) on November 24. (Reuters)
- Russia protests of 2007:
- 2007 Pacific typhoon season:
- The bodies of five Singaporeans are found after their dragon boat capsized two days ago at the end of a 1,500-metre Cambodia-ASEAN Traditional Boat Race event during the Bon Om Thook races on the Tonlé Sap in Phnom Penh. 17 other members of the team survived. (CNA)
- 2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili resigns his position to re-run for the early presidential election scheduled in January 2008. (Civil Georgia)
- Police fire tear gas and chemical-laced water cannon to disperse a peaceful protesting crowds of approximately 30,000 organized organized by HINDRAF in Kuala Lumpur (Al-Jazeera) (Malaysiakini)
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- United States and Iraqi forces arrest at least 20 suspected militants in Kirkuk, Iraq. (BBC)
- An explosion at a petrol station kills four people and hurts at least 30 in Shanghai, China. (BBC)
- 2007 UK child benefit data scandal: HM Revenue and Customs confirms that a further six data discs have gone missing in transit between its offices in Preston and London. (BBC)
- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk declares that Poland should concentrate on getting its economy ready for euro-zone entry as quickly as possible rather than setting a concrete target date to adopt the euro. (WSJ via Onet.pl)
- 12 people are killed when a students' union rally turns violent in Guwahati, India. (AndhraNews.net)
- Wildfires in Malibu, California, cause 100 homes in 3 separate communities to be evacuated. 250 acres of state park land burned south of Malibu Lake. (AFP via Google News)
- Typhoon Mitag remains static over the Philippine Sea but changes course, and is expected to make landfall in Aurora-Isabela provinces of the Philippines on Monday due to the very slow and unusual movement. (BBC) (GMANews.tv)
- Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov is arrested during a The Other Russia rally in Moscow. (BBC)
- Pope Benedict XVI creates 23 new cardinals in a ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City. (BBC)
- At least six people, most of them children, are killed by a suicide bomber in Paghman, Afghanistan. (BBC)
- Australian federal election, 2007:
- 2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
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- Polish parliament speaker Bronislaw Komorowski said that Poland's new government is set to be the first to ratify the EU's Reform Treaty. (EUobserver)
- 2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- The term of Lebanese President Emile Lahoud ends with no successor and a political dispute over who is in power. (BBC)
- A court in Copenhagen, Denmark, convicts three men for plotting terrorist attacks using triacetone triperoxide. (BBC)
- An Israeli psychiatrist and reserve officer is charged with giving classified information to Iran, Russia and Hamas. (BBC)
- The Senate of Nigeria declares the handover of the Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon was "illegal". (BBC)
- A bomb explosion kills at least 13 people and hurts 50 in the Ghazil pet market of Baghdad, Iraq. (BBC)
- The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control finds that the rate of new cases of AIDS in Europe has doubled since 1999. (BBC)
- Louise Christian, the lawyer for Alexander Litvinenko's wife, reveals that the polonium-210 that killed him probably came from a Russian nuclear plant. (BBC)
- Many employees of Paris Métro cross picket lines and return to work, defying the ongoing public-sector strikes. Transit officials report near-normal operation. (BBC)
- Typhoon Mitag remains stationary but threatens the Bicol Region, east of the Philippines, and is expected to make landfall in Virac, Catanduanes tomorrow. (GMANews.TV)
- At least 13 people are killed and several injured in a series of bomb blasts in Uttar Pradesh, India. (AndhraNews.net)
- MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. (AFP)
- Pakistan Muslim League (N) President Shahbaz Sharif denies talks between Saudi Arabian authorities and Nawaz Sharif over Sharif's return to Pakistan. (AndhraNews.net)
- Silent peace marches are held in Kolkata, India after clashes over Nandigram and Taslima Nasreen. (AndhraNews.net)
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- Jordanian King Abdullah appoints technocrat Nader al-Dahabi as the new Prime Minister. (BBC)
- Bangladeshi feminist writer Taslima Nasreen leaves Kolkata after riots against her in which at least 43 people were hurt. (BBC)
- Argentinian defense minister Nilda Garré sacks the head of military intelligence, Brigadier General Osvaldo Montero, for plotting to replace her. (BBC)
- Sri Lanka bans the Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation charity, saying it "is funding the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam". (BBC)
- An bomb attack on a bus kills five people and hurts 12 in the Russian republic of North Ossetia-Alania. (BBC)
- England football coach Steve McClaren and his deputy Terry Venables are sacked after England lose 3-2 to Croatia at Wembley Stadium. (BBC)
- Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen says that Denmark will hold a new referendum on relinquishing its opt-outs, including an exemption from the European common currency, the euro, during the next four years. (AP via Google News)
- 2007 Pakistani state of emergency
- The head of IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, says the agency cannot be sure "about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities" in Iran. (BBC)
- A report by the EMCDDA says the number of cocaine users in the European Union has increased by one million in one year. (BBC)
- Two Iraqi soldiers and eight members of the Hawr Rajab Awakening Council are killed by al-Qaeda militants in Hawr Rajab. (BBC)
- Aid agencies say they have reached all areas of Bangladesh struck by cyclone Sidr, but more aid is needed for the survivors. (BBC)
- Farid Babayev, a Russian politician with the Yabloko party, is shot and seriously wounded in Makhachkala, Dagestan. (BBC)
- Nur Hassan Hussein, head of the Somali Red Crescent and former policeman, is named the new Prime Minister of Somalia. (BBC)
- Despite talks between the transport workers, the management and the government, the November 2007 strikes in France continue for a ninth day. (BBC)
- Tens of thousands of Venezuelan students march in Caracas in two different rallies, one to oppose Hugo Chávez and the other one to support him. (BBC)
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