Today in History - November 24
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1105 Nov 24, Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of Rome completed a Talmudic dictionary.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1434 Nov 24, The Thames River froze.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1542 Nov 24, The English defeated the Scots under King James at the Battle of Solway Moss, in England.
(HN, 11/24/98)
1572 Nov 24, John Knox (67), Scottish preacher, died.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1628 Nov 24, John Ford's "Lover's Melancholy," premiered in London.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1632 Nov 24, Baruch (Benedict) de Spinoza (d.1677), Dutch rationalist philosopher, was born in Amsterdam. "Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."
(AP, 9/24/99)(MC, 11/24/01)
1639 Nov 24, A 2nd predicted transit of Venus occurred. Jeremiah Horrocks of England predicted and observed the event with his friend William Crabtree.
(MC, 11/24/01)(Econ, 5/29/04, p.78)
1642 Nov 24, Abel Janszoon Tasman (d.1659) discovered Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania).
(MC, 11/24/01)
1650 Nov 24, Manuel Cardoso (83), composer, died.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1655 Nov 24, English Lord Protector Cromwell banned Anglicans.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1674 Nov 24, Franciscus van Enden (72), Flemish Jesuit and free thinker, was executed.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1688 Nov 24, General strategist John Churchill met William III.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1690 Nov 24, Charles Theodore Pachelbel, composer, was born.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1713 Nov 24, Junipero Serra (d.1784), Spanish Roman Catholic missionary to the Indians in California and Mexico was born on the Spanish isle of Palma de Mallorca. He came to the New World in 1749 accompanied by 14 other Mallorcans including the geographer Crespi and Father Francisco Palou, biographer of Serra and historian of the missions. Serra was beatified in 1988.
(SFC, Z1, 4/28/96, p.6)(SFEC, 9/14/97, p.A18)(www.beachcalifornia.com/carmel2.html)
1713 Nov 24, Laurence Sterne (d.1768), novelist and satirist (Tristram Shandy), was born in Ireland. "Free thinkers are generally those who never think at all."
(MC, 11/24/01)(AP, 6/19/97)
1715 Nov 24, The Thames River froze.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1722 Nov 24, Johann Adam Reincken (99), German organist and composer, died.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1759 Nov 24, There was a destructive eruption of Vesuvius.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1784 Nov 24, Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States (1849-1850), was born in Orange County, Va.
(AP, 11/24/97)(HN, 11/24/98)
1800 Nov 24, Weber's opera "Das Waldmadchen," premiered in Freiburg.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1826 Nov 24, Carlo Collodi, the creator of Pinocchio, was born.
(HN, 11/24/00)
1832 Nov 24, South Carolina passed an Ordinance of Nullification. The US government had enacted a tariff. South Carolina nullified it and threatened to secede. Pres. Jackson threatened armed force on his home state but a compromise was devised by Henry Clay that ducked the central problem.
(WSJ, 9/19/97, p.A13)(www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Nullification.html)
1832 Nov 24, The doctrine of nullification involved an argument concerning the nature of the union as defined by the writers of the Constitution and addressed the question: "Was the US a compact of sovereign states, each retaining ultimate authority, or was the US one nation formed by the people through the writing of the Constitution?" John C. Calhoun, supporter of the doctrine of nullification, was Pres. Jackson's principal opponent in the nullification crises.
(www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/butowsky2/constitution4.htm#17)
1835 Nov 24, Texas Rangers, a mounted police force, was authorized by the Texas Provisional Government.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1847 Nov 24, Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager and author (Dracula), was born. [see Nov 8]
(MC, 11/24/01)
1848 Nov 24, Lilli Lehmann, opera singer, was born.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1848 Nov 24, William Lamb (b.1779), 2nd Viscount Melbourne, died. He was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary (1830–1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835–1841). He is best known for being prime minister in Queen Victoria's early years and coaching her in the ways of politics.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne)
1849 Nov 24, Frances Hodgson Burnett, author, was born. Her work includes “Little Lord Fauntleroy" and “The Secret Garden."
(HN, 11/24/00)
1853 Nov 24, William Masterson (Bat Masterson), journalist, gambler, frontier lawman, was born in Henryville, Quebec. He died at his desk as a NYC sports reporter. [see Nov 24, 1856]
(SFC, 8/2/97, p.E3)(MC, 11/24/01)
1856 Nov 24, Bat Masterson was born in Quebec, Canada. [see Nov 24, 1853]
(MesWP)
1859 Nov 24, Cass Gilbert (d.1934), architect, was born. His work included the NYC Woolworth Building, completed in 1913.
(HN, 11/24/00)(WSJ, 1/10/00, p.A20)
1859 Nov 24, British naturalist Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species," or “The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life." The first printing of 1,250 copies sold out in a single day. It explained his theory of evolution.
(V.D.-H.K.p.280)(WSJ, 2/24/97, p.A20)(AP, 11/24/97)(HN, 11/24/00)
1862 Nov 24, M. Levy published Gustave Flaubert’s "Salammbo."
(MC, 11/24/01)
1863 Nov 24, In the Battle Above the Clouds, Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's forces took Lookout Mountain, near Chattanooga, Tenn. The battle for Lookout Mountain was fought in a layer of fog whose lower level began at the Cravens House, used as Rebel headquarters. Gen’l. Hooker later commissioned painter James Walker to render a picture of the battle for $20,000.
(HFA, ‘96, p.42)(HT, 4/97, p.56)(HN, 11/24/98)
1864 Nov 24, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (d.1901), French post-impressionist painter, was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_de_Toulouse-Lautrec)
1864 Nov 24, Kit Carson and his 1st Cavalry, New Mexico Volunteers, attacked a camp of Kiowa Indians in the First Battle of Adobe Walls.
(HN, 11/24/98)
1868 Nov 24, Scott Joplin was born in Texas. By the time he was a teenager, Joplin could play the banjo and the piano, and had begun to work as a saloon musician. In the late 1890s, he was performing and composing at the Maple Leaf Club in Sedalia, Missouri, and in 1899 his "Maple Leaf Rag" made ragtime popular. Ragtime was a mixture of classical European and African-American styles of music, and it influenced the later development of jazz. Joplin was not considered a serious composer until ragtime resurfaced in the 1970s, when his composition "The Entertainer" was the theme to the movie The Sting. The first grand opera composed by an African American was Joplin's Treemonisha (1911), which was not very successful at the time. In 1976, however, more than 50 years after Joplin died, Treemonisha won the Pulitzer Prize.
(HNPD, 11/24/98)(WSJ, 7/5/00, p.A20)
1871 Nov 24, The National Rifle Association was incorporated in NYC, and its first president named: Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside.
(AP, 11/24/97)(MC, 11/24/01)
1874 Nov 24, Farmer Joseph Glidden's patent for barbed wire was granted. Glidden designed a simple wire barb that attached to a double-strand wire, as well as a machine to mass-produce the wire. The invention was a welcome alternative to other types of fencing for farming on the arid Great Plains--wood fences and stone walls were difficult to construct because of the lack of sufficient rocks and trees, and the existing wire fences were easily broken when cattle leaned against them. The use of barbed-wire fences changed ranching and farming life. Farmers could keep roaming cattle and sheep off their land, but open-range cowboys and Native American farmers were restricted to the land and resources not claimed and marked by the new fences. As more settlers moved onto the plains, the amount of public, shared land decreased and open-range farming became obsolete.
(HNPD, 11/23/98) (HN, 11/24/98)
1886 Nov 24, Margaret Anderson, editor, was born. She founded “The Little Review."
(HN, 11/24/00)
1887 Nov 24, Victorien Sardou's "La Tosca," premiered in Paris.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1888 Nov 24, Dale Carnegie (d.1955), public speaker, was born in Missouri. He authored "How to Win Friends and Influence People" (1937).
(HN, 11/24/00)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Carnegie)
1899 Nov 24, Abdullah ibn Mohammed al-Ta'a'ishi, Mahdi of Sudan (1883-99), died.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1901 Nov 24, Andre Victor Tchelistcheff, winemaker, was born.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1902 Nov 24, The first Congress of Professional Photographers convened in Paris.
(HN, 11/24/98)
1903 Nov 24, Clyde Coleman of NYC patented an automobile electric starter.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1908 Nov 24, Harry Kemelman, US detective author (rabbi omnibus), was born.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1910 Nov 24, Robert Baden-Powell, who founded the scout movement in Britain in 1907, organized the first scout meeting in Africa at a church in Nairobi.
(AP, 11/24/10)
1912 Nov 24, Garson Kanin, writer and director, was born. His work included “Born Yesterday."
(HN, 11/24/00)
1912 Nov 24, Austria denounced Serbian gains in the Balkans; Russia and France backed Serbia while Italy and Germany backed Austria.
(HN, 11/24/98)
1914 Nov 24, Benito Mussolini left Italy's socialist party.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1916 Nov 24, Forrest J. Ackerman, coined the term "sci-fi," was born.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1918 Nov 24, Frank O. King premiered his comic strip "Gasoline Alley" in the Chicago Tribune. He aged his characters over time.
(SFC, 7/8/98, Z1 p.3)(WSJ, 6/20/01, p.A1)(www.toonopedia.com/gasalley.htm)
1921 Nov 24, John V. Lindsay, (Mayor-R/D-NY, 1965-73), was born.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1922 Nov 24, Italian parliament gave Mussolini dictatorial powers "for 1 year."
(MC, 11/24/01)
1925 Nov 24, William F. Buckley, Jr. (d.2008), journalist who founded the conservative magazine National Review, was born in Manhattan, as the 6th of 10 children. His father had made a fortune in the oil fields of Mexico.
(HN, 11/24/98)(SFC, 2/28/08, p.A2)
1927 Nov 24, Alfredo Kraus, tenor (La Scala), was born in Las Palmas, Canary Islands.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1927 Nov 24, In California troops battled 1,200 inmates after Folsom prisoners revolted. On Thanksgiving Day there was a prison break at Folsom. One prisoner was shot in the ensuing uprising and five others were later hung.
(SFEC, 1/26/97, p.B4) (HN, 11/24/98)
1928 Nov 24, Baron Alphonse Jacques de Dixmude (b.1858), a Belgian military figure of World War I and colonial advocate, died in Ixelles. He founded Albertville (Kalemie) on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in the Congo in 1892 and tried to put an end to the slave trade in the region. Jacques was also known for contributing to the brutality of the Congo Free State rule.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Jacques_de_Dixmude)
1929 Nov 24, Georges Clemenceau (b.1841), French journalist and premier (1917-20), died. He is noted for the quote: “La guerre! C’est une chose trop grave pour la confier à des militaires." (War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men).
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Georges_Clemenceau)
1936 Nov 24, Noel Coward's "Tonight at 8:30," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1938 Nov 24, Clifford Odets' "Rocket to the Moon," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1938 Nov 24, Mexico seized oil land adjacent to Texas.
(HN, 11/24/98)
1939 Nov 24, In Czechoslovakia, the Gestapo executed 120 students who were accused of anti-Nazi plotting.
(HN, 11/24/98)
1941 Nov 24, "Life Certificates" were issued to some Jews of Vilna. The rest were exterminated.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1941 Nov 24, Indian infantry attacked German tanks at Sidi Omar.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1942 Nov 24, Field marshal Erich von Manstein arrived in Starobelsk.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1944 Nov 24, American B-29 bombers based on Saipan attacked Tokyo in the first raid against the Japanese capital by land-based planes.
(HN, 11/24/98)(AP, 11/24/05)
1944 Nov 24, Heinrich Himmler ordered the destruction of the Auschwitz and Birkenau crematoriums.
(http://tinyurl.com/9nycv)
1946 Nov 24, Ted Bundy (d.1989), serial murderer, was born Burlington, Vt.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1947 Nov 24, John Steinbeck's novel "The Pearl" was first published.
(AP, 11/24/97)
1947 Nov 24, Congress voted to cite the Hollywood Ten, who opposed the HUAC hearings, as “unfriendly witnesses" for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about alleged Communist influence in the movie industry. At the same time 50 top Hollywood executives convened and decided to discharge or suspend the Hollywood Ten until acquittal or declaration that they were not Communists. Among the ten were director Edward Dmytrak, who later recanted and gave names of suspected Communists, Lester Cole, and writer Ring Lardner Jr. Lester Cole later wrote “Hollywood Red."
(SFEC, 5/18/97, DB p.65)(AP, 11/24/97)
1948 Nov 24, In Venezuela Gen. Pérez Jiménez and Lt. Colonel Carlos Delgado Chalbaud staged a coup. A military junta headed by Delgado Chalbaud, Luis Felipe Llovera Páez and Pérez Jiménez overthrew the elected president Rómulo Gallegos and ruled for the next four years.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcos_P%C3%A9rez_Jim%C3%A9nez)
1949 Nov 24, Alexander C. Cushing (1914-2006) opened the Squaw Valley Development Company with his wife Justine Bayard Cushing (d.2003 at 85). The new Lake Tahoe area ski resort opened with a double chairlift and 2 rope tows.
(SFC, 8/21/06, p.B1)(www.squaw.com/winter/history_overview.html)
1949 Nov 24, The Iron and Steel Act nationalized the steel industry in Britain.
(HN, 11/24/98)
1949 Nov 24, In Germany the Petersberg agreement provided concessions to Western Germany from the Allied high commission in return for German membership in the Int’l. Ruhr Authority. The influx of 8 million Germans from the east caused widespread unemployment.
(EWH, 1968, p.1180)
1950 Nov 24, The musical "Guys and Dolls," based on the writings of Damon Runyon and featuring songs by Frank Loesser, opened on Broadway.
(AP, 11/24/06)
1950 Nov 24, UN troops began an assault with the intent to end the Korean War by Christmas.
(HN, 11/24/98)
1954 Nov 24, France sent 20,000 soldiers to Algeria.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1956 Nov 24, "Pajama Game" closed at St James Theater NYC after 1063 performances.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1959 Nov 24, The new TV show Twilight Zone ran “The Time Element" about a bartender returning to Pearl Harbor Dec 6, 1941.
(SFC, 11/25/02, p.A15)
1961 Nov 24, The UN adopted bans on nuclear arms over American protest.
(HN, 11/24/98)
1962 Nov 24, The BBC TV series "That Was the Week That Was" began and ran through 36 episodes to 1963. Willie Rushton impersonated PM Harold McMillan.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Was_The_Week_That_Was)(SFC, 12/12/96, p.C8)
1963 Nov 24, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy in front of TV cameras in the garage of the Dallas Police Department. Ruby used a .38 Colt Cobra purchased at Ray’s Hardware and Sporting Goods in Dallas run by Lawrence Brantley (1921-1996). Sometime earlier Oswald had made an attempt to murder right-wing Gen’l. Edwin A. Walker. In 2002 Thomas Mallon authored “Mrs. Paine’s Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy."
(SFC, 10/17/96, C2)(AP, 11/24/97)(HN, 11/24/00)(WSJ, 1/18/02, p.W8)
1964 Nov 24, Residents of Wash DC were permitted to vote for the 1st time since 1800.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1964 Nov 24, The UC Berkeley Academic Senate defeated a motion to support the position of the Free Speech Movement by a vote of 274-261.
(SSFC, 9/21/14, p.A13)
1965 Nov 24, Congo had a military coup under Gen. Mobutu and Pres. Kasavubu was overthrown. Larry Devlin, US CIA station chief, had encouraged Mobutu to launch the coup. In 2007 Devlin authored “Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone."
(www.briefbio.com/pages/2974/Seko-Mobutu-Sese.html)(Econ, 2/24/07, p.95)
1967 Nov 24, Cambodian triple agent Inchin Lam was murdered. Special Forces Captain John J. McCarthy was accused and later tried for the murder in a court in Vietnam. [see Jan 29, 1968]
(HN, 11/24/98)(http://www.copvcia.com/Mac.htm)(www.geocities.com/larryjodaniel/17.html)
1968 Nov 24, Eldridge Cleaver fled the US with his wife rather face assault charges from 1958. He returned to the US in 1975.
(www.pbs.org/hueypnewton/people/people_cleaver.html)
1968 Nov 24, Three Latins hijacked a US B-707 jet, from New York’s Kennedy Int’l. to Cuba. Pena Soltren, a US citizen, and two accomplices used weapons hidden in a diaper bag to hijack Pan Am Flight 281. In 2009 Luis Armando Pena Soltren (66) voluntarily returned to the same airport to surrender and face prosecution. On Jan 4, 2011, Soltren was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
(http://cuban-exile.com/doc_176-200/doc0180.html)(AP, 10/12/09)(SFC, 1/5/11, p.A4)
1969 Nov 24, Gen. William Westmoreland assigned Lt. Gen. William R. Peers to investigate the My Lai incident (March 16, 1968).
(www.choices.web.aplus.net/guidebooks/WAV/calley.pdf)
1969 Nov 24, Apollo 12 splashed down safely in the Pacific, ending the second manned mission to the moon.
(AP, 11/24/97)
1971 Nov 24, On Thanksgiving eve DB Cooper boarded Flight 305 in Portland, Or., and demanded $200,000 with the threat of a bomb. He parachuted from a Northwest Airlines 727 with the money over the Cascade Mountains near Ariel, Wash., and was never seen again. FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach wrote the book NORJAK that described the case. A packet containing $5,880 of the ransom money was found in 1980 on the north shore of the Columbia River, just west of the Washington city of Vancouver. In 2011 evidence was presented that Lynn Doyle Cooper (d.1999) of Oregon, a Korean war veteran, was the hijacker. On July 13, 2016, the FBI said it is no longer investigating the case.
(SFEC, 11/17/96, Z1 p.5)(AP, 11/24/97)(SFC, 8/4/11, p.A8)(SFC, 7/13/16, p.A6)
1971 Nov 24, A prison rebellion took place at Rahway State Prison, NJ.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahway_State_Prison)
1976 Nov 24, In Argentina military and law enforcement officials descended on the La Plata home of Daniel Enrique Mariani, and his wife, Diana Esmeralda Terugi, as part of an official campaign against people deemed to be subversives. Their home housed a printing press for the leftist group Montoneros. Terugi and four others were killed in the raid. Daniel was not home, but was killed less than a year later. Witnesses later said their daughter Clara Anahi, aged 3 months, was taken from the home.
(SSFC, 8/26/18, p.C9)
1977 Nov 24, Greeks announced the discovery of the tomb of King Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.
(HN, 11/24/98)
1979 Nov 24, U.S. admitted that thousands of troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange.
(HN, 11/24/98)
1982 Nov 24, FCC dropped limits on the duration and frequency of TV ads.
(http://tinyurl.com/2tcl6k)
1983 Nov 24, An IRA unit disguised as police officers seized Don Tidey, an American former chief executive of Ireland's Superquinn grocery stores, outside his Dublin home. They held him for more than three weeks in woods near the Irish border and demanded the equivalent of US$7.5 million in ransom. A joint Irish police-army search stumbled on the kidnappers' hideaway, freeing Tidey, but the IRA kidnappers killed a police officer and soldier as they escaped.
(AP, 3/7/06)(http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch83.htm)
1983 Nov 24, PLO exchanged 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians and Lebanese.
(http://tinyurl.com/2lejkm)
1985 Nov 24, The hijacking of an EgyptAir jetliner parked on the ground in Malta ended violently as Egyptian commandos stormed the plane. Fifty-eight people died in the raid, in addition to two others killed by the hijackers. Ali Rezaq of the Abu Nidal terrorist group was imprisoned in Malta for 7 years and then released. The US FBI apprehended him in Nigeria in 1993 and he was convicted by a US federal jury in 1996 and sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC, 7/20/96, p.A6)(SFEC, 10/8/96, D1)(AP, 11/24/97)
1987 Nov 24, The United States and the Soviet Union agreed to scrap shorter- and medium-range missiles in the first superpower treaty to eliminate an entire class of nuclear weapons.
(AP, 11/24/97)
1988 Nov 24, A state of emergency was declared in the cities of Kirovabad and Nakhichevan in Azerbaijan.
(WSJ, 8/7/96, p.A15)
1988 Nov 24, In Peru journalist Hugo Bustios Saavedra was murdered near an army base commanded by Daniel Uresti.
(http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/cases/1997/peru38-97.html)(Econ., 2/6/21, p.26)
1988 Nov 24, South Africa's justice minister announced that Nelson Mandela would not be returned to prison upon his recovery from tuberculosis, but would instead remain in custody in another location.
(AP, 11/24/98)
1989 Nov 24, In Washington state college student Mandy Stavik (18) disappeared after going out for a jog in Acme. Her body was found three days later in the Nooksack River. In 2017 police arrested Tim Bass (50) based on DNA evidence.
(https://tinyurl.com/y27c36rn)(CBS News, 7/18/20)
1989 Nov 24, Czechoslovakia's hard-line Communist party leadership resigned after more than a week of protests against its policies.
(AP, 11/24/99)
1989 Nov 24, In Peshawar, Pakistan, Abdulla Yusuf Azzam, a Palestinian intellectual, was assassinated in a car bombing reportedly ordered by Osama bin Laden for suspected CIA ties.
(SFC, 8/19/98, p.A16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_Yusuf_Azzam)
1989 Nov 24, Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu was unanimously re-elected Communist Party chief. Within a month, he was overthrown in a popular uprising and executed along with his wife, Elena, on Christmas Day.
(AP, 11/24/04)
1990 Nov 24, President Bush returned home from an eight-day tour of Europe and the Middle East, during which he’d lobbied foreign leaders on behalf of his Persian Gulf policy.
(AP, 11/24/00)
1990 Nov 24, In Texas Rosemary Diaz (15) went missing. Her remains were found in 2015 near the Wharton-Matagorda county line following a tip from the family of a man considered a suspect in the case. The suspect had recently died of cancer.
(http://tinyurl.com/p6hvtsh)(SFC, 11/26/15, p.A10)
1991 Nov 24, The space shuttle Atlantis blasted off from Cape Canaveral with six astronauts and a military satellite.
(AP, 11/24/01)
1991 Nov 24, Freddie Mercury (45), Zanzibar-born rock singer, died in London of pneumonia brought on by AIDS. Mercury and the rock group Queen made the 1975 hit "Bohemian Rhapsody."
(AP, 11/24/01)(SSFC, 11/10/02, p.A2)
1992 Nov 24, Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger pleaded innocent to making a false statement in the Iran-Contra affair. However, Weinberger was pardoned by President Bush before the case could come to trial.
(AP, 11/24/97)
1992 Nov 24, The US military closed the Subic Bay Naval Station and left the Philippines.
(HFA, '96, p.18)(SFEC, 11/17/96, p.A12)
1992 Nov 24, Bob Lurie, owner of the San Francisco Giants, agreed to sell the baseball team to a group of city business leaders for $100 million. Safeway Chairman Peter Magowan will be the managing general partner of the investment group. Lurie will retain a $10 million share for the next four years.
(SSFC, 11/19/17, DB p.50)
1992 Nov 24, In China, a domestic jetliner crashed, killing 141 people.
(AP, 11/24/97)
1993 Nov 24, President Clinton met at the White House with Salman Rushdie, the British author condemned to death by Iran for writing "The Satanic Verses."
(AP, 11/24/98)
1993 Nov 24, The US Congress gave its final approval to the Brady handgun control bill. It established a 5-day waiting period for handgun sales.
(AP, 11/24/98)
1993 Nov 24 Two 11-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, were convicted of the February murder of 2-year-old James Bulger of Liverpool, England. Shortly after the trial, Lord Taylor of Gosforth, the Lord Chief Justice, ordered that the two boys should serve a minimum of ten years behind bars. Thompson and Venables were released on a “life license" in June 2001, after serving eight years of their life sentence. An injunction remained in force following their release, so that details of their new identities and locations could not be published.
(AP, 11/24/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger)
1994 Nov 24, Rebel Serbs refused to withdraw from the U.N. designated safe area around Bihac and continued to advance on the city, despite recent NATO air strikes.
(AP, 11/24/99)
1994 Nov 24, In Sri Lanka a Tiger suicide bomber killed opposition pres. candidate Gamini Disanayake and 51 others.
(SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)
1995 Nov 24, The American Visionary Art Museum opened in Baltimore. It was founded by development consultant Rebecca Hoffberger (43), who succeeded in raising most of the $7.5 mil for the museum.
(WSJ, 4/3/96, p.A20)(www.avam.org/stuff/whois.html)
1995 Nov 24, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic promised during a televised address to accept a U-S-brokered peace plan.
(AP, 11/24/00)
1995 Nov 24, Voters in Ireland narrowly ended a 70-year ban on divorce and approved a constitutional amendment legalizing divorce and remarriage by 50.23%.
(SFC, 1/18/96, p.A8)(AP, 11/24/00)(MC, 11/24/01)
1996 Nov 24, On the eve of an Asia-Pacific trade conference in the Philippines, President Clinton met with Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Both sides signaled their troubled relations were on the mend, and agreed to exchange presidential visits over the next two years.
(AP, 11/24/97)
1996 Nov 24, In Argentina evangelist Sun Myung Moon began a new Spanish newspaper for all of Latin America with the assistance of former US president George Bush. Bush was reportedly paid $100,000. They then traveled to Uruguay to inaugurate a seminary to train 4,200 Japanese women to spread the word of his Church across Latin America.
(SFC, 11/25/96, p.B1)(WSJ, 11/26/96, p.A1)
1996 Nov 24, In Belarus parliament set its own date for a vote to approve the abolishment of the office of the president. Lukashenko has the backing of the security apparatus which numbers about 150,000 in the pop. of 10 mil.
(WSJ, 10/8/96, p.A17)
1996 Nov 24, In Serbia a court controlled by Pres. Milosevic annulled the electoral victory of the opposition. The opposition had one 67 of 110 seats of the Belgrade City Council. The court annulled 52 of the opposition seats.
(SFC, 11/25/96, p.A8)
1997 Nov 24, Pres. Clinton and APEC Asian leaders in Vancouver discussed ways of calming the Asian economic crisis and agreed on the rough details of a $68 billion bailout with loans from the IMF.
(SFC, 11/25/97, p.A1) (AP, 11/24/98)
1997 Nov 24, Space-walking astronauts from the shuttle Columbia grabbed a spinning satellite with their hands, enabling the cockpit crew to use the shuttle's robot arm to return it to the cargo bay.
(AP, 11/24/07)
1997 Nov 24, In the SF Bay Area Thomas Franklin Wheelock (20) murdered his Armored Transport partner, Rodrigo Cortez (30), and escaped with $300,000. Most of the money was found in a Sacramento motel. Wheelock was pronounced guilty in 2001 and sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC,11/26/97, p.A1)(SFC, 9/5/01, p.A16)(SFC, 9/21/01, p.D6)
1997 Nov 24, French Singer Monique Serf, stage-name Barbara, died at 67. She was famous for her songs “Aigle Noir," “Nantes," “La Solitude," and “Une Petite Cantate."
(SFC, 11/26/97, p.C4)
1997 Nov 24, It was reported that Iraq continued to withhold access to 63 weapons sites that included 47 presidential compounds.
(SFC, 11/24/97, p.A13)
1997 Nov 24, Israeli warplanes and soldiers attacked supposed guerilla infiltration trails in southern Lebanon. Three Hezbollah were reported killed.
(SFC, 11/25/97, p.A12)
1997 Nov 24, In Japan the Yamaichi Securities firm, the nation's 4th largest, announced a shutdown due to debts totaling $24 billion. It was the third, after Sanyo Securities and Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, Japanese financial company to collapse in a month.
(SFC, 11/24/97, p.A1)(AP, 11/24/98)(Econ, 7/22/06, p.66)
1997 Nov 24, In Somalia all hostages were released by the rival Marjeteen and Wasangeli militiamen.
(SFC, 11/24/97, p.A11)
1998 Nov 24, America Online confirmed it was buying Netscape Communications in a deal ultimately worth $10 billion.
(AP, 11/24/99)
1998 Nov 24, Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp., donated $20 million to the Seattle Public Library system.
(SFC, 11/24/98, p.A3)
1998 Nov 24, A UN report on AIDS said 33 million people were infected, and that two-thirds of them were in sub-Saharan Africa.
(WSJ, 11/25/98, p.A1)
1998 Nov 24, In Britain Queen Elizabeth announced plans by the Blair government to make the House of Lords more democratic by stripping aristocrats of their right to sit in it.
(WSJ, 11/25/98, p.A1)
1998 Nov 24, In Lebanon Pres. Elias Hrawi was scheduled to step down and be replaced by Emile Lahoud.
(SFC, 10/16/98, p.D2)
1998 Nov 24, The OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) ratified an anti-bribery convention. It came into force in 1999.
(http://tinyurl.com/otqm8xp)(Econ, 12/23/06, p.18)(Econ, 12/6/14, p.73)
1998 Nov 24, The first Palestine Airlines flight touched down at Gaza International Airport.
(AP, 11/24/99)
1998 Nov 24, A funeral was held in St. Petersburg for liberal Russian lawmaker Galina Starovoitova, who had been assassinated four days earlier.
(AP, 11/24/99)
1998 Nov 24, Russia, Kazakstan and a group of major oil companies agreed to build a pipeline to connect the Tengiz oil field to a Russian port on the Black Sea.
(SFC, 11/25/98, p.A16)
1998 Nov 24, The UN Security Council voted to allow Iraq an additional $5.2 billion in oil sales over the next 6 months to cover humanitarian aid.
(SFC, 11/25/98, p.A14)
1999 Nov 24, American Indian farmers filed a $19 billion class-action lawsuit against the Agriculture Department for an alleged 20-year history of loan-granting discrimination.
(SFC, 11/25/99, p.A4)
1999 Nov 24, It was reported that US married couples with children comprised 26% of the population as opposed to 45% in 1972.
(SFC, 11/24/99, p.A3)
1999 Nov 24, In Britain authorities intercepted Scud missile components labeled as auto parts originating in Taiwan and destined for Libya.
(SFC, 1/10/00, p.A10)
1999 Nov 24-1999 Nov 25, The Chinese ferry, Dashun, with 312 passengers caught fire and sank in stormy seas on the Bohai Strait near Yantai in Shandong province. Only 22 passengers were rescued.
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/26/99, p.A1)(SFC, 11/27/99, p.A14)(AP, 11/24/00)
1999 Nov 24, In Croatia the parliament passed a constitutional amendment that declared Pres. Tudjman (77) to be temporarily disabled and acted to pass power to Vlatko Pavletic, speaker of parliament.
(SFC, 11/25/99, p.A14)(WSJ, 11/26/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 24, In Indonesia security forces deployed hundreds of reinforcements to Aceh province where 6 people were killed over the past week.
(SFC, 11/25/99, p.A16)
1999 Nov 24, Mexico and the EU agreed on terms for a free trade treaty.
(SFC, 11/25/99, p.A14)
2000 Nov 24, The U.S. Supreme Court stepped into the bitter, overtime struggle for the White House, agreeing to consider George W. Bush's appeal whether the extended Florida ballot counting violates federal law..
(SFC, 11/25/00, p.A1)(AP, 11/24/01)
2000 Nov 24, In Cambodia several dozen gunmen attacked government offices in Phnom Penh. At least 7 people were killed and 12 wounded. Police fought a US-based anti-communist group known as the Cambodian Freedom Fighters (CFF). 8 were killed and 60 rounded up. 38 people, including 4 American citizens, were later charged with terrorism. In 2002 a court sentenced 20 people to prison terms of 5 years to life for the plotting to overthrow the government.
(SFC, 11/25/00, p.A18)(WSJ, 11/27/00, p.A1)(SFC, 11/30/00, p.C3)(SFC, 3/1/02, p.A17)
2000 Nov 24, Germany and the Portuguese Azores Islands recorded new cases of mad cow disease. Main land Portugal has reported 467 cases since 1990.
(SFC, 11/25/00, p.A16)
2000 Nov 24, In the Philippines Salvador "Bubby" Dacer, a publicist who represented top political figures, was kidnapped and later killed along with his driver. Police boss Sen. Panfilo Lacson was later linked to the killing. In 2009 Cesar Mancao, a former senior Philippine police official accused of the double homicide, was extradited from the US after agreeing to testify in the case.
(AP, 6/4/09)(http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/3133909)
2000 Nov 24, In Serbia police gave NATO a 72-hour deadline to stop incursions from Kosovo by ethnic Albanian militants.
(SFC, 11/25/00, p.A15)
2000 Nov 24, From Russia Vladimir Putin arranged for Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak to agree by telephone to reopen 10 joint security offices in the West Bank and Gaza.
(SFC, 11/25/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 24, It was reported that monsoon flooding killed 10 people in Malaysia and at least 5 people in Thailand. The death toll from flooding in Thailand reached over 30, mostly children. Over 100 people died from the flooding and mudslides in West Sumatra.
(SFC, 11/24/00, p.D8)(WSJ, 11/27/00, p.A1)(SFC, 11/29/00, p.C20)
2001 Nov 24, Heavy storms hit the US and at least 12 people were killed in the lower Mississippi valley.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A19)
2001 Nov 24, Michelle Lynn Howard (32) was last seen in Atlantic City, NJ. Her body was found two days later lying on the side of the road on Estelle Avenue in the vicinity of Old Landis Avenue about a quarter mile from Interstate 40.
(NBC News, 11/27/20)
2001 Nov 24, Thousands of Taliban fighters surrendered at Kunduz. A few turned out to be suicide bombers, who killed 5-6 Northern Alliance commanders. Afghan troops captured Salim Ahmen Hamdan in southern Afghanistan in a car with four other alleged al-Qaida associates who exchanged fire with the Afghan troops. Three of the other men in the car, including a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, were killed. Hamdan, who was sent to Guantanamo, admitted working as bin Laden's driver in Afghanistan.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A1)(NW, 8/26/02, p.22)(AP, 12/5/07)
2001 Nov 24, In Brazil a fire at a dance club in Belo Horizonte killed at least 6 people.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A18)
2001 Nov 24, British actress Rachel Gurney (81), who played Lady Marjorie Bellamy on the popular television series "Upstairs Downstairs," died.
(AP, 11/24/02)
2001 Nov 24, Tens of thousands of Palestinians marched in the West Bank and Gaza city to protest the Israeli killing of Mahmoud Abu Hanoud and 2 assistants. A Palestinian mortar attack killed one Israeli soldier.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A14)(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A9)
2001 Nov 24, In Switzerland a Swiss Crossair Jumbolino Avro RJ-100 crashed with 33 people on board. 24 were killed including American pop singer Melanie Thornton.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A18)(WSJ, 11/26/01, p.A1)(AP, 11/24/02)
2001 Nov 24, Mathew Hardman (17) killed widow Mabel Leyshon (90) at her home in the north Wales town of Llanfairpwll. Prosecutors later said he wanted to be a vampire. In 2002 Hardman was convicted of fatally stabbing Leyshon, cutting out her heart and drinking her blood.
(AP, 8/2/02)
2002 Nov 24, Harriet Doerr (b.1910), author of "Stone for Ibarra" (1984), died in Pasadena.
(SFC, 11/28/02, p.A30)
2002 Nov 24, John Rawls (81), philosopher, died in Boston. His work included "A Theory of Justice" (1971), which advanced the concept of a social compact. The Rawls test: would the best off accept the arrangements if they believed at any moment they might find themselves in the place of the worst off."
(WSJ, 11/26/02, p.A1)(SFC, 11/29/02, p.A27)
2002 Nov 24, In Austria Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel's conservative party made large gains to dominate parliamentary elections.
(AP, 11/24/02)
2002 Nov 24, A tanker carrying 20,000 tons of liquefied petroleum gas was on fire in Chinese waters about 38 kilometers east of Hong Kong, risking a huge explosion.
(Reuters, 11/24/02)
2002 Nov 24, The Central Colombian Pipeline, known by its Spanish acronym Ocensa, had to be shut down after an attack near the town of Aguazul.
(AP, 11/25/02)
2002 Nov 24, Negotiations between the Congolese government and two rebel groups produced an agreement in principle on the workings of a transitional government.
(AP, 11/24/02)
2002 Nov 24, In Ecuador Lucio Gutierrez (45), who led a Jan 2000 coup against Pres. Jamil Mahuad, was elected over billionaire Alvaro Noboa (52) in a runoff election.
(SSFC, 11/24/02, p.F1)(AP, 11/25/02)(SFC, 11/25/02, p.A3)
2002 Nov 24, In a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Iraqi government complained that the small print behind upcoming weapons inspections would give Washington a pretext to attack.
(AP, 11/24/03)
2002 Nov 24, In Maan, Jordan, one person was killed and several wounded in shootings between officers and crowds who attacked police patrols. The city is home to conservative Bedouin tribesmen who are heavily armed and oppose the government's pro-Western stance and Jordan's 1994 peace treaty with Israel.
(AP, 11/27/02)
2002 Nov 24, In Kashmir militants stormed a Hindu temple and engaged security forces in a 10-hour gunfight that killed 14 people.
(SFC, 11/27/02, p.A17)
2002 Nov 24, Philippine communist rebels killed four soldiers when about 30 rebels opened fire on a military convoy returning to base from a mission.
(Reuters, 11/25/02)
2002 Nov 24, The government of Vietnam estimated AIDS at 107,000 cases and pointed to the estimated 40,000 prostitutes as the chief source. AIDS workers said 70% of the infected were drug users and claimed 200,000 cases.
(SSFC, 11/24/02, p.A3)
2003 Nov 24, Pres. Bush signed a $401.3 billion Pentagon spending bill. The president then traveled to Fort Carson, Colo., where he paid tribute to the sacrifices of U.S. troops in Iraq.
(WSJ, 11/25/03, p.A1)(AP, 11/24/08)
2003 Nov 24, A new US FCC regulation allowed cell phone users to transfer their numbers to a different carrier beginning today.
(SFC, 11/24/03, p.A1)
2003 Nov 24, The US Dept. of Commerce said it would impose tariffs on Chinese-made television sets that it ruled were being sold below fair market price in the US.
(SFC, 11/27/03, p.C3)
2003 Nov 24, A Virginia jury decided that John Allen Muhammad, convicted of masterminding the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington DC region, should be executed.
(SFC, 11/25/03, p.A3)
2003 Nov 24, Warner Music was born when Edgar Bronfman Jr. and a group of investors paid $2.6 billion for Time Warner’s music division. In 2011 oil magnate Len Blavatnik agreed to pay $3.3 billion for Warner Music Group.
(Econ, 5/14/11, p.82)
2003 Nov 24, Warren Spahn (82), the Hall of Fame pitcher who won more games than any other left-hander in history, died in Broken Arrow, Ok.
(AP, 11/24/03)
2003 Nov 24, British PM Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac confronted the sensitive issue of European defense and in a show of unity announced plans for a small rapid-reaction force of EU peacekeepers.
(AP, 11/24/03)
2003 Nov 24, The Croatian Nationalist Democratic Union (HDZ), which led the drive to independence and later into isolation, began negotiating with potential partners to form a new government after winning parliamentary elections.
(AP, 11/24/03)
2003 Nov 24, The US-appointed government raided the offices of Al-Arabiya television, banned its broadcasts from Iraq for broadcasting an audiotape a week ago of a voice it said belonged to Saddam Hussein.
(AP, 11/24/03)
2003 Nov 24, Gunmen in Mosul ambushed US soldiers on patrol with a roadside bomb then opened fire on them, wounding one.
(AP, 11/24/03)
2003 Nov 24, In Russia an early-morning fire raced through a Moscow dormitory packed with students from Africa, Asia and Latin America, killing at least 32 people and injuring 139. The toll climbed to 42 with the death of a Chinese student who suffered serious burns.
(AP, 11/24/03)(AP, 12/18/03)
2004 Nov 24, Arthur Hailey (b.1920), author of the 1968 novel “Airport," died in the Bahamas.
(SFC, 11/26/04, p.B3)
2004 Nov 24, In southern Afghanistan a bomb exploded near a US patrol, killing two American soldiers and wounding another.
(AP, 11/24/04)
2004 Nov 24, The US military ended a 9-year peacekeeping role in Bosnia but kept on a small contingent to hunt down top war crimes suspects Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic.
(AP, 11/24/04)
2004 Nov 24, Canada’s PM Paul Martin visited Burkina Faso. Canada is investing about $20 million in a Basic Education Plan to pump $140 million into building schools across the country.
(AP, 11/24/04)
2004 Nov 24, In Fallujah the US military uncovered the largest arms cache yet inside the mosque of an insurgent leader. 5 Arab foreign fighters who had escaped from Fallujah were arrested near southern Basra. They were planning to attack coalition bases and police stations.
(AP, 11/25/04)
2004 Nov 24, An Iraqi woman, working as a translator, was shot and killed by 2 US soldiers playing with a firearm. In 2005 Spc. Charley Hooser was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and Spc. Rami Dajani of accessory after the fact.
(SSFC, 1/23/05, p.A5)
2004 Nov 24, President Jacques Chirac arrived in Libya in the first ever visit by a French head of state.
(AP, 11/24/04)
2004 Nov 24, Paraguayan police captured Ivan Mezquita, a leading Brazilian drug trafficking suspect, after a gunbattle with occupants of a cocaine-laden plane near the border with Brazil.
(AP, 11/25/04)
2004 Nov 24, The UN mission said Rwanda has warned it will launch an attack "very soon" on Rwandan Hutu rebels sheltering in eastern Congo.
(AP, 11/24/04)
2004 Nov 24, Ukraine's election commission declared Viktor Yanukovych, the Kremlin-backed prime minister, as winner. Ukraine's opposition called for a new round of presidential elections to resolve the political crisis gripping the nation. EU leaders, alleging fraud, warned of "consequences" if the poll was not reviewed.
(AP, 11/24/04)
2004 Nov 24, Venezuela’s Congress passed a bill that lays down strict guidelines for sex and violence in broadcast programming and threatens multimillion dollar fines or even closure for media outlets that disobey.
(AP, 11/25/04)
2005 Nov 24, A giant balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York snagged a street light and caused part of it to fall, injuring a woman and a child.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2005 Nov 24, Actor Pat Morita (73), whose portrayal of the wise and dry-witted Mr. Miyagi in "The Karate Kid" (1984) earned him an Oscar nomination, died at his home in Las Vegas.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 24, In Canada opposition parties introduced a no-confidence motion that is expected to topple PM Paul Martin's government and force a parliamentary election campaign during the Christmas holidays.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, Former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet was indicted on human rights charges and placed under house arrest, hours after he made bail on unrelated corruption charges filed only a day earlier.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, A man in south China was sentenced to death for leading a gang that kidnapped 38 children and sold them to other families for adoption.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 24, In China a slick of river-borne toxins from a chemical plant explosion flowed into Harbin as the government dug wells after shutting down its water system to protect residents. A 50-mile-long patch of water carrying toxic benzene began entering Harbin, a city of 3.8 million people in China's northeast, before dawn. A chemical plant explosion Nov. 13 in the nearby city of Jilin spewed toxic benzene into the Songhua River.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, In southwestern China an explosion at the Yingte Chemical Company in Dianjiang killed one worker. This prompted fears of a 2nd benzene leak and warnings to residents not to drink river water.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 24, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe met with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez to try to help bridge differences in Latin America.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, In southwestern Colombia the Galeras volcano became active at dawn and dumped heaps of ash on the city of Pasto, 12 miles away.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, In Costa Rica thousands of supporters of a free trade pact for Central America marched through San Jose. The group of about 5,000 mainly workers and business owners urged Congress to approve the pact known as CAFTA.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, Indonesia expelled Sidney Jones, an American expert on Southeast Asian terrorist networks for one year, saying her activities could cause public disorder.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 24, In central Iraq a suicide car bomber targeting US troops handing out toys to children at a hospital killed 34 people, including 4 police guards, 3 women and 2 children.
(AP, 11/24/05)(Reuters, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, A suicide car bomber attacked a crowded market in Hilla, south of Baghdad, on Thursday killing at least 4 people and wounding 23 others.
(Reuters, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, In Israel Ariel Sharon's fledgling political party "Forward" officially registered itself.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, The anti-terror bureau of PM Ariel Sharon's office issued an unprecedented alert, warning that Hezbollah has launched an effort to kidnap Israelis anywhere in the world.
(AP, 11/26/05)
2005 Nov 24, Iyad Abu Rob, a top Islamic Jihad militant, surrendered to Israeli soldiers in Jenin. In a separate operation, 2 wanted men surrendered after Israeli troops surrounded two houses in the village of Kfar Kalil near Nablus. Another man was shot, but his condition was not known.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, Japan finalized an agreement to forgive $6.1 billion of Iraqi debt, or about 80% of the total owed by Baghdad.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, Jordan's King Abdullah II named Marouf al-Bakhit as the new prime minister hours after the resignation of Adnan Badran. The king urged the new PM to launch an all-out war against Islamic militancy in the wake of the triple hotel bombings earlier this month that killed 63 people.
(AP, 11/24/05)(SFC, 11/25/05, p.A3)
2005 Nov 24, In Northern Ireland Abbas Boutrab (32), an Algerian man, was convicted of possessing information on making a concealed bomb that could be used to blow up a commercial airliner. Police initially arrested Boutrab in 2003 on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, Peruvian lawmakers voted to trim a hefty year-end bonus, bowing to public outrage in one of Latin America's poorest countries.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, In Peru 16 people were killed when a passenger bus plunged into a river.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, Russia’s Pres. Putin vowed to make sure a controversial bill tightening state control over the nonprofit sector doesn’t harm civil society.
(WSJ, 11/25/05, p.A9)
2005 Nov 24, Serbia's president Boris Tadic formally proposed dividing Kosovo between its independence-seeking Albanian majority and a Serb minority as the chief UN mediator met with government officials.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 24, The UN food agency said the United States has thrown a lifeline to six southern African countries, donating food aid valued at $45 million. The food will be distributed across Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, Uzbek authorities arrested Rukhitdin Fahrutdinov (38), an alleged Islamic radical and their most wanted fugitive, who had been hiding out in neighboring Kazakhstan. Human Rights Watch said Fahrutdinov was detained in Shymkent with at least 8 other Uzbek suspects and that all were extradited secretly and forcibly.
(AP, 12/24/05)
2006 Nov 24, The US Dept. of Agriculture declared LL601, an experimental variety of genetically engineered rice, to be safe for human consumption. Bayer Crop-Science designed it to resist Bayer’s Liberty weed killer. It escaped from test plots after the company dropped the project in 2001.
(SFC, 11/25/06, p.A3)
2006 Nov 24, In Chicago a gunman who took his neighbor hostage for 23 hours over Thanksgiving ended the standoff by killing the woman and himself.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, In California Richmond police officer Kaliah Ashante Harper was shot and killed by her former boyfriend, Quartus Lee Hinton (28), during a funeral ceremony in Fairfield. Hinton was arrested the next day. In 2008 Hinton was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to 38 years in prison.
(SSFC, 11/26/06, p.B1)(SFC, 7/16/08, p.B6)(SFC, 11/1/08, p.B3)
2006 Nov 24, Robert McFerrin Sr. (b.1921), opera singer and the father of Grammy-winning conductor-vocalist Bobby McFerrin, died in suburban St. Louis at age 85. He was the first black man to sing as a member of the NY Metropolitan Opera (1955).
(SFC, 11/30/06, p.B7)(AP, 11/24/07)
2006 Nov 24, In Afghanistan US-led coalition troops clashed with Taliban insurgents killing seven of the militants.
(Reuters, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, Authorities cut off broadcasts from Azerbaijan's first independent TV station and ordered the eviction of opposition newspapers and organizations from their offices in the capital, moves government opponents called part of a campaign to silence dissent.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, Canadian police found 22 apartments in a 13-story Toronto building rigged up to grow marijuana with a value of $5 million.
(WSJ, 11/25/06, p.A1)
2006 Nov 24, Chadian rebels rolled into the east of the country in their second offensive within a month against President Idriss Deby Itno. Chad extended a state of emergency for six months in the country's eastern provinces, where ethnic clashes have killed as many as 400 people and raised fears that Sudan's Darfur conflict is spilling across the border.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, In southern Chile a twin-engine plane crashed, killing the Chilean pilot and five Brazilian tourists.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, China signed a five-year free trade pact with Pakistan, promised to continue joint development of nuclear energy, and pledged to play a "constructive" role in resolving disputes between Pakistan and neighboring rival India.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, France said it will give Tanzania 46 million euros (60 million dollars) to fund development projects in the east African nation over the next five years.
(AFP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, Shiite militiamen grabbed six Sunnis during worship services, doused them with kerosene and burned them alive. Iraqi soldiers at a nearby army post failed to intervene in the assault by suspected members of the Shiite Mahdi Army militia or subsequent attacks that killed a total of 25 Sunnis, including women and children. Another 87 people were killed or found dead in sectarian violence across Iraq. A US Marine died from wounds sustained while fighting in Anbar province.
(AP, 11/24/06)(AP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 24, In Lebanon factories, banks and schools closed on orders from business leaders, who demanded a resolution to the political crisis before it spirals into wider violence. A cluster bomb left over from Israel's war against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon wounded two members of an international team of land mine-clearing experts.
(AP, 11/24/06)(AP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 24, In Lesotho Samuella Jacobina Verwey (36), a Dutch aid worker with the Clinton Foundation, was shot to death at the house of Mpho Malie, Lesotho's trade and industry minister. Malie is seen as a major contender for the leadership of the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy after the current leader, PM Pakalitha Mosisili, quits.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 24, Michael Stone (51), a Protestant extremist, triggered a panicked evacuation of the Northern Ireland Assembly. He was charged the next day with attempting to murder 4 people. In 2008 Stone was found guilty of trying to murder Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness at the Northern Ireland Assembly. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
(AP, 11/25/06)(AP, 11/14/08)(AFP, 12/8/08)
2006 Nov 24, Police said Pakistan has handed over 240 suspected Taliban fighters to Afghan authorities this week as a hunt for the Islamist militants continues in the country's southwest.
(Reuters, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, PM Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said that Palestinian factions had agreed to halt rocket fire if Israel reciprocates by stopping its military offensives in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel rejected the offer, saying it would respond positively only to a total truce.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, Panama’s government said heavy rains and flooding have left at least eight people dead and damaged hundreds of homes.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, A Defense Ministry official said Russia has begun delivery of Tor-M1 air defense missile systems to Iran, confirming that Moscow would proceed with arms deals with Tehran in spite of Western criticism.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, Rwanda cut diplomatic ties with France and gave France's ambassador to Rwanda 24 hours to leave the central African country. This was in response to a French judge’s call for President Paul Kagame to stand trial over the 1994 killing of a former leader, sparking the genocide of 800,000 people.
(Reuters, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, Taiwan's president won a reprieve when opposition lawmakers failed for the third time to muster enough support for a referendum on removing him from office.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, In Thailand attackers shot a school principal, and then set his body on fire. The principal became the 59th teacher or school official killed in three years of violence.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 24, The UN said its investigators have discovered three mass graves at a northeast Congo military camp containing the bodies of 30 people, including women and children, who were allegedly killed by soldiers.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, A UN anti-torture panel said it had credible reports of unofficial detention centers, abuse and disappearances in Russia's restive southern province of Chechnya.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, Fishing nations led by Iceland and Russia blocked UN negotiators from imposing a full-fledged ban against destructive bottom trawling on the high seas. After weeks of talks in New York, a United Nations committee that oversees high seas fisheries failed to gain unanimous support this week for ending unregulated bottom trawling.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2007 Nov 24, In southern California a fast-moving wildfire destroyed more than a dozen homes and spread through the canyons and hills above Malibu, forcing dozens of residents to flee ahead of the flames. 53 homes were destroyed with 7 square miles scorched. On Dec 13 authorities arrested five men on allegations they caused the fire which caused over $100 million in losses in Malibu.
(AP, 11/24/07)(SSFC, 11/25/07, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/26/07, p.A1)(AP, 12/14/07)
2007 Nov 24, Beginning today and continuing for less than a week, bad guys loaded up more than 40,000 Web pages with malicious software and thousands of common search terms. The culprits' use of botnets to push a dark form of SEO (search-engine optimization), called a "Google bomb," to boost their sites' Google rankings.
(www.pcworld.com/article/id,141796/article.html)(PCWorld, 1/28/08)
2007 Nov 24, A Taliban suicide bomber killed eight people, including three children and an Italian military engineer, when he blew himself up in a scenic town near Kabul. Insurgents attacked police in the Pathan district and were targeted by airstrikes from NATO or coalition helicopters. The bodies of 69 dead militants were said to be left in the area. Among those killed were four Taliban who were traveling with two cars full of explosives and ammunition.
(AFP, 11/24/07)(AP, 11/25/07)
2007 Nov 24, In Australia conservative PM John Howard suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of the left-leaning opposition. Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd has promised to immediately sign the Kyoto Protocol on global warming and withdraw Australia's combat troops from Iraq.
(AP, 11/24/07)
2007 Nov 24, in southwestern Bangladesh a section of a bridge collapsed under the weight of thousands of hungry cyclone victims rushing toward a relief center. At least 3 people died and dozens were injured.
(Reuters, 11/24/07)
2007 Nov 24, In Bolivia soldiers clashed with students protesting a constitutional assembly in a second day of unrest against the pending legal overhaul. 2 people died in the violence.
(AP, 11/25/07)(WSJ, 11/26/07, p.A1)
2007 Nov 24, Robert Knipstrom (36) of British Columbia man died four days after police used a Taser stun-gun on him because he reportedly was acting erratically in a store. He was the third person to die in recent weeks in Canada after being shocked by the hand-held weapon.
(AP, 11/25/07)
2007 Nov 24, Full service was restored on the Paris Metro and most French trains were running after transport workers ended a crippling strike so that talks on pension reform could run their course.
(AP, 11/24/07)
2007 Nov 24, In India protesting tea plantation workers in the remote northeast clashed with area residents, in violence that left six people dead and 60 others injured. A group of nearly 10,000 workers from tea plantations all over the state of Assam, led by the All Assam Tea Tribes Students Association, had been marching in the state capital of Gauhati to demand that the government recognize them as a separate tribal group.
(AP, 11/24/07)
2007 Nov 24, In central Indonesia a fire on a crowded passenger bus killed 12 people, including three children.
(AP, 11/24/07)
2007 Nov 24, In Iraq a US operation near Samarra killed 10 suspected Sunni militants. In the same area 2 men who were confronted in a vehicle detonated a suicide vest leaving both dead.
(SFC, 11/26/07, p.A18)
2007 Nov 24, Lebanon awoke a republic without a president amid mounting worries over a power vacuum that has intensified the nation's yearlong political turmoil.
(AP, 11/24/07)
2007 Nov 24, Militants struck at the heart of Pakistan's security establishment, killing up to 35 people in suicide attacks on a checkpoint outside army headquarters and a bus carrying intelligence agency employees. The attacks in Rawalpindi coincided with the announcement that Nawaz Sharif, a former prime minister overthrown in 1999 by the country's current military leader Gen. Pervez Musharraf, would return from exile the next day.
(AP, 11/24/07)
2007 Nov 24, Russian police in Moscow detained opposition leader and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov and several other anti-Kremlin protesters when thousands of people marched against President Vladimir Putin.
(Reuters, 11/24/07)
2007 Nov 24, In Somalia Nur Hassan Hussein (1938-2020) became prime minister. He led negotiations with insurgents that led to a peace agreement in mid-2008.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nur_Hassan_Hussein)(SSFC, 4/5/20, p.A3)
2007 Nov 24, South Korea's first bird flu outbreak in eight months forced the slaughter of thousands of ducks in the country's south. The government said the deadly H5N1 virus was not involved.
(AP, 11/24/07)
2007 Nov 24, More than 100 Chinese engineers arrived in Sudan's war-torn Darfur as part of the vanguard for a joint African Union-UN peacekeeping mission to be in place next year. Rebels demanded Beijing pull its peacekeepers out of Darfur, just hours after a unit of Chinese army engineers arrived.
(AFP, 11/24/07)(AP, 11/25/07)
2007 Nov 24, Pope Benedict XVI elevated 23 churchmen from around the world to the top ranks of the Catholic Church hierarchy, telling them they must be willing to shed their blood to spread the Christian faith.
(AP, 11/24/07)
2008 Nov 24, The Bush administration, after a long legal battle, agreed to send Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden’s driver, home to Yemen. Hamdan was transferred to Yemen the next day.
(WSJ, 11/25/08, p.A1)(AP, 11/26/08)
2008 Nov 24, The US government won a terrorism conviction against Texas-based Holy Land, what had been the nation's largest Muslim charity, and five of its leaders for funneling millions of dollars to the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Holy Land supporters accused the government of politicizing the case as part of its war on terrorism, while attorneys for the foundation said Holy Land's mission was philanthropy and providing aid to the Middle East.
(AP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 24, Delaware’s Gov. Ruth Ann Miner named Edward Kaufman, a former aide to Sen. Joe Biden, to fill the Senate seat Biden was leaving for the vice presidency.
(SFC, 11/25/08, p.A14)
2008 Nov 24, Cecil Underwood (b.1922), former 2-time governor of West Virginia, died. He won his first term in 1956 to become the state’s youngest governor. In 1996 he was elected again and became the state’s oldest governor.
(SFC, 11/25/08, p.B4)
2008 Nov 24, In eastern Afghanistan US troops killed six militants and detained 12 others in two operations.
(AP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 24, Bhutan opened its 4th annual Gross National Happiness (GNH) conference.
(SFC, 12/4/08, p.A1)
2008 Nov 24, China's President Hu Jintao arrived in Greece for a three-day visit timed to coincide with the signing of a 831.2 million euro ($1 billion) port deal.
(AP, 11/24/08)
2008 Nov 24, Congolese soldiers went on an overnight looting and shooting spree in a sprawling Congolese refugee camp, stealing from hungry and traumatized people who have fled fighting in the country's east.
(AP, 11/24/08)
2008 Nov 24, A Haitian teen shot and killed a classmate in a rare outbreak of school violence in the troubled country.
(AP, 11/24/08)
2008 Nov 24, The National Bank of Hungary cut its key interest rate by half a percentage point to an annual rate of 11% to support the economy amid the global financial crisis.
(AP, 11/24/08)
2008 Nov 24, In Indonesia health workers and rights activists sharply criticized a plan by lawmakers in remote Papua province, who have thrown their support behind a controversial bill requiring some HIV/AIDS patients to be implanted with microchips, part of extreme efforts to monitor the disease.
(AP, 11/24/08)
2008 Nov 24, In Iraq a female suicide bomber blew herself up near an entrance to the US-protected Green Zone killing 7 people. A bomb tore through a minibus carrying Iraqi government employees and killed at least 13 people, most of them women. Three more people were killed in bomb attacks on police patrols in Baghdad and Baqouba. An American soldier died of noncombat-related causes in Diyala province.
(AP, 11/24/08)(AP, 11/25/08)(SFC, 11/25/08, p.A13)
2008 Nov 24, Adel Hussein was sentenced six months in jail by a court in Irbil, capital of the Kurdish-ruled region, for violating a public decency law by writing a story about homosexuality. The case centered on an April 2007 article Hussein wrote for the independent weekly Hawlati that detailed the physical effects of homosexual sex.
(AP, 12/3/08)
2008 Nov 24, Malaysia released suspected terrorist Yazid Sufaat, an alleged biological weapons expert who was also linked to the September 11 attacks in the United States.
(AFP, 12/10/08)
2008 Nov 24, North Korea detailed plans to radically curtail ties with South Korea, announcing the end of daily cross-border train service and tours of a historic city in response to what it called Seoul's "confrontational" policy.
(AP, 11/24/08)
2008 Nov 24, In Pakistan government forces killed 15 militants in the Swat valley. An official said a two-week operation to secure the frontier city of Peshawar, which sits on a key supply route for US and NATO troops in Afghanistan, killed 25 suspected militants.
(AP, 11/24/08)(SFC, 11/25/08, p.A13)
2008 Nov 24, Pakistan, the front-line country in the battle against Islamist terrorism, won final approval for a $7.6 billion loan from the IMF to help stave off a possible economic meltdown.
(AP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 24, Gazans crowded into banks to withdraw money amid a worsening currency shortage resulting from Israeli sanctions.
(WSJ, 11/25/08, p.A1)
2008 Nov 24, Shipping officials from around the world called for a military blockade along the coast of Somalia to intercept pirate vessels heading out to sea.
(AP, 11/24/08)
2008 Nov 24, In Thailand thousands of anti-government protesters fanned out across Bangkok, causing Parliament to shut down and forcing a group of riot police to retreat in what the activists called their final bid to oust a corrupt administration.
(AP, 11/24/08)
2009 Nov 24, President Barack Obama showered praise on India and PM Manmohan Singh in an elaborate welcoming ceremony, declaring it was only fitting the Indian leader should be the first state visitor of his administration. Virginia couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, met Pres. Obama in the receiving line of the state dinner for PM Singh. A "deeply concerned and embarrassed" Secret Service later acknowledged that its officers never checked whether the two were on the guest list before letting them onto the White House grounds.
(AP, 11/24/09)(AP, 11/28/09)
2009 Nov 24, In Alaska the Catholic diocese of Fairbanks and representatives of almost 300 alleged victims of sex abuse by clergy agreed on a settlement of almost $10 million.
(SFC, 11/25/09, p.A4)
2009 Nov 24, Afghanistan’s attorney general's office said 15 current and former Afghan ministers are under investigation over allegations of corruption that have plagued the government of President Hamid Karzai.
(AP, 11/24/09)
2009 Nov 24, Lloyds launched the country's largest-ever rights issue to raise 13.5 billion pounds from existing shareholders.
(AFP, 11/24/09)
2009 Nov 24, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gave a welcoming bear hug Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and urged Western nations to drop threats of punishment over the Iranian nuclear program and instead negotiate a fair solution.
(AP, 11/24/09)
2009 Nov 24, Rio de Janeiro's posh beach neighborhoods lost power for hours in sweltering summer weather, prompting restaurants to toss out spoiled food and business owners to send employees home.
(AP, 11/24/09)
2009 Nov 24, China executed Zhang Yujun and Geng Jinping for their roles in a contaminated milk powder scandal last year that led to the deaths of at least six infants and sickened up to 300,000.
(AFP, 11/24/09)
2009 Nov 24, A report was leaked on the UN’s peacekeeping mission in the CongoDRC, better known as MONUC. The report alleged collusion between peacekeepers and Congo’s army to help various rebel groups in exchange for cash and access to mineral wealth.
(Econ, 11/28/09, p.54)(http://congosiasa.blogspot.com/2009/11/leak-un-expert-report.html)
2009 Nov 24, Iran released on $500,000 bail prominent reformist Mohammad Atrianfar who has been convicted in connection with street protests after June's disputed presidential election.
(AFP, 11/24/09)(AP, 11/24/09)
2009 Nov 24, Iran said it was ready to exchange its low-enriched uranium with a higher enriched material, but only on its own soil, to guarantee the West follows through with promises to give the fuel.
(AFP, 11/24/09)
2009 Nov 24, Israel carried out three airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, targeting a weapons-manufacturing facility and weapons smuggling tunnels. They came in response to two rockets Palestinian militants fired at southern Israel from Gaza a day earlier. Gaza's Islamic Hamas rulers reported that two of the group's militants were killed when a rocket they were handling blew up prematurely.
(AP, 11/24/09)
2009 Nov 24, In Italy prostitute Patrizia D'Addario’s memoir, "Gradisca, Presidente," (At Your Pleasure, Premier), went on sale. In it she claimed that she had slept with Premier Silvio Berlusconi on the understanding he would help her set up a countryside inn but that she got "nothing" in return.
(AP, 11/24/09)
2009 Nov 24, In Nepal the 2-day Gadhimai festival, celebrated every five years, was attended by many Hindus from India as well as Nepal. More than 200,000 buffaloes, pigs, goats, chickens and pigeons were expected to be slaughtered this year.
(AP, 11/20/09)(AP, 11/24/09)
2009 Nov 24, Pakistan’s government offered peacemaking proposals to separatists in Baluchistan, including an end to military operations and a payment of $1.4 billion to the province in increased gas royalties.
(Econ, 11/28/09, p.29)
2009 Nov 24, In Thailand Samak Sundaravej (74), a firebrand right-wing politician and TV cooking show host who served a brief and tumultuous term last year as prime minister, died of cancer.
(AP, 11/24/09)(Econ, 12/5/09, p.96)
2010 Nov 24, In Virginia 5 Somali men, accused of attacking the USS Nicholas on April 1, were convicted on federal piracy charges. On March 14, 2011, the 5 men were sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC, 11/25/10, p.A19)(SFC, 3/15/11, p.A4)
2010 Nov 24, Former US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, once one of the most powerful and feared Republicans in Congress, was convicted on charges he illegally funneled corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002.
(AP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 24, The US Federal Transit Administration sent an invoice to New Jersey for some $271 million for work done on the cancelled $8.7 billion Hudson River rail tunnel connecting the state with NY.
(SFC, 11/30/10, p.A9)
2010 Nov 24, In California Rep. Steve Cooley conceded defeat to Dem. Kamala Harris for the office of attorney general. Harris became the state’s first woman, the first African American and the first Indian American in California history to be elected as state attorney general.
(SFC, 11/24/10, p.A1)
2010 Nov 24, In southern California Carlie Rose Attebury (31), a former El Modena High School high school band teacher, was convicted of 4 counts stemming from her sexual relationship with a boy (15).
(SFC, 11/26/10, p.A6)(http://tinyurl.com/2g9r229)
2010 Nov 24, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it had closed 4,200 square miles/10,880 square kms of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico to royal red shrimping after a commercial shrimper discovered tar balls in his net.
(Reuters, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, Afghan election officials announced final vote totals for 33 of 34 provinces. 1.3m of 5.6m ballots were discarded for fraud and 19 candidates were disqualified for cheating. The top prosecutor announced a new investigation into allegations of ballot manipulation, potentially dealing another setback to a fraud-marred parliamentary election just as many had hoped a declaration of final results would allow the country to move on. Emerging opposition leader Abdullah Abdullah said that more than 90 of his supporters had won seats in parliament, following the announcement of certified results. Abdul Hadi, a Taliban leader, was killed when he pulled a pistol on Afghan and NATO forces who were trying to arrest him during a raid in the Khogyani district of Ghazni province.
(AP, 11/24/10)(AFP, 11/24/10)(AP, 11/25/10)(SFC, 11/26/10, p.A5)(Econ, 11/27/10, p.50)
2010 Nov 24, Australia said that a Thai-owned oil firm's "widespread and systematic shortcomings" caused the worst offshore drilling accident in the country's history, which created a massive oil slick. Thousands of barrels of oil gushed into the sea from a damaged well after a blow out on the West Atlas rig on August 21, 2009, prompting the evacuation of workers.
(AFP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, In Brazil heavily armed men halted buses and cars, robbed their passengers and set the vehicles ablaze in Rio de Janeiro, continuing a wave of violence that has rattled rich and poor alike. Police raided gang-ruled shantytowns, setting off clashes that killed 14 people as authorities tried to halt a wave of violent crime.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, In Britain a student mob attacked a police van in central London as violence marred a second mass protest in the last fortnight against the government's plans to triple university fees.
(AFP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, In the Central African Republic rebels killed four soldiers and captured an unknown number of troops in an attack on Birao, the main town of northern CAR.
(AFP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 24, In Egypt hundreds of Christians smashed cars and windows in Cairo and clashed with police in protests over the halt in the construction of a church that left one person dead in Giza's Omraniya neighborhood. A 2nd person died of injuries on Nov 26. The Coptic community said authorities in Egypt are reluctant to approve permits to build churches. Egypt’s attorney general decided to hold the 156 protesters for 15 days on suspicion of inciting the riots.
(AP, 11/24/10)(Reuters, 11/25/10)(AP, 11/26/10)
2010 Nov 24, In Guatemala Francisco Dall'Anese, the head of a special UN-backed commission (CICIG) prosecuting high crimes there, accused the government of sabotaging efforts to bring back Carlos Vielmann, a former interior minister, on charges of ordering extrajudicial killings of prison inmates. On Nov 23 a Spanish judge freed Vielmann from prison.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, In India Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's National Democratic Alliance won 206 seats in the 243-seat Bihar assembly, a huge jump from the 143 seats it controlled in the last assembly. Bihar's reputation as one of India's most crime-ridden states forced officials to hold the elections in six phases over a month to allow the limited police force to protect the polls.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, In India a local official said the northern Lank village council in Uttar Pradesh state has banned unmarried women from using cell phones for fear they will arrange forbidden marriages that are often punished by death.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, In India police arrested eight people, including senior executives of leading state banks, in Mumbai on accusations of taking bribes of more than 200 million dollars to smooth large corporate loans to builders. Those arrested include the chief executive of LIC Housing Finance, India's second largest housing loan firm, as well as executives of the Bank of India, Central Bank of India and Punjab National Bank.
(AFP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 24, In India police in the central state of Chhattisgarh arrested 11 people including a "witchdoctor" and his wife after the body of a boy (2) was discovered in their house. Further searches of the property in the industrial town of Bhilai, about 45 km (30 miles) from state capital Raipur, revealed the skeletal remains of a second victim, a girl (6). The accused man had confessed to killing both children to acquire "occult power and good fortune."
(AFP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 24, Indonesian Muslim cleric Pujiono Cahyo Widianto (46), who sparked a national outcry by marrying a 12-year-old girl, was sentenced to four years in prison.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, In Iraq a roadside bomb killed four people in the town of Shurqat, 155 miles (250 km) northwest of Baghdad.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, Ireland set out a four-year plan, aiming to make 15 billion euros worth of savings to bring down its record deficit.
(Reuters, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, A court in southern Kyrgyzstan sentenced 17 people to life in jail for violence that wracked the region in June. Judge Damirbek Nazarov ruled the men killed 16 people on the highway linking the south with the capital, Bishkek. All defendants in the trial that ended the previous day were ethnic Uzbeks. International rights activists largely agree the Uzbek minority sustained the bulk of the violence that left 370 people dead.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, In southern Mexico Ciro Diaz Sanchez, the mayor of Pueblo Nuevo Solistahuacan, and mayor-elect Pedro Bautista, disappeared after Mexico's army detained members of the municipal police force and other local officials on suspicion they were working for a drug cartel. The two, both members of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, went missing ahead of searches of their houses, which turned up high-caliber weapons and two stolen cars at Bautista's.
(AP, 11/26/10)
2010 Nov 24, A Mexican air force cargo plane crashed at Monterrey International Airport killing five military personnel.
(AP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 24, In New Zealand a second explosion occurred in the Pike River mine, almost exactly five days after the first blast there. All 29 workers missing underground were believed to have died after a second explosion.
(SFC, 11/24/10, p.A2)
2010 Nov 24, Nigeria said it has seized another illegal arms shipment at its main port, including pistols and military vehicles, weeks after the discovery of a weapons cache sent from Iran. The military items which were packed inside a vehicle painted in army green. The illegal arms shipment came from Belgium through Germany,
(AFP, 11/24/10)(AFP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 24, In northwestern Pakistan one soldier was killed and another wounded when a roadside bomb exploded during a foot patrol in South Waziristan.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, Portuguese labor unions mounted a general strike, pressing the government to scrap austerity measures intended to ward off a debt crisis spreading through the euro zone.
(Reuters, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, In Somalia Bashir Ahmed Abdi (51), a Minneapolis-based Somali lawyer, was shot dead in Mogadishu. Relative Abdirahman Moalin said he was driving Abdi to a meeting in Mogadishu when a single shot fired from what looked like a government pickup truck hit Abdi beneath his shoulder, killing him instantly.
(AP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 24, Sudan's south accused the northern army of carrying out an airstrike on an army base in southern Sudan in an attempt to derail a January 9 referendum on southern independence.
(Reuters, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, Emirati (UAR) leaders prepared a lavish welcome for Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, who is making her first state visit in more than 30 years to a country with deep British ties.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, The UN human rights office says a new international treaty against enforced disappearances will come into effect on Dec. 23 after Iraq became the 20th country to ratify it. The 2006 International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance declares widespread or systematic kidnappings a crime against humanity. The US has not signed the treaty.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, The Vatican denounced China for ordaining a bishop without papal consent, accusing the government-backed church of gravely damaging the faith and warning that the bishop risked excommunication. The Vatican also accused Chinese authorities of committing "grave violations of freedom of religion and conscience" by forcing Vatican-approved bishops to attend the ordination ceremony of Rev. Joseph Guo Jincai.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, In Yemen a suicide car bomber struck a convoy of Shiites on their way to a religious ceremony, killing at least 17 and wounding more than 15 people. Al-Qaida was suspected though it would be the extremist organization's first reported direct assault on the country's Shiite minority.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2011 Nov 24, The body of alleged Mafia boss Salvatore Montagna, who US authorities said once led New York's notorious Bonanno crime family, was fished out from a river north of Montreal.
(AP, 11/25/11)
2011 Nov 24, Pres. Karzai accused NATO-led international forces of killing 7 civilians, most of them children, in an air strike in the southern province of Kandahar. At least 10 Afghan security guards were killed when Taliban militants ambushed a logistics convoy destined for NATO forces in Farah province. Pres. Karzai nominated Noorullah Delawari to head the central bank.
(AP, 11/24/11)(AFP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Belarus' leading human rights activist, Ales Belyatsky (49), was convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to 4.5 years in prison at a trial condemned by US and European Union officials as politically motivated.
(AP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Bosnian police said they have discovered around 1.5 million pornographic images of children on the computer of a man they suspect of blackmailing United States citizens with money transfers amounting to some $3000.
(AP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Egypt's military rulers said that parliamentary elections will start on schedule next week despite escalating unrest and they rejected protesters' calls for them to immediately step down. A court ordered the release of 3 American university students arrested on Nov 21. Mona Eltahawy (44), a prominent Egyptian-born US columnist, was sexually assaulted by local police, who beat and blindfolded her after she was detained near Tahrir Square during clashes, leaving her left arm and right hand broken and in casts.
(AP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, The EU said that protecting civilians caught up in Syria's crackdown on anti-government protests "is an increasingly urgent and important aspect" of responding to the bloodshed there. At least three more people were killed by Syrian security forces. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees said 15 defectors were either killed or wounded in clashes near Rastan. 6 elite pilots and 4 technical officers were killed in an ambush in Homs. The Arab League gave Syria 24 hours to agree to an observer mission or face sanctions.
(AP, 11/24/11)(AP, 11/25/11)
2011 Nov 24, Gambia, continental Africa's smallest country, held elections. Voters popped a glass marble into a colored drum representing their candidate. President Yahya Jammeh (46) was widely expected to win a fourth term in office. The 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) withdrew from observing the poll after a fact-finding mission. Jammeh won with 72% of the vote.
(AFP, 11/24/11)(SFC, 11/26/11, p.A2)
2011 Nov 24, India's cabinet cleared a plan to throw open the nation's huge retail sector to global supermarket chains in a reform that could herald a consumer revolution. It also raised the foreign investment cap to 100% from 51% at present for single-brand retail operations.
(AFP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, India’s West Bengal police killed Koteswara Rao (58), better known as Kishenji, one of the nation’s most wanted Maoist guerrillas in a major blow to the armed leftwing insurgency which has spread across a wide swathe of the country.
(AFP, 11/24/11)(Econ, 12/3/11, p.52)
2011 Nov 24, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported that Iran has arrested 12 agents of the American Central Intelligence Agency. Parviz Sorouri, a member of the powerful parliamentary committee on foreign policy and national security, said the alleged agents were operating in coordination with Israel's Mossad and other regional agencies, targeting the country's military and its nuclear program.
(AP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Iraq executed 16 Al-Qaeda members convicted of involvement in the massacre of 70 people at a wedding in 2006, although they were officially put to death for other murders. A string of bombings in Basra killed 19 people.
(AFP, 11/24/11)(SFC, 11/25/11, p.A7)
2011 Nov 24, Israeli ministers decided, for the time being, to maintain a freeze on the transfer of tens of millions of dollars in tax monies to the Palestinian Authority. This followed hours after Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas held top-level talks with Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal at which they announced a new era of "partnership."
(AFP, 11/25/11)
2011 Nov 24, Israeli women's rights activists marched through Tel Aviv carrying black coffins to raise awareness about domestic violence in Israel, which so far this year has claimed 24 women's lives.
(AFP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, A Jordanian prosecutor said the country's military court has freed 22 suspected Islamists on bail as a goodwill gesture. It brings up the total number of freed Salafis to 37. They were part of 103 Salafis on trial on charges of terrorism and stabbing policemen with swords during an April protest.
(AP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Kenya said its warplanes destroyed two Islamist insurgent bases in neighboring Somalia. Two grenade attacks in the eastern town of Garissa close to the border with Somalia killed three people and injured 27.
(AFP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Lebanon’s PM Najib Mikati threatened to resign should his Hezbollah-dominated cabinet refuse to fund a UN court probing the murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri.
(AFP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Madagascar's former Pres. Didier Ratsiraka returned home, ending a 9-year exile in France, and urged reconciliation to resolve the country's long-running political crisis.
(AFP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Malaysian PM Najib Razak repealed another security law, setting the stage for hundreds detained without trial to be freed or face criminal charges.
(AFP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, The UN human rights chief urged the Maldives to end the "degrading" practice of flogging women found to have had sex outside marriage. The country of 300,000 people forbids practicing religions other than Islam.
(AP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, In Mali a gang kidnapped two French geologists at gunpoint from their hotel in the eastern desert village of Hombori. The body of geologist Philippe Verdon was found and identified in July, 2013. Serge Lazarevic was freed on Dec 9, 2014.
(AFP, 11/24/11)(Reuters, 7/14/13)(SFC, 12/10/14, p.A3)
2011 Nov 24, In Mexico the bound and gagged bodies of 26 young men were discovered in vehicles abandoned in the heart of Guadalajara, Mexico's second-largest city. Evidence identified the assassins as being from the Zetas and a smaller, allied gang, the Milenio Cartel.
(AP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Myanmar's Parliament approved a law guaranteeing the right to protest, one of a series of reforms under the new elected government.
(AP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, In Nigeria Muslim and Christian groups said 12 more people are dead after an apparent reprisal clash in the Barkin Ladi area near the city of Jos.
(AFP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Pakistani police in Karachi arrested Zainab Bibi (32), a woman who had killed her husband and was attempting to cook his body parts after he planned to marry another woman without her permission.
(AFP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Mashaal, chief of the Islamic militant Hamas, said they significantly narrowed differences and opened a new page in relations in reconciliation talks in Cairo.
(AP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Portugal’s credit rating was downgraded to junk status and a major strike gave voice to broad public outrage over austerity measures that have squeezed living standards.
(SFC, 11/25/11, p.A8)
2011 Nov 24, Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry said minority Shiite Muslims have staged protests in the eastern city of Qatif, and four were shot dead. Shiites make up 10 percent of the kingdom's 23 million citizens and complain of discrimination.
(AP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, In Tunisia an overnight curfew was declared across the central mining region of Gafsa, in the wake of violence that began late Wednesday over job hiring.
(AFP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Uganda ruled that Heritage Oil must pay a $404 million tax bill, dismissing an appeal by the UK-listed company. Heritage argues it is not liable to pay tax in the country on the $1.45 billion sale last year of stakes in two oil blocks in western Uganda to Anglo-Irish firm Tullow Oil. Uganda in March allowed Tullow to sell two-thirds of its Uganda interests to France's Total and China's CNOOC in a $2.9 billion deal, after Tullow agreed to pay over $300 million as security against Heritage's unpaid taxes.
(AFP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh's agreement to step down failed to end violence as security forces killed five protesters demanding that the ousted leader be put on trial for past crimes ranging from corruption to bloodshed during the current uprising.
(AP, 11/24/11)
2012 Nov 24, In Afghanistan a fight between Shiite and Sunni students broke out at Kabul Univ. killing one student and injuring six others. Classes were postponed for 10 days.
(AP, 11/24/12)
2012 Nov 24, In Bangladesh a fire raced through the seven-story factory operated by Tazreen Fashions just outside of Dhaka. 112 people were killed including 12 people who had suffered injuries after jumping from the building to escape the fire. On Dec 31, 2013, a court issued arrest warrants for two of the factory owners and four employees on homicide charges. The two owners, Delwar Hossein and his wife Mahmuda Akter, and eleven others were indicted on Sep 3, 2015.
(AP, 11/25/12)(SFC, 1/1/14, p.A3)(SFC, 9/4/15, p.A4)
2012 Nov 24, In China a coal mine accident in the southwest killed 18 workers and trapped five more in the state-owned Xiangshui coalmine in Guizhou province.
(AP, 11/24/12)
2012 Nov 24, Egypt's highest body of judges slammed a recent decision by the president to grant himself near-absolute power, calling the move an "unprecedented assault" on the judiciary. Several hundred protesters remained in Cairo's Tahrir Square, where a number of tents have been erected in a sit-in following nearly a week of clashes with riot police.
(AP, 11/24/12)
2012 Nov 24, In western France protesters squatting in treetop tents and makeshift shelters battled for a 2nd day with French riot police trying to expel them from the site of a planned airport near Nantes.
(AP, 11/24/12)
2012 Nov 24, India began issuing Chinese citizens visas embossed with maps of India showing all territories claimed by New Delhi. The move was in response to China’s newly revised passports that show disputed territory near their shared border as part of China.
(SSFC, 11/25/12, p.A6)
2012 Nov 24, Israel's Shin Bet internal security arrested Azzam Mashahara, a Palestinian man of East Jerusalem, for relaying information to Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon about sensitive government sites, including parliament.
(AP, 11/25/12)
2012 Nov 24, In Italy a car was struck by a train near the southern city of Cosenza. 6 Romanian farm workers were killed.
(SSFC, 11/25/12, p.A6)
2012 Nov 24, Lebanese soldiers raided an apartment in the country's south and arrested five Syrian nationals for possession of explosives.
(AP, 11/24/12)
2012 Nov 24, In Mexico Maria Susana Flores Gamez (20), a Sinaloa state beauty queen, died in a gun battle between soldiers and the alleged gang of drug traffickers with whom she was traveling.
(AP, 11/26/12)
2012 Nov 24, In northwestern Pakistan a roadside bomb killed at least seven people, including three children, and wounded 30 others at a Shiite Muslim procession in Dera Ismail Khan, as minority Shiites prepared to observe the holy day of Ashoura.
(AP, 11/24/12)
2012 Nov 24, Gaza residents said that Israel has eased some border restrictions as part of its truce with the Palestinian territory's Hamas rulers, allowing farmers to visit land near its security fence and letting fishermen head further out to sea.
(AP, 11/24/12)
2012 Nov 24, Russian physicist Valentin Danilov, convicted in 2004 of spying for China, was released on parole and continued to protest his innocence.
(AP, 11/24/12)
2012 Nov 24, Police in South Africa shot dead seven suspected robbers and wounded nine others in a botched theft at an armored car company. A gunfight began as officers tried to arrest the suspects.
(AP, 11/25/12)
2012 Nov 24, In South Africa Christopher Preece (54), a British man, was killed in an attack at his farm near Ficksburg, a town near the border with Lesotho. Preece had gone outside to check to see why the power had been cut at his farm called Fleur des Lis when three men attacked him with machetes. His wife was seriously wounded.
(AP, 11/26/12)
2012 Nov 24, In Thailand some 10,000 royalist protesters of the new Pitak Siam movement, calling for Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra to step down, rallied in the heart of Bangkok, clashing with police in the first major demonstration against the government since it came to power last year.
(AP, 11/24/12)(Econ, 12/8/12, p.42)
2012 Nov 24, Regional leaders meeting in Uganda called for an end to the advance by M23 rebels toward Congo's capital, and also urged the Congolese government to sit down with rebel leaders as residents fled some towns for fear of more fighting between the rebels and army. Locals in Minova reported that the retreating army troops had gone on a rampage over the last two nights.
(AP, 11/24/12)
2012 Nov 24, Pope Benedict XVI presided over a ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica to formally elevate six men as Cardinals. They hailed from Colombia, India, Lebanon, Nigeria, the Philippines and the United States.
(AP, 11/24/12)
2012 Nov 24, In Yemen four Shiites were killed when unknown assailants fired a rocket-propelled grenade into a gathering of worshippers observing the holy day of Ashoura.
(AP, 11/24/12)
2013 Nov 24, US media reported that a major winter storm that has dumped freezing rain and snow in the US southwest has killed at least 13 people in Arizona (1), California (3), Oklahoma (4), New Mexico (1) and Texas (4).
(AFP, 11/245/13)
2013 Nov 24, An Afghan grand assembly endorsed a crucial security agreement allowing some US troops to stay on after 2014, although President Hamid Karzai set conditions for signing the deal.
(AFP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, A Bahraini court sentenced 12 Shiites to 10-year jail terms after convicting them of trying to kill policemen in a village near the capital. State media said authorities have arrested two Gulf citizens who were former Guantanamo detainees on suspicion of preparing a "terrorist act."
(AFP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, Dominican Rep. soldiers expelled 244 Haitians following the deaths of 3 people killed near the border.
(SFC, 11/25/13, p.A2)
2013 Nov 24, Egypt's interim Pres. Adly Mansour signed a new bill into law restricting rallies and other public gatherings, a move likely to raise fresh questions about the army-backed government's democratic credentials.
(AFP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, In France thousands of riding enthusiasts protested a sales tax increase. France planed to nearly triple the value added tax on riding schools as of January, 2014.
(SFC, 11/25/13, p.A2)
2013 Nov 24, Honduras held elections. Ruling National Party's candidate Juan Hernandez, the head of Congress and considered to be Honduras' most powerful politician, faced deposed Pres. Manuel Zelaya's wife, Xiomara Castro (54). Honduran voters gave the ruling National Party four more years in the presidency.
(Reuters, 11/24/13)(AP, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 24, In India gay rights activists paraded through New Delhi to demand an end to the stigmatization of gays.
(SFC, 11/25/13, p.A2)
2013 Nov 24, Iran struck a historic deal with the United States and five other world powers, agreeing to a temporary freeze of its nuclear program in the most significant agreement between Washington and Tehran in more than three decades of estrangement.
(AP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, Israel's PM Netanyahu harshly condemned the international community's nuclear deal with Iran.
(AP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, Japan warned of the danger of "unpredictable events" and South Korea voiced regret following China's unilateral declaration of an air defence zone over areas claimed by Tokyo and Seoul.
(AFP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, In Macao Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines defeated American Brandon Rios for the World Boxing welter-weight title fight. The Filipino Court of Tax Appeals soon ordered Pacquiao’s bank deposits frozen saying he owed the government $50 million in back taxes.
(SSFC, 12/1/13, p.A6)
2013 Nov 24, Mali held legislative elections. In the north ballot boxes were reportedly stolen in the Timbuktu region, including one by armed men and several by a politician, in the first sign of disruption in parliamentary polls. In preliminary results announced on Dec 18, Pres. Keita's RPM party finished first after the second of two legs, securing 61 of a total of 147 seats in parliament.
(AFP, 11/24/13)(Reuters, 12/18/13)
2013 Nov 24, In Northern Ireland masked men wearing boiler suits hijacked a car, loaded it with a bomb containing about 60 kg (130 pounds) of home-made explosives and told the terrified driver to go to a shopping center. He left his vehicle near the mall car park and raised the alarm, causing police to evacuate the area. As army disposal experts began to disable the bomb the detonator exploded, but failed to trigger the rest of the device, damaging only the empty car.
(AFP, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 24, Pakistani demonstrators protesting US drone strikes roughed up drivers as they sought to stop trucks carrying NATO troop supplies and equipment from passing through northwest Pakistan.
(AP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, Saudi press said a court has sentenced a man to death and 19 others to prison terms of up to 25 years in connection with the 2004 armed assault on the US Consulate in Jiddah that killed five employees in an attack blamed on al-Qaida.
(AP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, Saudi Arabia said one more person has died from a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing to 55 the number of deaths in the kingdom at the center of the outbreak.
(AP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, In Sudan attackers killed a Rwandan peacekeeper in an ambush on a UN convoy in conflict-stricken Darfur.
(AFP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, In Syria fierce fighting to the east of Damascus has killed more than 160 people in the past two days as rebels struggled to break a months-long blockade by forces loyal to President Assad.
(Reuters, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, The Oxford Research Group said more than 11,000 children have died in Syria's civil war, including 128 killed by chemical weapons in a notorious attack and hundreds targeted by snipers.
(AFP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, Thailand police estimated that about 90,000 opponents of PM Yingluck Shinawatra and her crisis-hit administration had gathered in three sites in Bangkok, calling for her government to be toppled.
(AFP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, Some 50,000 Ukrainians, bearing EU flags and chanting "Down with the gang!", marched through Kiev in a pro-Europe rally denouncing President Yanukovich's U-turn in policy back towards Russia.
(AP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, In Yemen Huda al-Niran (22), a young Saudi woman, urged a court to let her stay in Yemen and marry the man she loves, defying norms in both deeply conservative countries. On Nov 26 a Yemeni judge decided to release Niran into the custody of the UNHCR for a period of three months during which she should be able to obtain the refugee status.
(AFP, 11/25/13)
2014 Nov 24, Pres. Obama recognized 18 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest civilian honor. They included new reporter Tom Brokaw, singer Stevie Wonder and actress Meryl Streep.
(SFC, 11/25/14, p.A6)
2014 Nov 24, In California thousands of UC students walked out of their classrooms to protest steep tuition hikes.
(SFC, 11/25/14, p.A1)
2014 Nov 24, In southern California workers at Sony Pictures discovered that its computer system had been beached. They were greeted with an image of a skeleton and a message that said “Hacked by #GOP," a reference to a group calling itself Guardians of Peace. The cyberattack by North Korea was later expected to cost the studio tens of millions. On Feb 4, 2015, Sony said it has spent an estimated 15 million in investigating and recovering from the cyberattack.
(SFC, 12/6/14, p.D4)(SFC, 2/5/15, p.C3)(Econ., 12/19/20, p.49)
2014 Nov 24, In southern California Michael Hanline (69) was freed after serving 34 years of a life sentence for murder. The charges were formally dismissed on April 22, 2015. Hanline had been charged with the 1978 killing of a friend, Ventura resident J.T. McGarry.
(AP, 4/23/15)
2014 Nov 24, SF police found Tai Lam (67) a homeless man, dead in his sleeping in an alcove at 137 Sutter St. A security video showed three suspects viciously beating Lam. In 2016 police arrested Joseph Stull (21) in Idaho and David Peters (21) in Stockton, Ca., following new DNA leads. Both men said their attack was random. On Nov 16 Anthony Gobson-Brum (22) was arrested as the 3rd suspect.
(SFC, 12/3/14, p.E1)(SFC, 11/1/16, p.C4)(SFC, 11/17/16, p.D2)
2014 Nov 24, A US judge in Chicago sentenced Alfredo Vasquez-Hernandez (59), a reputed lieutenant of captured Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, to 22 years in prison.
(AP, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, A Missouri grand jury cleared a white police officer in the fatal August shooting of an unarmed black teenager, sparking a night of violent and racially charged rioting in Ferguson.
(Reuters, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 24, In Afghanistan bombings across the country killed 6 civilians. 2 US soliders were killed by a magnetic bomb in Kabul.
(AP, 11/24/14)(Reuters, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 24, In Bangladesh a special tribunal sentenced Mobarak Hossain, a former commander of a collaborators' group, to death for his role in killings during Bangladesh's 1971 independence war.
(AP, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, Belgium’s trade unions opened a month of intermittent strike action by paralyzing the port of Antwerp and slowing train traffic through much of the country.
(AP, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, Thousands of British nurses, midwives and hospital cleaners went on a four-hour strike calling for a pay rise, weeks after walking out for the first time in 32 years.
(AFP, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, China’s state media said authorities in the northern region of Inner Mongolia arrested 31 people on suspicion of trafficking women because they had held 14 people, 11 of them from Myanmar.
(Reuters, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, Iran and six powers failed for a second time this year o resolve their 12-year dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambitions and gave themselves seven more months to overcome the deadlock that has prevented them from clinching an historic deal.
(AP, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, In Iraq a car bomb near a crowded Baghdad marketplace killed 9 people and wounded 20. US Central Command said coalition aircraft have carried out 15 airstrikes in Iraq and nine in Syria over the past four days targeting the Islamic State group.
(AP, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, Italy’s health ministry said an Italian doctor, who has been working in Sierra Leone, has tested positive for the Ebola virus and is being transferred to Rome for treatment. In Freetown Dr. Aiah Solomon Konoyeima also tested positive for Ebola.
(AP, 11/24/14)(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 24, Libyan PM Omar al-Hassi said the Cabinet will now adopt "a policy of confrontation and war," comments directed at his rivals in Libya's internationally recognized government based in the country's east.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 24, Morocco reported that floods triggered by heavy rain have killed at least 32 people, swept away buildings, vehicles and roads and forced the evacuation of more than 200 people, mostly in the southern region of Guelmim.
(Reuters, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, In Nigeria insurgents attacked Damassak town. Some 16,000 people fled Damassak in Niger, to a makeshift emergency camp at Gagamari village.
(AP, 12/13/14)
2014 Nov 24, A Philippine court fined nine Chinese fishermen $102,000 each after they were caught last May with hundreds of sea turtles in a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.
(Reuters, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, Russia further tightened its control over Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia with a new treaty envisaging closer military and economic ties, a move that has drawn outrage in Georgia.
(AP, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, Russia’s Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said lower oil prices and Western financial sanctions imposed over the Ukraine crisis will cost Russia around $130-140 billion a year, equivalent to around 7 percent of its economy.
(Reuters, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to deliver three new crew members to the International Space Station, including Italy's first female astronaut.
(Reuters, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, Popular Spanish author Juan Goytisolo (83) won the 2014 Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honor. His works include "Marks of Identity", "Count Julian" and "Juan the Landless".
(AP, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, In Spain 3 priests and a lay person were arrested in Granada on suspicion of child sex abuse in a case which Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said Pope Francis has taken a special interest in uncovering.
(AP, 11/24/14)(Reuters, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, Switzerland’s Kunstmuseum Bern agreed to accept a priceless collection of long-hidden art from the late German collector Cornelius Gurlitt, saying it will work closely with Germany to make sure that any pieces looted by the Nazis are returned to their Jewish owners.
(AP, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, In Thailand a military court sentenced a Web editor to 4 1/2 years in jail for publishing an article five years ago that it said defamed the nation's king. The sentence against Nut Rungwong was cut in half because he pleaded guilty to the charge.
(AP, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, Turkey’s Pres. Erdogan set off a new controversy, declaring that women are not equal to men and accusing feminists of not understanding the special status that Islam attributes to mothers.
(AP, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, Ukraine reported that 3 servicemen have been killed in the past 24 hours in fighting with pro-Russian separatists in the east despite a ceasefire in place since early September. President Petro Poroshenko said Lithuania is to provide Ukraine with some military aid to help in its fight against pro-Russian separatists.
(Reuters, 11/24/14)
2015 Nov 24, President Barack Obama recognized 17 people with the nation's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
(AP, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, Kentucky’s outgoing Gov. Steve Beshear signed an executive order to restore the right to vote and hold public office to thousands of nonviolent felons who’ve seved out their sentences.
(SFC, 11/25/15, p.A6)
2015 Nov 24, In NYC Abid Naseer (29) a Pakistani former school cricket captain, was jailed for 40 years over an Al-Qaeda plot to bomb a British shopping center in 2009. He was extradited to the United States from Britain in 2013 for helping al-Qaida target attacks on the New York subway.
(AFP, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, A rocket from Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin private space company landed upright following a test flight in West Texas.
(SFC, 11/25/15, p.C1)
2015 Nov 24, In Afghanistan Taliban insurgents captured 16 people in Faryab province after their helicopter made an emergency landing in territory under the militants' control. 3 people were killed in a shootout followed.
(Reuters, 11/24/15)(AP, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, In Algeria a fire sparked by an electrical fault killed 18 African migrants, including children, and injured 50 others at a camp housing over 650 migrants in Ouargla.
(AFP, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, Brazil's environmental assets exchange BVRio launched an app that promises to help foreign traders and buyers of Brazilian timber make sure the product hasn't been illegally logged.
(Reuters, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, Canada's New Liberal government announced its plan to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees.
(AP, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, China’s Xinhua news agency reported that the world's largest animal cloning factory is under construction in in the northern port of Tianjin, with plans to churn out dogs, horses and up to a million beef cattle a year.
(AFP, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, Power cuts in Crimea affected nearly 940,000 people as tensions raged between Kiev and Moscow over the annexed peninsula and Russia threatened to cut off gas supplies to Ukraine.
(AFP, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, In Egypt an elaborate militant attack, involving a suicide car bombing and claimed by Islamic State group, targeted a hotel in El-Arish, killing 4 policemen, 2 judges and a civilian in the restive north of the Sinai Peninsula.
(AP, 11/24/15)(AFP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 24, President Francois Hollande of France arrived in Washington for talks with US President Barack Obama on how to confront the threat posed by the Islamic State group in the wake of the Paris attacks.
(AFP, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, A Japanese rocket lifted off and successfully put the national space program's first commercial satellite into orbit.
(AFP, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta fired five government ministers embroiled in corruption scandals in a cabinet reshuffle late today amid growing criticism of runaway graft.
(AFP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 24, A female Pakistani air force pilot was killed when her trainer jet crashed near the central town of Mianwali.
(Reuters, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, The Philippines asked global judges to recognize its right to exploit waters in the South China Sea.
(Reuters, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, A Scottish court handed oil major Royal Dutch Shell a 22,500 pound ($33,919) fine by for a spill of more than 200 tons of oil into the central North Sea in August 2011.
(Reuters, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, Int’l. experts meeting in Singapore said more than half the world's primates, including apes, lemurs and monkeys, are facing extinction.
(AFP, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, Syrian fighters destroyed a Russian helicopter with a missile, shortly after they forced it to make an emergency landing in a nearby government-held area in Latakia province.
(Reuters, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, A Tanzanian court charged four Chinese nationals for smuggling rhino horns.
(Reuters, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 24, In Tunisia a suicide bomber attacked a presidential guard bus killing at least 12 people. Pres. Beji Caid Essebsi declared a 30-day state of emergency and imposed on overnight curfew in the capital. A day later the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack.
(Reuters, 11/25/15)(AP, 11/25/15)(SFC, 11/25/15, p.A2)
2015 Nov 24, Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu unveiled a new cabinet stacked with loyal allies of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, including his son-in-law who was named energy minister.
(AFP, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border, saying it had repeatedly violated its air space, one of the most serious publicly acknowledged clashes between a NATO member country and Russia for half a century. The pilot was shot dead by rebels as he parachuted to the ground.
(Reuters, 11/24/15)(Reuters, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 24, Vanuatu President Baldwin Lonsdale dissolved parliament and called a snap election after a corruption scandal destabilized the government.
(AFP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 24, Vietnam’s National Assembly passed a law recognizing the rights of transgenders effective in 2017 as part of a revised civil code.
(SFC, 11/26/15, p.A7)
2016 Nov 24, It was reported that the former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has raised the necessary $1.1 million to request a vote recount in Wisconsin. Donald Trump also won by a slim margin in Pennsylvania, where a recount filing fee costs $500,000, due on November 28. The filing fee in Michigan, where Trump has a razor-thin lead in unofficial results so far, is $600,000 due by November 30.
(AFP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, In the SF Bay Area a Thanksgiving luncheon at the American Legion in Antioch left 3 people dead and another 18 suffering symptoms of nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. On Dec 20 CDC officials said the illness was caused by Clostridium perfringens.
(SFC, 12/3/16, p.D2)
2016 Nov 24, In Detroit, Michigan, Wayne State Univ. police Officer Collin Rose (29) died a day after he was shot in the head while on patrol near the campus. On Nov 25 DeAngelo Davis (31) was charged with murder and gun crimes.
(SFC, 11/25/16, p.A6)(SFC, 11/26/16, p.A3)
2016 Nov 24, William Mandel (b.1917), leftist activist and long-time broadcaster on the SF Bay Area KPFA radio, died. He wrote eight books on Soviet history, politics and culture. His 1999 autobiography was titled “Saying No to Power."
(SFC, 12/8/16, p.D9)
2016 Nov 24, In Pennsylvania Demetrius Coleman (22) of Pittsburgh fled police and crashed into a car that burst into flames killing two adults and a child.
(SFC, 11/26/16, p.A3)
2016 Nov 24, In Belgium close to 20,000 protesters from the non-profit sector took to the streets. Their anger centered on plans to limit days off for veteran workers in the future.
(AP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, In southern Bulgaria about 2,000 migrants, most from Afghanistan, were involved in a conflict that reportedly erupted over the Harmanli refugee camp being put under quarantine following an alleged outbreak of infectious diseases and an outbreak of panic among local residents. About 400 migrants were detained after clashes with police that left several injured.
(AP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 24, In Burkina Faso doctors and nurses continued a 3-day strike at public health centers throughout the West African country, leaving only medical students to help the sick amid outbreaks of dengue fever and meningitis.
(AP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, Burundi's government refused to cooperate with a UN inquiry into months of political violence, saying accusations of abuses by its officials were part of a political plot. The UN released a report by independent experts in September identifying government officials suspected of ordering political opposition to be tortured or killed.
(Reuters, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, In Cameroon two young female suicide bombers attacked Mora town in the Far North region, the fourth strike near the Nigerian border by suspected Boko Haram militants this week. Both girls were killed.
(Reuters, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, In eastern China a platform under construction at a power plant collapsed early today, killing 74 people in Fengcheng, Jiangxi province. 13 people were soon detained over the collapse of the scaffolding.
(Reuters, 11/24/16)(AP, 11/25/16))
2016 Nov 24, Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos signed, for the second time in under two months, a historic peace accord with leftist rebels. The accord will be sent to congress where a solid pro-peace majority is expected to easily ratify it in the coming days. After that, the FARC's 8,000-some fighters will begin concentrating in rural areas where they will turn over their weapons to United Nations-sponsored monitors over the next six months.
(AP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, The European Parliament voted to freeze membership talks with Turkey over its "disproportionate" post-coup crackdown, further escalating tensions with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
(AFP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, European Parliament lawmakers backed a data-sharing deal with the United States for security and terrorism investigations which aims to safeguard data exchanged between national authorities.
(Reuters, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, German flagship carrier Lufthansa said it is scrapping 830 flights for tomorrow, grounding more than 100,000 passengers, as a strike by pilots over wages extends to a third day.
(AFP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, German media reported that authorities in northern Germany have killed 16,000 turkeys and ordered 92,000 chickens slaughtered after detecting an outbreak of bird flu.
(AP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, German defense company Rheinmetall and Romania's Uzina Automecanica Moreni launched a joint venture to produce eight-wheeled armored military vehicles in Romania.
(AP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, Greek public-sector workers went on strike to protest labor and pension reforms and state asset sales which the leftist-led government agreed with the country's official creditors in exchange for bailout loans.
(Reuters, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, In eastern India protests over land rights flared for a second day in the Jharkhand state, as activists and indigenous people took to the streets after the state assembly approved amendments to colonial-era land laws despite strong opposition.
(AP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, Indonesia's military lost contact with an army helicopter carrying four soldiers in Indonesia's part of Borneo. On Nov 27 a search team found the wreckage and rescued an injured pilot. Four people remained missing.
(AP, 11/24/16)(AP, 11/27/16)
2016 Nov 24, In Iraq a car bomb attack at a gas station near the city of Hilla killed at least 73 people including about 40 Iranians returning from Karbala. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility. The death toll was later raised to 92.
(AP, 11/25/16)(AP, 12/3/16)
2016 Nov 24, In Israel tens of thousands of residents were ordered to leave Haifa as wildfires tore across central and northern Israel. The country's chief of police said politically motivated arson may be behind some of the blazes.
(AP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, Hurricane Otto hit Nicaragua and then Costa Rica where it left nine people dead and caused millions of dollars of damage before exiting into the Pacific.
(Reuters, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 24, Amnesty International accused Nigeria's security forces of killing at least 150 pro-Biafra protesters and injuring hundreds since August 2015.
(AFP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, Peru's president signed off on the extradition of Manuel Burga, the country's former soccer boss, to the US for his alleged involvement in a multibillion-dollar FIFA bribery scandal involving marketing and broadcasting rights.
(AP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, Philippine troops launched an assault on the Maute group militants in Butig due to intelligence reports that they were continuing to make bombs after being blamed for a Sept. 2 bomb attack that killed 15 people in southern Davao city, the president's hometown.
(AP, 11/26/16)
2016 Nov 24, Sudanese security agents detained dozens of foreign exchange dealers for black market trading, as the authorities struggled to curb speculation against the pound. The local currency has lost 60 percent of its value against the dollar in the past six months.
(AFP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, Syrian rebels in besieged east Aleppo agreed to a UN plan for aid delivery and medical evacuations, but the United Nations still awaited a green light from Russia and the Syrian government.
(Reuters, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, In northern Syria three Turkish soldiers were killed in what the military said was a suspected Syrian air strike. Turkey said it would retaliate.
(Reuters, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, In southern Turkey a car bomb exploded in the car park of the governor's office in Adana killing two people and wounding 33. Police shot and captured a suspect. The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) later claimed responsibility.
(AFP, 11/24/16)(AP, 11/24/16)(Reuters, 11/29/16)
2017 Nov 24, US President Donald Trump said that he had informed Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a call that Washington is adjusting military support to partners on the ground in Syria.
(Reuters, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 24, In Ohio Abdel latif Bashiti (12) was killed and five others, ages 12-16, wounded in a shooting in Cleveland.
(SSFC, 11/26/17, p.A9)
2017 Nov 24, An Afghan airstrike killed Taliban commander Dilawar Khan and two women and three children from his family in the northeastern Kapisa province. Khan's brother, who apparently escaped during the strike, was firing shots at Afghan helicopters from his home before the airstrike.
(AP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, In Argentina a judge said indigenous rights activist Santiago Maldonado (27), found dead October 17 in an Argentinian river 78 days after he went missing on August 1, died by drowning.
(AP, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 24, Argentina authorized the use of genetically modified soybean seeds resistant to herbicides other than glyphosate, as the European Union (EU) debates whether to extend the license of weed-killers containing the ingredient.
(Reuters, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 24, Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Myanmar's top military general in Beijing and discussed China's support amid international criticism over its treatment of the Rohingya minority.
(Reuters, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, China said it is temporarily closing its main road connection with North Korea. Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said the China-North Korea Friendship Bridge across the Yalu River at the Chinese city of Dandong will be closed while North Korea repairs the approach road on its side.
(AP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, A Danish girl (17), who offered to fight for Islamic State, was found guilty in Copenhagen of planning bomb attacks at two schools, one of them Jewish.
(Reuters, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, In Egypt armed attackers killed at least 235 worshippers in a bomb and gun assault on the packed Rawda mosque, frequented by Sufis, in the North Sinai province. The death toll soon rose to 305, including 27 children, and 128 people injured.
(AFP, 11/24/17)(Reuters, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 24, The EU pledged to deepen ties with six former Soviet states (Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus), as part of efforts to counter Russian influence, but warned them they had no chance of joining the bloc any time soon.
(AP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, A French court halted sales of two pesticides made by US chemicals giant Dow after an environmental group raised fears that the substances could be harmful to bees.
(AFP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, In Georgia a fire at a luxury hotel in the Black Sea resort city of Batumi left 11 people dead and 21 others hurt.
(AP, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 24, Iraqi forces said that Islamic State group fighters are withdrawing deep into the desert to escape an offensive aimed at a final defeat of the jihadists.
(AFP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, Ireland's minority government looked set to collapse after the party propping it up submitted a motion of no confidence in the deputy prime minister, weeks before a summit on Britain's plans to leave the European Union.
(Reuters, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, Italian police launched a campaign to reduce the murder rate against women on the eve of the UN-backed International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Femicides now account for 37 percent of the total compared to 24 percent a decade ago.
(AFP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, Japan expressed strong regret over San Francisco's decision to give city property status to a statue commemorating Asian women who worked in military brothels for Japanese troops during World War II, with Osaka declaring it will terminate its 60-year sister-city ties. In 2018 Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura sent a letter to Mayor London Breed terminating the sister city relationship due to the "Comfort Women" statue.
(AP, 11/24/17)(SFC, 10/4/18, p.C5)
2017 Nov 24, Kosovo police arrested three lawmakers, including the popular main opposition leader whom they handcuffed in the street, after the three failed to appear in court on charges of releasing tear gas in parliament in 2015 and 2016.
(Reuters, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, In northeastern Mali four UN peacekeepers and one Malian soldier were killed and several others were wounded in an attack by unidentified assailants.
(Reuters, 11/24/17)(SSFC, 11/26/17, p.A8)
2017 Nov 24, Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto designated the Revillagigedo Archipelago, located some 390 km (242 miles) southeast of the Baja California peninsula, as a national park.
(Reuters, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 24, In Mexico the mayor of Ixhuatlan de Madero and his wife were killed by gunmen.
(AP, 11/28/17)
2017 Nov 24, Dutch Saint Martin's PM William Marlin announced his resignation after a spat with The Netherlands over aid following a devastating hurricane that hit the Caribbean island.
(AFP, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 24, Pakistani authorities acting on a court order released Hafiz Saeed, a US-wanted militant, who allegedly founded a banned group linked to the 2008 Mumbai, India attack that killed 168 people.
(AP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, In Papua New Guinea the last asylum seekers abandoned a closed immigration camp, ending a three-week standoff between police and hundreds of men who had been prepared to suffer squalid conditions without power or running water rather than move to other residences where they feared violence.
(AP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, Peru's attorney general's office said it was investigating former President Alejandro Toledo for allegedly taking millions of dollars in bribes from the Brazilian company Camargo Correa in exchange for a highway construction contract.
(AP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, Poland’s lawmakers approved a law that will phase out Sunday shopping by the year 2020 despite criticism that it may eliminate thousands of jobs. The bill still needed approval from the Senate and from President Andrzej Duda.
(AP, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 24, Russia's Defense Ministry said six TU-22M3 long-range bombers had carried out air strikes on Islamic State targets on the western bank of the Euphrates river in Syria.
(Reuters, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, South Africa's Supreme Court more than doubled Oscar Pistorius' murder sentence, accepting prosecutors' argument that the original jail term of six years for shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was "shockingly lenient". A new sentence of 13 years and five months was handed down.
(Reuters, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, The organization behind the "Alternative Nobel" said that a 2017 prize winner from Azerbaijan would not be able to attend the Dec. 1 award ceremony in Stockholm because of a travel ban linked to a suspended sentence she is serving. Azeri investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova claimed in a statement issued by the Right Livelihood Award that she is under the travel ban "because I criticize the government when it steals the people's money."
(AP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, Turkey said that US President Donald Trump told President Tayyip Erdogan he had issued instructions that weapons should not be provided to Kurdish YPG fighters in Syria, and that the Turkish government hoped to see that order carried out.
(Reuters, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, In Turkey an Istanbul district authority banned a one-day festival that had been set to showcase short films on gay issues the next day, claiming the event posed a threat to public order.
(AFP, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 24, Ukraine said five of its soldiers had died during fighting in the east over the last 24 hours, as it accused Russia of ramping up its military presence in the region amid squabbles among warring rebel factions. Eight rebels were reported killed and another nine wounded.
(AFP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, In eastern Ukraine the region's news agency said Igor Plotnitsky, the leader of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic, has resigned following a week of tensions between rival factions.
(AP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, A UN official said the Saudi-led coalition has authorized the resumption of UN flights to the Yemeni capital starting Nov. 25.
(AP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, Zimbabwe inaugurated new President Emmerson Mnangagwa. He laid out a grand vision to revitalize the country’s ravaged economy and vowed to rule on behalf of all the country's citizens.
(AFP, 11/24/17)(Reuters, 11/24/17)
2018 Nov 24, The Washington Post reported that the administration of US President Donald Trump has won support from the Mexican president-elect's team for a plan dubbed "Remain in Mexico." Mexico's incoming government denied the report.
(AP, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 24, In northern California three more bodies were discovered in the area burned by the Camp Fire, which was now 98 percent contained. 475 people were still reported missing.
(SSFC, 11/25/18, p.A18)
2018 Nov 24, Ricky Jay (b.1946), noted American magician, author and actor, died at his home in Los Angeles. His acting credits included the films "The Prestige" (2006), "The Spanish Prisoner" (1997), "Mystery Men" (1999), "Heist" (2001), "Boogie Nights" (1997), "Tomorrow Never Dies" (1997), "House of Games" (1987", and "Magnolia" (1999), as well as the HBO series "Deadwood" (2004-2006).
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Jay)(SFC, 11/27/18, p.C2)
2018 Nov 24, In Utah police Officer David Romrell (31) died after he was intentionally struck by a driver while responding to a burglary call in Salt Lake City. Car driver Felix Anthony Calata was fatally shot by police and an accomplice was arrested.
(SFC, 11/26/18, p.A4)
2018 Nov 24, In Afghanistan US Army Sgt. Leandro A.S. Jasso (25) was killed, bringing the US combat death toll this year to eight. Two Afghan soldiers died when their helicopter made an "emergency landing" in the southern Kandahar province due to a technical problem. In Kabul a senior religious scholar was shot and killed. No one immediately claimed the killing of Abdul Basir Haqqani, but police arrested a man with a pistol near the scene of the shooting.
(Reuters, 11/24/18)(AP, 11/24/18)(SFC, 11/26/18, p.A4)
2018 Nov 24, Bahrainis voted in a parliamentary election from which opposition groups have been barred, in a crackdown on dissent in the small Sunni-led, Western-allied kingdom.
(Reuters, 11/24/18)
2018 Nov 24, Congo DRC ministers in the outgoing government of Joseph Kabila awarded themselves "golden-handshake" benefits in two decrees, that safeguarded lifetime cash payments. The decrees will benefit 71 ex-ministers, 11 former deputy ministers and two government secretaries, along with "personalities who carry out duties equivalent in rank to members of the government in the cabinet of the president of the republic and the cabinet of the prime minister. The two decrees were published in the official government gazette on December 15.
(AP, 2/1/19)
2018 Nov 24, In Ethiopia seven employees of Indian company Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) were taken hostage by local staff due to non-payment of salaries by the debt-laden firm. The Indian government took control of IL&FS in October after it defaulted on some of its debt. On Dec. 1 Two of the 7 employees were reported released.
(Reuters, 12/1/18)
2018 Nov 24, The European Union removed the last major obstacle to sealing an agreement on Brexit after Spain said it had reached a deal with Britain over Gibraltar on the eve of an EU summit.
(AP, 11/24/18)
2018 Nov 24, French police firing tear gas and using water cannon clashed with protesters in Paris who are angry over rising fuel costs and President Emmanuel Macron's economic policies, the second weekend of "yellow vest" protests across the country.
(Reuters, 11/24/18)
2018 Nov 24, Gabon authorities said they have banned an opposition party from state media for three months over statements about the health of President Omar Bongo, who has been in a Saudi hospital for a month.
(AFP, 11/24/18)
2018 Nov 24, In southern India at least 25 people, many of them schoolchildren, were killed when a speeding bus fell into a canal in Karnataka state.
(AP, 11/24/18)
2018 Nov 24, Malaysian authorities said office of former Malaysian premier Najib Razak ordered changes to a 2016 audit report of scandal-plagued state fund 1MDB, including removing mention of financier Low Taek Jho's presence at a board meeting.
(Reuters, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 24, In southeastern Niger about 50 unidentified armed men kidnapped 15 girls overnight in the Diffa region.
(Reuters, 11/24/18)
2018 Nov 24, Police in Pakistan said they have arrested some 300 supporters of a detained radical Islamic cleric who disrupted daily life with nationwide rallies following the acquittal of a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy. Supporters of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik party were picked up in sweeps across Punjab province following the arrest overnight of its leader, Khadim Hussain Rizvi.
(AP, 11/24/18)
2018 Nov 24, South Korea said that the United Nations Security Council granted an exemption to sanctions that will allow surveys on North Korean railroad sections the Koreas want to connect with the South.
(AP, 11/24/18)
2018 Nov 24, Spanish police said they have arrested 79 people suspected of producing and distributing child pornography on the Internet an operation that started in 2016.
(AP, 11/24/18)
2018 Nov 24, In Syria government shelling killed three children and two women in the rebel-held Idlib province, where Russia and Turkey agreed on a buffer zone.
(Reuters, 11/24/18)
2018 Nov 24, In Syria an alleged chemical attack late today was carried out by "terrorist groups positioned in Aleppo countryside" that fired shells containing toxic gases on three neighborhoods in Syria's largest city. Government shelling in Idlib province killed at least seven civilians.
(AP, 11/25/18)(SSFC, 11/25/18, p.A6)
2018 Nov 24, In Syria coalition raids overnight killed 17 civilians, including five children, in an IS-pocket in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor. 27 IS jihadists were also reported killed in clashes and air strikes over the last 24 hours.
(AFP, 11/24/18)
2018 Nov 24, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen resigned as head of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party after the party was handed a major defeat in local elections seen as a referendum on the administration of the island's independence-leaning president amid growing economic and political pressure from China.
(AP, 11/24/18)
2018 Nov 24, In Uganda the MV Templa, a boat on a routine pleasure cruise and full of mostly youthful revelers, overturned and sank this evening in Lake Victoria. The vessel was believed to be overcrowded with nearly 100 passengers. At least 27 people were rescued overnight. Divers retrieved 31 bodies and were expected to find more in the capsized vessel.
(AP, 11/25/18)
2019 Nov 24, US Defense Secretary Mark Esper removed Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, the Navy's top civilian, over the case of a Navy SEAL convicted of battlefield misconduct in Iraq. Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher had won the backing of President Donald Trump.
(Reuters, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 24, Disney's "Frozen 2" iced out the box office competition in North America, where family audiences powered the animated adventure to a dazzling $130 million debut.
(Reuters, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, Billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg (77), the former mayor of New York City, jumped into the US presidential race, adding another moderate voice to a crowded field of Democratic contenders seeking to face Donald Trump in the November 2020 election.
(AP, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, In Texas Christine Rollins (59) was killed by multiple feral hogs outside a rural home where she worked as a caretaker.
(SFC, 11/28/19, p.A7)
2019 Nov 24, The UAW said that union official Vance Pearson has resigned. Federal prosecutors in September charged him in connectio with a scheme to embezzle union money for persoanl use.
(SFC, 6/2/19, p.A5)
2019 Nov 24, State-owned Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA) and Mayo Clinic said they would operate Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, one of the UAE's largest hospitals for patients with serious or complex medical conditions.
(Reuters, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, In Afghanistan a blast in Kabul targeting a UN vehicle left at least 1 person dead and five injured. US citizen Anil Raj was killed in the attack in Kabul. Taliban insurgents stormed a checkpoint in Daykundi province and killed at least eight Afghan soldiers. Reinforcements were dispatched to the area in Kajran district, driving off the Taliban and killing at least 20 of their fighters. The Taliban disputed the casualty figures.
(AP, 11/24/19)(Reuters, 11/26/19)(SSFC, 12/1/19, p.B9)
2019 Nov 24, Interim Bolivian President Jeanine Anez agreed to withdraw the military from protest areas and repeal a law giving them broad discretion in the use of force as part of a preliminary "pacification" deal struck early today with protest leaders.
(Reuters, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, China denied the explosive clims of a self-confessed spy seeking asylum in Australia. Newspapers reported that Chinese defector Wang Liqiang has given Australia’s counterespionage agency intelligence on how Beijing conducts its interference operations abroad and revealed the identities of China’s senior military intelligence officers in Hong Kong.
(SFC, 11/16/19, p.A4)
2019 Nov 24, In Congo DRC a small passenger plane carrying at least 17 passengers crashed shortly after takeoff in the eastern city of Goma, killing at least 25 people, including people on the ground.
(AP, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, Egyptian police raided the Cairo office of independent news website Mada Masr and briefly detained three journalists, including the editor-in-chief, as authorities intensify a crackdown on press freedoms.
(Good Morning America, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, At least two people were killed in France and a landslide collapsed a stretch of elevated highway in Italy, leaving cars perched perilously on a precipice as heavy rains pounded the region over the weekend.
(AP, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, Guinea-Bissau held presidential elections. Twelve candidates ran for head of state, including incumbent Jose Mario Vaz, who has been in power since 2014.
(AP, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, Polls closed in Hong Kong with no major disruptions after people turned out in huge numbers to vote in district council elections seen as a test of support for chief executive Carrie Lam following six months of pro-democracy protests. Hong Kong residents handed an overwhelming victory to pro-democracy candidates in a vote for local district councils, a stunning repudiation of the city’s Beijing-backed government after months of increasingly violent protests seeking meaningful elections.
(Reuters, 11/24/19)(Bloomberg, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 24, Iran vowed to severely punish "mercenaries" arrested over nationwide street unrest sparked by a fuel price hike, as much of the country came back online after a week-long internet blackout.
(AFP, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, Iraqi security forces opened fire on protesters in Baghdad and several cities in the south, killing at least nine people and wounding dozens of others. Clashes in Baghdad’s historic Rasheed Street continued for a fourth day. Anti-government protests swept the oil-rich south as demonstrators burned tires and blocked main arteries, outraged by rampant government corruption, poor services and scarcity of jobs. So far, 16 people have died and over 100 have been wounded in the latest round of street battles. At least 342 people have died since demonstrations began Oct. 1.
(Reuters, 11/24/19)(AP, 11/24/19)(AP, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine Director for Human Rights Watch since October 2016, said he will remain in his position and continue doing the “important, urgent work" of documenting violations in Israel and the Palestinian territories from abroad. Shakir is being deported from Israel over his alleged advocacy for an economic boycott of Israel or its settlements in occupied territory.
(AP, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, The Italian coast guard said the bodies of five migrant women, two of them washed ashore, have been recovered as search efforts continued near the tiny island of Lampedusa for around another dozen people feared missing in the capsizing of a fishing boat.
(AP, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, In Japan Pope Francis brought his campaign to abolish nuclear weapons to the only two cities ever hit by atomic bombs, calling their possession indefensibly perverse and immoral and their use a crime against mankind and nature.
(Reuters, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, Lebanese security forces fired tear gas amid confrontations in central Beirut between Hezbollah supporters and demonstrators protesting against the political elite. The confrontations began after dozens of supporters of the Iran-backed militant group arrived on scooters and attacked the protesters with clubs and metal rods, chanting pro-Hezbollah slogans.
(AP, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, Romanians voted in a presidential runoff election in which incumbent Klaus Iohannis vied for a second term while vowing to continue efforts to fight corruption. Iohannis, a conservative, faced Social Democratic Party leader Viorica Dancila, a former prime minister.
(AP, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, The Queen Hind, a cargo ship carrying 14,600 sheep, capsized off the coast of Romania. All crew members were saved along with 32 sheep found swimming by the ship. Many of the sheep were expected to have drowned.
(USA Today, 11/26,19, p.4A)
2019 Nov 24, In South Korea Koo Hara (28), a former member of a top K-pop girl group, was found dead at her home in southern Seoul.
(Reuters, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, In Spain topless female activists interrupted a demonstration in Madrid commemorating the legacy of former dictator Francisco Franco, 44 years after his death.
(Reuters, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, Spanish police intercepted what is believed to be the first submarine used to smuggle drugs into Europe and seized a reported three tons of Colombian cocaine. The submarine crew deliberately sank the vessel with a large amount of cocaine still on board after reportedly dumping some of their cargo at sea.
(AP, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 24, Syrian government forces captured the northwestern village of Msheirfeh, Idlib province, from insurgents after clashes that left more than a dozen killed on both sides. In eastern Syria, a mine left behind since the days of the Islamic State group in the village of Taybeh killed a child and wounded 17 others in a school field. The Observatory said the blast in the village in Deir el-Zour Province killed five children and wounded others.
(AP, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, Uruguayans headed to the polls to elect a new president in a second round run-off vote. Some 2.7 million Uruguayan voters chose between Lacalle Pou of the center-right National Party and Daniel Martínez of the ruling Broad Front party.
(Reuters, 11/24/19)
2020 Nov 24, According to court papers filed the US government has agreed temporarily not to deport detained immigrant women who have alleged being abused by a rural Georgia gynecologist.
(AP, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, The Dow Jones Industrial Average breached the 30,000-mark for the first time, as optimism that COVID-19 vaccines will open the way to economic recovery next year fueled Wall Street's rebound from a pandemic-driven crash this year.
(Reuters, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, Beyonce dominated nominations for the 2021 Grammy Awards in a field that favored alternative artists over mainstream musicians, topped by a stunning snub for Canadian singer The Weeknd, who called the process "corrupt".
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 24, Fox News reached a settlement with the parents of Seth Rich, a former Democratic National Committee staff member who was killed in an apparent botched robbery. The network had falsely cast Rich’s 2016 death as a political conspiracy.
(AP, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, Purdue Pharma, owned and operated by the Sackler family while it pushed the painkilling opioid to addicts, formally admitted to the federal charges as part of a plea agreement signed in October.
(NY Daily News, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 24, Local and federal prosecutors said California's system for paying unemployment benefits is so dysfunctional that the state approved more than $140 million for at least 20,000 prisoners.
(AP, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, California to date had 1,147,392 cases of coronavirus and 18,873 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 142,843 cases and 1,934 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 12,555,729 with the death toll at 259,477.
(sfist.com, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, It was reported that Illinois state officials are investigating a coronavirus outbreak at a veterans nursing home at the state-run LaSalle Veterans Home that has infected nearly 200 residents and staff, and killed 27 veterans.
(AP, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, Democrat Joe Biden was certified as winner of the presidential election in Pennsylvania, culminating three weeks of vote counting and a string of failed legal challenges by President Donald Trump.
(AP, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, In Tennessee a 12-year-old was behind the wheel of a stolen pickup truck traveling on an interstate near Nashville when shots rang out early today. The driver and a 14-year-old passenger were killed, and two other teens were injured. Police said they believe a 16-year-old is responsible for the shooting, striking the driver and the 14-year-old in the backseat.
(Charlotte Observer, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 24, The Montana ACLU announced a settlement against the US Customs and Border Protection agency for the detention in May, 2018, of two women for speaking Spanish while shopping at a convenience store in Havre.
(SFC, 11/25/20, p.A8)
2020 Nov 24, In Afghanistan roadside bombs killed at least 13 civilians and traffic policemen in Bamiyan province. The Taliban said they were not involved.
(SFC, 11/25/20, p.A2)
2020 Nov 24, Cambridge Univ. launched an appeal to find two valuable notebooks written by Charles Darwin that have been missing since 2000.
(SFC, 11/25/20, p.A2)
2020 Nov 24, At least eight people died after a migrant boat carrying more than 30 people hit rocks late today close to a small port on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 24, China's Chang'e 5 mission to the moon began as the four modules of the spacecraft blasted off atop a massive Long March-5Y rocket from the Wenchang launch center on Hainan island. The mission’s main task is to drill 2 meters (about 7 feet) into the moon’s surface and scoop up about 2 kg (4.4 pounds) of rocks and other debris.
(AP, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, In Denmark a hacker attack against the country's biggest news agency called for a ransom to release locked data. Ritzau's CEO rejected the ransom demand.
(SFC, 11/26/20, p.A2)
2020 Nov 24, The EU, the US and other donors pledged billions of dollars in new funding for Afghanistan, hoping to salvage years of work aimed to foster peace and stability in the country and coax along uncertain peace talks between Taliban rebels and the Afghan government.
(AP, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, Italy reported 853 COVID 19-related deaths, soaring from 630 the day before and the highest daily toll since March 28.
(AP, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, Mexico's health ministry reported 10,794 additional cases of the novel coronavirus and 813 more deaths in the country, bringing the official number of cases to 1,060,152 and the death toll to 102,739.
(Reuters, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, Poland reported some 10,139 new COVID-19 cases and 540 related deaths as the total number of confirmed coronavirus infections passed 900,000.
(Reuters, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, Russia announced that its coronavirus vaccine was 95 per cent effective on par with two other leading vaccines - but the lack of full scientific data has left some questions unanswered. Financial backers and developers said Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine will cost under $20 per person on international markets and Moscow aims to produce more than a billion doses at home and abroad next year. Russian authorities reported a record 491 deaths linked to COVID-19 as well as 24,326 new infections.
(AP, 11/24/20)(Reuters, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, It was reported that Russian authorities have carried out dozens of raids and detained several people as they pursue a new criminal case accusing the country's Jehovah's Witnesses of extremism.
(CBS News, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, The acting head of a big Russian state fur company floated the idea of vaccinating minks to prevent the spread of COVID-19, after millions of infected minks were destroyed in Denmark and cases of the disease were found elsewhere.
(Reuters, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, It was reported that several policemen serving in the Russian drugs control department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Surgut, Siberia, have been arrested for allegedly selling a bad batch of a psychotropic drug that has killed several of their clients.
(The Daily Beast, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, Scotland's Parliament passed legislation making sanitary products free to all girls and women. Scotland became the first country to make period products freely available.
(https://tinyurl.com/2nm2t9pc)(SFC, 11/26/20, p.A3)
2020 Nov 24, Singapore has all but eradicated the virus after reporting 14 days without any new local cases today, and saying it had snuffed out the last cluster of infection at a worker dormitory.
(Reuters, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 24, South Korean boy band BTS snagged the first ever Grammy nomination for a K-pop band, taking the worldwide sensation a step closer to winning the music award.
(Reuters, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, In Sudan a head-on collision late today between a bus and a truck in West Kordofan province killed at least nine people and injured more than three dozen others.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 24, Swedish pharmaceuticals maker Recipharm said it had agreed a preliminary deal with Moderna Inc to fill and seal the packaging for the US drugmaker's new COVID-19 vaccine.
(Reuters, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, Syria's military said suspected Israeli warplanes struck locations south of the capital Damascus late today, causing only material damage.
(AP, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, Taiwan's Pres. Tsai Ing-wen inaugurated the production of domestically made submarines.
(SFC, 11/25/20, p.A4)
2021 Nov 24, The US Trade Representative's office said that it is moving to terminate its trade retaliation case against India after Washington and New Delhi agreed on a global tax deal transition arrangement that will withdraw India's digital services tax.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, NASA launched a spacecraft to test a plan to save humanity from killer asteroids. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft could be the first to alter an asteroid’s path, a technique that may be used to defend the planet in the future.
(NY Times, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Total US COVID-19 cases reached over 48,002,161 with the death toll at 774,120.
(sfist.com, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 24, In Los Angeles the Nordstrom store at the Westfield Topanga Mall was robbed by five people this evening, with the robbers taking seven to eight expensive purses. An Apple store in Santa Rosa was also robbed today of $20,000 in merchandise. The district attorney for San Francisco charged nine people in connection to multiple organized robberies in the city.
(The Hill, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 24, A Georgia jury found three white men guilty of murder in the Feb. 2020 shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man.
(NY Times, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Apple Inc issued alert messages to at least six Thai activists and researchers who have been critical of the government, warning it believed their iPhones had been targeted by "state-sponsored attackers".
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said new COVID-19 cases have jumped 23% in the Americas in the last week, mostly in North America where both the United States and Canada reported increasing infection rates.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Australia classified neo-Nazi organization The Base and Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and militant group, as terrorist organizations.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Bahrain announced plans for over $30 billion in spending to spur investment and build up infrastructure over the next several years, promising to create five brand-new cities on man-made islands.
(AP, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Britain reported 43,676 further cases of COVID-19 and 149 more deaths within 28 days of a positive test.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Authorities in Cyprus said they will deny access to indoor areas such as shopping malls, restaurants and supermarkets to anyone who hasn’t received a third booster shot seven months after being vaccinated against COVID-19.
(AP, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, A Danish frigate killed four pirates in waters south of Nigeria in an operation to protect shipping in the Gulf of Guinea. Four pirates remaining were taken on board the frigate, and no Danish personnel were hurt in the incident.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 24, State-affiliated media reported that Ethiopia's PM Abiy Ahmed has gone to direct the war from the front lines, as two Olympian athletes announced they were enlisting in the military. Germany and France became the latest countries to advise their citizens to leave Ethiopia, amid an escalation in the country's civil war.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)(BBC, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, European Union ambassadors approved the renewal of sanctions on four Chinese officials and one Chinese entity as part of an extension of a human rights blacklist.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Coronavirus infections broke records in parts of Europe. Slovakia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Hungary all reported new highs in daily infections.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, French media reported that a boat with migrants sank in the English channel off the French coast. 27 migrants died after their dinghy capsized while trying to cross the Channel from France to Britain. A manslaughter lawsuit was later filed by Utopia 56, a French humanitarian organization, accusing Channel authorities of not doing enough to prevent the deaths.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)(SSFC, 11/28/21, p.A4)(SFC, 12/21/21, p.A2)
2021 Nov 24, In Germany Olaf Scholz and his coalition partners from the progressive Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats stepped in front of the cameras to announce a 177-page governing deal they have negotiated under strict secrecy since the Sept. 26 election.
(NY Times, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Haiti's PM Ariel Henry swore in his new Cabinet as the country struggled with a rise in violence, kidnappings and ongoing fuel shortages blamed on powerful gangs.
(SFC, 11/26/21, p.A6)
2021 Nov 24, It was reported that plans by the Indian government for a new bill that would bar most private cryptocurrencies has triggered heavy selling in the country's digital currency markets, as investors look to exit positions despite the losses.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Iran and the UAE agreed to open a new chapter in bilateral relations.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Beny Steinmetz (65), the Israeli billionaire convicted of bribery weeks apart in Romania and Switzerland, was arrested by Greek police when the private jet he was on landed at Athens airport. He was released 24 hours later on condition he didn’t leave Greece.
(Bloomberg, 12/9/21)
2021 Nov 24, Italy tightened the screws on people still unwilling to take an anti-COVID jab, sharply restricting access to an array of services and making vaccines mandatory for a wider group of public sector workers.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Libya's top electoral body disqualified Seif al-Islam Khadafy, the sone of former dictator Moammar Khadafy, from running in next months presidential election.
(SFC, 11/26/21, p.A6)
2021 Nov 24, Mexican officials began dispersing several hundred migrants gathered in the southern city of Tapachula by busing them to other states, heading off the prospect of a new caravan heading north.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 24, The Searching Mothers of Sonora announced that they have found more than 20 bodies in clandestine graves in a town east of Hermosillo, Mexico. Collective Pres. Patricia Cecilia Flores Armenta called for the United Nations' Committee on Enforced Disappearances to get involved in the investigation and speed up the exhumation of the bodies.
(AZCentral, 11/26/21)
2021 Nov 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he has taken an experimental nasal vaccine against the coronavirus, three days after he received his booster shot, as Russia faces its worst surge of infections and deaths since the pandemic began.
(AP, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, South Korea reported a new daily record of 4,116 cases and battles a spike in serious cases straining hospitals. It was reported that a little known sect led by a pastor who pokes eyes to heal is at the center of a COVID-19 outbreak in in Cheonan city. South Korea this month switched to a "living with COVID-19" plan aimed at lifting rigid distancing rules and ultimately reopening after reaching vaccination goals last month. South Korea has recorded 425,065 total infections, with 3,363 deaths.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Sweden's first female prime minister, Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson, resigned after less than 12 hours in the top job after the Green Party quit their two-party coalition, stoking political uncertainty.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 24, Syria’s military said Israeli warplanes attacked army positions in the country’s central region early today, leaving two civilians dead and seven people wounded — six of them soldiers.
(AP, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates signed accords on energy and technology investments after talks between President Tayyip Erdogan and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan in Ankara.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, The UN said a convoy of about 40 trucks carrying relief supplies, including food, had left for Tigray from neighboring Afar. The UN estimates 100 trucks should be entering Tigray each day to meet humanitarian needs.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 24, Zambia's central bank raised interest rates by 50 basis points to 9.0% to help bring down stubbornly high inflation, with price rises only seen falling back within the bank's target range in 2023.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2022 Nov 24, The US marked the Thanksgiving holiday with traditional feasts, parades and American football, taking a moment to celebrate in a week shadowed by gun violence.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, US Department of Agriculture data showed that avian flu has wiped out 50.54 million birds in the United States this year, making it the country's deadliest outbreak in history.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, NYC held its 96th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
(NY Times, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Amazon.com Inc said it would shut down its online learning platform for high-school students in India less than two years of its launch, without citing a reason.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, It was reported that an Algerian court has sentenced 49 people to death after they were found guilty of lynching a man wrongly suspected of starting forest fires last year.
(BBC, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, The British government said it would set the 2022/23 budget for Northern Ireland in the absence of a functioning devolved government.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, The British government told its departments to stop installing Chinese-linked surveillance cameras at sensitive buildings, citing security risks.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, British official statistics showed that net migration to the United Kingdom rose to a record high of around 504,000 in the year to June 2022, driven by an increase in the number of non-European Union nationals. A spokesman said PM Rishi Sunak is committed to bringing net migration to the United Kingdom down from record levels.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Postal workers, teachers and university staff across Britain went on strike to demand better pay, with warnings that there will be more industrial action and widespread disruption in the run-up to Christmas.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Guitarist David Leadbetter 64) died in hospital after a crash near Bath in Somerset. He had found fame in South Africa, where he was regarded as one of the country's "finest musicians".
(BBC, 12/1/22)
2022 Nov 24, Canada published its first ever national climate adaptation strategy, including C$1.6 billion ($1.2 billion) in new federal funding commitments to help protect communities against the increasing impacts of global warming.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Three more of China's biggest commercial banks pledged at least $131 billion in fresh credit to property developers, bolstering recent regulatory measures to ease a stifling cash crunch in the sector and triggering a rally in property shares. A day after three other lenders committed $31 billion, responding to Beijing's call for support.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, China reported record high 32,695 new local COVID-19 infections, with cities nationwide imposing localized lockdowns, mass testing and other curbs that are fuelling frustration and darkening the outlook for the world's second largest economy.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 24, Foxconn Technology Group, the company that assembles Apple Inc.’s iPhones, apologized for a pay dispute that triggered employee protests at a factory where anti-virus controls have slowed production.
(AP, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, In China a fire in a high-rise building in Urumqi killed 10 people.
(Reuters, 11/26/22)
2022 Nov 24, Egypt announced the release of 30 political activists from jail, the latest in a series of mass releases from detention amid intensifying international scrutiny over the country's human rights record.
(AP, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, It was reported that Lake Suchitlan, El Salvador's largest freshwater lake is one of Central America's most polluted bodies of water.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Airbus said it has reached a settlement with the French financial prosecutor concerning judicial investigations related to Libya and Kazakhstan.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Honduran President Xiomara Castro declared a national security emergency and began implementing a new plan to combat a rising number of cases of extortion by violent criminal groups operating across the country.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Israel said it has cancelled 200 out of some 15,500 permits issued to Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to work in its territory after a laborer was accused of planning to carry out a bombing. A suspect, arrested on Oct. 30, told interrogators he had been recruited by relatives in the militant group Islamic Jihad to plant a bomb on a bus in southern Israel.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, It was reported that a new group of Jamaican resorts is promoting tourism that offers mystical experiences and stress relief through "magic mushrooms," as the Caribbean nation seeks to develop a niche industry in natural psychedelics.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Two newly elected Lebanese lawmakers, including an activist who had pledged to fight corruption, lost their parliament seats following an appeals process before the country's constitutional council.
(AP, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Malaysia’s king appointed veteran politician Anwar Ibrahim (75) as prime minister. Long-time reformist leader Anwar Ibrahim was sworn in as Malaysia's prime minister and vowed to heal a racially divided nation, fight corruption and revive an economy struggling with the rising cost of living.
(NY Times, 11/24/22)(AP, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, In Mexico General Jose Silvestre Urzua, the head of the National Guard in the state of Zacatecas, was killed in a confrontation with armed men during an operation against organized crime. An unidentified attacker was also killed and four members of the National Guard were wounded.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Amsterdam-listed mobile operator Veon said it would sell its Russian business, Vimpelcom, to senior members of the Vimpelcom management team, led by CEO Aleksander Torbakhov, for 130 billion rubles ($2.2 billion).
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Leftist Peruvian President Pedro Castillo accepted the resignation of PM Anibal Torres and will reshuffle his Cabinet once again, amid a lengthy battle between the executive and legislative branches.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 24, The Kremlin denied that its attacks on Ukraine's electricity network were aimed at civilians, but said Kyiv could "end the suffering" of its population by meeting Russia's demands to resolve the conflict.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Russia's parliament approved a bill that widens a prohibition of "LGBT propaganda" and restricts the "demonstration" of LGBT behavior, making any expression of an LGBT lifestyle almost impossible. The new law still needs the approval of the upper house of parliament and President Vladimir Putin.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Unionized truckers in South Korea kicked off their second major strike in less than six months, threatening to disrupt manufacturing and fuel supplies in the world's 10th-largest economy.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Sweden's central bank raised its key interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point to 2.5% and signaled further hikes next year to fight surging inflation.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar told his Russian counterpart in a call that Ankara would continue responding to attacks from northern Syria, after Russia asked Turkey to refrain from a full-scale Syria offensive. Turkish drones have targeted key oil installations run by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeast Syria in strikes that killed 15 civilians and 25 Syrian government soldiers.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, The United Nations' top human rights body decided by a comfortable margin to establish a new investigative mission to probe Iran's suppression of mass protests that have roiled the country since September.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
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1105 Nov 24, Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of Rome completed a Talmudic dictionary.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1434 Nov 24, The Thames River froze.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1542 Nov 24, The English defeated the Scots under King James at the Battle of Solway Moss, in England.
(HN, 11/24/98)
1572 Nov 24, John Knox (67), Scottish preacher, died.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1628 Nov 24, John Ford's "Lover's Melancholy," premiered in London.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1632 Nov 24, Baruch (Benedict) de Spinoza (d.1677), Dutch rationalist philosopher, was born in Amsterdam. "Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."
(AP, 9/24/99)(MC, 11/24/01)
1639 Nov 24, A 2nd predicted transit of Venus occurred. Jeremiah Horrocks of England predicted and observed the event with his friend William Crabtree.
(MC, 11/24/01)(Econ, 5/29/04, p.78)
1642 Nov 24, Abel Janszoon Tasman (d.1659) discovered Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania).
(MC, 11/24/01)
1650 Nov 24, Manuel Cardoso (83), composer, died.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1655 Nov 24, English Lord Protector Cromwell banned Anglicans.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1674 Nov 24, Franciscus van Enden (72), Flemish Jesuit and free thinker, was executed.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1688 Nov 24, General strategist John Churchill met William III.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1690 Nov 24, Charles Theodore Pachelbel, composer, was born.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1713 Nov 24, Junipero Serra (d.1784), Spanish Roman Catholic missionary to the Indians in California and Mexico was born on the Spanish isle of Palma de Mallorca. He came to the New World in 1749 accompanied by 14 other Mallorcans including the geographer Crespi and Father Francisco Palou, biographer of Serra and historian of the missions. Serra was beatified in 1988.
(SFC, Z1, 4/28/96, p.6)(SFEC, 9/14/97, p.A18)(www.beachcalifornia.com/carmel2.html)
1713 Nov 24, Laurence Sterne (d.1768), novelist and satirist (Tristram Shandy), was born in Ireland. "Free thinkers are generally those who never think at all."
(MC, 11/24/01)(AP, 6/19/97)
1715 Nov 24, The Thames River froze.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1722 Nov 24, Johann Adam Reincken (99), German organist and composer, died.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1759 Nov 24, There was a destructive eruption of Vesuvius.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1784 Nov 24, Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States (1849-1850), was born in Orange County, Va.
(AP, 11/24/97)(HN, 11/24/98)
1800 Nov 24, Weber's opera "Das Waldmadchen," premiered in Freiburg.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1826 Nov 24, Carlo Collodi, the creator of Pinocchio, was born.
(HN, 11/24/00)
1832 Nov 24, South Carolina passed an Ordinance of Nullification. The US government had enacted a tariff. South Carolina nullified it and threatened to secede. Pres. Jackson threatened armed force on his home state but a compromise was devised by Henry Clay that ducked the central problem.
(WSJ, 9/19/97, p.A13)(www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Nullification.html)
1832 Nov 24, The doctrine of nullification involved an argument concerning the nature of the union as defined by the writers of the Constitution and addressed the question: "Was the US a compact of sovereign states, each retaining ultimate authority, or was the US one nation formed by the people through the writing of the Constitution?" John C. Calhoun, supporter of the doctrine of nullification, was Pres. Jackson's principal opponent in the nullification crises.
(www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/butowsky2/constitution4.htm#17)
1835 Nov 24, Texas Rangers, a mounted police force, was authorized by the Texas Provisional Government.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1847 Nov 24, Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager and author (Dracula), was born. [see Nov 8]
(MC, 11/24/01)
1848 Nov 24, Lilli Lehmann, opera singer, was born.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1848 Nov 24, William Lamb (b.1779), 2nd Viscount Melbourne, died. He was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary (1830–1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835–1841). He is best known for being prime minister in Queen Victoria's early years and coaching her in the ways of politics.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne)
1849 Nov 24, Frances Hodgson Burnett, author, was born. Her work includes “Little Lord Fauntleroy" and “The Secret Garden."
(HN, 11/24/00)
1853 Nov 24, William Masterson (Bat Masterson), journalist, gambler, frontier lawman, was born in Henryville, Quebec. He died at his desk as a NYC sports reporter. [see Nov 24, 1856]
(SFC, 8/2/97, p.E3)(MC, 11/24/01)
1856 Nov 24, Bat Masterson was born in Quebec, Canada. [see Nov 24, 1853]
(MesWP)
1859 Nov 24, Cass Gilbert (d.1934), architect, was born. His work included the NYC Woolworth Building, completed in 1913.
(HN, 11/24/00)(WSJ, 1/10/00, p.A20)
1859 Nov 24, British naturalist Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species," or “The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life." The first printing of 1,250 copies sold out in a single day. It explained his theory of evolution.
(V.D.-H.K.p.280)(WSJ, 2/24/97, p.A20)(AP, 11/24/97)(HN, 11/24/00)
1862 Nov 24, M. Levy published Gustave Flaubert’s "Salammbo."
(MC, 11/24/01)
1863 Nov 24, In the Battle Above the Clouds, Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's forces took Lookout Mountain, near Chattanooga, Tenn. The battle for Lookout Mountain was fought in a layer of fog whose lower level began at the Cravens House, used as Rebel headquarters. Gen’l. Hooker later commissioned painter James Walker to render a picture of the battle for $20,000.
(HFA, ‘96, p.42)(HT, 4/97, p.56)(HN, 11/24/98)
1864 Nov 24, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (d.1901), French post-impressionist painter, was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_de_Toulouse-Lautrec)
1864 Nov 24, Kit Carson and his 1st Cavalry, New Mexico Volunteers, attacked a camp of Kiowa Indians in the First Battle of Adobe Walls.
(HN, 11/24/98)
1868 Nov 24, Scott Joplin was born in Texas. By the time he was a teenager, Joplin could play the banjo and the piano, and had begun to work as a saloon musician. In the late 1890s, he was performing and composing at the Maple Leaf Club in Sedalia, Missouri, and in 1899 his "Maple Leaf Rag" made ragtime popular. Ragtime was a mixture of classical European and African-American styles of music, and it influenced the later development of jazz. Joplin was not considered a serious composer until ragtime resurfaced in the 1970s, when his composition "The Entertainer" was the theme to the movie The Sting. The first grand opera composed by an African American was Joplin's Treemonisha (1911), which was not very successful at the time. In 1976, however, more than 50 years after Joplin died, Treemonisha won the Pulitzer Prize.
(HNPD, 11/24/98)(WSJ, 7/5/00, p.A20)
1871 Nov 24, The National Rifle Association was incorporated in NYC, and its first president named: Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside.
(AP, 11/24/97)(MC, 11/24/01)
1874 Nov 24, Farmer Joseph Glidden's patent for barbed wire was granted. Glidden designed a simple wire barb that attached to a double-strand wire, as well as a machine to mass-produce the wire. The invention was a welcome alternative to other types of fencing for farming on the arid Great Plains--wood fences and stone walls were difficult to construct because of the lack of sufficient rocks and trees, and the existing wire fences were easily broken when cattle leaned against them. The use of barbed-wire fences changed ranching and farming life. Farmers could keep roaming cattle and sheep off their land, but open-range cowboys and Native American farmers were restricted to the land and resources not claimed and marked by the new fences. As more settlers moved onto the plains, the amount of public, shared land decreased and open-range farming became obsolete.
(HNPD, 11/23/98) (HN, 11/24/98)
1886 Nov 24, Margaret Anderson, editor, was born. She founded “The Little Review."
(HN, 11/24/00)
1887 Nov 24, Victorien Sardou's "La Tosca," premiered in Paris.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1888 Nov 24, Dale Carnegie (d.1955), public speaker, was born in Missouri. He authored "How to Win Friends and Influence People" (1937).
(HN, 11/24/00)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Carnegie)
1899 Nov 24, Abdullah ibn Mohammed al-Ta'a'ishi, Mahdi of Sudan (1883-99), died.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1901 Nov 24, Andre Victor Tchelistcheff, winemaker, was born.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1902 Nov 24, The first Congress of Professional Photographers convened in Paris.
(HN, 11/24/98)
1903 Nov 24, Clyde Coleman of NYC patented an automobile electric starter.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1908 Nov 24, Harry Kemelman, US detective author (rabbi omnibus), was born.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1910 Nov 24, Robert Baden-Powell, who founded the scout movement in Britain in 1907, organized the first scout meeting in Africa at a church in Nairobi.
(AP, 11/24/10)
1912 Nov 24, Garson Kanin, writer and director, was born. His work included “Born Yesterday."
(HN, 11/24/00)
1912 Nov 24, Austria denounced Serbian gains in the Balkans; Russia and France backed Serbia while Italy and Germany backed Austria.
(HN, 11/24/98)
1914 Nov 24, Benito Mussolini left Italy's socialist party.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1916 Nov 24, Forrest J. Ackerman, coined the term "sci-fi," was born.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1918 Nov 24, Frank O. King premiered his comic strip "Gasoline Alley" in the Chicago Tribune. He aged his characters over time.
(SFC, 7/8/98, Z1 p.3)(WSJ, 6/20/01, p.A1)(www.toonopedia.com/gasalley.htm)
1921 Nov 24, John V. Lindsay, (Mayor-R/D-NY, 1965-73), was born.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1922 Nov 24, Italian parliament gave Mussolini dictatorial powers "for 1 year."
(MC, 11/24/01)
1925 Nov 24, William F. Buckley, Jr. (d.2008), journalist who founded the conservative magazine National Review, was born in Manhattan, as the 6th of 10 children. His father had made a fortune in the oil fields of Mexico.
(HN, 11/24/98)(SFC, 2/28/08, p.A2)
1927 Nov 24, Alfredo Kraus, tenor (La Scala), was born in Las Palmas, Canary Islands.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1927 Nov 24, In California troops battled 1,200 inmates after Folsom prisoners revolted. On Thanksgiving Day there was a prison break at Folsom. One prisoner was shot in the ensuing uprising and five others were later hung.
(SFEC, 1/26/97, p.B4) (HN, 11/24/98)
1928 Nov 24, Baron Alphonse Jacques de Dixmude (b.1858), a Belgian military figure of World War I and colonial advocate, died in Ixelles. He founded Albertville (Kalemie) on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in the Congo in 1892 and tried to put an end to the slave trade in the region. Jacques was also known for contributing to the brutality of the Congo Free State rule.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Jacques_de_Dixmude)
1929 Nov 24, Georges Clemenceau (b.1841), French journalist and premier (1917-20), died. He is noted for the quote: “La guerre! C’est une chose trop grave pour la confier à des militaires." (War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men).
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Georges_Clemenceau)
1936 Nov 24, Noel Coward's "Tonight at 8:30," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1938 Nov 24, Clifford Odets' "Rocket to the Moon," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1938 Nov 24, Mexico seized oil land adjacent to Texas.
(HN, 11/24/98)
1939 Nov 24, In Czechoslovakia, the Gestapo executed 120 students who were accused of anti-Nazi plotting.
(HN, 11/24/98)
1941 Nov 24, "Life Certificates" were issued to some Jews of Vilna. The rest were exterminated.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1941 Nov 24, Indian infantry attacked German tanks at Sidi Omar.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1942 Nov 24, Field marshal Erich von Manstein arrived in Starobelsk.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1944 Nov 24, American B-29 bombers based on Saipan attacked Tokyo in the first raid against the Japanese capital by land-based planes.
(HN, 11/24/98)(AP, 11/24/05)
1944 Nov 24, Heinrich Himmler ordered the destruction of the Auschwitz and Birkenau crematoriums.
(http://tinyurl.com/9nycv)
1946 Nov 24, Ted Bundy (d.1989), serial murderer, was born Burlington, Vt.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1947 Nov 24, John Steinbeck's novel "The Pearl" was first published.
(AP, 11/24/97)
1947 Nov 24, Congress voted to cite the Hollywood Ten, who opposed the HUAC hearings, as “unfriendly witnesses" for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about alleged Communist influence in the movie industry. At the same time 50 top Hollywood executives convened and decided to discharge or suspend the Hollywood Ten until acquittal or declaration that they were not Communists. Among the ten were director Edward Dmytrak, who later recanted and gave names of suspected Communists, Lester Cole, and writer Ring Lardner Jr. Lester Cole later wrote “Hollywood Red."
(SFEC, 5/18/97, DB p.65)(AP, 11/24/97)
1948 Nov 24, In Venezuela Gen. Pérez Jiménez and Lt. Colonel Carlos Delgado Chalbaud staged a coup. A military junta headed by Delgado Chalbaud, Luis Felipe Llovera Páez and Pérez Jiménez overthrew the elected president Rómulo Gallegos and ruled for the next four years.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcos_P%C3%A9rez_Jim%C3%A9nez)
1949 Nov 24, Alexander C. Cushing (1914-2006) opened the Squaw Valley Development Company with his wife Justine Bayard Cushing (d.2003 at 85). The new Lake Tahoe area ski resort opened with a double chairlift and 2 rope tows.
(SFC, 8/21/06, p.B1)(www.squaw.com/winter/history_overview.html)
1949 Nov 24, The Iron and Steel Act nationalized the steel industry in Britain.
(HN, 11/24/98)
1949 Nov 24, In Germany the Petersberg agreement provided concessions to Western Germany from the Allied high commission in return for German membership in the Int’l. Ruhr Authority. The influx of 8 million Germans from the east caused widespread unemployment.
(EWH, 1968, p.1180)
1950 Nov 24, The musical "Guys and Dolls," based on the writings of Damon Runyon and featuring songs by Frank Loesser, opened on Broadway.
(AP, 11/24/06)
1950 Nov 24, UN troops began an assault with the intent to end the Korean War by Christmas.
(HN, 11/24/98)
1954 Nov 24, France sent 20,000 soldiers to Algeria.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1956 Nov 24, "Pajama Game" closed at St James Theater NYC after 1063 performances.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1959 Nov 24, The new TV show Twilight Zone ran “The Time Element" about a bartender returning to Pearl Harbor Dec 6, 1941.
(SFC, 11/25/02, p.A15)
1961 Nov 24, The UN adopted bans on nuclear arms over American protest.
(HN, 11/24/98)
1962 Nov 24, The BBC TV series "That Was the Week That Was" began and ran through 36 episodes to 1963. Willie Rushton impersonated PM Harold McMillan.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Was_The_Week_That_Was)(SFC, 12/12/96, p.C8)
1963 Nov 24, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy in front of TV cameras in the garage of the Dallas Police Department. Ruby used a .38 Colt Cobra purchased at Ray’s Hardware and Sporting Goods in Dallas run by Lawrence Brantley (1921-1996). Sometime earlier Oswald had made an attempt to murder right-wing Gen’l. Edwin A. Walker. In 2002 Thomas Mallon authored “Mrs. Paine’s Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy."
(SFC, 10/17/96, C2)(AP, 11/24/97)(HN, 11/24/00)(WSJ, 1/18/02, p.W8)
1964 Nov 24, Residents of Wash DC were permitted to vote for the 1st time since 1800.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1964 Nov 24, The UC Berkeley Academic Senate defeated a motion to support the position of the Free Speech Movement by a vote of 274-261.
(SSFC, 9/21/14, p.A13)
1965 Nov 24, Congo had a military coup under Gen. Mobutu and Pres. Kasavubu was overthrown. Larry Devlin, US CIA station chief, had encouraged Mobutu to launch the coup. In 2007 Devlin authored “Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone."
(www.briefbio.com/pages/2974/Seko-Mobutu-Sese.html)(Econ, 2/24/07, p.95)
1967 Nov 24, Cambodian triple agent Inchin Lam was murdered. Special Forces Captain John J. McCarthy was accused and later tried for the murder in a court in Vietnam. [see Jan 29, 1968]
(HN, 11/24/98)(http://www.copvcia.com/Mac.htm)(www.geocities.com/larryjodaniel/17.html)
1968 Nov 24, Eldridge Cleaver fled the US with his wife rather face assault charges from 1958. He returned to the US in 1975.
(www.pbs.org/hueypnewton/people/people_cleaver.html)
1968 Nov 24, Three Latins hijacked a US B-707 jet, from New York’s Kennedy Int’l. to Cuba. Pena Soltren, a US citizen, and two accomplices used weapons hidden in a diaper bag to hijack Pan Am Flight 281. In 2009 Luis Armando Pena Soltren (66) voluntarily returned to the same airport to surrender and face prosecution. On Jan 4, 2011, Soltren was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
(http://cuban-exile.com/doc_176-200/doc0180.html)(AP, 10/12/09)(SFC, 1/5/11, p.A4)
1969 Nov 24, Gen. William Westmoreland assigned Lt. Gen. William R. Peers to investigate the My Lai incident (March 16, 1968).
(www.choices.web.aplus.net/guidebooks/WAV/calley.pdf)
1969 Nov 24, Apollo 12 splashed down safely in the Pacific, ending the second manned mission to the moon.
(AP, 11/24/97)
1971 Nov 24, On Thanksgiving eve DB Cooper boarded Flight 305 in Portland, Or., and demanded $200,000 with the threat of a bomb. He parachuted from a Northwest Airlines 727 with the money over the Cascade Mountains near Ariel, Wash., and was never seen again. FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach wrote the book NORJAK that described the case. A packet containing $5,880 of the ransom money was found in 1980 on the north shore of the Columbia River, just west of the Washington city of Vancouver. In 2011 evidence was presented that Lynn Doyle Cooper (d.1999) of Oregon, a Korean war veteran, was the hijacker. On July 13, 2016, the FBI said it is no longer investigating the case.
(SFEC, 11/17/96, Z1 p.5)(AP, 11/24/97)(SFC, 8/4/11, p.A8)(SFC, 7/13/16, p.A6)
1971 Nov 24, A prison rebellion took place at Rahway State Prison, NJ.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahway_State_Prison)
1976 Nov 24, In Argentina military and law enforcement officials descended on the La Plata home of Daniel Enrique Mariani, and his wife, Diana Esmeralda Terugi, as part of an official campaign against people deemed to be subversives. Their home housed a printing press for the leftist group Montoneros. Terugi and four others were killed in the raid. Daniel was not home, but was killed less than a year later. Witnesses later said their daughter Clara Anahi, aged 3 months, was taken from the home.
(SSFC, 8/26/18, p.C9)
1977 Nov 24, Greeks announced the discovery of the tomb of King Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.
(HN, 11/24/98)
1979 Nov 24, U.S. admitted that thousands of troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange.
(HN, 11/24/98)
1982 Nov 24, FCC dropped limits on the duration and frequency of TV ads.
(http://tinyurl.com/2tcl6k)
1983 Nov 24, An IRA unit disguised as police officers seized Don Tidey, an American former chief executive of Ireland's Superquinn grocery stores, outside his Dublin home. They held him for more than three weeks in woods near the Irish border and demanded the equivalent of US$7.5 million in ransom. A joint Irish police-army search stumbled on the kidnappers' hideaway, freeing Tidey, but the IRA kidnappers killed a police officer and soldier as they escaped.
(AP, 3/7/06)(http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch83.htm)
1983 Nov 24, PLO exchanged 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians and Lebanese.
(http://tinyurl.com/2lejkm)
1985 Nov 24, The hijacking of an EgyptAir jetliner parked on the ground in Malta ended violently as Egyptian commandos stormed the plane. Fifty-eight people died in the raid, in addition to two others killed by the hijackers. Ali Rezaq of the Abu Nidal terrorist group was imprisoned in Malta for 7 years and then released. The US FBI apprehended him in Nigeria in 1993 and he was convicted by a US federal jury in 1996 and sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC, 7/20/96, p.A6)(SFEC, 10/8/96, D1)(AP, 11/24/97)
1987 Nov 24, The United States and the Soviet Union agreed to scrap shorter- and medium-range missiles in the first superpower treaty to eliminate an entire class of nuclear weapons.
(AP, 11/24/97)
1988 Nov 24, A state of emergency was declared in the cities of Kirovabad and Nakhichevan in Azerbaijan.
(WSJ, 8/7/96, p.A15)
1988 Nov 24, In Peru journalist Hugo Bustios Saavedra was murdered near an army base commanded by Daniel Uresti.
(http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/cases/1997/peru38-97.html)(Econ., 2/6/21, p.26)
1988 Nov 24, South Africa's justice minister announced that Nelson Mandela would not be returned to prison upon his recovery from tuberculosis, but would instead remain in custody in another location.
(AP, 11/24/98)
1989 Nov 24, In Washington state college student Mandy Stavik (18) disappeared after going out for a jog in Acme. Her body was found three days later in the Nooksack River. In 2017 police arrested Tim Bass (50) based on DNA evidence.
(https://tinyurl.com/y27c36rn)(CBS News, 7/18/20)
1989 Nov 24, Czechoslovakia's hard-line Communist party leadership resigned after more than a week of protests against its policies.
(AP, 11/24/99)
1989 Nov 24, In Peshawar, Pakistan, Abdulla Yusuf Azzam, a Palestinian intellectual, was assassinated in a car bombing reportedly ordered by Osama bin Laden for suspected CIA ties.
(SFC, 8/19/98, p.A16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_Yusuf_Azzam)
1989 Nov 24, Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu was unanimously re-elected Communist Party chief. Within a month, he was overthrown in a popular uprising and executed along with his wife, Elena, on Christmas Day.
(AP, 11/24/04)
1990 Nov 24, President Bush returned home from an eight-day tour of Europe and the Middle East, during which he’d lobbied foreign leaders on behalf of his Persian Gulf policy.
(AP, 11/24/00)
1990 Nov 24, In Texas Rosemary Diaz (15) went missing. Her remains were found in 2015 near the Wharton-Matagorda county line following a tip from the family of a man considered a suspect in the case. The suspect had recently died of cancer.
(http://tinyurl.com/p6hvtsh)(SFC, 11/26/15, p.A10)
1991 Nov 24, The space shuttle Atlantis blasted off from Cape Canaveral with six astronauts and a military satellite.
(AP, 11/24/01)
1991 Nov 24, Freddie Mercury (45), Zanzibar-born rock singer, died in London of pneumonia brought on by AIDS. Mercury and the rock group Queen made the 1975 hit "Bohemian Rhapsody."
(AP, 11/24/01)(SSFC, 11/10/02, p.A2)
1992 Nov 24, Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger pleaded innocent to making a false statement in the Iran-Contra affair. However, Weinberger was pardoned by President Bush before the case could come to trial.
(AP, 11/24/97)
1992 Nov 24, The US military closed the Subic Bay Naval Station and left the Philippines.
(HFA, '96, p.18)(SFEC, 11/17/96, p.A12)
1992 Nov 24, Bob Lurie, owner of the San Francisco Giants, agreed to sell the baseball team to a group of city business leaders for $100 million. Safeway Chairman Peter Magowan will be the managing general partner of the investment group. Lurie will retain a $10 million share for the next four years.
(SSFC, 11/19/17, DB p.50)
1992 Nov 24, In China, a domestic jetliner crashed, killing 141 people.
(AP, 11/24/97)
1993 Nov 24, President Clinton met at the White House with Salman Rushdie, the British author condemned to death by Iran for writing "The Satanic Verses."
(AP, 11/24/98)
1993 Nov 24, The US Congress gave its final approval to the Brady handgun control bill. It established a 5-day waiting period for handgun sales.
(AP, 11/24/98)
1993 Nov 24 Two 11-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, were convicted of the February murder of 2-year-old James Bulger of Liverpool, England. Shortly after the trial, Lord Taylor of Gosforth, the Lord Chief Justice, ordered that the two boys should serve a minimum of ten years behind bars. Thompson and Venables were released on a “life license" in June 2001, after serving eight years of their life sentence. An injunction remained in force following their release, so that details of their new identities and locations could not be published.
(AP, 11/24/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger)
1994 Nov 24, Rebel Serbs refused to withdraw from the U.N. designated safe area around Bihac and continued to advance on the city, despite recent NATO air strikes.
(AP, 11/24/99)
1994 Nov 24, In Sri Lanka a Tiger suicide bomber killed opposition pres. candidate Gamini Disanayake and 51 others.
(SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)
1995 Nov 24, The American Visionary Art Museum opened in Baltimore. It was founded by development consultant Rebecca Hoffberger (43), who succeeded in raising most of the $7.5 mil for the museum.
(WSJ, 4/3/96, p.A20)(www.avam.org/stuff/whois.html)
1995 Nov 24, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic promised during a televised address to accept a U-S-brokered peace plan.
(AP, 11/24/00)
1995 Nov 24, Voters in Ireland narrowly ended a 70-year ban on divorce and approved a constitutional amendment legalizing divorce and remarriage by 50.23%.
(SFC, 1/18/96, p.A8)(AP, 11/24/00)(MC, 11/24/01)
1996 Nov 24, On the eve of an Asia-Pacific trade conference in the Philippines, President Clinton met with Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Both sides signaled their troubled relations were on the mend, and agreed to exchange presidential visits over the next two years.
(AP, 11/24/97)
1996 Nov 24, In Argentina evangelist Sun Myung Moon began a new Spanish newspaper for all of Latin America with the assistance of former US president George Bush. Bush was reportedly paid $100,000. They then traveled to Uruguay to inaugurate a seminary to train 4,200 Japanese women to spread the word of his Church across Latin America.
(SFC, 11/25/96, p.B1)(WSJ, 11/26/96, p.A1)
1996 Nov 24, In Belarus parliament set its own date for a vote to approve the abolishment of the office of the president. Lukashenko has the backing of the security apparatus which numbers about 150,000 in the pop. of 10 mil.
(WSJ, 10/8/96, p.A17)
1996 Nov 24, In Serbia a court controlled by Pres. Milosevic annulled the electoral victory of the opposition. The opposition had one 67 of 110 seats of the Belgrade City Council. The court annulled 52 of the opposition seats.
(SFC, 11/25/96, p.A8)
1997 Nov 24, Pres. Clinton and APEC Asian leaders in Vancouver discussed ways of calming the Asian economic crisis and agreed on the rough details of a $68 billion bailout with loans from the IMF.
(SFC, 11/25/97, p.A1) (AP, 11/24/98)
1997 Nov 24, Space-walking astronauts from the shuttle Columbia grabbed a spinning satellite with their hands, enabling the cockpit crew to use the shuttle's robot arm to return it to the cargo bay.
(AP, 11/24/07)
1997 Nov 24, In the SF Bay Area Thomas Franklin Wheelock (20) murdered his Armored Transport partner, Rodrigo Cortez (30), and escaped with $300,000. Most of the money was found in a Sacramento motel. Wheelock was pronounced guilty in 2001 and sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC,11/26/97, p.A1)(SFC, 9/5/01, p.A16)(SFC, 9/21/01, p.D6)
1997 Nov 24, French Singer Monique Serf, stage-name Barbara, died at 67. She was famous for her songs “Aigle Noir," “Nantes," “La Solitude," and “Une Petite Cantate."
(SFC, 11/26/97, p.C4)
1997 Nov 24, It was reported that Iraq continued to withhold access to 63 weapons sites that included 47 presidential compounds.
(SFC, 11/24/97, p.A13)
1997 Nov 24, Israeli warplanes and soldiers attacked supposed guerilla infiltration trails in southern Lebanon. Three Hezbollah were reported killed.
(SFC, 11/25/97, p.A12)
1997 Nov 24, In Japan the Yamaichi Securities firm, the nation's 4th largest, announced a shutdown due to debts totaling $24 billion. It was the third, after Sanyo Securities and Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, Japanese financial company to collapse in a month.
(SFC, 11/24/97, p.A1)(AP, 11/24/98)(Econ, 7/22/06, p.66)
1997 Nov 24, In Somalia all hostages were released by the rival Marjeteen and Wasangeli militiamen.
(SFC, 11/24/97, p.A11)
1998 Nov 24, America Online confirmed it was buying Netscape Communications in a deal ultimately worth $10 billion.
(AP, 11/24/99)
1998 Nov 24, Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp., donated $20 million to the Seattle Public Library system.
(SFC, 11/24/98, p.A3)
1998 Nov 24, A UN report on AIDS said 33 million people were infected, and that two-thirds of them were in sub-Saharan Africa.
(WSJ, 11/25/98, p.A1)
1998 Nov 24, In Britain Queen Elizabeth announced plans by the Blair government to make the House of Lords more democratic by stripping aristocrats of their right to sit in it.
(WSJ, 11/25/98, p.A1)
1998 Nov 24, In Lebanon Pres. Elias Hrawi was scheduled to step down and be replaced by Emile Lahoud.
(SFC, 10/16/98, p.D2)
1998 Nov 24, The OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) ratified an anti-bribery convention. It came into force in 1999.
(http://tinyurl.com/otqm8xp)(Econ, 12/23/06, p.18)(Econ, 12/6/14, p.73)
1998 Nov 24, The first Palestine Airlines flight touched down at Gaza International Airport.
(AP, 11/24/99)
1998 Nov 24, A funeral was held in St. Petersburg for liberal Russian lawmaker Galina Starovoitova, who had been assassinated four days earlier.
(AP, 11/24/99)
1998 Nov 24, Russia, Kazakstan and a group of major oil companies agreed to build a pipeline to connect the Tengiz oil field to a Russian port on the Black Sea.
(SFC, 11/25/98, p.A16)
1998 Nov 24, The UN Security Council voted to allow Iraq an additional $5.2 billion in oil sales over the next 6 months to cover humanitarian aid.
(SFC, 11/25/98, p.A14)
1999 Nov 24, American Indian farmers filed a $19 billion class-action lawsuit against the Agriculture Department for an alleged 20-year history of loan-granting discrimination.
(SFC, 11/25/99, p.A4)
1999 Nov 24, It was reported that US married couples with children comprised 26% of the population as opposed to 45% in 1972.
(SFC, 11/24/99, p.A3)
1999 Nov 24, In Britain authorities intercepted Scud missile components labeled as auto parts originating in Taiwan and destined for Libya.
(SFC, 1/10/00, p.A10)
1999 Nov 24-1999 Nov 25, The Chinese ferry, Dashun, with 312 passengers caught fire and sank in stormy seas on the Bohai Strait near Yantai in Shandong province. Only 22 passengers were rescued.
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/26/99, p.A1)(SFC, 11/27/99, p.A14)(AP, 11/24/00)
1999 Nov 24, In Croatia the parliament passed a constitutional amendment that declared Pres. Tudjman (77) to be temporarily disabled and acted to pass power to Vlatko Pavletic, speaker of parliament.
(SFC, 11/25/99, p.A14)(WSJ, 11/26/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 24, In Indonesia security forces deployed hundreds of reinforcements to Aceh province where 6 people were killed over the past week.
(SFC, 11/25/99, p.A16)
1999 Nov 24, Mexico and the EU agreed on terms for a free trade treaty.
(SFC, 11/25/99, p.A14)
2000 Nov 24, The U.S. Supreme Court stepped into the bitter, overtime struggle for the White House, agreeing to consider George W. Bush's appeal whether the extended Florida ballot counting violates federal law..
(SFC, 11/25/00, p.A1)(AP, 11/24/01)
2000 Nov 24, In Cambodia several dozen gunmen attacked government offices in Phnom Penh. At least 7 people were killed and 12 wounded. Police fought a US-based anti-communist group known as the Cambodian Freedom Fighters (CFF). 8 were killed and 60 rounded up. 38 people, including 4 American citizens, were later charged with terrorism. In 2002 a court sentenced 20 people to prison terms of 5 years to life for the plotting to overthrow the government.
(SFC, 11/25/00, p.A18)(WSJ, 11/27/00, p.A1)(SFC, 11/30/00, p.C3)(SFC, 3/1/02, p.A17)
2000 Nov 24, Germany and the Portuguese Azores Islands recorded new cases of mad cow disease. Main land Portugal has reported 467 cases since 1990.
(SFC, 11/25/00, p.A16)
2000 Nov 24, In the Philippines Salvador "Bubby" Dacer, a publicist who represented top political figures, was kidnapped and later killed along with his driver. Police boss Sen. Panfilo Lacson was later linked to the killing. In 2009 Cesar Mancao, a former senior Philippine police official accused of the double homicide, was extradited from the US after agreeing to testify in the case.
(AP, 6/4/09)(http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/3133909)
2000 Nov 24, In Serbia police gave NATO a 72-hour deadline to stop incursions from Kosovo by ethnic Albanian militants.
(SFC, 11/25/00, p.A15)
2000 Nov 24, From Russia Vladimir Putin arranged for Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak to agree by telephone to reopen 10 joint security offices in the West Bank and Gaza.
(SFC, 11/25/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 24, It was reported that monsoon flooding killed 10 people in Malaysia and at least 5 people in Thailand. The death toll from flooding in Thailand reached over 30, mostly children. Over 100 people died from the flooding and mudslides in West Sumatra.
(SFC, 11/24/00, p.D8)(WSJ, 11/27/00, p.A1)(SFC, 11/29/00, p.C20)
2001 Nov 24, Heavy storms hit the US and at least 12 people were killed in the lower Mississippi valley.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A19)
2001 Nov 24, Michelle Lynn Howard (32) was last seen in Atlantic City, NJ. Her body was found two days later lying on the side of the road on Estelle Avenue in the vicinity of Old Landis Avenue about a quarter mile from Interstate 40.
(NBC News, 11/27/20)
2001 Nov 24, Thousands of Taliban fighters surrendered at Kunduz. A few turned out to be suicide bombers, who killed 5-6 Northern Alliance commanders. Afghan troops captured Salim Ahmen Hamdan in southern Afghanistan in a car with four other alleged al-Qaida associates who exchanged fire with the Afghan troops. Three of the other men in the car, including a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, were killed. Hamdan, who was sent to Guantanamo, admitted working as bin Laden's driver in Afghanistan.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A1)(NW, 8/26/02, p.22)(AP, 12/5/07)
2001 Nov 24, In Brazil a fire at a dance club in Belo Horizonte killed at least 6 people.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A18)
2001 Nov 24, British actress Rachel Gurney (81), who played Lady Marjorie Bellamy on the popular television series "Upstairs Downstairs," died.
(AP, 11/24/02)
2001 Nov 24, Tens of thousands of Palestinians marched in the West Bank and Gaza city to protest the Israeli killing of Mahmoud Abu Hanoud and 2 assistants. A Palestinian mortar attack killed one Israeli soldier.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A14)(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A9)
2001 Nov 24, In Switzerland a Swiss Crossair Jumbolino Avro RJ-100 crashed with 33 people on board. 24 were killed including American pop singer Melanie Thornton.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A18)(WSJ, 11/26/01, p.A1)(AP, 11/24/02)
2001 Nov 24, Mathew Hardman (17) killed widow Mabel Leyshon (90) at her home in the north Wales town of Llanfairpwll. Prosecutors later said he wanted to be a vampire. In 2002 Hardman was convicted of fatally stabbing Leyshon, cutting out her heart and drinking her blood.
(AP, 8/2/02)
2002 Nov 24, Harriet Doerr (b.1910), author of "Stone for Ibarra" (1984), died in Pasadena.
(SFC, 11/28/02, p.A30)
2002 Nov 24, John Rawls (81), philosopher, died in Boston. His work included "A Theory of Justice" (1971), which advanced the concept of a social compact. The Rawls test: would the best off accept the arrangements if they believed at any moment they might find themselves in the place of the worst off."
(WSJ, 11/26/02, p.A1)(SFC, 11/29/02, p.A27)
2002 Nov 24, In Austria Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel's conservative party made large gains to dominate parliamentary elections.
(AP, 11/24/02)
2002 Nov 24, A tanker carrying 20,000 tons of liquefied petroleum gas was on fire in Chinese waters about 38 kilometers east of Hong Kong, risking a huge explosion.
(Reuters, 11/24/02)
2002 Nov 24, The Central Colombian Pipeline, known by its Spanish acronym Ocensa, had to be shut down after an attack near the town of Aguazul.
(AP, 11/25/02)
2002 Nov 24, Negotiations between the Congolese government and two rebel groups produced an agreement in principle on the workings of a transitional government.
(AP, 11/24/02)
2002 Nov 24, In Ecuador Lucio Gutierrez (45), who led a Jan 2000 coup against Pres. Jamil Mahuad, was elected over billionaire Alvaro Noboa (52) in a runoff election.
(SSFC, 11/24/02, p.F1)(AP, 11/25/02)(SFC, 11/25/02, p.A3)
2002 Nov 24, In a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Iraqi government complained that the small print behind upcoming weapons inspections would give Washington a pretext to attack.
(AP, 11/24/03)
2002 Nov 24, In Maan, Jordan, one person was killed and several wounded in shootings between officers and crowds who attacked police patrols. The city is home to conservative Bedouin tribesmen who are heavily armed and oppose the government's pro-Western stance and Jordan's 1994 peace treaty with Israel.
(AP, 11/27/02)
2002 Nov 24, In Kashmir militants stormed a Hindu temple and engaged security forces in a 10-hour gunfight that killed 14 people.
(SFC, 11/27/02, p.A17)
2002 Nov 24, Philippine communist rebels killed four soldiers when about 30 rebels opened fire on a military convoy returning to base from a mission.
(Reuters, 11/25/02)
2002 Nov 24, The government of Vietnam estimated AIDS at 107,000 cases and pointed to the estimated 40,000 prostitutes as the chief source. AIDS workers said 70% of the infected were drug users and claimed 200,000 cases.
(SSFC, 11/24/02, p.A3)
2003 Nov 24, Pres. Bush signed a $401.3 billion Pentagon spending bill. The president then traveled to Fort Carson, Colo., where he paid tribute to the sacrifices of U.S. troops in Iraq.
(WSJ, 11/25/03, p.A1)(AP, 11/24/08)
2003 Nov 24, A new US FCC regulation allowed cell phone users to transfer their numbers to a different carrier beginning today.
(SFC, 11/24/03, p.A1)
2003 Nov 24, The US Dept. of Commerce said it would impose tariffs on Chinese-made television sets that it ruled were being sold below fair market price in the US.
(SFC, 11/27/03, p.C3)
2003 Nov 24, A Virginia jury decided that John Allen Muhammad, convicted of masterminding the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington DC region, should be executed.
(SFC, 11/25/03, p.A3)
2003 Nov 24, Warner Music was born when Edgar Bronfman Jr. and a group of investors paid $2.6 billion for Time Warner’s music division. In 2011 oil magnate Len Blavatnik agreed to pay $3.3 billion for Warner Music Group.
(Econ, 5/14/11, p.82)
2003 Nov 24, Warren Spahn (82), the Hall of Fame pitcher who won more games than any other left-hander in history, died in Broken Arrow, Ok.
(AP, 11/24/03)
2003 Nov 24, British PM Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac confronted the sensitive issue of European defense and in a show of unity announced plans for a small rapid-reaction force of EU peacekeepers.
(AP, 11/24/03)
2003 Nov 24, The Croatian Nationalist Democratic Union (HDZ), which led the drive to independence and later into isolation, began negotiating with potential partners to form a new government after winning parliamentary elections.
(AP, 11/24/03)
2003 Nov 24, The US-appointed government raided the offices of Al-Arabiya television, banned its broadcasts from Iraq for broadcasting an audiotape a week ago of a voice it said belonged to Saddam Hussein.
(AP, 11/24/03)
2003 Nov 24, Gunmen in Mosul ambushed US soldiers on patrol with a roadside bomb then opened fire on them, wounding one.
(AP, 11/24/03)
2003 Nov 24, In Russia an early-morning fire raced through a Moscow dormitory packed with students from Africa, Asia and Latin America, killing at least 32 people and injuring 139. The toll climbed to 42 with the death of a Chinese student who suffered serious burns.
(AP, 11/24/03)(AP, 12/18/03)
2004 Nov 24, Arthur Hailey (b.1920), author of the 1968 novel “Airport," died in the Bahamas.
(SFC, 11/26/04, p.B3)
2004 Nov 24, In southern Afghanistan a bomb exploded near a US patrol, killing two American soldiers and wounding another.
(AP, 11/24/04)
2004 Nov 24, The US military ended a 9-year peacekeeping role in Bosnia but kept on a small contingent to hunt down top war crimes suspects Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic.
(AP, 11/24/04)
2004 Nov 24, Canada’s PM Paul Martin visited Burkina Faso. Canada is investing about $20 million in a Basic Education Plan to pump $140 million into building schools across the country.
(AP, 11/24/04)
2004 Nov 24, In Fallujah the US military uncovered the largest arms cache yet inside the mosque of an insurgent leader. 5 Arab foreign fighters who had escaped from Fallujah were arrested near southern Basra. They were planning to attack coalition bases and police stations.
(AP, 11/25/04)
2004 Nov 24, An Iraqi woman, working as a translator, was shot and killed by 2 US soldiers playing with a firearm. In 2005 Spc. Charley Hooser was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and Spc. Rami Dajani of accessory after the fact.
(SSFC, 1/23/05, p.A5)
2004 Nov 24, President Jacques Chirac arrived in Libya in the first ever visit by a French head of state.
(AP, 11/24/04)
2004 Nov 24, Paraguayan police captured Ivan Mezquita, a leading Brazilian drug trafficking suspect, after a gunbattle with occupants of a cocaine-laden plane near the border with Brazil.
(AP, 11/25/04)
2004 Nov 24, The UN mission said Rwanda has warned it will launch an attack "very soon" on Rwandan Hutu rebels sheltering in eastern Congo.
(AP, 11/24/04)
2004 Nov 24, Ukraine's election commission declared Viktor Yanukovych, the Kremlin-backed prime minister, as winner. Ukraine's opposition called for a new round of presidential elections to resolve the political crisis gripping the nation. EU leaders, alleging fraud, warned of "consequences" if the poll was not reviewed.
(AP, 11/24/04)
2004 Nov 24, Venezuela’s Congress passed a bill that lays down strict guidelines for sex and violence in broadcast programming and threatens multimillion dollar fines or even closure for media outlets that disobey.
(AP, 11/25/04)
2005 Nov 24, A giant balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York snagged a street light and caused part of it to fall, injuring a woman and a child.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2005 Nov 24, Actor Pat Morita (73), whose portrayal of the wise and dry-witted Mr. Miyagi in "The Karate Kid" (1984) earned him an Oscar nomination, died at his home in Las Vegas.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 24, In Canada opposition parties introduced a no-confidence motion that is expected to topple PM Paul Martin's government and force a parliamentary election campaign during the Christmas holidays.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, Former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet was indicted on human rights charges and placed under house arrest, hours after he made bail on unrelated corruption charges filed only a day earlier.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, A man in south China was sentenced to death for leading a gang that kidnapped 38 children and sold them to other families for adoption.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 24, In China a slick of river-borne toxins from a chemical plant explosion flowed into Harbin as the government dug wells after shutting down its water system to protect residents. A 50-mile-long patch of water carrying toxic benzene began entering Harbin, a city of 3.8 million people in China's northeast, before dawn. A chemical plant explosion Nov. 13 in the nearby city of Jilin spewed toxic benzene into the Songhua River.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, In southwestern China an explosion at the Yingte Chemical Company in Dianjiang killed one worker. This prompted fears of a 2nd benzene leak and warnings to residents not to drink river water.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 24, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe met with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez to try to help bridge differences in Latin America.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, In southwestern Colombia the Galeras volcano became active at dawn and dumped heaps of ash on the city of Pasto, 12 miles away.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, In Costa Rica thousands of supporters of a free trade pact for Central America marched through San Jose. The group of about 5,000 mainly workers and business owners urged Congress to approve the pact known as CAFTA.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, Indonesia expelled Sidney Jones, an American expert on Southeast Asian terrorist networks for one year, saying her activities could cause public disorder.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 24, In central Iraq a suicide car bomber targeting US troops handing out toys to children at a hospital killed 34 people, including 4 police guards, 3 women and 2 children.
(AP, 11/24/05)(Reuters, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, A suicide car bomber attacked a crowded market in Hilla, south of Baghdad, on Thursday killing at least 4 people and wounding 23 others.
(Reuters, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, In Israel Ariel Sharon's fledgling political party "Forward" officially registered itself.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, The anti-terror bureau of PM Ariel Sharon's office issued an unprecedented alert, warning that Hezbollah has launched an effort to kidnap Israelis anywhere in the world.
(AP, 11/26/05)
2005 Nov 24, Iyad Abu Rob, a top Islamic Jihad militant, surrendered to Israeli soldiers in Jenin. In a separate operation, 2 wanted men surrendered after Israeli troops surrounded two houses in the village of Kfar Kalil near Nablus. Another man was shot, but his condition was not known.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, Japan finalized an agreement to forgive $6.1 billion of Iraqi debt, or about 80% of the total owed by Baghdad.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, Jordan's King Abdullah II named Marouf al-Bakhit as the new prime minister hours after the resignation of Adnan Badran. The king urged the new PM to launch an all-out war against Islamic militancy in the wake of the triple hotel bombings earlier this month that killed 63 people.
(AP, 11/24/05)(SFC, 11/25/05, p.A3)
2005 Nov 24, In Northern Ireland Abbas Boutrab (32), an Algerian man, was convicted of possessing information on making a concealed bomb that could be used to blow up a commercial airliner. Police initially arrested Boutrab in 2003 on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, Peruvian lawmakers voted to trim a hefty year-end bonus, bowing to public outrage in one of Latin America's poorest countries.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, In Peru 16 people were killed when a passenger bus plunged into a river.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, Russia’s Pres. Putin vowed to make sure a controversial bill tightening state control over the nonprofit sector doesn’t harm civil society.
(WSJ, 11/25/05, p.A9)
2005 Nov 24, Serbia's president Boris Tadic formally proposed dividing Kosovo between its independence-seeking Albanian majority and a Serb minority as the chief UN mediator met with government officials.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 24, The UN food agency said the United States has thrown a lifeline to six southern African countries, donating food aid valued at $45 million. The food will be distributed across Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 24, Uzbek authorities arrested Rukhitdin Fahrutdinov (38), an alleged Islamic radical and their most wanted fugitive, who had been hiding out in neighboring Kazakhstan. Human Rights Watch said Fahrutdinov was detained in Shymkent with at least 8 other Uzbek suspects and that all were extradited secretly and forcibly.
(AP, 12/24/05)
2006 Nov 24, The US Dept. of Agriculture declared LL601, an experimental variety of genetically engineered rice, to be safe for human consumption. Bayer Crop-Science designed it to resist Bayer’s Liberty weed killer. It escaped from test plots after the company dropped the project in 2001.
(SFC, 11/25/06, p.A3)
2006 Nov 24, In Chicago a gunman who took his neighbor hostage for 23 hours over Thanksgiving ended the standoff by killing the woman and himself.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, In California Richmond police officer Kaliah Ashante Harper was shot and killed by her former boyfriend, Quartus Lee Hinton (28), during a funeral ceremony in Fairfield. Hinton was arrested the next day. In 2008 Hinton was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to 38 years in prison.
(SSFC, 11/26/06, p.B1)(SFC, 7/16/08, p.B6)(SFC, 11/1/08, p.B3)
2006 Nov 24, Robert McFerrin Sr. (b.1921), opera singer and the father of Grammy-winning conductor-vocalist Bobby McFerrin, died in suburban St. Louis at age 85. He was the first black man to sing as a member of the NY Metropolitan Opera (1955).
(SFC, 11/30/06, p.B7)(AP, 11/24/07)
2006 Nov 24, In Afghanistan US-led coalition troops clashed with Taliban insurgents killing seven of the militants.
(Reuters, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, Authorities cut off broadcasts from Azerbaijan's first independent TV station and ordered the eviction of opposition newspapers and organizations from their offices in the capital, moves government opponents called part of a campaign to silence dissent.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, Canadian police found 22 apartments in a 13-story Toronto building rigged up to grow marijuana with a value of $5 million.
(WSJ, 11/25/06, p.A1)
2006 Nov 24, Chadian rebels rolled into the east of the country in their second offensive within a month against President Idriss Deby Itno. Chad extended a state of emergency for six months in the country's eastern provinces, where ethnic clashes have killed as many as 400 people and raised fears that Sudan's Darfur conflict is spilling across the border.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, In southern Chile a twin-engine plane crashed, killing the Chilean pilot and five Brazilian tourists.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, China signed a five-year free trade pact with Pakistan, promised to continue joint development of nuclear energy, and pledged to play a "constructive" role in resolving disputes between Pakistan and neighboring rival India.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, France said it will give Tanzania 46 million euros (60 million dollars) to fund development projects in the east African nation over the next five years.
(AFP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, Shiite militiamen grabbed six Sunnis during worship services, doused them with kerosene and burned them alive. Iraqi soldiers at a nearby army post failed to intervene in the assault by suspected members of the Shiite Mahdi Army militia or subsequent attacks that killed a total of 25 Sunnis, including women and children. Another 87 people were killed or found dead in sectarian violence across Iraq. A US Marine died from wounds sustained while fighting in Anbar province.
(AP, 11/24/06)(AP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 24, In Lebanon factories, banks and schools closed on orders from business leaders, who demanded a resolution to the political crisis before it spirals into wider violence. A cluster bomb left over from Israel's war against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon wounded two members of an international team of land mine-clearing experts.
(AP, 11/24/06)(AP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 24, In Lesotho Samuella Jacobina Verwey (36), a Dutch aid worker with the Clinton Foundation, was shot to death at the house of Mpho Malie, Lesotho's trade and industry minister. Malie is seen as a major contender for the leadership of the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy after the current leader, PM Pakalitha Mosisili, quits.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 24, Michael Stone (51), a Protestant extremist, triggered a panicked evacuation of the Northern Ireland Assembly. He was charged the next day with attempting to murder 4 people. In 2008 Stone was found guilty of trying to murder Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness at the Northern Ireland Assembly. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
(AP, 11/25/06)(AP, 11/14/08)(AFP, 12/8/08)
2006 Nov 24, Police said Pakistan has handed over 240 suspected Taliban fighters to Afghan authorities this week as a hunt for the Islamist militants continues in the country's southwest.
(Reuters, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, PM Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said that Palestinian factions had agreed to halt rocket fire if Israel reciprocates by stopping its military offensives in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel rejected the offer, saying it would respond positively only to a total truce.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, Panama’s government said heavy rains and flooding have left at least eight people dead and damaged hundreds of homes.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, A Defense Ministry official said Russia has begun delivery of Tor-M1 air defense missile systems to Iran, confirming that Moscow would proceed with arms deals with Tehran in spite of Western criticism.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, Rwanda cut diplomatic ties with France and gave France's ambassador to Rwanda 24 hours to leave the central African country. This was in response to a French judge’s call for President Paul Kagame to stand trial over the 1994 killing of a former leader, sparking the genocide of 800,000 people.
(Reuters, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, Taiwan's president won a reprieve when opposition lawmakers failed for the third time to muster enough support for a referendum on removing him from office.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, In Thailand attackers shot a school principal, and then set his body on fire. The principal became the 59th teacher or school official killed in three years of violence.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 24, The UN said its investigators have discovered three mass graves at a northeast Congo military camp containing the bodies of 30 people, including women and children, who were allegedly killed by soldiers.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, A UN anti-torture panel said it had credible reports of unofficial detention centers, abuse and disappearances in Russia's restive southern province of Chechnya.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 24, Fishing nations led by Iceland and Russia blocked UN negotiators from imposing a full-fledged ban against destructive bottom trawling on the high seas. After weeks of talks in New York, a United Nations committee that oversees high seas fisheries failed to gain unanimous support this week for ending unregulated bottom trawling.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2007 Nov 24, In southern California a fast-moving wildfire destroyed more than a dozen homes and spread through the canyons and hills above Malibu, forcing dozens of residents to flee ahead of the flames. 53 homes were destroyed with 7 square miles scorched. On Dec 13 authorities arrested five men on allegations they caused the fire which caused over $100 million in losses in Malibu.
(AP, 11/24/07)(SSFC, 11/25/07, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/26/07, p.A1)(AP, 12/14/07)
2007 Nov 24, Beginning today and continuing for less than a week, bad guys loaded up more than 40,000 Web pages with malicious software and thousands of common search terms. The culprits' use of botnets to push a dark form of SEO (search-engine optimization), called a "Google bomb," to boost their sites' Google rankings.
(www.pcworld.com/article/id,141796/article.html)(PCWorld, 1/28/08)
2007 Nov 24, A Taliban suicide bomber killed eight people, including three children and an Italian military engineer, when he blew himself up in a scenic town near Kabul. Insurgents attacked police in the Pathan district and were targeted by airstrikes from NATO or coalition helicopters. The bodies of 69 dead militants were said to be left in the area. Among those killed were four Taliban who were traveling with two cars full of explosives and ammunition.
(AFP, 11/24/07)(AP, 11/25/07)
2007 Nov 24, In Australia conservative PM John Howard suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of the left-leaning opposition. Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd has promised to immediately sign the Kyoto Protocol on global warming and withdraw Australia's combat troops from Iraq.
(AP, 11/24/07)
2007 Nov 24, in southwestern Bangladesh a section of a bridge collapsed under the weight of thousands of hungry cyclone victims rushing toward a relief center. At least 3 people died and dozens were injured.
(Reuters, 11/24/07)
2007 Nov 24, In Bolivia soldiers clashed with students protesting a constitutional assembly in a second day of unrest against the pending legal overhaul. 2 people died in the violence.
(AP, 11/25/07)(WSJ, 11/26/07, p.A1)
2007 Nov 24, Robert Knipstrom (36) of British Columbia man died four days after police used a Taser stun-gun on him because he reportedly was acting erratically in a store. He was the third person to die in recent weeks in Canada after being shocked by the hand-held weapon.
(AP, 11/25/07)
2007 Nov 24, Full service was restored on the Paris Metro and most French trains were running after transport workers ended a crippling strike so that talks on pension reform could run their course.
(AP, 11/24/07)
2007 Nov 24, In India protesting tea plantation workers in the remote northeast clashed with area residents, in violence that left six people dead and 60 others injured. A group of nearly 10,000 workers from tea plantations all over the state of Assam, led by the All Assam Tea Tribes Students Association, had been marching in the state capital of Gauhati to demand that the government recognize them as a separate tribal group.
(AP, 11/24/07)
2007 Nov 24, In central Indonesia a fire on a crowded passenger bus killed 12 people, including three children.
(AP, 11/24/07)
2007 Nov 24, In Iraq a US operation near Samarra killed 10 suspected Sunni militants. In the same area 2 men who were confronted in a vehicle detonated a suicide vest leaving both dead.
(SFC, 11/26/07, p.A18)
2007 Nov 24, Lebanon awoke a republic without a president amid mounting worries over a power vacuum that has intensified the nation's yearlong political turmoil.
(AP, 11/24/07)
2007 Nov 24, Militants struck at the heart of Pakistan's security establishment, killing up to 35 people in suicide attacks on a checkpoint outside army headquarters and a bus carrying intelligence agency employees. The attacks in Rawalpindi coincided with the announcement that Nawaz Sharif, a former prime minister overthrown in 1999 by the country's current military leader Gen. Pervez Musharraf, would return from exile the next day.
(AP, 11/24/07)
2007 Nov 24, Russian police in Moscow detained opposition leader and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov and several other anti-Kremlin protesters when thousands of people marched against President Vladimir Putin.
(Reuters, 11/24/07)
2007 Nov 24, In Somalia Nur Hassan Hussein (1938-2020) became prime minister. He led negotiations with insurgents that led to a peace agreement in mid-2008.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nur_Hassan_Hussein)(SSFC, 4/5/20, p.A3)
2007 Nov 24, South Korea's first bird flu outbreak in eight months forced the slaughter of thousands of ducks in the country's south. The government said the deadly H5N1 virus was not involved.
(AP, 11/24/07)
2007 Nov 24, More than 100 Chinese engineers arrived in Sudan's war-torn Darfur as part of the vanguard for a joint African Union-UN peacekeeping mission to be in place next year. Rebels demanded Beijing pull its peacekeepers out of Darfur, just hours after a unit of Chinese army engineers arrived.
(AFP, 11/24/07)(AP, 11/25/07)
2007 Nov 24, Pope Benedict XVI elevated 23 churchmen from around the world to the top ranks of the Catholic Church hierarchy, telling them they must be willing to shed their blood to spread the Christian faith.
(AP, 11/24/07)
2008 Nov 24, The Bush administration, after a long legal battle, agreed to send Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden’s driver, home to Yemen. Hamdan was transferred to Yemen the next day.
(WSJ, 11/25/08, p.A1)(AP, 11/26/08)
2008 Nov 24, The US government won a terrorism conviction against Texas-based Holy Land, what had been the nation's largest Muslim charity, and five of its leaders for funneling millions of dollars to the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Holy Land supporters accused the government of politicizing the case as part of its war on terrorism, while attorneys for the foundation said Holy Land's mission was philanthropy and providing aid to the Middle East.
(AP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 24, Delaware’s Gov. Ruth Ann Miner named Edward Kaufman, a former aide to Sen. Joe Biden, to fill the Senate seat Biden was leaving for the vice presidency.
(SFC, 11/25/08, p.A14)
2008 Nov 24, Cecil Underwood (b.1922), former 2-time governor of West Virginia, died. He won his first term in 1956 to become the state’s youngest governor. In 1996 he was elected again and became the state’s oldest governor.
(SFC, 11/25/08, p.B4)
2008 Nov 24, In eastern Afghanistan US troops killed six militants and detained 12 others in two operations.
(AP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 24, Bhutan opened its 4th annual Gross National Happiness (GNH) conference.
(SFC, 12/4/08, p.A1)
2008 Nov 24, China's President Hu Jintao arrived in Greece for a three-day visit timed to coincide with the signing of a 831.2 million euro ($1 billion) port deal.
(AP, 11/24/08)
2008 Nov 24, Congolese soldiers went on an overnight looting and shooting spree in a sprawling Congolese refugee camp, stealing from hungry and traumatized people who have fled fighting in the country's east.
(AP, 11/24/08)
2008 Nov 24, A Haitian teen shot and killed a classmate in a rare outbreak of school violence in the troubled country.
(AP, 11/24/08)
2008 Nov 24, The National Bank of Hungary cut its key interest rate by half a percentage point to an annual rate of 11% to support the economy amid the global financial crisis.
(AP, 11/24/08)
2008 Nov 24, In Indonesia health workers and rights activists sharply criticized a plan by lawmakers in remote Papua province, who have thrown their support behind a controversial bill requiring some HIV/AIDS patients to be implanted with microchips, part of extreme efforts to monitor the disease.
(AP, 11/24/08)
2008 Nov 24, In Iraq a female suicide bomber blew herself up near an entrance to the US-protected Green Zone killing 7 people. A bomb tore through a minibus carrying Iraqi government employees and killed at least 13 people, most of them women. Three more people were killed in bomb attacks on police patrols in Baghdad and Baqouba. An American soldier died of noncombat-related causes in Diyala province.
(AP, 11/24/08)(AP, 11/25/08)(SFC, 11/25/08, p.A13)
2008 Nov 24, Adel Hussein was sentenced six months in jail by a court in Irbil, capital of the Kurdish-ruled region, for violating a public decency law by writing a story about homosexuality. The case centered on an April 2007 article Hussein wrote for the independent weekly Hawlati that detailed the physical effects of homosexual sex.
(AP, 12/3/08)
2008 Nov 24, Malaysia released suspected terrorist Yazid Sufaat, an alleged biological weapons expert who was also linked to the September 11 attacks in the United States.
(AFP, 12/10/08)
2008 Nov 24, North Korea detailed plans to radically curtail ties with South Korea, announcing the end of daily cross-border train service and tours of a historic city in response to what it called Seoul's "confrontational" policy.
(AP, 11/24/08)
2008 Nov 24, In Pakistan government forces killed 15 militants in the Swat valley. An official said a two-week operation to secure the frontier city of Peshawar, which sits on a key supply route for US and NATO troops in Afghanistan, killed 25 suspected militants.
(AP, 11/24/08)(SFC, 11/25/08, p.A13)
2008 Nov 24, Pakistan, the front-line country in the battle against Islamist terrorism, won final approval for a $7.6 billion loan from the IMF to help stave off a possible economic meltdown.
(AP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 24, Gazans crowded into banks to withdraw money amid a worsening currency shortage resulting from Israeli sanctions.
(WSJ, 11/25/08, p.A1)
2008 Nov 24, Shipping officials from around the world called for a military blockade along the coast of Somalia to intercept pirate vessels heading out to sea.
(AP, 11/24/08)
2008 Nov 24, In Thailand thousands of anti-government protesters fanned out across Bangkok, causing Parliament to shut down and forcing a group of riot police to retreat in what the activists called their final bid to oust a corrupt administration.
(AP, 11/24/08)
2009 Nov 24, President Barack Obama showered praise on India and PM Manmohan Singh in an elaborate welcoming ceremony, declaring it was only fitting the Indian leader should be the first state visitor of his administration. Virginia couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, met Pres. Obama in the receiving line of the state dinner for PM Singh. A "deeply concerned and embarrassed" Secret Service later acknowledged that its officers never checked whether the two were on the guest list before letting them onto the White House grounds.
(AP, 11/24/09)(AP, 11/28/09)
2009 Nov 24, In Alaska the Catholic diocese of Fairbanks and representatives of almost 300 alleged victims of sex abuse by clergy agreed on a settlement of almost $10 million.
(SFC, 11/25/09, p.A4)
2009 Nov 24, Afghanistan’s attorney general's office said 15 current and former Afghan ministers are under investigation over allegations of corruption that have plagued the government of President Hamid Karzai.
(AP, 11/24/09)
2009 Nov 24, Lloyds launched the country's largest-ever rights issue to raise 13.5 billion pounds from existing shareholders.
(AFP, 11/24/09)
2009 Nov 24, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gave a welcoming bear hug Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and urged Western nations to drop threats of punishment over the Iranian nuclear program and instead negotiate a fair solution.
(AP, 11/24/09)
2009 Nov 24, Rio de Janeiro's posh beach neighborhoods lost power for hours in sweltering summer weather, prompting restaurants to toss out spoiled food and business owners to send employees home.
(AP, 11/24/09)
2009 Nov 24, China executed Zhang Yujun and Geng Jinping for their roles in a contaminated milk powder scandal last year that led to the deaths of at least six infants and sickened up to 300,000.
(AFP, 11/24/09)
2009 Nov 24, A report was leaked on the UN’s peacekeeping mission in the CongoDRC, better known as MONUC. The report alleged collusion between peacekeepers and Congo’s army to help various rebel groups in exchange for cash and access to mineral wealth.
(Econ, 11/28/09, p.54)(http://congosiasa.blogspot.com/2009/11/leak-un-expert-report.html)
2009 Nov 24, Iran released on $500,000 bail prominent reformist Mohammad Atrianfar who has been convicted in connection with street protests after June's disputed presidential election.
(AFP, 11/24/09)(AP, 11/24/09)
2009 Nov 24, Iran said it was ready to exchange its low-enriched uranium with a higher enriched material, but only on its own soil, to guarantee the West follows through with promises to give the fuel.
(AFP, 11/24/09)
2009 Nov 24, Israel carried out three airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, targeting a weapons-manufacturing facility and weapons smuggling tunnels. They came in response to two rockets Palestinian militants fired at southern Israel from Gaza a day earlier. Gaza's Islamic Hamas rulers reported that two of the group's militants were killed when a rocket they were handling blew up prematurely.
(AP, 11/24/09)
2009 Nov 24, In Italy prostitute Patrizia D'Addario’s memoir, "Gradisca, Presidente," (At Your Pleasure, Premier), went on sale. In it she claimed that she had slept with Premier Silvio Berlusconi on the understanding he would help her set up a countryside inn but that she got "nothing" in return.
(AP, 11/24/09)
2009 Nov 24, In Nepal the 2-day Gadhimai festival, celebrated every five years, was attended by many Hindus from India as well as Nepal. More than 200,000 buffaloes, pigs, goats, chickens and pigeons were expected to be slaughtered this year.
(AP, 11/20/09)(AP, 11/24/09)
2009 Nov 24, Pakistan’s government offered peacemaking proposals to separatists in Baluchistan, including an end to military operations and a payment of $1.4 billion to the province in increased gas royalties.
(Econ, 11/28/09, p.29)
2009 Nov 24, In Thailand Samak Sundaravej (74), a firebrand right-wing politician and TV cooking show host who served a brief and tumultuous term last year as prime minister, died of cancer.
(AP, 11/24/09)(Econ, 12/5/09, p.96)
2010 Nov 24, In Virginia 5 Somali men, accused of attacking the USS Nicholas on April 1, were convicted on federal piracy charges. On March 14, 2011, the 5 men were sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC, 11/25/10, p.A19)(SFC, 3/15/11, p.A4)
2010 Nov 24, Former US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, once one of the most powerful and feared Republicans in Congress, was convicted on charges he illegally funneled corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002.
(AP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 24, The US Federal Transit Administration sent an invoice to New Jersey for some $271 million for work done on the cancelled $8.7 billion Hudson River rail tunnel connecting the state with NY.
(SFC, 11/30/10, p.A9)
2010 Nov 24, In California Rep. Steve Cooley conceded defeat to Dem. Kamala Harris for the office of attorney general. Harris became the state’s first woman, the first African American and the first Indian American in California history to be elected as state attorney general.
(SFC, 11/24/10, p.A1)
2010 Nov 24, In southern California Carlie Rose Attebury (31), a former El Modena High School high school band teacher, was convicted of 4 counts stemming from her sexual relationship with a boy (15).
(SFC, 11/26/10, p.A6)(http://tinyurl.com/2g9r229)
2010 Nov 24, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it had closed 4,200 square miles/10,880 square kms of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico to royal red shrimping after a commercial shrimper discovered tar balls in his net.
(Reuters, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, Afghan election officials announced final vote totals for 33 of 34 provinces. 1.3m of 5.6m ballots were discarded for fraud and 19 candidates were disqualified for cheating. The top prosecutor announced a new investigation into allegations of ballot manipulation, potentially dealing another setback to a fraud-marred parliamentary election just as many had hoped a declaration of final results would allow the country to move on. Emerging opposition leader Abdullah Abdullah said that more than 90 of his supporters had won seats in parliament, following the announcement of certified results. Abdul Hadi, a Taliban leader, was killed when he pulled a pistol on Afghan and NATO forces who were trying to arrest him during a raid in the Khogyani district of Ghazni province.
(AP, 11/24/10)(AFP, 11/24/10)(AP, 11/25/10)(SFC, 11/26/10, p.A5)(Econ, 11/27/10, p.50)
2010 Nov 24, Australia said that a Thai-owned oil firm's "widespread and systematic shortcomings" caused the worst offshore drilling accident in the country's history, which created a massive oil slick. Thousands of barrels of oil gushed into the sea from a damaged well after a blow out on the West Atlas rig on August 21, 2009, prompting the evacuation of workers.
(AFP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, In Brazil heavily armed men halted buses and cars, robbed their passengers and set the vehicles ablaze in Rio de Janeiro, continuing a wave of violence that has rattled rich and poor alike. Police raided gang-ruled shantytowns, setting off clashes that killed 14 people as authorities tried to halt a wave of violent crime.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, In Britain a student mob attacked a police van in central London as violence marred a second mass protest in the last fortnight against the government's plans to triple university fees.
(AFP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, In the Central African Republic rebels killed four soldiers and captured an unknown number of troops in an attack on Birao, the main town of northern CAR.
(AFP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 24, In Egypt hundreds of Christians smashed cars and windows in Cairo and clashed with police in protests over the halt in the construction of a church that left one person dead in Giza's Omraniya neighborhood. A 2nd person died of injuries on Nov 26. The Coptic community said authorities in Egypt are reluctant to approve permits to build churches. Egypt’s attorney general decided to hold the 156 protesters for 15 days on suspicion of inciting the riots.
(AP, 11/24/10)(Reuters, 11/25/10)(AP, 11/26/10)
2010 Nov 24, In Guatemala Francisco Dall'Anese, the head of a special UN-backed commission (CICIG) prosecuting high crimes there, accused the government of sabotaging efforts to bring back Carlos Vielmann, a former interior minister, on charges of ordering extrajudicial killings of prison inmates. On Nov 23 a Spanish judge freed Vielmann from prison.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, In India Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's National Democratic Alliance won 206 seats in the 243-seat Bihar assembly, a huge jump from the 143 seats it controlled in the last assembly. Bihar's reputation as one of India's most crime-ridden states forced officials to hold the elections in six phases over a month to allow the limited police force to protect the polls.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, In India a local official said the northern Lank village council in Uttar Pradesh state has banned unmarried women from using cell phones for fear they will arrange forbidden marriages that are often punished by death.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, In India police arrested eight people, including senior executives of leading state banks, in Mumbai on accusations of taking bribes of more than 200 million dollars to smooth large corporate loans to builders. Those arrested include the chief executive of LIC Housing Finance, India's second largest housing loan firm, as well as executives of the Bank of India, Central Bank of India and Punjab National Bank.
(AFP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 24, In India police in the central state of Chhattisgarh arrested 11 people including a "witchdoctor" and his wife after the body of a boy (2) was discovered in their house. Further searches of the property in the industrial town of Bhilai, about 45 km (30 miles) from state capital Raipur, revealed the skeletal remains of a second victim, a girl (6). The accused man had confessed to killing both children to acquire "occult power and good fortune."
(AFP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 24, Indonesian Muslim cleric Pujiono Cahyo Widianto (46), who sparked a national outcry by marrying a 12-year-old girl, was sentenced to four years in prison.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, In Iraq a roadside bomb killed four people in the town of Shurqat, 155 miles (250 km) northwest of Baghdad.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, Ireland set out a four-year plan, aiming to make 15 billion euros worth of savings to bring down its record deficit.
(Reuters, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, A court in southern Kyrgyzstan sentenced 17 people to life in jail for violence that wracked the region in June. Judge Damirbek Nazarov ruled the men killed 16 people on the highway linking the south with the capital, Bishkek. All defendants in the trial that ended the previous day were ethnic Uzbeks. International rights activists largely agree the Uzbek minority sustained the bulk of the violence that left 370 people dead.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, In southern Mexico Ciro Diaz Sanchez, the mayor of Pueblo Nuevo Solistahuacan, and mayor-elect Pedro Bautista, disappeared after Mexico's army detained members of the municipal police force and other local officials on suspicion they were working for a drug cartel. The two, both members of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, went missing ahead of searches of their houses, which turned up high-caliber weapons and two stolen cars at Bautista's.
(AP, 11/26/10)
2010 Nov 24, A Mexican air force cargo plane crashed at Monterrey International Airport killing five military personnel.
(AP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 24, In New Zealand a second explosion occurred in the Pike River mine, almost exactly five days after the first blast there. All 29 workers missing underground were believed to have died after a second explosion.
(SFC, 11/24/10, p.A2)
2010 Nov 24, Nigeria said it has seized another illegal arms shipment at its main port, including pistols and military vehicles, weeks after the discovery of a weapons cache sent from Iran. The military items which were packed inside a vehicle painted in army green. The illegal arms shipment came from Belgium through Germany,
(AFP, 11/24/10)(AFP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 24, In northwestern Pakistan one soldier was killed and another wounded when a roadside bomb exploded during a foot patrol in South Waziristan.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, Portuguese labor unions mounted a general strike, pressing the government to scrap austerity measures intended to ward off a debt crisis spreading through the euro zone.
(Reuters, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, In Somalia Bashir Ahmed Abdi (51), a Minneapolis-based Somali lawyer, was shot dead in Mogadishu. Relative Abdirahman Moalin said he was driving Abdi to a meeting in Mogadishu when a single shot fired from what looked like a government pickup truck hit Abdi beneath his shoulder, killing him instantly.
(AP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 24, Sudan's south accused the northern army of carrying out an airstrike on an army base in southern Sudan in an attempt to derail a January 9 referendum on southern independence.
(Reuters, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, Emirati (UAR) leaders prepared a lavish welcome for Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, who is making her first state visit in more than 30 years to a country with deep British ties.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, The UN human rights office says a new international treaty against enforced disappearances will come into effect on Dec. 23 after Iraq became the 20th country to ratify it. The 2006 International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance declares widespread or systematic kidnappings a crime against humanity. The US has not signed the treaty.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, The Vatican denounced China for ordaining a bishop without papal consent, accusing the government-backed church of gravely damaging the faith and warning that the bishop risked excommunication. The Vatican also accused Chinese authorities of committing "grave violations of freedom of religion and conscience" by forcing Vatican-approved bishops to attend the ordination ceremony of Rev. Joseph Guo Jincai.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 24, In Yemen a suicide car bomber struck a convoy of Shiites on their way to a religious ceremony, killing at least 17 and wounding more than 15 people. Al-Qaida was suspected though it would be the extremist organization's first reported direct assault on the country's Shiite minority.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2011 Nov 24, The body of alleged Mafia boss Salvatore Montagna, who US authorities said once led New York's notorious Bonanno crime family, was fished out from a river north of Montreal.
(AP, 11/25/11)
2011 Nov 24, Pres. Karzai accused NATO-led international forces of killing 7 civilians, most of them children, in an air strike in the southern province of Kandahar. At least 10 Afghan security guards were killed when Taliban militants ambushed a logistics convoy destined for NATO forces in Farah province. Pres. Karzai nominated Noorullah Delawari to head the central bank.
(AP, 11/24/11)(AFP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Belarus' leading human rights activist, Ales Belyatsky (49), was convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to 4.5 years in prison at a trial condemned by US and European Union officials as politically motivated.
(AP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Bosnian police said they have discovered around 1.5 million pornographic images of children on the computer of a man they suspect of blackmailing United States citizens with money transfers amounting to some $3000.
(AP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Egypt's military rulers said that parliamentary elections will start on schedule next week despite escalating unrest and they rejected protesters' calls for them to immediately step down. A court ordered the release of 3 American university students arrested on Nov 21. Mona Eltahawy (44), a prominent Egyptian-born US columnist, was sexually assaulted by local police, who beat and blindfolded her after she was detained near Tahrir Square during clashes, leaving her left arm and right hand broken and in casts.
(AP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, The EU said that protecting civilians caught up in Syria's crackdown on anti-government protests "is an increasingly urgent and important aspect" of responding to the bloodshed there. At least three more people were killed by Syrian security forces. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees said 15 defectors were either killed or wounded in clashes near Rastan. 6 elite pilots and 4 technical officers were killed in an ambush in Homs. The Arab League gave Syria 24 hours to agree to an observer mission or face sanctions.
(AP, 11/24/11)(AP, 11/25/11)
2011 Nov 24, Gambia, continental Africa's smallest country, held elections. Voters popped a glass marble into a colored drum representing their candidate. President Yahya Jammeh (46) was widely expected to win a fourth term in office. The 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) withdrew from observing the poll after a fact-finding mission. Jammeh won with 72% of the vote.
(AFP, 11/24/11)(SFC, 11/26/11, p.A2)
2011 Nov 24, India's cabinet cleared a plan to throw open the nation's huge retail sector to global supermarket chains in a reform that could herald a consumer revolution. It also raised the foreign investment cap to 100% from 51% at present for single-brand retail operations.
(AFP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, India’s West Bengal police killed Koteswara Rao (58), better known as Kishenji, one of the nation’s most wanted Maoist guerrillas in a major blow to the armed leftwing insurgency which has spread across a wide swathe of the country.
(AFP, 11/24/11)(Econ, 12/3/11, p.52)
2011 Nov 24, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported that Iran has arrested 12 agents of the American Central Intelligence Agency. Parviz Sorouri, a member of the powerful parliamentary committee on foreign policy and national security, said the alleged agents were operating in coordination with Israel's Mossad and other regional agencies, targeting the country's military and its nuclear program.
(AP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Iraq executed 16 Al-Qaeda members convicted of involvement in the massacre of 70 people at a wedding in 2006, although they were officially put to death for other murders. A string of bombings in Basra killed 19 people.
(AFP, 11/24/11)(SFC, 11/25/11, p.A7)
2011 Nov 24, Israeli ministers decided, for the time being, to maintain a freeze on the transfer of tens of millions of dollars in tax monies to the Palestinian Authority. This followed hours after Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas held top-level talks with Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal at which they announced a new era of "partnership."
(AFP, 11/25/11)
2011 Nov 24, Israeli women's rights activists marched through Tel Aviv carrying black coffins to raise awareness about domestic violence in Israel, which so far this year has claimed 24 women's lives.
(AFP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, A Jordanian prosecutor said the country's military court has freed 22 suspected Islamists on bail as a goodwill gesture. It brings up the total number of freed Salafis to 37. They were part of 103 Salafis on trial on charges of terrorism and stabbing policemen with swords during an April protest.
(AP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Kenya said its warplanes destroyed two Islamist insurgent bases in neighboring Somalia. Two grenade attacks in the eastern town of Garissa close to the border with Somalia killed three people and injured 27.
(AFP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Lebanon’s PM Najib Mikati threatened to resign should his Hezbollah-dominated cabinet refuse to fund a UN court probing the murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri.
(AFP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Madagascar's former Pres. Didier Ratsiraka returned home, ending a 9-year exile in France, and urged reconciliation to resolve the country's long-running political crisis.
(AFP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Malaysian PM Najib Razak repealed another security law, setting the stage for hundreds detained without trial to be freed or face criminal charges.
(AFP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, The UN human rights chief urged the Maldives to end the "degrading" practice of flogging women found to have had sex outside marriage. The country of 300,000 people forbids practicing religions other than Islam.
(AP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, In Mali a gang kidnapped two French geologists at gunpoint from their hotel in the eastern desert village of Hombori. The body of geologist Philippe Verdon was found and identified in July, 2013. Serge Lazarevic was freed on Dec 9, 2014.
(AFP, 11/24/11)(Reuters, 7/14/13)(SFC, 12/10/14, p.A3)
2011 Nov 24, In Mexico the bound and gagged bodies of 26 young men were discovered in vehicles abandoned in the heart of Guadalajara, Mexico's second-largest city. Evidence identified the assassins as being from the Zetas and a smaller, allied gang, the Milenio Cartel.
(AP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Myanmar's Parliament approved a law guaranteeing the right to protest, one of a series of reforms under the new elected government.
(AP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, In Nigeria Muslim and Christian groups said 12 more people are dead after an apparent reprisal clash in the Barkin Ladi area near the city of Jos.
(AFP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Pakistani police in Karachi arrested Zainab Bibi (32), a woman who had killed her husband and was attempting to cook his body parts after he planned to marry another woman without her permission.
(AFP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Mashaal, chief of the Islamic militant Hamas, said they significantly narrowed differences and opened a new page in relations in reconciliation talks in Cairo.
(AP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Portugal’s credit rating was downgraded to junk status and a major strike gave voice to broad public outrage over austerity measures that have squeezed living standards.
(SFC, 11/25/11, p.A8)
2011 Nov 24, Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry said minority Shiite Muslims have staged protests in the eastern city of Qatif, and four were shot dead. Shiites make up 10 percent of the kingdom's 23 million citizens and complain of discrimination.
(AP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, In Tunisia an overnight curfew was declared across the central mining region of Gafsa, in the wake of violence that began late Wednesday over job hiring.
(AFP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Uganda ruled that Heritage Oil must pay a $404 million tax bill, dismissing an appeal by the UK-listed company. Heritage argues it is not liable to pay tax in the country on the $1.45 billion sale last year of stakes in two oil blocks in western Uganda to Anglo-Irish firm Tullow Oil. Uganda in March allowed Tullow to sell two-thirds of its Uganda interests to France's Total and China's CNOOC in a $2.9 billion deal, after Tullow agreed to pay over $300 million as security against Heritage's unpaid taxes.
(AFP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 24, Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh's agreement to step down failed to end violence as security forces killed five protesters demanding that the ousted leader be put on trial for past crimes ranging from corruption to bloodshed during the current uprising.
(AP, 11/24/11)
2012 Nov 24, In Afghanistan a fight between Shiite and Sunni students broke out at Kabul Univ. killing one student and injuring six others. Classes were postponed for 10 days.
(AP, 11/24/12)
2012 Nov 24, In Bangladesh a fire raced through the seven-story factory operated by Tazreen Fashions just outside of Dhaka. 112 people were killed including 12 people who had suffered injuries after jumping from the building to escape the fire. On Dec 31, 2013, a court issued arrest warrants for two of the factory owners and four employees on homicide charges. The two owners, Delwar Hossein and his wife Mahmuda Akter, and eleven others were indicted on Sep 3, 2015.
(AP, 11/25/12)(SFC, 1/1/14, p.A3)(SFC, 9/4/15, p.A4)
2012 Nov 24, In China a coal mine accident in the southwest killed 18 workers and trapped five more in the state-owned Xiangshui coalmine in Guizhou province.
(AP, 11/24/12)
2012 Nov 24, Egypt's highest body of judges slammed a recent decision by the president to grant himself near-absolute power, calling the move an "unprecedented assault" on the judiciary. Several hundred protesters remained in Cairo's Tahrir Square, where a number of tents have been erected in a sit-in following nearly a week of clashes with riot police.
(AP, 11/24/12)
2012 Nov 24, In western France protesters squatting in treetop tents and makeshift shelters battled for a 2nd day with French riot police trying to expel them from the site of a planned airport near Nantes.
(AP, 11/24/12)
2012 Nov 24, India began issuing Chinese citizens visas embossed with maps of India showing all territories claimed by New Delhi. The move was in response to China’s newly revised passports that show disputed territory near their shared border as part of China.
(SSFC, 11/25/12, p.A6)
2012 Nov 24, Israel's Shin Bet internal security arrested Azzam Mashahara, a Palestinian man of East Jerusalem, for relaying information to Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon about sensitive government sites, including parliament.
(AP, 11/25/12)
2012 Nov 24, In Italy a car was struck by a train near the southern city of Cosenza. 6 Romanian farm workers were killed.
(SSFC, 11/25/12, p.A6)
2012 Nov 24, Lebanese soldiers raided an apartment in the country's south and arrested five Syrian nationals for possession of explosives.
(AP, 11/24/12)
2012 Nov 24, In Mexico Maria Susana Flores Gamez (20), a Sinaloa state beauty queen, died in a gun battle between soldiers and the alleged gang of drug traffickers with whom she was traveling.
(AP, 11/26/12)
2012 Nov 24, In northwestern Pakistan a roadside bomb killed at least seven people, including three children, and wounded 30 others at a Shiite Muslim procession in Dera Ismail Khan, as minority Shiites prepared to observe the holy day of Ashoura.
(AP, 11/24/12)
2012 Nov 24, Gaza residents said that Israel has eased some border restrictions as part of its truce with the Palestinian territory's Hamas rulers, allowing farmers to visit land near its security fence and letting fishermen head further out to sea.
(AP, 11/24/12)
2012 Nov 24, Russian physicist Valentin Danilov, convicted in 2004 of spying for China, was released on parole and continued to protest his innocence.
(AP, 11/24/12)
2012 Nov 24, Police in South Africa shot dead seven suspected robbers and wounded nine others in a botched theft at an armored car company. A gunfight began as officers tried to arrest the suspects.
(AP, 11/25/12)
2012 Nov 24, In South Africa Christopher Preece (54), a British man, was killed in an attack at his farm near Ficksburg, a town near the border with Lesotho. Preece had gone outside to check to see why the power had been cut at his farm called Fleur des Lis when three men attacked him with machetes. His wife was seriously wounded.
(AP, 11/26/12)
2012 Nov 24, In Thailand some 10,000 royalist protesters of the new Pitak Siam movement, calling for Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra to step down, rallied in the heart of Bangkok, clashing with police in the first major demonstration against the government since it came to power last year.
(AP, 11/24/12)(Econ, 12/8/12, p.42)
2012 Nov 24, Regional leaders meeting in Uganda called for an end to the advance by M23 rebels toward Congo's capital, and also urged the Congolese government to sit down with rebel leaders as residents fled some towns for fear of more fighting between the rebels and army. Locals in Minova reported that the retreating army troops had gone on a rampage over the last two nights.
(AP, 11/24/12)
2012 Nov 24, Pope Benedict XVI presided over a ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica to formally elevate six men as Cardinals. They hailed from Colombia, India, Lebanon, Nigeria, the Philippines and the United States.
(AP, 11/24/12)
2012 Nov 24, In Yemen four Shiites were killed when unknown assailants fired a rocket-propelled grenade into a gathering of worshippers observing the holy day of Ashoura.
(AP, 11/24/12)
2013 Nov 24, US media reported that a major winter storm that has dumped freezing rain and snow in the US southwest has killed at least 13 people in Arizona (1), California (3), Oklahoma (4), New Mexico (1) and Texas (4).
(AFP, 11/245/13)
2013 Nov 24, An Afghan grand assembly endorsed a crucial security agreement allowing some US troops to stay on after 2014, although President Hamid Karzai set conditions for signing the deal.
(AFP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, A Bahraini court sentenced 12 Shiites to 10-year jail terms after convicting them of trying to kill policemen in a village near the capital. State media said authorities have arrested two Gulf citizens who were former Guantanamo detainees on suspicion of preparing a "terrorist act."
(AFP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, Dominican Rep. soldiers expelled 244 Haitians following the deaths of 3 people killed near the border.
(SFC, 11/25/13, p.A2)
2013 Nov 24, Egypt's interim Pres. Adly Mansour signed a new bill into law restricting rallies and other public gatherings, a move likely to raise fresh questions about the army-backed government's democratic credentials.
(AFP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, In France thousands of riding enthusiasts protested a sales tax increase. France planed to nearly triple the value added tax on riding schools as of January, 2014.
(SFC, 11/25/13, p.A2)
2013 Nov 24, Honduras held elections. Ruling National Party's candidate Juan Hernandez, the head of Congress and considered to be Honduras' most powerful politician, faced deposed Pres. Manuel Zelaya's wife, Xiomara Castro (54). Honduran voters gave the ruling National Party four more years in the presidency.
(Reuters, 11/24/13)(AP, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 24, In India gay rights activists paraded through New Delhi to demand an end to the stigmatization of gays.
(SFC, 11/25/13, p.A2)
2013 Nov 24, Iran struck a historic deal with the United States and five other world powers, agreeing to a temporary freeze of its nuclear program in the most significant agreement between Washington and Tehran in more than three decades of estrangement.
(AP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, Israel's PM Netanyahu harshly condemned the international community's nuclear deal with Iran.
(AP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, Japan warned of the danger of "unpredictable events" and South Korea voiced regret following China's unilateral declaration of an air defence zone over areas claimed by Tokyo and Seoul.
(AFP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, In Macao Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines defeated American Brandon Rios for the World Boxing welter-weight title fight. The Filipino Court of Tax Appeals soon ordered Pacquiao’s bank deposits frozen saying he owed the government $50 million in back taxes.
(SSFC, 12/1/13, p.A6)
2013 Nov 24, Mali held legislative elections. In the north ballot boxes were reportedly stolen in the Timbuktu region, including one by armed men and several by a politician, in the first sign of disruption in parliamentary polls. In preliminary results announced on Dec 18, Pres. Keita's RPM party finished first after the second of two legs, securing 61 of a total of 147 seats in parliament.
(AFP, 11/24/13)(Reuters, 12/18/13)
2013 Nov 24, In Northern Ireland masked men wearing boiler suits hijacked a car, loaded it with a bomb containing about 60 kg (130 pounds) of home-made explosives and told the terrified driver to go to a shopping center. He left his vehicle near the mall car park and raised the alarm, causing police to evacuate the area. As army disposal experts began to disable the bomb the detonator exploded, but failed to trigger the rest of the device, damaging only the empty car.
(AFP, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 24, Pakistani demonstrators protesting US drone strikes roughed up drivers as they sought to stop trucks carrying NATO troop supplies and equipment from passing through northwest Pakistan.
(AP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, Saudi press said a court has sentenced a man to death and 19 others to prison terms of up to 25 years in connection with the 2004 armed assault on the US Consulate in Jiddah that killed five employees in an attack blamed on al-Qaida.
(AP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, Saudi Arabia said one more person has died from a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing to 55 the number of deaths in the kingdom at the center of the outbreak.
(AP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, In Sudan attackers killed a Rwandan peacekeeper in an ambush on a UN convoy in conflict-stricken Darfur.
(AFP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, In Syria fierce fighting to the east of Damascus has killed more than 160 people in the past two days as rebels struggled to break a months-long blockade by forces loyal to President Assad.
(Reuters, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, The Oxford Research Group said more than 11,000 children have died in Syria's civil war, including 128 killed by chemical weapons in a notorious attack and hundreds targeted by snipers.
(AFP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, Thailand police estimated that about 90,000 opponents of PM Yingluck Shinawatra and her crisis-hit administration had gathered in three sites in Bangkok, calling for her government to be toppled.
(AFP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, Some 50,000 Ukrainians, bearing EU flags and chanting "Down with the gang!", marched through Kiev in a pro-Europe rally denouncing President Yanukovich's U-turn in policy back towards Russia.
(AP, 11/24/13)
2013 Nov 24, In Yemen Huda al-Niran (22), a young Saudi woman, urged a court to let her stay in Yemen and marry the man she loves, defying norms in both deeply conservative countries. On Nov 26 a Yemeni judge decided to release Niran into the custody of the UNHCR for a period of three months during which she should be able to obtain the refugee status.
(AFP, 11/25/13)
2014 Nov 24, Pres. Obama recognized 18 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest civilian honor. They included new reporter Tom Brokaw, singer Stevie Wonder and actress Meryl Streep.
(SFC, 11/25/14, p.A6)
2014 Nov 24, In California thousands of UC students walked out of their classrooms to protest steep tuition hikes.
(SFC, 11/25/14, p.A1)
2014 Nov 24, In southern California workers at Sony Pictures discovered that its computer system had been beached. They were greeted with an image of a skeleton and a message that said “Hacked by #GOP," a reference to a group calling itself Guardians of Peace. The cyberattack by North Korea was later expected to cost the studio tens of millions. On Feb 4, 2015, Sony said it has spent an estimated 15 million in investigating and recovering from the cyberattack.
(SFC, 12/6/14, p.D4)(SFC, 2/5/15, p.C3)(Econ., 12/19/20, p.49)
2014 Nov 24, In southern California Michael Hanline (69) was freed after serving 34 years of a life sentence for murder. The charges were formally dismissed on April 22, 2015. Hanline had been charged with the 1978 killing of a friend, Ventura resident J.T. McGarry.
(AP, 4/23/15)
2014 Nov 24, SF police found Tai Lam (67) a homeless man, dead in his sleeping in an alcove at 137 Sutter St. A security video showed three suspects viciously beating Lam. In 2016 police arrested Joseph Stull (21) in Idaho and David Peters (21) in Stockton, Ca., following new DNA leads. Both men said their attack was random. On Nov 16 Anthony Gobson-Brum (22) was arrested as the 3rd suspect.
(SFC, 12/3/14, p.E1)(SFC, 11/1/16, p.C4)(SFC, 11/17/16, p.D2)
2014 Nov 24, A US judge in Chicago sentenced Alfredo Vasquez-Hernandez (59), a reputed lieutenant of captured Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, to 22 years in prison.
(AP, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, A Missouri grand jury cleared a white police officer in the fatal August shooting of an unarmed black teenager, sparking a night of violent and racially charged rioting in Ferguson.
(Reuters, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 24, In Afghanistan bombings across the country killed 6 civilians. 2 US soliders were killed by a magnetic bomb in Kabul.
(AP, 11/24/14)(Reuters, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 24, In Bangladesh a special tribunal sentenced Mobarak Hossain, a former commander of a collaborators' group, to death for his role in killings during Bangladesh's 1971 independence war.
(AP, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, Belgium’s trade unions opened a month of intermittent strike action by paralyzing the port of Antwerp and slowing train traffic through much of the country.
(AP, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, Thousands of British nurses, midwives and hospital cleaners went on a four-hour strike calling for a pay rise, weeks after walking out for the first time in 32 years.
(AFP, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, China’s state media said authorities in the northern region of Inner Mongolia arrested 31 people on suspicion of trafficking women because they had held 14 people, 11 of them from Myanmar.
(Reuters, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, Iran and six powers failed for a second time this year o resolve their 12-year dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambitions and gave themselves seven more months to overcome the deadlock that has prevented them from clinching an historic deal.
(AP, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, In Iraq a car bomb near a crowded Baghdad marketplace killed 9 people and wounded 20. US Central Command said coalition aircraft have carried out 15 airstrikes in Iraq and nine in Syria over the past four days targeting the Islamic State group.
(AP, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, Italy’s health ministry said an Italian doctor, who has been working in Sierra Leone, has tested positive for the Ebola virus and is being transferred to Rome for treatment. In Freetown Dr. Aiah Solomon Konoyeima also tested positive for Ebola.
(AP, 11/24/14)(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 24, Libyan PM Omar al-Hassi said the Cabinet will now adopt "a policy of confrontation and war," comments directed at his rivals in Libya's internationally recognized government based in the country's east.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 24, Morocco reported that floods triggered by heavy rain have killed at least 32 people, swept away buildings, vehicles and roads and forced the evacuation of more than 200 people, mostly in the southern region of Guelmim.
(Reuters, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, In Nigeria insurgents attacked Damassak town. Some 16,000 people fled Damassak in Niger, to a makeshift emergency camp at Gagamari village.
(AP, 12/13/14)
2014 Nov 24, A Philippine court fined nine Chinese fishermen $102,000 each after they were caught last May with hundreds of sea turtles in a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.
(Reuters, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, Russia further tightened its control over Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia with a new treaty envisaging closer military and economic ties, a move that has drawn outrage in Georgia.
(AP, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, Russia’s Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said lower oil prices and Western financial sanctions imposed over the Ukraine crisis will cost Russia around $130-140 billion a year, equivalent to around 7 percent of its economy.
(Reuters, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to deliver three new crew members to the International Space Station, including Italy's first female astronaut.
(Reuters, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, Popular Spanish author Juan Goytisolo (83) won the 2014 Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honor. His works include "Marks of Identity", "Count Julian" and "Juan the Landless".
(AP, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, In Spain 3 priests and a lay person were arrested in Granada on suspicion of child sex abuse in a case which Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said Pope Francis has taken a special interest in uncovering.
(AP, 11/24/14)(Reuters, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, Switzerland’s Kunstmuseum Bern agreed to accept a priceless collection of long-hidden art from the late German collector Cornelius Gurlitt, saying it will work closely with Germany to make sure that any pieces looted by the Nazis are returned to their Jewish owners.
(AP, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, In Thailand a military court sentenced a Web editor to 4 1/2 years in jail for publishing an article five years ago that it said defamed the nation's king. The sentence against Nut Rungwong was cut in half because he pleaded guilty to the charge.
(AP, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, Turkey’s Pres. Erdogan set off a new controversy, declaring that women are not equal to men and accusing feminists of not understanding the special status that Islam attributes to mothers.
(AP, 11/24/14)
2014 Nov 24, Ukraine reported that 3 servicemen have been killed in the past 24 hours in fighting with pro-Russian separatists in the east despite a ceasefire in place since early September. President Petro Poroshenko said Lithuania is to provide Ukraine with some military aid to help in its fight against pro-Russian separatists.
(Reuters, 11/24/14)
2015 Nov 24, President Barack Obama recognized 17 people with the nation's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
(AP, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, Kentucky’s outgoing Gov. Steve Beshear signed an executive order to restore the right to vote and hold public office to thousands of nonviolent felons who’ve seved out their sentences.
(SFC, 11/25/15, p.A6)
2015 Nov 24, In NYC Abid Naseer (29) a Pakistani former school cricket captain, was jailed for 40 years over an Al-Qaeda plot to bomb a British shopping center in 2009. He was extradited to the United States from Britain in 2013 for helping al-Qaida target attacks on the New York subway.
(AFP, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, A rocket from Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin private space company landed upright following a test flight in West Texas.
(SFC, 11/25/15, p.C1)
2015 Nov 24, In Afghanistan Taliban insurgents captured 16 people in Faryab province after their helicopter made an emergency landing in territory under the militants' control. 3 people were killed in a shootout followed.
(Reuters, 11/24/15)(AP, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, In Algeria a fire sparked by an electrical fault killed 18 African migrants, including children, and injured 50 others at a camp housing over 650 migrants in Ouargla.
(AFP, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, Brazil's environmental assets exchange BVRio launched an app that promises to help foreign traders and buyers of Brazilian timber make sure the product hasn't been illegally logged.
(Reuters, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, Canada's New Liberal government announced its plan to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees.
(AP, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, China’s Xinhua news agency reported that the world's largest animal cloning factory is under construction in in the northern port of Tianjin, with plans to churn out dogs, horses and up to a million beef cattle a year.
(AFP, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, Power cuts in Crimea affected nearly 940,000 people as tensions raged between Kiev and Moscow over the annexed peninsula and Russia threatened to cut off gas supplies to Ukraine.
(AFP, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, In Egypt an elaborate militant attack, involving a suicide car bombing and claimed by Islamic State group, targeted a hotel in El-Arish, killing 4 policemen, 2 judges and a civilian in the restive north of the Sinai Peninsula.
(AP, 11/24/15)(AFP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 24, President Francois Hollande of France arrived in Washington for talks with US President Barack Obama on how to confront the threat posed by the Islamic State group in the wake of the Paris attacks.
(AFP, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, A Japanese rocket lifted off and successfully put the national space program's first commercial satellite into orbit.
(AFP, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta fired five government ministers embroiled in corruption scandals in a cabinet reshuffle late today amid growing criticism of runaway graft.
(AFP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 24, A female Pakistani air force pilot was killed when her trainer jet crashed near the central town of Mianwali.
(Reuters, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, The Philippines asked global judges to recognize its right to exploit waters in the South China Sea.
(Reuters, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, A Scottish court handed oil major Royal Dutch Shell a 22,500 pound ($33,919) fine by for a spill of more than 200 tons of oil into the central North Sea in August 2011.
(Reuters, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, Int’l. experts meeting in Singapore said more than half the world's primates, including apes, lemurs and monkeys, are facing extinction.
(AFP, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, Syrian fighters destroyed a Russian helicopter with a missile, shortly after they forced it to make an emergency landing in a nearby government-held area in Latakia province.
(Reuters, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, A Tanzanian court charged four Chinese nationals for smuggling rhino horns.
(Reuters, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 24, In Tunisia a suicide bomber attacked a presidential guard bus killing at least 12 people. Pres. Beji Caid Essebsi declared a 30-day state of emergency and imposed on overnight curfew in the capital. A day later the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack.
(Reuters, 11/25/15)(AP, 11/25/15)(SFC, 11/25/15, p.A2)
2015 Nov 24, Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu unveiled a new cabinet stacked with loyal allies of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, including his son-in-law who was named energy minister.
(AFP, 11/24/15)
2015 Nov 24, Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border, saying it had repeatedly violated its air space, one of the most serious publicly acknowledged clashes between a NATO member country and Russia for half a century. The pilot was shot dead by rebels as he parachuted to the ground.
(Reuters, 11/24/15)(Reuters, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 24, Vanuatu President Baldwin Lonsdale dissolved parliament and called a snap election after a corruption scandal destabilized the government.
(AFP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 24, Vietnam’s National Assembly passed a law recognizing the rights of transgenders effective in 2017 as part of a revised civil code.
(SFC, 11/26/15, p.A7)
2016 Nov 24, It was reported that the former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has raised the necessary $1.1 million to request a vote recount in Wisconsin. Donald Trump also won by a slim margin in Pennsylvania, where a recount filing fee costs $500,000, due on November 28. The filing fee in Michigan, where Trump has a razor-thin lead in unofficial results so far, is $600,000 due by November 30.
(AFP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, In the SF Bay Area a Thanksgiving luncheon at the American Legion in Antioch left 3 people dead and another 18 suffering symptoms of nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. On Dec 20 CDC officials said the illness was caused by Clostridium perfringens.
(SFC, 12/3/16, p.D2)
2016 Nov 24, In Detroit, Michigan, Wayne State Univ. police Officer Collin Rose (29) died a day after he was shot in the head while on patrol near the campus. On Nov 25 DeAngelo Davis (31) was charged with murder and gun crimes.
(SFC, 11/25/16, p.A6)(SFC, 11/26/16, p.A3)
2016 Nov 24, William Mandel (b.1917), leftist activist and long-time broadcaster on the SF Bay Area KPFA radio, died. He wrote eight books on Soviet history, politics and culture. His 1999 autobiography was titled “Saying No to Power."
(SFC, 12/8/16, p.D9)
2016 Nov 24, In Pennsylvania Demetrius Coleman (22) of Pittsburgh fled police and crashed into a car that burst into flames killing two adults and a child.
(SFC, 11/26/16, p.A3)
2016 Nov 24, In Belgium close to 20,000 protesters from the non-profit sector took to the streets. Their anger centered on plans to limit days off for veteran workers in the future.
(AP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, In southern Bulgaria about 2,000 migrants, most from Afghanistan, were involved in a conflict that reportedly erupted over the Harmanli refugee camp being put under quarantine following an alleged outbreak of infectious diseases and an outbreak of panic among local residents. About 400 migrants were detained after clashes with police that left several injured.
(AP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 24, In Burkina Faso doctors and nurses continued a 3-day strike at public health centers throughout the West African country, leaving only medical students to help the sick amid outbreaks of dengue fever and meningitis.
(AP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, Burundi's government refused to cooperate with a UN inquiry into months of political violence, saying accusations of abuses by its officials were part of a political plot. The UN released a report by independent experts in September identifying government officials suspected of ordering political opposition to be tortured or killed.
(Reuters, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, In Cameroon two young female suicide bombers attacked Mora town in the Far North region, the fourth strike near the Nigerian border by suspected Boko Haram militants this week. Both girls were killed.
(Reuters, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, In eastern China a platform under construction at a power plant collapsed early today, killing 74 people in Fengcheng, Jiangxi province. 13 people were soon detained over the collapse of the scaffolding.
(Reuters, 11/24/16)(AP, 11/25/16))
2016 Nov 24, Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos signed, for the second time in under two months, a historic peace accord with leftist rebels. The accord will be sent to congress where a solid pro-peace majority is expected to easily ratify it in the coming days. After that, the FARC's 8,000-some fighters will begin concentrating in rural areas where they will turn over their weapons to United Nations-sponsored monitors over the next six months.
(AP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, The European Parliament voted to freeze membership talks with Turkey over its "disproportionate" post-coup crackdown, further escalating tensions with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
(AFP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, European Parliament lawmakers backed a data-sharing deal with the United States for security and terrorism investigations which aims to safeguard data exchanged between national authorities.
(Reuters, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, German flagship carrier Lufthansa said it is scrapping 830 flights for tomorrow, grounding more than 100,000 passengers, as a strike by pilots over wages extends to a third day.
(AFP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, German media reported that authorities in northern Germany have killed 16,000 turkeys and ordered 92,000 chickens slaughtered after detecting an outbreak of bird flu.
(AP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, German defense company Rheinmetall and Romania's Uzina Automecanica Moreni launched a joint venture to produce eight-wheeled armored military vehicles in Romania.
(AP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, Greek public-sector workers went on strike to protest labor and pension reforms and state asset sales which the leftist-led government agreed with the country's official creditors in exchange for bailout loans.
(Reuters, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, In eastern India protests over land rights flared for a second day in the Jharkhand state, as activists and indigenous people took to the streets after the state assembly approved amendments to colonial-era land laws despite strong opposition.
(AP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, Indonesia's military lost contact with an army helicopter carrying four soldiers in Indonesia's part of Borneo. On Nov 27 a search team found the wreckage and rescued an injured pilot. Four people remained missing.
(AP, 11/24/16)(AP, 11/27/16)
2016 Nov 24, In Iraq a car bomb attack at a gas station near the city of Hilla killed at least 73 people including about 40 Iranians returning from Karbala. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility. The death toll was later raised to 92.
(AP, 11/25/16)(AP, 12/3/16)
2016 Nov 24, In Israel tens of thousands of residents were ordered to leave Haifa as wildfires tore across central and northern Israel. The country's chief of police said politically motivated arson may be behind some of the blazes.
(AP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, Hurricane Otto hit Nicaragua and then Costa Rica where it left nine people dead and caused millions of dollars of damage before exiting into the Pacific.
(Reuters, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 24, Amnesty International accused Nigeria's security forces of killing at least 150 pro-Biafra protesters and injuring hundreds since August 2015.
(AFP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, Peru's president signed off on the extradition of Manuel Burga, the country's former soccer boss, to the US for his alleged involvement in a multibillion-dollar FIFA bribery scandal involving marketing and broadcasting rights.
(AP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, Philippine troops launched an assault on the Maute group militants in Butig due to intelligence reports that they were continuing to make bombs after being blamed for a Sept. 2 bomb attack that killed 15 people in southern Davao city, the president's hometown.
(AP, 11/26/16)
2016 Nov 24, Sudanese security agents detained dozens of foreign exchange dealers for black market trading, as the authorities struggled to curb speculation against the pound. The local currency has lost 60 percent of its value against the dollar in the past six months.
(AFP, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, Syrian rebels in besieged east Aleppo agreed to a UN plan for aid delivery and medical evacuations, but the United Nations still awaited a green light from Russia and the Syrian government.
(Reuters, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, In northern Syria three Turkish soldiers were killed in what the military said was a suspected Syrian air strike. Turkey said it would retaliate.
(Reuters, 11/24/16)
2016 Nov 24, In southern Turkey a car bomb exploded in the car park of the governor's office in Adana killing two people and wounding 33. Police shot and captured a suspect. The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) later claimed responsibility.
(AFP, 11/24/16)(AP, 11/24/16)(Reuters, 11/29/16)
2017 Nov 24, US President Donald Trump said that he had informed Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a call that Washington is adjusting military support to partners on the ground in Syria.
(Reuters, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 24, In Ohio Abdel latif Bashiti (12) was killed and five others, ages 12-16, wounded in a shooting in Cleveland.
(SSFC, 11/26/17, p.A9)
2017 Nov 24, An Afghan airstrike killed Taliban commander Dilawar Khan and two women and three children from his family in the northeastern Kapisa province. Khan's brother, who apparently escaped during the strike, was firing shots at Afghan helicopters from his home before the airstrike.
(AP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, In Argentina a judge said indigenous rights activist Santiago Maldonado (27), found dead October 17 in an Argentinian river 78 days after he went missing on August 1, died by drowning.
(AP, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 24, Argentina authorized the use of genetically modified soybean seeds resistant to herbicides other than glyphosate, as the European Union (EU) debates whether to extend the license of weed-killers containing the ingredient.
(Reuters, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 24, Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Myanmar's top military general in Beijing and discussed China's support amid international criticism over its treatment of the Rohingya minority.
(Reuters, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, China said it is temporarily closing its main road connection with North Korea. Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said the China-North Korea Friendship Bridge across the Yalu River at the Chinese city of Dandong will be closed while North Korea repairs the approach road on its side.
(AP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, A Danish girl (17), who offered to fight for Islamic State, was found guilty in Copenhagen of planning bomb attacks at two schools, one of them Jewish.
(Reuters, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, In Egypt armed attackers killed at least 235 worshippers in a bomb and gun assault on the packed Rawda mosque, frequented by Sufis, in the North Sinai province. The death toll soon rose to 305, including 27 children, and 128 people injured.
(AFP, 11/24/17)(Reuters, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 24, The EU pledged to deepen ties with six former Soviet states (Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus), as part of efforts to counter Russian influence, but warned them they had no chance of joining the bloc any time soon.
(AP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, A French court halted sales of two pesticides made by US chemicals giant Dow after an environmental group raised fears that the substances could be harmful to bees.
(AFP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, In Georgia a fire at a luxury hotel in the Black Sea resort city of Batumi left 11 people dead and 21 others hurt.
(AP, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 24, Iraqi forces said that Islamic State group fighters are withdrawing deep into the desert to escape an offensive aimed at a final defeat of the jihadists.
(AFP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, Ireland's minority government looked set to collapse after the party propping it up submitted a motion of no confidence in the deputy prime minister, weeks before a summit on Britain's plans to leave the European Union.
(Reuters, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, Italian police launched a campaign to reduce the murder rate against women on the eve of the UN-backed International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Femicides now account for 37 percent of the total compared to 24 percent a decade ago.
(AFP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, Japan expressed strong regret over San Francisco's decision to give city property status to a statue commemorating Asian women who worked in military brothels for Japanese troops during World War II, with Osaka declaring it will terminate its 60-year sister-city ties. In 2018 Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura sent a letter to Mayor London Breed terminating the sister city relationship due to the "Comfort Women" statue.
(AP, 11/24/17)(SFC, 10/4/18, p.C5)
2017 Nov 24, Kosovo police arrested three lawmakers, including the popular main opposition leader whom they handcuffed in the street, after the three failed to appear in court on charges of releasing tear gas in parliament in 2015 and 2016.
(Reuters, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, In northeastern Mali four UN peacekeepers and one Malian soldier were killed and several others were wounded in an attack by unidentified assailants.
(Reuters, 11/24/17)(SSFC, 11/26/17, p.A8)
2017 Nov 24, Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto designated the Revillagigedo Archipelago, located some 390 km (242 miles) southeast of the Baja California peninsula, as a national park.
(Reuters, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 24, In Mexico the mayor of Ixhuatlan de Madero and his wife were killed by gunmen.
(AP, 11/28/17)
2017 Nov 24, Dutch Saint Martin's PM William Marlin announced his resignation after a spat with The Netherlands over aid following a devastating hurricane that hit the Caribbean island.
(AFP, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 24, Pakistani authorities acting on a court order released Hafiz Saeed, a US-wanted militant, who allegedly founded a banned group linked to the 2008 Mumbai, India attack that killed 168 people.
(AP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, In Papua New Guinea the last asylum seekers abandoned a closed immigration camp, ending a three-week standoff between police and hundreds of men who had been prepared to suffer squalid conditions without power or running water rather than move to other residences where they feared violence.
(AP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, Peru's attorney general's office said it was investigating former President Alejandro Toledo for allegedly taking millions of dollars in bribes from the Brazilian company Camargo Correa in exchange for a highway construction contract.
(AP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, Poland’s lawmakers approved a law that will phase out Sunday shopping by the year 2020 despite criticism that it may eliminate thousands of jobs. The bill still needed approval from the Senate and from President Andrzej Duda.
(AP, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 24, Russia's Defense Ministry said six TU-22M3 long-range bombers had carried out air strikes on Islamic State targets on the western bank of the Euphrates river in Syria.
(Reuters, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, South Africa's Supreme Court more than doubled Oscar Pistorius' murder sentence, accepting prosecutors' argument that the original jail term of six years for shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was "shockingly lenient". A new sentence of 13 years and five months was handed down.
(Reuters, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, The organization behind the "Alternative Nobel" said that a 2017 prize winner from Azerbaijan would not be able to attend the Dec. 1 award ceremony in Stockholm because of a travel ban linked to a suspended sentence she is serving. Azeri investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova claimed in a statement issued by the Right Livelihood Award that she is under the travel ban "because I criticize the government when it steals the people's money."
(AP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, Turkey said that US President Donald Trump told President Tayyip Erdogan he had issued instructions that weapons should not be provided to Kurdish YPG fighters in Syria, and that the Turkish government hoped to see that order carried out.
(Reuters, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, In Turkey an Istanbul district authority banned a one-day festival that had been set to showcase short films on gay issues the next day, claiming the event posed a threat to public order.
(AFP, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 24, Ukraine said five of its soldiers had died during fighting in the east over the last 24 hours, as it accused Russia of ramping up its military presence in the region amid squabbles among warring rebel factions. Eight rebels were reported killed and another nine wounded.
(AFP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, In eastern Ukraine the region's news agency said Igor Plotnitsky, the leader of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic, has resigned following a week of tensions between rival factions.
(AP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, A UN official said the Saudi-led coalition has authorized the resumption of UN flights to the Yemeni capital starting Nov. 25.
(AP, 11/24/17)
2017 Nov 24, Zimbabwe inaugurated new President Emmerson Mnangagwa. He laid out a grand vision to revitalize the country’s ravaged economy and vowed to rule on behalf of all the country's citizens.
(AFP, 11/24/17)(Reuters, 11/24/17)
2018 Nov 24, The Washington Post reported that the administration of US President Donald Trump has won support from the Mexican president-elect's team for a plan dubbed "Remain in Mexico." Mexico's incoming government denied the report.
(AP, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 24, In northern California three more bodies were discovered in the area burned by the Camp Fire, which was now 98 percent contained. 475 people were still reported missing.
(SSFC, 11/25/18, p.A18)
2018 Nov 24, Ricky Jay (b.1946), noted American magician, author and actor, died at his home in Los Angeles. His acting credits included the films "The Prestige" (2006), "The Spanish Prisoner" (1997), "Mystery Men" (1999), "Heist" (2001), "Boogie Nights" (1997), "Tomorrow Never Dies" (1997), "House of Games" (1987", and "Magnolia" (1999), as well as the HBO series "Deadwood" (2004-2006).
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Jay)(SFC, 11/27/18, p.C2)
2018 Nov 24, In Utah police Officer David Romrell (31) died after he was intentionally struck by a driver while responding to a burglary call in Salt Lake City. Car driver Felix Anthony Calata was fatally shot by police and an accomplice was arrested.
(SFC, 11/26/18, p.A4)
2018 Nov 24, In Afghanistan US Army Sgt. Leandro A.S. Jasso (25) was killed, bringing the US combat death toll this year to eight. Two Afghan soldiers died when their helicopter made an "emergency landing" in the southern Kandahar province due to a technical problem. In Kabul a senior religious scholar was shot and killed. No one immediately claimed the killing of Abdul Basir Haqqani, but police arrested a man with a pistol near the scene of the shooting.
(Reuters, 11/24/18)(AP, 11/24/18)(SFC, 11/26/18, p.A4)
2018 Nov 24, Bahrainis voted in a parliamentary election from which opposition groups have been barred, in a crackdown on dissent in the small Sunni-led, Western-allied kingdom.
(Reuters, 11/24/18)
2018 Nov 24, Congo DRC ministers in the outgoing government of Joseph Kabila awarded themselves "golden-handshake" benefits in two decrees, that safeguarded lifetime cash payments. The decrees will benefit 71 ex-ministers, 11 former deputy ministers and two government secretaries, along with "personalities who carry out duties equivalent in rank to members of the government in the cabinet of the president of the republic and the cabinet of the prime minister. The two decrees were published in the official government gazette on December 15.
(AP, 2/1/19)
2018 Nov 24, In Ethiopia seven employees of Indian company Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) were taken hostage by local staff due to non-payment of salaries by the debt-laden firm. The Indian government took control of IL&FS in October after it defaulted on some of its debt. On Dec. 1 Two of the 7 employees were reported released.
(Reuters, 12/1/18)
2018 Nov 24, The European Union removed the last major obstacle to sealing an agreement on Brexit after Spain said it had reached a deal with Britain over Gibraltar on the eve of an EU summit.
(AP, 11/24/18)
2018 Nov 24, French police firing tear gas and using water cannon clashed with protesters in Paris who are angry over rising fuel costs and President Emmanuel Macron's economic policies, the second weekend of "yellow vest" protests across the country.
(Reuters, 11/24/18)
2018 Nov 24, Gabon authorities said they have banned an opposition party from state media for three months over statements about the health of President Omar Bongo, who has been in a Saudi hospital for a month.
(AFP, 11/24/18)
2018 Nov 24, In southern India at least 25 people, many of them schoolchildren, were killed when a speeding bus fell into a canal in Karnataka state.
(AP, 11/24/18)
2018 Nov 24, Malaysian authorities said office of former Malaysian premier Najib Razak ordered changes to a 2016 audit report of scandal-plagued state fund 1MDB, including removing mention of financier Low Taek Jho's presence at a board meeting.
(Reuters, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 24, In southeastern Niger about 50 unidentified armed men kidnapped 15 girls overnight in the Diffa region.
(Reuters, 11/24/18)
2018 Nov 24, Police in Pakistan said they have arrested some 300 supporters of a detained radical Islamic cleric who disrupted daily life with nationwide rallies following the acquittal of a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy. Supporters of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik party were picked up in sweeps across Punjab province following the arrest overnight of its leader, Khadim Hussain Rizvi.
(AP, 11/24/18)
2018 Nov 24, South Korea said that the United Nations Security Council granted an exemption to sanctions that will allow surveys on North Korean railroad sections the Koreas want to connect with the South.
(AP, 11/24/18)
2018 Nov 24, Spanish police said they have arrested 79 people suspected of producing and distributing child pornography on the Internet an operation that started in 2016.
(AP, 11/24/18)
2018 Nov 24, In Syria government shelling killed three children and two women in the rebel-held Idlib province, where Russia and Turkey agreed on a buffer zone.
(Reuters, 11/24/18)
2018 Nov 24, In Syria an alleged chemical attack late today was carried out by "terrorist groups positioned in Aleppo countryside" that fired shells containing toxic gases on three neighborhoods in Syria's largest city. Government shelling in Idlib province killed at least seven civilians.
(AP, 11/25/18)(SSFC, 11/25/18, p.A6)
2018 Nov 24, In Syria coalition raids overnight killed 17 civilians, including five children, in an IS-pocket in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor. 27 IS jihadists were also reported killed in clashes and air strikes over the last 24 hours.
(AFP, 11/24/18)
2018 Nov 24, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen resigned as head of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party after the party was handed a major defeat in local elections seen as a referendum on the administration of the island's independence-leaning president amid growing economic and political pressure from China.
(AP, 11/24/18)
2018 Nov 24, In Uganda the MV Templa, a boat on a routine pleasure cruise and full of mostly youthful revelers, overturned and sank this evening in Lake Victoria. The vessel was believed to be overcrowded with nearly 100 passengers. At least 27 people were rescued overnight. Divers retrieved 31 bodies and were expected to find more in the capsized vessel.
(AP, 11/25/18)
2019 Nov 24, US Defense Secretary Mark Esper removed Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, the Navy's top civilian, over the case of a Navy SEAL convicted of battlefield misconduct in Iraq. Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher had won the backing of President Donald Trump.
(Reuters, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 24, Disney's "Frozen 2" iced out the box office competition in North America, where family audiences powered the animated adventure to a dazzling $130 million debut.
(Reuters, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, Billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg (77), the former mayor of New York City, jumped into the US presidential race, adding another moderate voice to a crowded field of Democratic contenders seeking to face Donald Trump in the November 2020 election.
(AP, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, In Texas Christine Rollins (59) was killed by multiple feral hogs outside a rural home where she worked as a caretaker.
(SFC, 11/28/19, p.A7)
2019 Nov 24, The UAW said that union official Vance Pearson has resigned. Federal prosecutors in September charged him in connectio with a scheme to embezzle union money for persoanl use.
(SFC, 6/2/19, p.A5)
2019 Nov 24, State-owned Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA) and Mayo Clinic said they would operate Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, one of the UAE's largest hospitals for patients with serious or complex medical conditions.
(Reuters, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, In Afghanistan a blast in Kabul targeting a UN vehicle left at least 1 person dead and five injured. US citizen Anil Raj was killed in the attack in Kabul. Taliban insurgents stormed a checkpoint in Daykundi province and killed at least eight Afghan soldiers. Reinforcements were dispatched to the area in Kajran district, driving off the Taliban and killing at least 20 of their fighters. The Taliban disputed the casualty figures.
(AP, 11/24/19)(Reuters, 11/26/19)(SSFC, 12/1/19, p.B9)
2019 Nov 24, Interim Bolivian President Jeanine Anez agreed to withdraw the military from protest areas and repeal a law giving them broad discretion in the use of force as part of a preliminary "pacification" deal struck early today with protest leaders.
(Reuters, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, China denied the explosive clims of a self-confessed spy seeking asylum in Australia. Newspapers reported that Chinese defector Wang Liqiang has given Australia’s counterespionage agency intelligence on how Beijing conducts its interference operations abroad and revealed the identities of China’s senior military intelligence officers in Hong Kong.
(SFC, 11/16/19, p.A4)
2019 Nov 24, In Congo DRC a small passenger plane carrying at least 17 passengers crashed shortly after takeoff in the eastern city of Goma, killing at least 25 people, including people on the ground.
(AP, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, Egyptian police raided the Cairo office of independent news website Mada Masr and briefly detained three journalists, including the editor-in-chief, as authorities intensify a crackdown on press freedoms.
(Good Morning America, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, At least two people were killed in France and a landslide collapsed a stretch of elevated highway in Italy, leaving cars perched perilously on a precipice as heavy rains pounded the region over the weekend.
(AP, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, Guinea-Bissau held presidential elections. Twelve candidates ran for head of state, including incumbent Jose Mario Vaz, who has been in power since 2014.
(AP, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, Polls closed in Hong Kong with no major disruptions after people turned out in huge numbers to vote in district council elections seen as a test of support for chief executive Carrie Lam following six months of pro-democracy protests. Hong Kong residents handed an overwhelming victory to pro-democracy candidates in a vote for local district councils, a stunning repudiation of the city’s Beijing-backed government after months of increasingly violent protests seeking meaningful elections.
(Reuters, 11/24/19)(Bloomberg, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 24, Iran vowed to severely punish "mercenaries" arrested over nationwide street unrest sparked by a fuel price hike, as much of the country came back online after a week-long internet blackout.
(AFP, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, Iraqi security forces opened fire on protesters in Baghdad and several cities in the south, killing at least nine people and wounding dozens of others. Clashes in Baghdad’s historic Rasheed Street continued for a fourth day. Anti-government protests swept the oil-rich south as demonstrators burned tires and blocked main arteries, outraged by rampant government corruption, poor services and scarcity of jobs. So far, 16 people have died and over 100 have been wounded in the latest round of street battles. At least 342 people have died since demonstrations began Oct. 1.
(Reuters, 11/24/19)(AP, 11/24/19)(AP, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine Director for Human Rights Watch since October 2016, said he will remain in his position and continue doing the “important, urgent work" of documenting violations in Israel and the Palestinian territories from abroad. Shakir is being deported from Israel over his alleged advocacy for an economic boycott of Israel or its settlements in occupied territory.
(AP, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, The Italian coast guard said the bodies of five migrant women, two of them washed ashore, have been recovered as search efforts continued near the tiny island of Lampedusa for around another dozen people feared missing in the capsizing of a fishing boat.
(AP, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, In Japan Pope Francis brought his campaign to abolish nuclear weapons to the only two cities ever hit by atomic bombs, calling their possession indefensibly perverse and immoral and their use a crime against mankind and nature.
(Reuters, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, Lebanese security forces fired tear gas amid confrontations in central Beirut between Hezbollah supporters and demonstrators protesting against the political elite. The confrontations began after dozens of supporters of the Iran-backed militant group arrived on scooters and attacked the protesters with clubs and metal rods, chanting pro-Hezbollah slogans.
(AP, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, Romanians voted in a presidential runoff election in which incumbent Klaus Iohannis vied for a second term while vowing to continue efforts to fight corruption. Iohannis, a conservative, faced Social Democratic Party leader Viorica Dancila, a former prime minister.
(AP, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, The Queen Hind, a cargo ship carrying 14,600 sheep, capsized off the coast of Romania. All crew members were saved along with 32 sheep found swimming by the ship. Many of the sheep were expected to have drowned.
(USA Today, 11/26,19, p.4A)
2019 Nov 24, In South Korea Koo Hara (28), a former member of a top K-pop girl group, was found dead at her home in southern Seoul.
(Reuters, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, In Spain topless female activists interrupted a demonstration in Madrid commemorating the legacy of former dictator Francisco Franco, 44 years after his death.
(Reuters, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, Spanish police intercepted what is believed to be the first submarine used to smuggle drugs into Europe and seized a reported three tons of Colombian cocaine. The submarine crew deliberately sank the vessel with a large amount of cocaine still on board after reportedly dumping some of their cargo at sea.
(AP, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 24, Syrian government forces captured the northwestern village of Msheirfeh, Idlib province, from insurgents after clashes that left more than a dozen killed on both sides. In eastern Syria, a mine left behind since the days of the Islamic State group in the village of Taybeh killed a child and wounded 17 others in a school field. The Observatory said the blast in the village in Deir el-Zour Province killed five children and wounded others.
(AP, 11/24/19)
2019 Nov 24, Uruguayans headed to the polls to elect a new president in a second round run-off vote. Some 2.7 million Uruguayan voters chose between Lacalle Pou of the center-right National Party and Daniel Martínez of the ruling Broad Front party.
(Reuters, 11/24/19)
2020 Nov 24, According to court papers filed the US government has agreed temporarily not to deport detained immigrant women who have alleged being abused by a rural Georgia gynecologist.
(AP, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, The Dow Jones Industrial Average breached the 30,000-mark for the first time, as optimism that COVID-19 vaccines will open the way to economic recovery next year fueled Wall Street's rebound from a pandemic-driven crash this year.
(Reuters, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, Beyonce dominated nominations for the 2021 Grammy Awards in a field that favored alternative artists over mainstream musicians, topped by a stunning snub for Canadian singer The Weeknd, who called the process "corrupt".
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 24, Fox News reached a settlement with the parents of Seth Rich, a former Democratic National Committee staff member who was killed in an apparent botched robbery. The network had falsely cast Rich’s 2016 death as a political conspiracy.
(AP, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, Purdue Pharma, owned and operated by the Sackler family while it pushed the painkilling opioid to addicts, formally admitted to the federal charges as part of a plea agreement signed in October.
(NY Daily News, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 24, Local and federal prosecutors said California's system for paying unemployment benefits is so dysfunctional that the state approved more than $140 million for at least 20,000 prisoners.
(AP, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, California to date had 1,147,392 cases of coronavirus and 18,873 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 142,843 cases and 1,934 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 12,555,729 with the death toll at 259,477.
(sfist.com, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, It was reported that Illinois state officials are investigating a coronavirus outbreak at a veterans nursing home at the state-run LaSalle Veterans Home that has infected nearly 200 residents and staff, and killed 27 veterans.
(AP, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, Democrat Joe Biden was certified as winner of the presidential election in Pennsylvania, culminating three weeks of vote counting and a string of failed legal challenges by President Donald Trump.
(AP, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, In Tennessee a 12-year-old was behind the wheel of a stolen pickup truck traveling on an interstate near Nashville when shots rang out early today. The driver and a 14-year-old passenger were killed, and two other teens were injured. Police said they believe a 16-year-old is responsible for the shooting, striking the driver and the 14-year-old in the backseat.
(Charlotte Observer, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 24, The Montana ACLU announced a settlement against the US Customs and Border Protection agency for the detention in May, 2018, of two women for speaking Spanish while shopping at a convenience store in Havre.
(SFC, 11/25/20, p.A8)
2020 Nov 24, In Afghanistan roadside bombs killed at least 13 civilians and traffic policemen in Bamiyan province. The Taliban said they were not involved.
(SFC, 11/25/20, p.A2)
2020 Nov 24, Cambridge Univ. launched an appeal to find two valuable notebooks written by Charles Darwin that have been missing since 2000.
(SFC, 11/25/20, p.A2)
2020 Nov 24, At least eight people died after a migrant boat carrying more than 30 people hit rocks late today close to a small port on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 24, China's Chang'e 5 mission to the moon began as the four modules of the spacecraft blasted off atop a massive Long March-5Y rocket from the Wenchang launch center on Hainan island. The mission’s main task is to drill 2 meters (about 7 feet) into the moon’s surface and scoop up about 2 kg (4.4 pounds) of rocks and other debris.
(AP, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, In Denmark a hacker attack against the country's biggest news agency called for a ransom to release locked data. Ritzau's CEO rejected the ransom demand.
(SFC, 11/26/20, p.A2)
2020 Nov 24, The EU, the US and other donors pledged billions of dollars in new funding for Afghanistan, hoping to salvage years of work aimed to foster peace and stability in the country and coax along uncertain peace talks between Taliban rebels and the Afghan government.
(AP, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, Italy reported 853 COVID 19-related deaths, soaring from 630 the day before and the highest daily toll since March 28.
(AP, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, Mexico's health ministry reported 10,794 additional cases of the novel coronavirus and 813 more deaths in the country, bringing the official number of cases to 1,060,152 and the death toll to 102,739.
(Reuters, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, Poland reported some 10,139 new COVID-19 cases and 540 related deaths as the total number of confirmed coronavirus infections passed 900,000.
(Reuters, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, Russia announced that its coronavirus vaccine was 95 per cent effective on par with two other leading vaccines - but the lack of full scientific data has left some questions unanswered. Financial backers and developers said Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine will cost under $20 per person on international markets and Moscow aims to produce more than a billion doses at home and abroad next year. Russian authorities reported a record 491 deaths linked to COVID-19 as well as 24,326 new infections.
(AP, 11/24/20)(Reuters, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, It was reported that Russian authorities have carried out dozens of raids and detained several people as they pursue a new criminal case accusing the country's Jehovah's Witnesses of extremism.
(CBS News, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, The acting head of a big Russian state fur company floated the idea of vaccinating minks to prevent the spread of COVID-19, after millions of infected minks were destroyed in Denmark and cases of the disease were found elsewhere.
(Reuters, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, It was reported that several policemen serving in the Russian drugs control department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Surgut, Siberia, have been arrested for allegedly selling a bad batch of a psychotropic drug that has killed several of their clients.
(The Daily Beast, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, Scotland's Parliament passed legislation making sanitary products free to all girls and women. Scotland became the first country to make period products freely available.
(https://tinyurl.com/2nm2t9pc)(SFC, 11/26/20, p.A3)
2020 Nov 24, Singapore has all but eradicated the virus after reporting 14 days without any new local cases today, and saying it had snuffed out the last cluster of infection at a worker dormitory.
(Reuters, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 24, South Korean boy band BTS snagged the first ever Grammy nomination for a K-pop band, taking the worldwide sensation a step closer to winning the music award.
(Reuters, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, In Sudan a head-on collision late today between a bus and a truck in West Kordofan province killed at least nine people and injured more than three dozen others.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 24, Swedish pharmaceuticals maker Recipharm said it had agreed a preliminary deal with Moderna Inc to fill and seal the packaging for the US drugmaker's new COVID-19 vaccine.
(Reuters, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, Syria's military said suspected Israeli warplanes struck locations south of the capital Damascus late today, causing only material damage.
(AP, 11/24/20)
2020 Nov 24, Taiwan's Pres. Tsai Ing-wen inaugurated the production of domestically made submarines.
(SFC, 11/25/20, p.A4)
2021 Nov 24, The US Trade Representative's office said that it is moving to terminate its trade retaliation case against India after Washington and New Delhi agreed on a global tax deal transition arrangement that will withdraw India's digital services tax.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, NASA launched a spacecraft to test a plan to save humanity from killer asteroids. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft could be the first to alter an asteroid’s path, a technique that may be used to defend the planet in the future.
(NY Times, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Total US COVID-19 cases reached over 48,002,161 with the death toll at 774,120.
(sfist.com, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 24, In Los Angeles the Nordstrom store at the Westfield Topanga Mall was robbed by five people this evening, with the robbers taking seven to eight expensive purses. An Apple store in Santa Rosa was also robbed today of $20,000 in merchandise. The district attorney for San Francisco charged nine people in connection to multiple organized robberies in the city.
(The Hill, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 24, A Georgia jury found three white men guilty of murder in the Feb. 2020 shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man.
(NY Times, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Apple Inc issued alert messages to at least six Thai activists and researchers who have been critical of the government, warning it believed their iPhones had been targeted by "state-sponsored attackers".
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said new COVID-19 cases have jumped 23% in the Americas in the last week, mostly in North America where both the United States and Canada reported increasing infection rates.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Australia classified neo-Nazi organization The Base and Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and militant group, as terrorist organizations.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Bahrain announced plans for over $30 billion in spending to spur investment and build up infrastructure over the next several years, promising to create five brand-new cities on man-made islands.
(AP, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Britain reported 43,676 further cases of COVID-19 and 149 more deaths within 28 days of a positive test.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Authorities in Cyprus said they will deny access to indoor areas such as shopping malls, restaurants and supermarkets to anyone who hasn’t received a third booster shot seven months after being vaccinated against COVID-19.
(AP, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, A Danish frigate killed four pirates in waters south of Nigeria in an operation to protect shipping in the Gulf of Guinea. Four pirates remaining were taken on board the frigate, and no Danish personnel were hurt in the incident.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 24, State-affiliated media reported that Ethiopia's PM Abiy Ahmed has gone to direct the war from the front lines, as two Olympian athletes announced they were enlisting in the military. Germany and France became the latest countries to advise their citizens to leave Ethiopia, amid an escalation in the country's civil war.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)(BBC, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, European Union ambassadors approved the renewal of sanctions on four Chinese officials and one Chinese entity as part of an extension of a human rights blacklist.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Coronavirus infections broke records in parts of Europe. Slovakia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Hungary all reported new highs in daily infections.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, French media reported that a boat with migrants sank in the English channel off the French coast. 27 migrants died after their dinghy capsized while trying to cross the Channel from France to Britain. A manslaughter lawsuit was later filed by Utopia 56, a French humanitarian organization, accusing Channel authorities of not doing enough to prevent the deaths.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)(SSFC, 11/28/21, p.A4)(SFC, 12/21/21, p.A2)
2021 Nov 24, In Germany Olaf Scholz and his coalition partners from the progressive Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats stepped in front of the cameras to announce a 177-page governing deal they have negotiated under strict secrecy since the Sept. 26 election.
(NY Times, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Haiti's PM Ariel Henry swore in his new Cabinet as the country struggled with a rise in violence, kidnappings and ongoing fuel shortages blamed on powerful gangs.
(SFC, 11/26/21, p.A6)
2021 Nov 24, It was reported that plans by the Indian government for a new bill that would bar most private cryptocurrencies has triggered heavy selling in the country's digital currency markets, as investors look to exit positions despite the losses.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Iran and the UAE agreed to open a new chapter in bilateral relations.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Beny Steinmetz (65), the Israeli billionaire convicted of bribery weeks apart in Romania and Switzerland, was arrested by Greek police when the private jet he was on landed at Athens airport. He was released 24 hours later on condition he didn’t leave Greece.
(Bloomberg, 12/9/21)
2021 Nov 24, Italy tightened the screws on people still unwilling to take an anti-COVID jab, sharply restricting access to an array of services and making vaccines mandatory for a wider group of public sector workers.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Libya's top electoral body disqualified Seif al-Islam Khadafy, the sone of former dictator Moammar Khadafy, from running in next months presidential election.
(SFC, 11/26/21, p.A6)
2021 Nov 24, Mexican officials began dispersing several hundred migrants gathered in the southern city of Tapachula by busing them to other states, heading off the prospect of a new caravan heading north.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 24, The Searching Mothers of Sonora announced that they have found more than 20 bodies in clandestine graves in a town east of Hermosillo, Mexico. Collective Pres. Patricia Cecilia Flores Armenta called for the United Nations' Committee on Enforced Disappearances to get involved in the investigation and speed up the exhumation of the bodies.
(AZCentral, 11/26/21)
2021 Nov 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he has taken an experimental nasal vaccine against the coronavirus, three days after he received his booster shot, as Russia faces its worst surge of infections and deaths since the pandemic began.
(AP, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, South Korea reported a new daily record of 4,116 cases and battles a spike in serious cases straining hospitals. It was reported that a little known sect led by a pastor who pokes eyes to heal is at the center of a COVID-19 outbreak in in Cheonan city. South Korea this month switched to a "living with COVID-19" plan aimed at lifting rigid distancing rules and ultimately reopening after reaching vaccination goals last month. South Korea has recorded 425,065 total infections, with 3,363 deaths.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Sweden's first female prime minister, Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson, resigned after less than 12 hours in the top job after the Green Party quit their two-party coalition, stoking political uncertainty.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 24, Syria’s military said Israeli warplanes attacked army positions in the country’s central region early today, leaving two civilians dead and seven people wounded — six of them soldiers.
(AP, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates signed accords on energy and technology investments after talks between President Tayyip Erdogan and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan in Ankara.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2021 Nov 24, The UN said a convoy of about 40 trucks carrying relief supplies, including food, had left for Tigray from neighboring Afar. The UN estimates 100 trucks should be entering Tigray each day to meet humanitarian needs.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 24, Zambia's central bank raised interest rates by 50 basis points to 9.0% to help bring down stubbornly high inflation, with price rises only seen falling back within the bank's target range in 2023.
(Reuters, 11/24/21)
2022 Nov 24, The US marked the Thanksgiving holiday with traditional feasts, parades and American football, taking a moment to celebrate in a week shadowed by gun violence.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, US Department of Agriculture data showed that avian flu has wiped out 50.54 million birds in the United States this year, making it the country's deadliest outbreak in history.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, NYC held its 96th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
(NY Times, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Amazon.com Inc said it would shut down its online learning platform for high-school students in India less than two years of its launch, without citing a reason.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, It was reported that an Algerian court has sentenced 49 people to death after they were found guilty of lynching a man wrongly suspected of starting forest fires last year.
(BBC, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, The British government said it would set the 2022/23 budget for Northern Ireland in the absence of a functioning devolved government.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, The British government told its departments to stop installing Chinese-linked surveillance cameras at sensitive buildings, citing security risks.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, British official statistics showed that net migration to the United Kingdom rose to a record high of around 504,000 in the year to June 2022, driven by an increase in the number of non-European Union nationals. A spokesman said PM Rishi Sunak is committed to bringing net migration to the United Kingdom down from record levels.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Postal workers, teachers and university staff across Britain went on strike to demand better pay, with warnings that there will be more industrial action and widespread disruption in the run-up to Christmas.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Guitarist David Leadbetter 64) died in hospital after a crash near Bath in Somerset. He had found fame in South Africa, where he was regarded as one of the country's "finest musicians".
(BBC, 12/1/22)
2022 Nov 24, Canada published its first ever national climate adaptation strategy, including C$1.6 billion ($1.2 billion) in new federal funding commitments to help protect communities against the increasing impacts of global warming.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Three more of China's biggest commercial banks pledged at least $131 billion in fresh credit to property developers, bolstering recent regulatory measures to ease a stifling cash crunch in the sector and triggering a rally in property shares. A day after three other lenders committed $31 billion, responding to Beijing's call for support.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, China reported record high 32,695 new local COVID-19 infections, with cities nationwide imposing localized lockdowns, mass testing and other curbs that are fuelling frustration and darkening the outlook for the world's second largest economy.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 24, Foxconn Technology Group, the company that assembles Apple Inc.’s iPhones, apologized for a pay dispute that triggered employee protests at a factory where anti-virus controls have slowed production.
(AP, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, In China a fire in a high-rise building in Urumqi killed 10 people.
(Reuters, 11/26/22)
2022 Nov 24, Egypt announced the release of 30 political activists from jail, the latest in a series of mass releases from detention amid intensifying international scrutiny over the country's human rights record.
(AP, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, It was reported that Lake Suchitlan, El Salvador's largest freshwater lake is one of Central America's most polluted bodies of water.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Airbus said it has reached a settlement with the French financial prosecutor concerning judicial investigations related to Libya and Kazakhstan.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Honduran President Xiomara Castro declared a national security emergency and began implementing a new plan to combat a rising number of cases of extortion by violent criminal groups operating across the country.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Israel said it has cancelled 200 out of some 15,500 permits issued to Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to work in its territory after a laborer was accused of planning to carry out a bombing. A suspect, arrested on Oct. 30, told interrogators he had been recruited by relatives in the militant group Islamic Jihad to plant a bomb on a bus in southern Israel.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, It was reported that a new group of Jamaican resorts is promoting tourism that offers mystical experiences and stress relief through "magic mushrooms," as the Caribbean nation seeks to develop a niche industry in natural psychedelics.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Two newly elected Lebanese lawmakers, including an activist who had pledged to fight corruption, lost their parliament seats following an appeals process before the country's constitutional council.
(AP, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Malaysia’s king appointed veteran politician Anwar Ibrahim (75) as prime minister. Long-time reformist leader Anwar Ibrahim was sworn in as Malaysia's prime minister and vowed to heal a racially divided nation, fight corruption and revive an economy struggling with the rising cost of living.
(NY Times, 11/24/22)(AP, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, In Mexico General Jose Silvestre Urzua, the head of the National Guard in the state of Zacatecas, was killed in a confrontation with armed men during an operation against organized crime. An unidentified attacker was also killed and four members of the National Guard were wounded.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Amsterdam-listed mobile operator Veon said it would sell its Russian business, Vimpelcom, to senior members of the Vimpelcom management team, led by CEO Aleksander Torbakhov, for 130 billion rubles ($2.2 billion).
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Leftist Peruvian President Pedro Castillo accepted the resignation of PM Anibal Torres and will reshuffle his Cabinet once again, amid a lengthy battle between the executive and legislative branches.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 24, The Kremlin denied that its attacks on Ukraine's electricity network were aimed at civilians, but said Kyiv could "end the suffering" of its population by meeting Russia's demands to resolve the conflict.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Russia's parliament approved a bill that widens a prohibition of "LGBT propaganda" and restricts the "demonstration" of LGBT behavior, making any expression of an LGBT lifestyle almost impossible. The new law still needs the approval of the upper house of parliament and President Vladimir Putin.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Unionized truckers in South Korea kicked off their second major strike in less than six months, threatening to disrupt manufacturing and fuel supplies in the world's 10th-largest economy.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Sweden's central bank raised its key interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point to 2.5% and signaled further hikes next year to fight surging inflation.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar told his Russian counterpart in a call that Ankara would continue responding to attacks from northern Syria, after Russia asked Turkey to refrain from a full-scale Syria offensive. Turkish drones have targeted key oil installations run by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeast Syria in strikes that killed 15 civilians and 25 Syrian government soldiers.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
2022 Nov 24, The United Nations' top human rights body decided by a comfortable margin to establish a new investigative mission to probe Iran's suppression of mass protests that have roiled the country since September.
(Reuters, 11/24/22)
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