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Portal:Current events/2009 November 14

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  • 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. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/8360167.stm (BBC)] [http://www.arabnews.com/?page=8§ion=0&article=128476&d=15&m=11&y=2009 (Arabnews)]
  • U.S. evangelist Tony Alamo is sentenced to 175 years in prison for taking underage girls across several states for sexual intercourse. [http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/13/arkansas.evangelist.trial/ (CNN)] [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6565830/US-evangelist-Tony-Alamo-gets-175-years-for-sex-crimes.html (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. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8360199.stm (BBC)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20091118025521/http://www.ethiopianreview.com/news/6919 (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. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hRnsI2a373Yifsp35oiDjX70ZV8w (AFP)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8360144.stm (BBC)]
  • Two Saudi soldiers are killed and five wounded killed in fighting with Houthi rebels in northern Yemen. [http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=111261§ionid=351020206 (Press TV)] [http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=18806 (Al-Sharq al-Awsat)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707173520/http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=18806 |date=2011-07-07 }} [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h3C84WjYxLlFWA4h15ep2lz6KC3g (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. [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1258027286616&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull (Jerusalem Post)] [https://www.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUSLE14196720091114 (Reuters)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8360429.stm (BBC)]
  • A fire at a shooting range in Busan, South Korea, kills 10 people, including two Japanese tourists, and injures six others. [http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/11/113_55493.html (Korea Times)] [http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/7-japanese-among-10-killed-in-fire-at-s-korea-shooting-range (Japan Today)] [http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2009/11/14/Shooting-range-fire-kills-at-least-10/UPI-88721258204462/ (UPI)]
  • Slovenia signs an agreement with Russia to allow the South Stream gas pipeline to Europe pass through the country. [http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=14531469&PageNum=0 (ITAR-TASS)] [https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aKJI8Ras.5l8 (Bloomberg)]
  • Thousands of protesters demonstrate in Taipei, Taiwan, against imports of certain U.S. beef products. [http://english.rti.org.tw/Content/GetSingleNews.aspx?ContentID=90295 (Radio Taiwan International)] [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gr9AEKuZDF7UEtJKnHuCzvbCiE-g (AFP)] [http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1108209&lang=eng_news&cate_img=logo_taiwan&cate_rss=TAIWAN_eng (Taiwan News)]
  • Several people are killed and dozens injured after an express train crashes near Jaipur, India. [http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/train_derails_near_jaipur_6_dead_21_injured.php (NDTV)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8360104.stm (BBC)] [http://www.indianexpress.com/news/six-killed-as-delhibound-mandore-express-derails/541372/ (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. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h8L5XvwA8Wdub8_9d6St55qK_o1gD9BVB0JO0 (AP)]
  • At least 11 people are killed and 24 injured after a bomb explodes in Peshawar, Pakistan. [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/11/20091114114243650412.html (Al Jazeera)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20091117115131/http://www.geo.tv/11-14-2009/52898.htm (Geo TV)] [http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/breaking-news-world/suicide-car-bomb-kills-11-in-nw-pakistan-20091115-iftp.html (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. [http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1114/religion.html (RTÉ)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8360523.stm (BBC)] [http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/1114/1224258814964.html (The Irish Times)]
  • The body of veteran Slovenian mountaineer Tomaž Humar is located in the Himalayas days after going missing whilst climbing Langtang Lirung. [http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/1114/breaking44.htm (The Irish Times)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8360519.stm (BBC)]
  • Sweden returns 22 skulls taken by Swedish scientists from indigenous cemeteries in Hawaii during the 19th century. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8361011.stm (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. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8360569.stm (BBC)] [http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/1114/breaking46.htm (The Irish Times)] [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Cannibals-sell-corpse-bits-to-kebab-house-in-Russia/articleshow/5231574.cms (The Times of India)] [http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/15/2743107.htm (ABC Online)]

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