Portal:Current events/2007 November 23

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• Polish parliament speaker Bronisław Komorowski said that Poland's new government is set to be the first to ratify the EU's Reform Treaty. [http://euobserver.com/9/25201 (EUobserver)]
• 2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
• The Supreme Court of Pakistan orders the Election Commission to declare Pervez Musharraf the winner in the 2007 Pakistani presidential election. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7109695.stm (BBC)]
• The Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Inam-ul-Haq, says the country's suspension from the Commonwealth of Nations is "unjustified". [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7108713.stm (BBC)]
• The term of Lebanese President Émile Lahoud ends with no successor and a political dispute over who is in power. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7110202.stm (BBC)]
• A court in Copenhagen, Denmark, convicts three men for plotting terrorist attacks using triacetone triperoxide. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7109191.stm (BBC)]
• An Israeli psychiatrist and reserve officer is charged with giving classified information to Iran, Russia and Hamas. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7109267.stm (BBC)]
• The Senate of Nigeria declares the handover of the Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon was "illegal". [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7108887.stm (BBC)]
• A bomb explosion kills at least 13 people and hurts 50 in the Ghazil pet market of Baghdad, Iraq. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7108746.stm (BBC)]
• The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control finds that the rate of new cases of AIDS in Europe has doubled since 1999. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7109139.stm (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. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7108634.stm (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. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7108964.stm (BBC)]
• Typhoon Mitag remains stationary but threatens the Bicol Region, east of the Philippines, and is expected to make landfall in Virac, Catanduanes tomorrow. [http://www.gmanews.tv/story/69902/Mina-stationary-but-likely-to-be-more-destructive---Pagasa (GMANews.TV)]
• The icebreaker/cruise ship {{MS|Explorer|1969|6}} sinks in the Southern Ocean after striking an iceberg. Everyone aboard is rescued.

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