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Portal:Current events/2009 November 22

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  • An Algerian court acquits Abdulli Feghoul, who had been detained at Guantanamo Bay detention camp without trial for almost seven years. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g7-kEBFZAG-w0UavMhy8fNGSue_gD9C4MGN81 (AP)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8373544.stm (BBC)]
  • Efren Peñaflorida, who started a "pushcart classroom" in the Philippines to provide education to poor children, is named the 2009 CNN Hero of the Year. [http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=525973&publicationSubCategoryId=63 (The Philippine Star)]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} [http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/TV/2009/11/22/CNN-names-pushcart-educator-Hero-of-Year/UPI-34231258923472/ (UPI)] [http://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/11/16/cnnheroes.tribute.show/?imw=Y (CNN)]
  • Three Royal National Lifeboat Institution crew members are located "in good condition" after their boat capsizes off County Wexford in Ireland. [http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1122/rnli.html (RTÉ)]
  • At least seven people are killed and more than 55 injured in a bombing in Assam, northeastern India. [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Twin-blasts-rock-Assam-7-dead/articleshow/5258844.cms (Times of India)] [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/11/200911228423339432.html (Al Jazeera)] [http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2009/11/22/UPI-NewsTrack-TopNews/UPI-91221258895418/ (UPI)]
  • A 400lb bomb partially explodes outside the headquarters of the Policing Board in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In another incident, three men are arrested after a shooting incident involving PSNI officers in the border village of Garrison, County Fermanagh. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/northernireland/6630265/400lb-car-bomb-goes-off-outside-Northern-Irelands-Policing-Board.html (The Daily Telegraph)] [http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/11/22/northern.ireland.bomb/ (CNN)] [http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1122/fermanagh.html (RTÉ)]
  • Romanians go to the polls for the first round of the presidential election and to vote on proposed parliamentary reform. [https://web.archive.org/web/20091211230435/http://www.agerpres.ro/full_medianews.php (Agerpres)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8372771.stm (BBC)]
  • Jeong Nam-gyu, one of South Korea's most prolific serial killers, commits suicide in his cell on death row. [http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2912920 (Joongang Daily)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8373098.stm (BBC)] [https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/11/22/world/international-uk-korea-suicide.html (New York Times)]
  • Former Iranian Vice President Mohammad-Ali Abtahi who was sentenced to six years imprisonment in connection with the June election protests is released on bail. [http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/22/content_12522098.htm (Xinhua)] [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jKFdYEM-BIoe142VJAtBVwwytEaA (AFP)]
  • 2009 Azerbaijan-Armenia negotiations in Munich: Azerbaijan and Armenia hold talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Azerbaijan has warned that the meeting of presidents in Munich will be "decisive" and that its troops are ready to take the territory by force unless there is a breakthrough in negotiations. [http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/11/22/worldupdates/2009-11-22T105906Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-441424-1&sec=Worldupdates (Reuters)]
  • Debate is stoked over whether scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change after computer hackers break into a server at University of East Anglia, the well-respected climate change research center. [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125883405294859215.html (Wall Street Journal)] [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/21/AR2009112102186.html (Washington Post)]
  • An Indonesian ferry carrying over 200 passengers sinks off the cost of Sumatra. [http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/11/22/indonesian-ferry-sinks-15-dead-some-230-rescued.html (Jakarta Post)] [http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,26384321-1702,00.html (AFP via News Limited)] [http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2009-11/22/content_9019455.htm (China Daily)]
  • The United States Senate votes to allow a debate on the healthcare reform bill. The debate is to begin on November 30, 2009. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/22/healthcare-obama-administration (The Guardian)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8372768.stm (BBC News)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20091204021359/http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/politics/Senate_Health_Care_vote-70720562.html (Voice of America)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20091123232314/http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/11/21/2134031.aspx (MSNBC)]
  • The number killed in an explosion in Heilongjiang province, China rises to 92. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8372760.stm (BBC News)] [http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE5AK09720091122 (Reuters)] [http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gJkosYGNyNTJ5Ic_Ua1AKy9EoM5QD9C4B9I81 (Associated Press)] [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/world/asia/22china.html (New York Times)]

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