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Portal:Current events/2011 November 28

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;Armed conflicts and attacks

  • 2011 Yemeni uprising: At least 25 people are killed in fighting between Sunni and Shia groups in Yemen. [http://blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/yemen-nov-28-2011-0535 (Al-Jazeera)]
  • Saboteurs attack Egypt's gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan, destroying a section of the pipeline west of al-Arish in Sinai. [https://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/27/us-egypt-gas-explosion-idUSTRE7AQ0ZK20111127 (Reuters)]

;Business and economy

  • Fitch Ratings maintains the credit rating of the United States government at AAA, but downgrades its outlook on the government to negative. This follows rival ratings agency Standard & Poor's downgrade of the U.S. credit rating in August. [https://web.archive.org/web/20111130015149/http://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/2011/11/28/fitch-keeps-us-credit-rating-at-aaa-cuts-outlook-to-negative/ (Fox Business)]
  • Jed S. Rakoff, a judge at the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, denies approval to a settlement agreement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the investment bank Citigroup, which the SEC has charged with deceiving investors about the conditions under which a certain portfolio's investments had been chosen. [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/business/judge-rejects-sec-accord-with-citi.html (New York Times)]

;International relations

;Politics and elections

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