Today in History - November 25
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2348 BCE Nov 25, Biblical scholars have long asserted this to be the day of the Great Deluge, or Flood. [see Jul 17, 2348]
(HN, 11/25/98)
1120 Nov 25, Countess of Perche, bastard daughter of English king Henry I, drowned along with William (17), English crown prince and son of Henry I.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1177 Nov 25, Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and his armored knights encountered the Muslim army of Saladin below the castle of Montgisard and defeated them in a surprise attack.
(ON, 6/07, p.6)
1357 Nov 25, Charles IV issued a letter of protection of Jews of Strasbourg and Alsace.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1456 Nov 25, Jacques Coeur, French merchant and banker, died in battle.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1562 Nov 25, Lope Felix de Vega, dramatist and poet (Angelica, Arcadia), was born in Madrid, Spain.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1640 Nov 25, Giles Farnaby, composer, died.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1688 Nov 25, Princess Anne fled from London to Nottingham.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1715 Nov 25, England granted the 1st patent to an American. It was for processing corn.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1744 Nov 25, Austrian forces pillaged and killed Jews of Prague.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1758 Nov 25, In the French and Indian War British forces under General John Forbes captured Fort Duquesne (the site of present day Pittsburgh, est. 1754). George Washington participated in the campaign. Forbes renamed the site Fort Pitt after William Pitt the Elder, who directed British military policy in the Seven Years' War of 1756-'63. Before his arrival, the French had burned the fort and retreated.
(AP, 11/25/97)(ON, 9/05, p.5)(HNQ, 7/17/98)
1766 Nov 25, Pope Clement XIII warned of dangers of anti-Christian writings
(MC, 11/25/01)
1783 Nov 25, The British evacuated New York, their last military position in the United States during the Revolutionary War.
(AP, 11/25/97)
1787 Nov 25, Franz Xavier Gruber, Austria, organist and composer (Silent Night), was born.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1815 Nov 25, Johann Peter Saloman (70), composer, died.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1834 Nov 25, Jean-Baptist Colyns, composer, was born.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1834 Nov 25, Delmonico's, one of NY's finest restaurants, provided a meal of soup, steak, coffee & half a pie for 12 cents.
(SFEC, 5/18/97, Z1 p.6)
1835 Nov 25, Andrew Carnegie (d.1919), American industrialist, was born to a poor weaver in Dunfermline, Scotland. He emigrated to the US in 1848 and worked as a superintendent for the Pennsylvania Railroad. In invested in iron manufacturing, railroad cars and oil and moved into the steel business by 1873 where he improved quality and lowered costs. He sold his interests at age 65 and retired to Scotland. He donated $5 million to a pension fund for his workers and gave away an estimated $350 million over the next 2 decades for public libraries, church organs and other causes: There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money."
(WSJ, 1/11/98, p.R18)(AP, 11/25/99)
1844 Nov 25, Carl Benz, pioneer of early motor cars, was born.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1846 Nov 25, Carry Nation (d.1911) was born Carry Amelia Moore in Kentucky. After her first husband died a drunkard, she married David Nation and they moved to Medicine Lodge, Kansas. There, she was elected president of the local chapter of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Even though Kansas was technically a dry state, Medicine Lodge had seven saloons. When Carry Nation's appeals to close the saloons were ignored, she took matters into her own hands--she drove a buggy, full of bricks and stones she had wrapped in newspapers, up to a saloon, smashed its mirrors, glasses, bottles and windows, and said to the proprietor as she left, "I have finished. God be with you." Nation repeated her barroom attacks across the state and the country. One of her last actions was at Washington's Union Depot, where she used three hatchets that she called Faith, Hope and Charity. Nation was arrested about 30 times for her saloon rampages.
(HNPD, 11/25/98)
1847 Nov 25, Friederich von Flotow's opera "Martha" was produced in Vienna.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1863 Nov 25, The Union ended the siege of Chattanooga, Tenn., with the Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tenn.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1864 Nov 25, A Confederate plot to burn NYC failed.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1864 Nov 25, Confederates retreated at Sandersville, Georgia.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1864 Nov 25, David Roberts (b.1796), Scottish painter, died. He toured Egypt and the Holy Land from 1838-1840. His work there made him a prominent Orientalist painter.
(SSFC, 7/24/11, p.F7)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Roberts_%28painter%29)
1867 Nov 25, US Congress commission looked into impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1867 Nov 25, Alfred Nobel patented dynamite.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1876 Nov 25, Colonel Ronald MacKenzie destroyed Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife’s village, in the Bighorn Mountains near the Red Fork of the Powder River, during the so-called Great Sioux War.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1878 Nov 25, In London a trial opened to hear the suit of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) against critic John Ruskin for libel. After a 2-day hearing the jury found Ruskin guilty and awarded Whistler one farthing, a quarter of a penny. Whistler later authored “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies" (1890).
(www.abcgallery.com/W/whistler/whistlerbio.html)(ON, 4/03, p.9)
1880 Nov 25, Leonard Sidney Woolf (d.1969), English publisher, writer, was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Woolf)
1881 Nov 25, Pope John the 23rd (1958-1963) was born Angelo Roncalli near Bergamo, Italy.
(AP, 11/25/97)(MC, 11/25/01)
1884 Nov 25, John B. Meyenberg of St. Louis patented evaporated milk.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1893 Nov 25, Joseph W. Krutch, US naturalist, was born.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1895 Nov 25, Wilhelm Kempff, pianist (Unter dem Zimbelstern), was born in Juterbog, Germany.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1896 Nov 25, Virgil Thompson, American composer, was born. His work included “Four Saints in Three Acts" and “The Mother of Us All."
(HN, 11/25/00)
1897 Nov 25, Spain granted Puerto Rico autonomy.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1900 Nov 25, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Nixon's 1st opponent, (Rep-D-Ca), was born.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1901 Nov 25, Japanese Prince Ito arrived in Russia to seek concessions in Korea.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1901 Nov 25, Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (62), German composer and music theorist, died.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1902 Nov 25, Franz Lehar's opera "Wiener Fraueen," premiered in Vienna.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1903 Nov 25, In San Francisco Alexander Garnett shot and killed Major J.W. McClung at the Palace Hotel apartment of Mrs. Lillian Hitchcock Coit. Coit soon left the city and spent the next 6 years in Paris. Garnett was convicted and sentenced to 15 years at San Quentin, but only began serving time in 1909 following an appeal and restoration of records due to the 1906 fire.
(SSFC, 9/13/09, DB p.46)
1905 Nov 25, Jules Massenet's opera "Thais" had its 1st American performance.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1908 Nov 25, The first issue of The Christian Science Monitor was published.
(AP, 11/25/08)
1910 Nov 25, Alwin Nikolais, choreographer, was born.
(HN, 11/25/00)
1913 Nov 25, Lewis Thomas, physician and author, was born. His work included “The Lives of a Cell."
(HN, 11/25/00)
1914 Nov 25, Joe DiMaggio, baseball star, was born in Martinez, Ca.
(SFC, 10/15/04, p.F13)
1914 Nov 25, German Field Marshal Fredrich von Hindenburg called off Lodz offensive 40 miles from Warsaw, Poland. The Russians lost 90,000 to the Germans’ 35,000 in two weeks of fighting.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1915 Nov 25, Augusto Pinochet (d.2006), general, coup leader and president of Chile (1974-1990), was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet)
1915 Nov 25, Albert Einstein first presented his "General Theory of Relativity" to a group of scientists in Berlin. General Relativity was presented to the Prussian Academy of Sciences over the course of four lectures. In 2000 David Bodanis authored "E=MC²: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation."
(http://tinyurl.com/hbdgz9h)(SFC, 11/26/96, p.A7)(SFEC, 10/22/00, Par p.23)(Econ, 11/28/15, p.70)
1918 Nov 25, Chile and Peru severed relations.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1920 Nov 25, Radio station WTAW of College Station, Texas, broadcast the first play-by-play description of a football game, between the University of Texas and Texas A&M.
(AP, 11/25/00)
1920 Nov 25, The 1st Thanksgiving Parade was held in Philadelphia.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1921 Nov 25, Hirohito became regent of Japan.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1922 Nov 25, Archaeologist Howard Carter entered King Tut's tomb.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1923 Nov 25, Transatlantic broadcasting from England to America for the first time.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1926 Nov 25, Poul [William] Anderson, American sci-fi author (7 Hugos, Mirkheim), was born.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1930 Nov 25, An earthquake in Shizouka, Japan, killed 187.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1938 Nov 25, Charles Starkweather, murderer (Midwest killing spree), was born.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1939 Nov 25, Shelagh Delaney, playwright whose work included “A Taste of Honey," was born.
(HN, 11/25/00)
1939 Nov 25, Germany reported four British ships sunk in the North Sea, but London denied the report.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1940 Nov 25, Woody Woodpecker debuted with the release of Walter Lantz's "Knock Knock."
(MC, 11/25/01)
1940 Nov 25, The ship Patria, carrying illegal immigrants, sank in port of Haifa, 200 died.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1941 Nov 25, German Jews in Netherlands were declared stateless.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1943 Nov 25, U-600 sank in the Atlantic Ocean.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1943 Nov 25, Anti-Fascist Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ZAVNOBiH) adopted a resolution declaring Bosnia and Herzegovina an equal community of Serbs, Muslims and Croats. Bosnia was founded by anti-fascist partisans.
(http://tinyurl.com/hxrp9qt)(Econ, 12/5/15, p.53)
1944 Nov 25, Two Japanese planes struck the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier in kamikaze attacks that left 69 dead and 35 injured.
(WSJ, 11/8/08, p.W9)
1944 Nov 25, Baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis died at age 78.
(AP, 11/25/97)
1946 Nov 25, Supreme Court granted Oregon Indians land payment rights from the U.S. government.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1947 Nov 25, In NYC Cuba-born ballerina Alicia Alonso (1920-2019) partnered with Igor Youskevitch in the premier of George Balanchine's "Theme and Variations."
(SFC, 10/18, p.C9)
1947 Nov 25, Movie studio executives meeting in New York agreed to blacklist the "Hollywood Ten" who were cited a day earlier and jailed for contempt of Congress for failing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
(AP, 11/25/99)
1947 Nov 25, The Big Four met to discuss Germany and the European economy.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1949 Nov 25, [Boris] Alexander Godunov, dancer and actor (Die Hard), was born in Sakhalin, USSR.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1949 Nov 25, "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" appeared on music charts. It was originally an advertising jingle.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1949 Nov 25, Luther "Bill" Robinson (b.1878), famed actor and tap dancer known as "Bojangles," died in NYC.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Robinson)
1950 Nov 25, Mao Anying (b.1922), the eldest son of Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui, was killed by an American air strike during the Korean war.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Anying)
1951 Nov 25, A truce line between U.N. troops and North Korea was mapped out at the peace talks in Panmunjom, Korea.
(HN, 11/25/00)
1952 Nov 25, George Meany was appointed chairman of AFL.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1953 Nov 25, "Guys & Dolls" closed at 46th St Theater NYC after 1200 performances.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1955 Nov 25, The Interstate Commerce Commission banned segregation in interstate travel.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1956 Nov 25, Fidel Castro and his 81 rebel exiles departed Mexico to liberate Cuba from the corrupt dictatorship of Fulgencia Batista. Che Guevara had recently joined Fidel and his band of Cuban rebel exiles as their doctor.
(TOH, 1982, p.1956)(SFC, 6/16/97, p.D3)(SFC, 10/15/97, p.C2)
1957 Nov 25, President Eisenhower suffered a slight stroke.
(AP, 11/25/97)
1958 Nov 25, Charles F. Kettering (82), inventor of the auto self-starter, died.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1960 Nov 25, John F. Kennedy Jr. (d.1999), son of JFK, lawyer, magazine publisher (George), was born in NYC.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1960 Nov 25, "Amos 'n' Andy" made its last broadcast on CBS radio.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1960 Nov 25, CBS ended last 4 radio soap operas (Ma Perkins, Right to Happiness, Young Dr Malone & 2nd Mrs. Burton) and canceled 4 other series.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1963 Nov 25, Assassinated President John F. Kennedy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
(AP, 11/25/97)(HN, 11/25/98)
1964 Nov 25, Eleven nations gave a total of $3 billion to rescue the value of the British currency.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1968 Nov 25, Upton B. Sinclair (b.1878), US novelist and social reformer (Jungle), died at age 90. His work included almost 50 novels, over 20 nonfiction books, plays and countless pieces of journalism. In 1975 Leon A. Harris Jr. (d.2000) authored "Upton Sinclair, American Rebel." In 2006 Anthony Arthur authored “Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair."
(www.americanwriters.org/writers/sinclair.asp)(WSJ, 2/23/06, p.D8)(WSJ, 6/10/06, p.P8)
1969 Nov 25, Pres. Nixon announced an unconditional renunciation of biological weapons.
(SFC, 2/19/00, p.A14)(http://tinyurl.com/9yy6bc)
1970 Nov 25, Walter Hickel (1919-2010), former governor of Alaska and US Secretary of the Interior, was fired by Pres. Nixon after sending Nixon a letter critical of how the president handled student protests following the National Guard shootings at Kent State.
(AH, 10/04, p.42)(SSFC, 5/9/10, p.C8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Hickel)
1970 Nov 25, Yukio Mishima (45), Japanese author and nationalist (Hara-kiri), invaded military headquarters in Tokyo and committed ritual suicide samurai-style. His death was an act of protest after he failed to persuade the country's Self Defense Force to stage a coup and renounce the US-imposed postwar constitution that banned Japanese aggressive military action. His books included "The Sound of Waves" and "The Temple and the Golden Pavilion." In 1998 Jiro Fukushima published a memoir that contained 15 letters from Mishima and descriptions of a sexual liaison with Mishima. A lawsuit soon halted book sales.
(SFEC, 1/25/98, Z1 p.2)(SFC, 10/21/99, p.B7)
1973 Nov 25, Pres. Nixon called for a ban on Sunday gasoline sales.
(http://dotlibrary.dot.gov/Historian/chronology.htm)
1973 Nov 25, Albert DeSalvo, Boston strangler, was stabbed to death in prison. DeSalvo, the self-admitted Boston strangler, had been tried and convicted on unrelated assaults. 13 women were killed in Boston between 1962-1964. DNA evidence was sought in 1999. Susan Kelly wrote a book in 1995 on the Boston Strangler.
(SFC, 7/10/99, p.A3)(www.us.imdb.com/name/nm1108915/)
1973 Nov 25, Greek President George Papadopoulos was ousted in a bloodless military coup led by police chief Brigadier Dimitris Ioannides. Gen'l. Faidon Gizikis was named president. Adamantios Androutsopoulis (d.2000 at 81) was named premier. The dictatorship ended in 1974.
(AP, 11/25/97)(SFC, 6/28/99, p.A19)(SFC, 11/15/00, p.B6)
1973 Nov 25, Three Palestinians hijacked a KLM B747 enroute to New Delhi to Abu Dhabi.
(www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/incidents.html)
1973 Nov 25, Laurence Harvey (b.1928), film actor, died in London of cancer. He was an Academy Award-nominated Lithuanian-born actor who achieved fame in British and American films.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Harvey)
1974 Nov 25, Irish Republican Army was outlawed in Britain following deaths of 21. IRA bombs in British pubs killed 28 and wounded over 200 in the last 2 months.
{Northern Ireland, Britain}
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevention_of_Terrorism_Act_(Northern_Ireland))(WSJ, 3/12/04, p.A11)
1974 Nov 25, Nick Drake (b.1948), English musician and composer, died from an overdose of prescription drugs. His albums included "Five Leaves Left" (1969), "Bryter Layter," and "Pink Moon" (1971). Paul Humphries in 1997 authored the biography "Nick Drake: A Biography."
(WSJ, 2/10/99, p.A20)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Drake)
1974 Nov 25, Former U.N. Secretary-General U Thant died in New York at age 65.
(AP, 11/25/97)
1975 Nov 25, The Portuguese Communist Party under Alvaro Cunhal attempted a coup in Lisbon with leftist army paratroops.
(WSJ, 10/14/98, p.A22)
1975 Nov 25, Suriname gained Independence from the Netherlands and adopted a new flag.
(SFC, 9/6/96, p.A14)(http://flagspot.net/flags/sr.html)
1979 Nov 25, Israel returned the Alma oil field in A-Tour to Egypt.
(www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/time70s.html)
1980 Nov 25, Sugar Ray Leonard regained the World Boxing Council welterweight championship when Roberto Duran abruptly quit in the eighth round at the Louisiana Superdome.
(AP, 11/25/00)
1981 Nov 25, In the Seychelle Islands a group of mercenaries poising as a touring rugby team staged an ill-fated attempted takeover of the country.
(www.strategypage.com/militaryforums/516-637.aspx)
1983 Nov 25, Syria and Saudi Arabia announced a cease-fire in PLO civil war in Tripoli.
(www.defense-update.com/2005/02/arafats-dissidents-challenge-to-abu.html)
1984 Nov 25, William Schroeder of Jasper, Ind., became the 2nd man to receive a Jarvik-7 artificial heart, at Humana Hospital Audubon in Kentucky. He lived 620 days on the device.
(AP, 11/25/04)
1985 Nov 25, Ronald W. Pelton, a former employee of the National Security Agency, was arrested on espionage charges. Pelton was later convicted of selling secrets about signals intelligence to Soviet agents between 1980-1985 for $35,000 plus expenses. Pelton was released in 2015.
(AP, 11/25/05)(SFC, 11/25/15, p.A8)
1985 Nov 25, Elsa Morante (b.1912), Italian writer, died. Her books included “House of Liars" (1948). In 2008 Lily Tuck authored the biography “Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante."
(WSJ, 9/27/08, p.W11)
1986 Nov 25, Secret arms sales to Iran were uncovered with Lt. Col. Oliver North directing the proceeds to the contras in Nicaragua. The Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels. Secretary Fawn Hall smuggled important documents out of Lt. Col. Oliver North’s office.
(TMC, 1994, p.1986)(AP, 11/25/97)(HN, 11/25/98)
1987 Nov 25, Harold Washington, the first black mayor of Chicago (1983-1987), died at age 65 after suffering a heart attack in his City Hall office.
(AP, 11/25/97)
1987 Nov 25, In the "Night of the Gliders" two fighters of the PFLP-GC crossed from Lebanon into Israel on hang-gliders and killed six Israeli soldiers. The attack was considered as one of the triggers for the first intifada.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Gliders)
1988 Nov 25, An earthquake centered in eastern Canada and measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale was felt widely across Canada and in the northeastern United States.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1989 Nov 25, More than 500,000 demonstrators gathered in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where they scoffed at a Communist Party shakeup and cheered Alexander Dubcek, the reformer ousted in 1968.
(AP, 11/25/99)
1990 Nov 25, Poland held its first popular presidential election. Solidarity founder Lech Walesa, who received a plurality of votes, won a runoff the following month.
(AP, 11/25/00)
1991 Nov 25, President George H.W. Bush threatened to veto anti-crime legislation heading for a final vote in Congress, accusing Democrats of producing a bill that would actually weaken law enforcement.
(AP, 11/25/01)
1991 Nov 25, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev suffered a setback in his bid to hold the Soviet Union together when leaders of seven republics refused to endorse a treaty creating a new political union.
(AP, 11/25/01)
1992 Nov 25, The Commerce Department reported that the gross domestic product, the sum of all goods and services produced within U.S. borders, had advanced at a brisk 3.9 percent seasonally adjusted annual rate during the third quarter of 1992.
(AP, 11/25/97)
1993 Nov 25, Violence broke out in the Gaza Strip, a day after Israeli undercover soldiers killed Imad Akel, the head of the military wing of Hamas.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1993 Nov 25, Egyptian Prime Minister Atef Sedki escaped an attempt on his life when Islamic militants detonated a car bomb near his motorcade. The attack killed a 5-year-old girl. Yasser al-Siri, a member of the “media committee" of the Islamic Jihad, was tried and convicted in absentia for the assassination attempt. Siri fled to the UK and obtained political asylum.
(HN, 11/25/98)(WSJ, 10/26/01, p.A19)
1993 Nov 25, Anthony Burgess (b.1917) died in London at age 76. He was a British author of 34 books of fiction and 15 of non-fiction as well as plays, librettos and a considerable body of serious. His last book, a novel called “A Dead Man in Deptford," is actually an idiosyncratic biography of Christopher Marlowe. Burgess is best known today for his novel “Clockwork Orange." His final book, “Byrne," was a novel in verse of 8-line stanzas (ottova rima) published in 1997. In 2002 Roger Lewis authored the biography “Anthony Burgess."
(WSJ, 4/28/95, p.A-8)(SFEC, 9/14/97, BR p.3)(HN, 11/25/98)(FT, 12/14/02, p.IV)
1994 Nov 25, NATO warplanes buzzed the besieged "safe haven" of Bihac in northwest Bosnia but did not carry out airstrikes against rebel Serbs.
(AP, 11/25/99)
1994 Nov 25, Sony Corporation co-founder Akio Morita retired as chairman of the electronics giant for health reasons.
(AP, 11/25/04)
1995 Nov 25, In his weekly radio address, President Clinton appealed to America’s values and interests as he pleaded for support for the Bosnia peace agreement.
(AP, 11/25/00)
1995 Nov 25, In Texas Victor Saldano and Mexican friend Jorge Chavez, drunk and high on crack cocaine, were seen holding Paul King at gunpoint in a parking lot. King (46) was abducted from a Plano supermarket, robbed and shot. In 1996 Saldano, an illegal alien from Argentina, was convicted and sentenced to death for the killing. In 2017 a federal court agreed to review the case.
(http://tinyurl.com/yd5539n5)(AP, 6/29/17)
1995 Nov 25, Serbs in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo took to the streets by the thousands to protest the peace plan, vowing to fight to the death.
(AP, 11/25/00)
1996 Nov 25, President Clinton won a victory on the trade front by getting Pacific Rim leaders meeting in the Philippines to accept the year 2000 as a deadline for cutting tariffs on information technology.
(AP, 11/25/97)
1996 Nov 25, Testifying for a second day at a civil trial, O.J. Simpson again denied killing Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, but couldn't explain how blood believed to be the victims' got into his Bronco, or how he suffered hand cuts.
(AP, 11/25/97)
1996 Nov 25, In Belarus Pres. Lukashenko claimed victory in a referendum that proposed restarting his 5-year term with broad new powers. It extended his term to 2001, granted him immunity from prosecution, gave him control of key political positions from judgeships to Parliament seats and the authority to declare a state of emergency at will. Russia said that all nuclear warheads from Belarus had been returned.
(SFC, 11/26/96, p.B2) (WSJ, 12/3/96, p.A18)(WSJ, 11/26/96, p.A1)
1996 Nov 25, In Iraq the government agreed to implement the UN conditions set for a $2 billion oil-for-food sale.
(SFC, 11/26/96, p.B3)
1996 Nov 25, In Belgrade, Serbia, 100,000 demonstrators protested the nullification of municipal election results.
(SFC, 11/26/96, p.B2)
1997 Nov 25, President Clinton and Pacific Rim leaders meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, approved a rescue strategy for Asian economies shaken by plunging currencies, bank failures and bankruptcies. The 2-day APEC summit in Vancouver closed and leaders agreed to an IMF bailout plan. Forum leaders also agreed to admit Russia, Vietnam and Peru into the organization as of 1998.
(SFC, 11/26/97, p.C2)(HN, 11/25/98)
1997 Nov 25, The FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) ordered the dismantling of the 160-year-old Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River in Maine. The commission refused to reissue a license to Edwards Manufacturing Co. and ordered Edwards to pay the estimated $6.4 million cost of removing its dam.
(SFC, 11/26/97, p.A7)
1997 Nov 25, Federal indictments were brought against 19 people, who included mobsters from the Genovese and Bonanno families, corporate executives of HealthTech and stockbrokers of the Wall Street firm Meyers Pollock Robbins Inc. for racketeering, extortion and securities fraud.
(SFC, 11/26/97, p.B1)
1997 Nov 25, Teamsters President Ron Carey announced he was taking an unpaid leave of absence to fight an election overseer's decision barring him from a rerun. Hours later a federal oversight board accused him of diverting union money to his 1996 re-election campaign.
(SFC, 11/26/97, p.A3) (HN, 11/25/98)
1997 Nov 25, In Washington DC Police Chief Larry D. Soulsby resigned just hours before a police lieutenant roommate was charged with extorting money from married men who frequented gay bars. The chief and his lieutenant shared a cut-rate luxury apartment obtained under false premises.
(SFC, 11/26/97, p.A3)
1997 Nov 25, In the Congo it was reported that police flogged 10 journalists for attending a news conference by politician Z’Ahidi Arthur Ngoma. Ngoma and five supporters were arrested after the conference.
(SFC, 11/28/97, p.B5)
1997 Nov 25, It was reported that Iraq’s agency for electronic eavesdropping, known as Project 858, spied on UN weapons inspectors.
(SFC, 11/25/97, p.A8)
1997 Nov 25, Dr. Kamuzu Banda (99), dictator of Malawi from 1964-1994, died in South Africa (www.dispatch.co.za/1997/11/27/page%2019.htm). His official birthday was given as May 14, 1906.
(SFC, 11/27/97, p.B8)
1997 Nov 25, In Mexico two high-ranking army officers were charged with murder in the Sep 8 killings. It was the first time in modern Mexican history that a civilian court had brought charges against an army officer.
(WSJ, 11/26/97, p.A1)
1997 Nov 25, In Russia Richard Bliss (29), an employee of Qualcomm Comm., was arrested for spying while performing land surveys using satellite receivers in Rostov-on-Don. Qualcomm was under contract to install a cellular phone system. Bliss was later released for a Christmas holiday with some assurance that he would return for trial.
(SFC, 12/6/97, p.A8)(SFC, 12/24/97, p.A3)
1997 Nov 25, The South Korean stock market hit a low of 439.59, its lowest point since Jul, 1987.
(SFC, 11/26/97, p.C2)
1998 Nov 25, In Michigan a prosecutor brought charges of first-degree murder against Dr. Jack Kevorkian for administering a lethal injection last Sept. to a terminally ill man who wished to die.
(SFC, 11/26/98, p.A1)
1998 Nov 25, In Washington state an explosion at the Equilon Puget Sound Refining Co. at Anacortes killed 6 people.
(SFC, 11/26/98, p.A3)
1998 Nov 25, Flip Wilson (64), the fist successful black host of a TV variety show, the Flip Wilson Show from 1970-1974, died in Malibu, Calif.
(SFC, 11/26/98, p.B9)(AP, 11/25/99)
1998 Nov 25, From Belarus it was reported that food rationing had been imposed for milk, meat and other goods due to shortages.
(SFC, 11/26/98, p.B5)
1998 Nov 25, In Britain 5 members of the House of Lords voted 3 to 2 to reject former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s claim of immunity from extradition. The rejection came one day before Pinochet’s 83rd birthday. The final decision rested with Home Sec. Jack Straw.
(SFC, 11/26/98, p.A1,B2)(SFC, 11/27/98, p.A1)
1998 Nov 25, In India state elections were held in Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan, and Mizoram. Polls predicted a setback for the ruling BJP.
(SFC, 11/26/98, p.B3)
1998 Nov 25, President Jiang Zemin arrived in Tokyo for the first visit to Japan by a Chinese head of state since World War II. Zemin and Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi decided not to sign a joint declaration on the relationship between their countries during the Jiang’s 6-day visit, the first ever by a Chinese head of state. Zemin wanted a written apology from Japan for WW II atrocities that began with a 1931 Japanese invasion. Only verbal apologies were made.
(SFC, 11/26/98, p.B3)(AP, 11/25/99)
1998 Nov 25, In Poland the cold weather left another 8 people dead, mostly middle-aged drinkers who died outside.
(SFC, 11/26/98, p.B5)
1998 Nov 25, In Turkey the government of Mesut Yilmaz lost a vote of confidence 314-214. Pres. Demirel was expected to ask Yilmaz to stay on until an interim government is formed.
(SFC, 11/26/98, p.B2)
1999 Nov 25, A 5-year-old boy, one of 14 escapees from Cuba, was saved by sport fisherman off Florida while 9 people drowned. The fate of Elian Gonzalez was in question after his father called for his return to Cuba. This set off an international custody battle between relatives in Miami and Elian's father in Cuba.
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.A3)(SFC, 12/1/99, p.A7)(AP, 11/25/06)
1999 Nov 25, Britain and France called for a 50-60 thousand European Union rapid reaction force.
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.B2)
1999 Nov 25, In Chechnya Russian forces fired hundreds of rockets into Grozny in its fiercest assault in the 3-month offensive.
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.A20)
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)
1999 Nov 25, A 5-year-old boy, one of 14 escapees from Cuba, was saved by fisherman while 9 people drowned. The fate of Elian Gonzalez was in question after his father called for his return to Cuba. His rescue set off an international custody battle between relatives in Miami and Elian’s father in Cuba.
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.A3)(SFC, 12/1/99, p.A7)(AP, 11/25/00)
1999 Nov 25, In Nigeria at least 27 people were killed at a food market in Kedu when Yoruba traders, backed by members of the militant Odua People's Congress, clashed with Hausa counterparts.
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.B4)
1999 Nov 25, In Zurich fireworks caused light damage to 3 US-related buildings. Responsibility was taken by a group called Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal.
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.B4)
2000 Nov 25, Hundreds of military veterans and retirees, angered by the rejection of overseas absentee ballots in Florida, held a noisy demonstration in Pensacola, one of several rallies Republicans and Democrats staged across Florida.
(AP, 11/25/01)
2000 Nov 25, In Azerbaijan an earthquake hit Baku and at least 3 people were killed. 20 people died of heart attacks.
(SSFC, 11/26/00, p.D6)(WSJ, 11/27/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 25, In Bangladesh 52 people were killed in a fire at the Chowdhury Knitwear Garments factory at Shibpur.
(SSFC, 11/26/00, p.D9)(SSFC, 4/15/01, p.D1)
2000 Nov 25, Israeli soldiers killed 4 Palestinians and wounded over 30 in a series of clashes that undermined field level cooperation. 2 students and 2 bakers were killed by Israeli soldiers, who claimed Jamal Abdel Razek was a leader of the Tanzim militia traveling with 3 bodyguards.
(SSFC, 11/26/00, p.A18)(SFC, 12/6/00, p.A16)
2000 Nov 25, In the Netherlands the last day of the Global Warming conference at the Hague produced only a declaration of intent to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A compromise between US and EU negotiators failed. An increase of 4.5 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit was predicted in the coming 100 years if greenhouse gas emissions were not reduced.
(SFC, 11/25/00, p.C1)(SSFC, 11/26/00, p.A18)
2000 Nov 25, In Peru Walter Ledesma, the new defense minister, announced the immediate dismissal of 12 generals.
(SSFC, 11/26/00, p.D9)
2000 Nov 25, In the Philippines military troops retook Camp Bushra in Lanao del Sur province and reported 10 rebels killed. The rebels reported 22 military casualties.
(SFC, 11/27/00, p.A8)
2001 Nov 25, Scientists at Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass., said they created the world’s 1st cloned human embryo, which they let grow for just a few hours. China’s Dr. Lu Guangxiu later claimed that her Xiangya Medical College team had cloned a human embryo 2 years earlier.
(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/6/02, p.A1)
2001 Nov 25, Taliban troops near Mazar-e-Sharif staged a prison revolt and hundreds were reported killed. US marines landed near Kandahar marking the 1st major use of US ground troops in Afghanistan. 5 Americans were injured by an American bomb and 1 CIA agent, Johnny Michael Spann (32), was reportedly killed.
(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A1)(SFC, 11/27/01, p.A8)(SFC, 11/29/01, p.A1)(NW, 12/10/01, p.31)
2001 Nov 25, Ethiopia sent troops into the northeastern Somali region of Puntland to help Col. Abdullahi Yussuf regain power. Yussuf was overthrown Aug 26 after his 3-year term ended. On Nov 21 Yussuf launched an attack on Garoweh, the capital of Puntland and said it was to crush Islamic terrorists.
(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A11)(WSJ, 11/28/01, p.A10)
2001 Nov 25, In Honduras Pres. elections Ricardo Maduro (50) led polls over Rafael Pineda of the governing Liberal Party. Early returns showed Maduro with a 52% lead.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A18)(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A12)
2001 Nov 25, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 13-year-old Palestinian youth during a clash in the West Bank. Israeli forces carried out missile strikes in the Gaza Strip.
(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A9)
2002 Nov 25, Pres. Bush signed into law the Department of Homeland Security and named Tom Ridge as head of the Cabinet-level office.
(SFC, 11/26/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 25, US federal investigators reported that they had uncovered the largest identity theft ring ever seen. They alleged that 3 men had victimized over 30,000 people and caused the loss of millions.
(SFC, 11/26/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 25, Space shuttle Endeavour arrived at the international space station, delivering one American and two Russians, and another girder for the orbiting outpost.
(AP, 11/25/03)
2002 Nov 25, Eugene V. Rostow (89), former US State Department official, died.
(AP, 11/25/03)
2002 Nov 25, Karel Reisz (b.1926), Czech-born film director, died in London. He fled Nazi occupation in 1938. His film career began in Britain and moved on to Hollywood where his work included "The French Lieutenant's Woman."
(SFC, 11/28/02, p.A30)
2002 Nov 25, In France striking truckers blockaded roadways in about 20 locations, but police intervened to dismantle several barricades that had slowed access to airports and highways.
(AP, 11/25/02)
2002 Nov 25, Indian security forces shot dead two suspected Muslim militants who had attacked Hindu temples in Indian Kashmir, ending a bloody siege that cast a shadow over efforts to bring peace to the disputed region.
(AP, 11/25/02)
2002 Nov 25, An overloaded bus crashed off a bridge into a boulder-strewn gorge in central India, killing at least 36 people and injuring 45.
(Reuters, 11/25/02)
2002 Nov 25, Israeli troops shot and killed an 8-year-old Palestinian boy in Nablus as hundreds of youths ignored a curfew and threw stones at soldiers on their way home from school. Israeli troops and armored vehicles pulled out of Bethlehem.
(AP, 11/25/02)
2002 Nov 25, Floods caused by 2 days of heavy rains in Morocco killed at least 37 people, collapsed homes, shut down rail travel and damaged the country's huge oil refinery.
(AP, 11/26/02)
2002 Nov 25, Pakistan's military said it had killed and wounded several Indian troops in the heaviest exchange of fire across the military control line in disputed Kashmir in recent days.
(AP, 11/25/02)
2002 Nov 25, Philippine communist rebels, fleeing pursuing soldiers, torched a mobile phone relay station at Puerto Galera, a resort close to the capital Manila which is one of the country's best-known scuba diving spots.
(Reuters, 11/25/02)
2003 Nov 25, The US Senate gave final congressional approval to historic Medicare legislation combining a new prescription drug benefit with measures to control costs before the baby boom generation reaches retirement age.
(WSJ, 11/3/04, p.A6)(AP, 11/25/08)
2003 Nov 25, The US Commerce Dept. Reported profits at American companies rose 30% in the 3rd quarter compared to a year earlier.
(WSJ, 11/26/03, p.A1)
2003 Nov 25, Gail Knisley (62) was shot and killed while riding in a car on a highway in Columbus, Ohio. It was the only fatality in a series of shootings that terrified area drivers. A suspect, Charles A. McCoy Jr., was arrested March 17, 2004. McCoy later pleaded guilty to manslaughter and 10 other charges, and was sentenced to 27 years in prison.
(AP, 11/25/04)(AP, 11/25/08)
2003 Nov 25, In East Texas Carolyn Click was strangled to death by her son Tracy Beatty. Beatty was executed for her murder on Nov. 9, 2022.
(https://tinyurl.com/mvfe3euw)(SFC, 11/11/22, p.A19)
2003 Nov 25, In Cambodia PM Hun Sen's nephew was arrested on murder charges for allegedly shooting to death two people after a car crash.
(AP, 11/25/03)
2003 Nov 25, In Colombia 800 fighters of a feared right-wing militia piled their weapons and ammunition on the floor in a disarmament ceremony touted by the government as a first step toward ending four decades of war. The army recovered a body believed to be that of a Japanese businessman abducted more than three years ago.
(AP, 11/25/03)
2003 Nov 25, In Colombia Abelardo Forero (91), a journalist and politician who tried to soothe a nation wracked by violence, died. In 1978, Forero launched a television show, "The Past in the Present," that brought to life Colombia's tumultuous history. The award-wining program ran for 15 years.
(AP, 11/26/03)
2003 Nov 25, In Congo 2 ferries collided in a storm on Mai-Ndombe lake. At least 182 people were killed and more than 100 others were missing.
(AP, 11/27/03)(AP, 11/28/03)
2003 Nov 25, Georgian lawmakers set a new presidential election for Jan 4. The foreign debt stood at $1.8 billion, the unemployment rate was 30% and the average monthly salary was $20.
(AP, 11/25/03)(SFC, 11/26/03, p.A13)
2003 Nov 25, The Indian and Pakistani armies agreed to stop firing across their frontier, including in disputed Kashmir, starting at midnight in a further easing of tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
(AP, 11/25/03)
2003 Nov 25, In southern India an explosion at a state-run factory that makes detonators killed at least 10 workers.
(AP, 11/25/03)
2003 Nov 25, Sales of Mexican green onions plunged after a hepatitis outbreak in the US was traced to northwestern Mexico, forcing farmers in this valley to defend the safety of their produce and find ways to stay afloat financially.
(AP, 11/25/03)
2003 Nov 25, Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo said he will surrender ousted Liberian leader Charles Taylor to face a war crimes trial if Liberia asks.
(AP, 11/25/03)
2003 Nov 25, Saudi police killed 2 militants and seized a car bomb ready for detonation in post Ramadan celebrations.
(WSJ, 11/26/03, p.A1)
2003 Nov 25, The UN said AIDS will kill 3 million people this year and infect 5 million. The global HIV tally was put at 40 million.
(WSJ, 11/26/03, p.A1)
2003 Nov 25, In Yemen security forces arrested Saudi-born Mohammed Hamdi al-Ahdal (32), the alleged mastermind of the attacks on the USS Cole, at a hide-out west of the capital, San'a. Al-Ahdal was later sentenced to three years for the French tanker attack, but was not charged in the Cole case.
(AP, 11/26/03)(SFC, 11/26/03, p.A10)(AP, 11/25/08)
2004 Nov 25, Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the UN nuclear watchdog IAEA, said a deal was reached with Brazil on inspecting its uranium enrichment plant.
(AP, 11/25/04)
2004 Nov 25, The 3rd IUCN World Conservation Congress closed in Bangkok. Its final resolutions included a resolution urging governments to limit the use of loud noise sources in the world’s oceans.
(SFC, 12/13/04, p.C1)
2004 Nov 25, In China Yan Yanming (21) broke into a high school dormitory in Ruzhou with a knife and killed 8 students. A series of knife attacks have hit Chinese schools in recent months. Yanming was executed Jan 18, 2004.
(AP, 11/26/04)(AP, 1/20/05)
2004 Nov 25, Congo Pres. Joseph Kabila suspended 6 cabinet ministers and 10 directors of state-run companies. A parliamentary inquiry alleged they had embezzled government funds.
(AP, 11/26/04)
2004 Nov 25, Eight former pro-Jakarta militiamen were convicted in East Timor for crimes against humanity committed in the mayhem surrounding a 1999 UN-backed vote that led to the country's separation from Indonesia.
(AFP, 11/29/04)
2004 Nov 25, Ethiopia finally accepted a special commission's ruling designed to resolve a border dispute with Eritrea that sparked a devastating war between 1998 and 2000.
(AFP, 11/25/04)
2004 Nov 25, French President Jacques Chirac set aside years of acrimony over the bombing of a French passenger jet in the 1980s and declared a "new chapter" in relations with Libya.
(AP, 11/25/04)
2004 Nov 25, Leading Sunni Muslim politicians in Iraq urged postponement of the Jan. 30, 2005, national elections. However, the elections ended up taking place as scheduled.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2004 Nov 25, A mortar attack killed four employees of a British security firm and wounded 15 others in the Baghdad's Green Zone. Two Marines were killed and 3 others wounded when they came under fire during house-clearing operations in Fallujah. 3 rebels were killed in response.
(AP, 11/26/04)
2004 Nov 25, An Iraqi official said more than 2,000 people have been killed so far in the U.S.-Iraqi operation against the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
(AP, 11/25/04)
2004 Nov 25, In Mexico the bodies of 9 people, including three federal agents, were discovered at two sites outside Cancun, and police are blaming the killings on a drug turf war.
(AP, 11/26/04)
2004 Nov 25, Mexican federal investigators said that two Mexico City police and 27 other people face homicide charges in the horrific vigilante killings of two federal agents this week.
(AP, 11/26/04)
2004 Nov 25, Myanmar announced it is to free more than 5,000 prisoners on top of the nearly 4,000 announced last week.
(AP, 11/25/04)
2004 Nov 25, Nicaragua's congress voted to give itself the power to ratify and dismiss Cabinet ministers and other officials in a deepening political crisis touched off by anti-corruption efforts.
(AP, 11/26/04)
2004 Nov 25, In Singapore China Aviation Oil, CAO Singapore, filed for bankruptcy protection following an estimated loss of $550 million from a series of bets on oil prices.
(WSJ, 12/6/04, p.A1)
2004 Nov 25, The UN World Food Program said it has suspended its operations in most of the Sudanese state of North Darfur and relocated its staff to the capital due to renewed clashes between rebels and government forces.
(AP, 11/25/04)
2004 Nov 25, Ukraine's Supreme Court prohibited making the results of the nation's disputed presidential election official until it considers an appeal.
(AP, 11/25/04)
2005 Nov 25, It was reported that thieves in Baltimore had stolen some 130 aluminum light poles over the last few weeks.
(SFC, 11/25/05, p.A8)
2005 Nov 25, Massachusetts’ attorney general said it is opening an investigation into several supermarkets that opened on Thanksgiving in defiance of the state’s Puritan-era blue laws.
(SFC, 11/26/05, p.C2)
2005 Nov 25, Nine inmates escaped from the Yakima County Jail in Washington state; all were recaptured, although one was at large for three weeks.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2005 Nov 25, Members of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) gave the title of "endangered" to 11 new species.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, In Afghanistan a Swedish soldier died from wounds suffered in a roadside bomb blast. He was one of 4 wounded by the blast in Mazar-e-Sharif.
(AP, 11/26/05)
2005 Nov 25, The European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica reported that carbon dioxide in the current atmosphere is greater than at any time during the last 650,000 years.
(SFC, 11/25/05, p.A1)
2005 Nov 25, In Belgium a one-day strike interrupted production at the Volkswagen AG plant in the outskirts of Brussels as trade unions protested planned government changes to retirement policy.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, George Best (59), one of the most dazzling players in soccer history who also reveled in a hard-drinking, playboy lifestyle, died in London after decades of alcohol abuse.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, Canada pledged $4.3 billion in a landmark deal with Indian and northern Inuit communities to help lift them from the poverty and disease that has plagued their neglected reserves for more than a century.
(AP, 11/26/05)
2005 Nov 25, Pushing China's foreign exchange reform ahead by another step, the central bank carried out its first currency swap deals with local banks in a move that could help bring more flexibility to the market.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, China's Ministry of Agriculture confirmed a bird flu outbreak in Zalantun city in northern China's Inner Mongolia bringing to 23 the number of outbreaks of the disease.
(Reuters, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, Newspapers in Dubai reported that police had raided a hotel chalet in Ghantout and arrested 26 men as they celebrated a wedding ceremony. 22 of the 26 arrested were from the Emirates.
(SSFC, 11/27/05, p.A23)
2005 Nov 25, EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn officially opened landmark negotiations on closer ties between Bosnia and the 25-member European Union.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, In Guadeloupe youths set up flaming tire barricades and threw rocks at police in clashes sparked by a motorcycle crash at a police checkpoint.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, In India more than 60 people were feared drowned after two crowded buses were washed away in floods in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, Indonesia said it would begin producing the bird flu drug Tamiflu, while Vietnam and China reported new outbreaks of the virus among poultry.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, Susanne Osthoff, a German aid worker and archaeologist, was kidnapped in Iraq; she was released more than three weeks later.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2005 Nov 25, Israel handed over the remains of three Hezbollah guerrillas to Lebanon in a bid to defuse tensions after fierce border clashes, but Hezbollah's leader said his group will keep trying to kidnap Israeli soldiers.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, Across Italy public transportation ground to a halt, public offices shut down and thousands rallied as part of a general strike against the government's 2006 budget.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, In Lithuania the prosecutor general's office said a Lithuanian man suspected of helping Nazis round up Jews during World War II will stand trial in a Vilnius court. Algimantas Dailide (84), who moved to the US in 1955 and lived there until he was deported in 2003 for lying about his wartime past, is accused of being a member of the Nazi-sponsored Lithuanian Security Police, known as the Saugumas, which took part in the arrests of Jews during the war.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas opened the Gaza-Egypt border in a festive ceremony, a milestone for the Palestinians who for the first time took control of a frontier crossing without Israeli veto powers and gained some freedom of movement.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party held primaries in six West Bank cities to choose candidates for a January parliament election.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, Poland's defense minister signed an order that will give researchers access to most of the Warsaw Pact's top-secret archives, including decisions related to the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, Hissene Habre, Chad's former dictator, was freed after a Senegalese court said it had no jurisdiction to rule on his extradition to Belgium to stand trial for war crimes.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, Slovakia joined the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) as a first step towards adopting the European Union's common euro currency.
(AFP, 11/26/05)
2005 Nov 25, Swiss authorities said they will block major foreign acquisitions by the telecommunications operator Swisscom because of financial risk to the state, which holds most of the company's shares.
(AFP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, In Vietnam former British glam rocker Gary Glitter was charged with committing "obscene acts with children" and could face more serious charges that carry the death penalty.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2006 Nov 25, James Wolfensohn, former World Bank chief, warned that Western nations must prepare for a future dominated by China and India, whose rapid economic rise will soon fundamentally alter the balance of power. He spoke at the University of New South Wales for the 2006 Wallace Wurth Memorial Lecture.
(AFP, 11/26/06)
2006 Nov 25, In NYC Sean Bell (23) and two other unarmed men in a car were killed hours before Bell was to have married the mother of his two children. The confrontation with police stemmed from an undercover operation by 7 officers investigating the Kalua Cabaret in Queens. Two officers were later indicted for manslaughter, and a third was charged with reckless endangerment; all pleaded not guilty. In 2008 three NYPD detectives were acquitted of all charges in the case.
(AP, 11/27/06)(AP, 11/25/07)(AP, 4/25/08)
2006 Nov 25, Insurgents attacked NATO-led forces Saturday near the Tirin Kot district of Uruzgan province. NATO returned fire and called in attack aircraft, killing approximately 50 insurgents.
(http://tinyurl.com/yfs28z)(WSJ, 11/27/06, p.A1)
2006 Nov 25, In Argentina Nora Dalmasso (51) was strangled in her Buenos Aires suburban home. In 2007 her son, Facundo Macarron (20), was charged with her murder and aggravated sexual abuse.
(SSFC, 6/17/07, p.A16)
2006 Nov 25, Bahrain, an island nation of 700,000 citizens, held elections. More than 200 candidates vied for the National Assembly's 40-seat lower house. 40 members of the upper chamber are appointed by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, who can veto parliamentary legislation. Shiites and opposition members say the system preserves Sunni dominance.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 25, Health workers began a drive across Bangladesh to immunize 24 million children under five against polio to combat the crippling virus that has staged a comeback in the South Asian nation.
(AFP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 25, A group of 18 English tourists was robbed by heavily armed gunmen shortly after arriving in Rio de Janeiro for vacation. Last month, gunmen attacked a bus carrying Chinese tourists and robbed them of $17,000.
(AP, 11/26/06)
2006 Nov 25, In eastern Chad fighting broke out between the national army and rebels, and rebels claimed they had seized the major city in the area.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 25, Congo’s government and the UN said fighters loyal to warlord Laurent Nkunda attacked army positions in eastern Congo with small arms and heavy weapons. Nkunda controlled thousands of fighters and claimed the loyalty of the 81st and 83rd army brigades, the troops involved in the most recent clashes.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 25, A third batch of Indonesians left to join a UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, bringing the Asian nation's Middle East deployment to more than 830 troops.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 25, Gunmen broke into two Shiite homes and killed 21 men in front of their relatives in Baladruz. Coalition forces north of Baghdad attacked 3 vehicles carrying 12 insurgents. Soldiers opened fire on the cars when they ignored warning shots, and all the militants were killed. 13 bodies were found dumped in various parts of Baghdad. Iraqi police killed at least 36 insurgents and wounded dozens after scores of militants armed with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades attacked government buildings in the center of Baqouba. At least 11 more suspected militants were killed in Baqouba after nightfall. One US soldier was killed in Diyala by a roadside bomb. 2 US Marines were killed in Anbar province.
(AP, 11/25/06)(AP, 11/26/06)(SSFC, 11/26/06, p.A13)
2006 Nov 25, Israel and the Palestinians agreed to a cease-fire to end a five-month Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip and the firing of rockets by Palestinian militants into the Jewish state. Hamas' leader, Damascus-based supreme leader Khaled Mashaal, said his group was willing to give peace negotiations with Israel six months to reach an agreement for a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank, but threatened a new uprising if the talks fail.
(AP, 11/25/06) (AP, 11/25/07)
2006 Nov 25, Hezbollah renewed its threat to stage mass protests aimed at bringing down Lebanon's US-backed government as the Cabinet scheduled meeting to vote on an international tribunal to try suspects in the killing of a former prime minister.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 25, In Mexico singer Valentin Elizalde (27) was ambushed and gunned down along with his manager and driver following a performance in Reynosa. His ballads included narco-corridos, which honored the exploits of drug dealers.
(SSFC, 11/26/06, p.A19)
2006 Nov 25, In the southern Philippines the Leonida II, a small ferry, capsized in rough waters, leaving 19 passengers missing while 66 people were rescued.
(AP, 11/26/06)
2006 Nov 25, US Vice President Dick Cheney arrived in Saudi Arabia for talks with King Abdullah, apparently seeking the Sunni royal family's influence and tribal connections to calm Iraq after an especially violent week.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 25, Sri Lankan warplanes attacked a camp housing Tamil Tiger rebel suicide bombers in the country's north.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 25, In Thailand a regional representative for teachers said more than 300 schools in the south will close indefinitely Nov 27, after attacks by suspected Muslim insurgents left two teachers dead.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 25, A UN agency said that Israel laid mines in Lebanon during this summer's war between the Jewish state and the Lebanon-based Hezbollah group, the first time Israel has been accused of planting mines during the latest fighting.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2007 Nov 25, Kevin Dubrow (52), lead singer for the 1980s heavy metal band Quiet Riot, died in Las Vegas from an accidental cocaine overdose.
(AP, 12/11/07)
2007 Nov 25, NATO's ISAF confirmed that airstrikes targeted and killed 3 Taliban militants who were planting mines in nearby Gardez.
(AP, 11/25/07)
2007 Nov 25, Newly elected leader Kevin Rudd moved quickly to bring Australia into international talks on fighting global warming, and to head off potentially thorny relations with the United States and key Asian neighbors.
(AP, 11/25/07)
2007 Nov 25, More than 50 people were missing after a boat, possibly being ferried by human traffickers, sank off a southern Bangladesh island bordering Myanmar waters.
(AP, 11/26/07)
2007 Nov 25, In northeastern Brazil a section of stands at a soccer stadium gave way as fans cheered at the end of a game, killing eight people.
(AP, 11/26/07)
2007 Nov 25, Actor Neil Hope, who starred as Derek "Wheels" Wheeler on the popular 1980s TV series "Degrassi Junior High," died. He had little contact with relatives and friends in his final years and died alone in an Ontario rooming house. His death was not made public until 2012.
(AP, 2/18/12)
2007 Nov 25, In China 6 people were confirmed dead and 7 others were reported missing after an iron tailing dam collapsed early this morning in northeast Liaoning Province.
(Reuters, 11/25/07)
2007 Nov 25, Croatia held parliamentary elections. Exit polls and preliminary results showed that the ruling conservatives and opposition center-left Social Democrats were virtually tied.
(AP, 11/26/07)
2007 Nov 25, In France youths assaulted a police station, torched cars and vandalized stores in a rampage that injured 21 police officers in Villiers-le-Bel, a rundown Paris suburb. The violence was prompted when two teens were killed in a motorbike crash with a police patrol car.
(AP, 11/26/07)
2007 Nov 25, Two strong earthquakes struck Indonesia’s eastern island of Sumbawa and killed at least three people, including a child, and injured 45 others.
(AP, 11/26/07)(Econ, 12/1/07, p.58)
2007 Nov 25, In Iraq a parked car bomb exploded in a crowded area near a medical complex in Baghdad, killing at least nine people and wounding more than 30. A roadside bomb targeted an Iraqi army patrol at an intersection in a northeastern Baghdad neighborhood, killing one civilian and wounding eight others. Masked gunmen killed 11 relatives of a journalist critical of the Iraqi government, according to colleagues and the media advocacy group Reporters Without Border.
(AP, 11/25/07)(AP, 11/27/07)
2007 Nov 25, In Malaysia some 10-20 thousand ethnic Indians clashed with police at a rally in downtown Kuala Lumpur to demand economic equality.
(AP, 11/27/07)(AP, 12/16/07)
2007 Nov 25, An army spokesman and Palestinian medics said Israeli troops killed two armed Palestinians in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip overnight.
(AFP, 11/25/07)
2007 Nov 25, Pakistan’s exiled former PM Nawaz Sharif returned home to a hero's welcome and called on President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to end emergency rule before elections, a fresh challenge to the US-backed leader. The army said that 30 pro-Taliban fighters and one Pakistani soldier died in an operation to capture militant positions in the Swat valley.
(AP, 11/25/07)
2007 Nov 25, In the Philippines Typhoon Mitag hit Isabela province after killing 8 people in other parts of the country. A week earlier Typhoon Hagibis left 13 people before heading toward Vietnam. It then reversed direction and headed back toward the Philippines.
(SFC, 11/26/07, p.A10)
2007 Nov 25, Dozens of members of a Russian opposition party and other activists were detained by police as they tried to gather for a protest rally in central St. Petersburg.
(AP, 11/25/07)
2007 Nov 25, In Sudan Gillian Gibbons (54), a British teacher, was put under detention for allegedly insulting Islam's prophet by allowing children to call a teddy bear Mohammed. She was arrested because of a complaint under Article 125 of the penal code, which provides punishment for publicly insulting or degrading any religion, its rites, beliefs and sacred items or humiliating its believers. On Nov 28 Sudan charged Gibbons with inciting religious hatred.
(AFP, 11/26/07)(AP, 11/27/07)(AP, 11/28/07)
2007 Nov 25, In Uganda Commonwealth leaders called on Pakistan to remain engaged with the group as they wrapped up a summit here that saw the suspension of President Pervez Musharraf's country.
(AP, 11/25/07)
2008 Nov 25, The Bush administration unveiled a set of new programs intended to pump an additional $800 billion into the economy and thaw still-frozen credit markets. The US Federal Reserve said it will buy up to $600 billion in mortgage-backed assets in another attempt to deal with the financial crisis.
(AP, 11/25/08)(AP, 11/26/08)
2008 Nov 25, The Bush administration imposed financial sanctions on four people it called "cronies" of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe whose support allegedly allowed Mugabe to undermine democracy.
(AP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 25, The US said it will freeze about $64 million in anti-poverty aid to Nicaragua amid accusations that local elections were fraudulent.
(AP, 11/26/08)
2008 Nov 25, The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) said the list of banks it considers to be in trouble shot up nearly 50 percent to 171 during the third quarter.
(AP, 11/26/08)
2008 Nov 25, A judge ruled that a strict Florida law that blocks gay people from adopting children is unconstitutional, declaring there was no legal or scientific reason for sexual orientation alone to prohibit anyone from adopting.
(AP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 25, Gerald Schoenfeld (b.1924), head of the Shubert Organization, died in NYC. From 1972 he and Bernard B. Jacobs (d.1996) reinvigorated the commercial theater business.
(SFC, 11/27/08, p.B8)
2008 Nov 25, Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded at a meeting with a UN Security Council team that the international community set a "timeline" for ending military intervention in Afghanistan.
(AFP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 25, In Australia BHP Billiton dropped its controversial hostile takeover bid for rival Rio Tinto because of the global economic crisis.
(AFP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 25 Armenia won its second straight gold medal at the Chess Olympiad in Germany by defeating China 2.5-1.5 in the 11th and final round.
(AP, 11/26/08)
2008 Nov 25, In Britain the application process began for a national identity card for some foreign nationals in an attempt to combat terrorism and identity fraud. On June 30, 2009, home secretary Alan Johnson said Britons would not be required to have the new ID cards. A British law went into effect that allows courts to prevent someone from being forced into marriage, a move that comes as governments across Europe confront immigrant practices that sometimes clash with more liberal values. On Oct 12, 2011, Britain’s highest court ruled that the ban on foreign spouses aged under 21 entering Britain is unlawful.
(AP, 11/25/08)(Econ, 7/4/09, p.55)(AP, 10/12/11)
2008 Nov 25, In Britain a Sheffield man (56) was sentenced to life in prison for raping his children for more than 25 years, from the time they were between 8 and 10, beating them when they resisted. Between them, the daughters bore their father seven surviving children. Two more died at birth; the other pregnancies ended in abortion or miscarriage.
(AP, 11/26/08)
2008 Nov 25, Bulgaria lost euro220 million ($286 million) in promised payments from the EU because of its failure to tackle corruption.
(www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1227620855.75/)
2008 Nov 25, In Egypt the state news agency MENA reported that Coptic Pope Shenuda III has banned Egyptian Christians from praying in a church-owned building in Cairo after sectarian clashes there with Muslims.
(AFP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 25, EU ministers sought to enlist counterparts from 27 African countries in a new effort to curb the flood of illegal immigration.
(AFP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 25, Greenland polling stations opened in a referendum on expanding home rule. Voters overwhelmingly approved a plan for more autonomy from Denmark and to take advantage of potential oil reserves off the glacial island's coast.
(AP, 11/25/08)(AP, 11/26/08)
2008 Nov 25, In eastern India suspected communist rebels blew up a bridge, killing five police officers who were escorting election officials in Chattisgarh state.
(AP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 25, Iran said it has broken a spy ring working for Israel’s intelligence service, Mossad. The prosecutor general said it would the death penalty for 3 suspects in custody.
(SFC, 11/26/08, p.A8)
2008 Nov 25, In northern Iraq 2 American servicemen were killed when a gunman in an Iraqi army uniform opened fire while they were distributing humanitarian aid.
(AP, 11/26/08)
2008 Nov 25, It was reported that Ireland plans to impose tough new penalties on beggars for the first time since the Potato Famine 160 years ago.
(AP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 25, In Mexico 7 bodies were dumped before dawn at a school soccer field in the border city of Juarez.
(AP, 11/26/08)
2008 Nov 25, Nigeria’s state media said the country has signed a $780 million (605 million euros) loan agreement with the World Bank to finance three projects.
(AFP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 25, Pakistan said its Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has shut down a unit that spied on domestic politicians.
(SFC, 11/26/08, p.A3)
2008 Nov 25, Russian warships arrived in Venezuela in a show of strength aimed at the United States as Moscow seeks to expand its influence in Latin America.
(AP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 25, In eastern Sri Lanka 12 people, including three suspected Tiger rebels, were killed in fresh violence. Heavy fighting raged on three fronts around the northern town of Kilinochchi, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's (LTTE) political headquarters.
(AFP, 11/26/08)
2008 Nov 25, In Thailand Bangkok's main international airport halted all flight operations after anti-government protesters stormed the departures area.
(AFP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 25, Indochina Airlines, Vietnam’s first privately owned airline, began operations.
(www.india-server.com/news/vietnam-launches-indochina-airlines-4811.html)
2009 Nov 25, US federal prosecutors said a young woman from Mexico was smuggled over the border and forced to work as a prostitute for years in Brooklyn, and the remains of an infant were found in concrete at the home where she was held prisoner. NYPD officials discovered the bin a day earlier, with the remains of an infant inside. Domingo Salazar (33) and his wife, Norma Mendez (32), appeared in US District Court in Brooklyn on sex trafficking charges and were being held without bail.
(AP, 11/26/09)
2009 Nov 25, A new report said Wal-Mart Stores Inc's demand for rock-bottom prices from suppliers in China means some of these companies are forcing their employees to work in sweatshop-like conditions.
(Reuters, 11/25/09)
2009 Nov 25, Toyota said it would fix accelerator pedals on 4.26 million vehicles to prevent them from becoming stuck and leading to unintentional acceleration.
(AFP, 11/25/09)(Econ, 12/12/09, p.76)
2009 Nov 25, Mullah Omar, the Taliban's reclusive leader, issued a Muslim holiday message calling on Afghans to break off relations with the government, which he described as a 'stooge' administration.
(AP, 11/25/09)
2009 Nov 25, Officials said flooding from heavy rains has killed 12 people in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay and forced more than 20,000 to flee their homes. Most of the dead were in southern Brazil, including eight in Rio Grande do Sul.
(AP, 11/25/09)
2009 Nov 25, Australian Northern Territory officials said some 6,000 feral camels are running wild in the remote outback community of Docker River in search of water, smashing infrastructure and invading the airstrip.
(AFP, 11/25/09)
2009 Nov 25, British PM Gordon Brown says 10 NATO nations are ready to offer about 5,000 more troops for the war in Afghanistan.
(AP, 11/25/09)
2009 Nov 25, The British government said Scotland will be given greater tax-raising powers under the biggest shake-up of the nation's finances for 30 years.
(Reuters, 2/16/12)
2009 Nov 25, The Canadian dollar rose to a one-week high against the US dollar after the Russian central bank said it was preparing to invest some of its foreign exchange reserves in the Canadian currency.
(Reuters, 11/25/09)
2009 Nov 25, A court in northern China sentenced five leaders of an unauthorized Protestant church to prison terms of up to 7 years on charges including illegal assembly. Their arrests stemmed from a Sept. 13 raid by police and hired security guards on sunrise services held in a dormitory building by the 50,000-member Linfen Fushan Church in Linfen, northern Shanxi province.
(AP, 11/26/09)
2009 Nov 25, A Chinese health official said eight cases of swine flu mutation have been detected amid longstanding concerns among scientists that the virus could change into a more dangerous form.
(AP, 11/25/09)
2009 Nov 25, In western Democratic Republic of Congo at least 73 people were killed and others missing after a logging boat sank in Lake Mai Ndombe in Bandundu province.
(Reuters, 11/28/09)
2009 Nov 25, Dubai, whose extravagant building projects have been largely put on hold since the start of the global financial crisis, said it would ask creditors at its flagship firms Dubai World and property developer Nakheel to delay repayment on billions of dollars of debt until May 30, 2010 at the earliest.
(Reuters, 11/26/09)(Econ, 11/28/09, p.83)
2009 Nov 25, Iranian Pres. Ahmadinejad arrived in Caracas for a meeting with President Hugo Chavez, as the two outspoken anti-US leaders try to boost ties.
(AFP, 11/25/09)
2009 Nov 25, An Iranian cleric said religious authorities have started taking control of schools, part of a wider ideological drive by hard-liners to wage what authorities call a "soft war" against Western influence.
(AP, 11/25/09)
2009 Nov 25, Iran stopped the yacht, “Kingdom of Bahrain," owned by Sail Bahrain as it sailed from Bahrain to the Gulf city of Dubai. It had been due to join the 360-mile (580km) Dubai-Muscat Offshore Sailing Race, which was to begin Nov. 26. Five British sailors were detained. The 5 sailors were released on Dec 2.
(AP, 11/30/09)(AP, 12/2/09)
2009 Nov 25, In Iraq a double bombing killed 4 people and injured 25 civilians in Karbala ahead of the 4-day Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha. 6 others were killed in an overnight raid by insurgents on a home north of Baghdad.
(AP, 11/25/09)(SFC, 11/26/09, p.A2)
2009 Nov 25, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu proposed a 10-month freeze on West Bank settlement construction in what he says is an attempt to jumpstart Mideast peace talks. The freeze would not include east Jerusalem, the area of the holy city claimed by the Palestinians for a future capital.
(AP, 11/25/09)
2009 Nov 25, In Mali gunmen kidnapped Pierre Camatte, a French national, in the remote east. The kidnapping was attributed to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Camatte was released on Feb 23, 2010.
(Reuters, 11/26/09)(AFP, 12/1/09)(SFC, 2/24/10, p.A2)
2009 Nov 25, Pakistan charged seven men in last year's Mumbai terror attacks, its first indictments in a case watched closely by India and the United States to see if Islamabad makes good on promises to punish those responsible.
(AP, 11/25/09)
2009 Nov 25, In Saudi Arabia rare, heavy rainstorms soaked pilgrims and flooded the road into Mecca, snarling Islam's annual hajj as some 2.5 million Muslims headed for the holy sites. The downpours add an extra hazard on top of intense concerns about the spread of swine flu. The torrential rains killed at least 106 people. Most of the deaths occurred in Jiddah, where streets were swamped with water, some houses collapsed and mudslides took place, and in areas around the main highway to Mecca.
(AP, 11/25/09)(AFP, 11/25/09)(AP, 11/26/09)(AP, 11/28/09)
2009 Nov 25, Voters in St. Vincent and the Grenadines rejected a referendum on whether or not to break their ties with Britain's monarchy, even as Queen Elizabeth II is made a rare visit to the region.
(AP, 11/25/09)(AP, 11/26/09)
2009 Nov 25, Yves Rossy, a Swiss adventurer, landed in the Atlantic after trying to soar from Morocco to Spain on jet-powered wings.
(SFC, 11/27/09, p.A2)
2009 Nov 25, A United Nations report confirmed that one of Africa's most brutal rebel movements relies on a vast, international network of supporters in at least 25 countries including in the US and Europe who facilitate arms trafficking, money transfers and day-to-day operational support. The findings are a scathing indictment of how little has been done by the international community to cut off logistical support to the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), an ethnic Hutu militia which has wreaked havoc in Congo.
(AP, 11/25/09)
2009 Nov 25, Zimbabwe's state media said the ailing public health system will receive a 180 million US dollar boost to fight HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria from the Global Fund.
(AP, 11/25/09)
2010 Nov 25, US authorities found a sophisticated tunnel used to smuggle drugs between Mexico and San Diego, the second such discovery in the region in less than a month. Investigators seized some 20 tons of marijuana. The 2,200-foot passage ran from a residence in Tijuana to a warehouse in San Diego's Otay Mesa area.
(AP, 11/25/10)(SFC, 11/27/10, p.A5)
2010 Nov 25, San Francisco based Del Monte said it has agreed to be acquired by a group led by KKR & Co. in a $4 billion deal. KKR, Vestar Capital Partners and Centerview Partners agreed to pay $19 a share in cash and would assume $1.3 billion in net debt.
(SFC, 11/26/10, p.C1)
2010 Nov 25, The Afghan deputy attorney general said his office has arrested two employees of the nation's electoral commission and two people working in the money transfer business on allegations of fraud in the September parliamentary elections. In eastern Afghanistan 2 insurgent facilitators were arrested on separate operations. NATO captured a Haqqani leader in the eastern Afghan province of Khost.
(AP, 11/25/10)(AP, 11/28/10)
2010 Nov 25, British PM David Cameron defended a new index aimed at measuring the population's social and environmental wellbeing rather than just its wealth.
(AFP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 25, Bernard Matthews (80), Britain’s largest turkey processor, died. He began in 1950 with an investment in 20 eggs. In 1953 he bought a derelict country house, Great Witchingham Hall, where he and his wife, Joyce, raised turkeys in all but one of the 36 rooms. It is still the company headquarters.
(AP, 11/26/10)
2010 Nov 25, China’s state media said Shanghai is suffering from its worst November air quality in five years after the local government lifted pollution controls that were in place for the six-month World Expo. China started publishing hourly air-quality information for major cities across the country as the world's top source of greenhouse gas emissions tries to rein in its notorious pollution.
(AFP, 11/25/10)(AFP, 11/26/10)
2010 Nov 25, Colombian prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for retired Gen. Miguel Maza Marquez (73), a former domestic security chief, who they say participated in the Aug 18, 1989, assassination of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan.
(AP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 25, The EU high court ruled that there is no such thing as "pure chocolate," ending an EU-Italy food fight over chocolate labels. It also said the EU's 1999 chocolate labeling rules make no room for a "pure chocolate" reference like the one Italy enacted in a 2003 law.
(AP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 25, European lawmakers voted in favor of an independent, UN-backed investigation into violence in Western Sahara that has left up to 11 people dead in the disputed territory.
(Reuters, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 25, India told financial firms to review their exposure to a string of companies whose executives were arrested on suspicion of taking millions of dollars in bribes.
(AFP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 25, Iraq's PM Nouri al-Maliki appealed to the country's warring political factions for unity after formally accepting a request by the president to form the next government, part of a deal to end an eight-month deadlock over who would lead the country the next four years.
(AP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 25, Italian students occupied the Leaning Tower of Pisa and Rome's Colosseum to protest education cuts and university reforms being considered by parliament.
(AP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 25, Macedonia police raided the building housing A1 television, a private channel often critical of PM Gruevski’s government.
(Econ, 2/26/11, p.57)(www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP0jAsK9sog)
2010 Nov 25, In Mexico preliminary data was released by the National Institute for Statistics and Geography. It said Mexico had 112.3 million inhabitants as of July, 3.6 million more than experts had projected.
(AP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 25, A court in Nigeria charged an alleged member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards and three Nigerians over a shipment of mortars and rockets seized in the main port of Lagos last month.
(Reuters, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 25, Nigeria's anti-corruption police raided the offices of US firm Halliburton and arrested 12 people in a bribery case involving former Halliburton unit KBR Inc. Houston-based engineering firm KBR pleaded guilty last year to US charges that it paid $180 million in bribes between 1994 and 2004 to Nigerian officials to secure $6 billion in contracts for the Bonny Island liquefied natural gas project.
(Reuters, 11/27/10)
2010 Nov 25, In Pakistan a paramilitary soldier was killed and six others wounded, two of them critically, in a bomb attack on the outskirts of Hangu in the northwest. Pakistan said that most of the explosives used in bomb attacks on its territory were smuggled from Afghanistan but insisted it was limiting the cross-border movement of insurgents fighting US troops.
(AFP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 25, South Africa said it has launched an anti-corruption unit to investigate government officials misusing funds and receiving bribes.
(AP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 25, South Korea's defense minister resigned amid intense criticism two days after a North Korean artillery attack killed four people on a small island near the Koreas' disputed frontier.
(AP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 25, Zimbabwe's PM Morgan Tsvangirai filed court papers filed saying Pres. Mugabe violated the constitution with his unilateral appointment of 10 provincial governors last month. Tsvangirai said the power-sharing agreement requires the president to consult with the prime minister before making key appointments, and that Mugabe did not.
(AP, 11/25/10)
2011 Nov 25, In Los Angeles a shopper pepper-sprayed other bargain hunters and robbers in South Carolina and northern California shot at customers to steal their Black Friday purchases, marring the start of the US holiday shopping season.
(Reuters, 11/26/11)
2011 Nov 25, In Ohio two bodies were found believed to be related to a Craigslist ad that according to police lured victims to a lethal robbery scheme that already left one person dead. Two people related to the killings were custody. A 3rd body was found in the same area. On Oct 30, 2012, Ohio teenager Brogan Rafferty was convicted of aggravated murder for his role in the plot. Prosecutors said Brogan shot and killed 3 victims after robbing them. In 2018 the state Supreme Court upheld a death sentence for Richard Beasley (58), who had partnered with Rafferty.
(SFC, 11/26/11, p.A6)(SSFC, 12/4/11, p.A14)(SFC, 10/31/12, p.A4)(SFC, 2/10/18, p.A5)
2011 Nov 25, Felicity Aston (33), a British adventurer, set out on skis from the Ross Ice Shelf in a historic solo attempt to cross Antarctica.
(SFC, 11/26/11, p.A2)
2011 Nov 25, Australia loosened its highly charged policy of mandatory detention for asylum seekers who arrive by boat, freeing 27 from overcrowded, prison-like conditions and estimating more than 100 would be released monthly.
(AP, 11/25/11)
2011 Nov 25, Australia said it will create the world's largest marine reserve in the Coral Sea. The proposal includes seas beyond the already protected Great Barrier Reef Marine Park off northeast Australia.
(AP, 11/25/11)
2011 Nov 25, Britain’s Deputy PM Nick Clegg unveiled a £1 billion youth contract to create hundreds of thousands of work and training placements for jobless youngsters.
(AFP, 11/25/11)
2011 Nov 25, The British government published its new Cyber Security Strategy, setting out how the UK will support economic prosperity, protect national security and safeguard the public’s way of life by building a more trusted and resilient digital environment.
(www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/news/protecting-and-promoting-uk-digital-world)
2011 Nov 25, A study by Canadian scientists found that South Africa and Zimbabwe suffer the worst economic losses due to doctors emigrating, while Australia, Canada, Britain and the United States benefit the most from recruiting doctors trained abroad.
(Reuters, 11/25/11)
2011 Nov 25, The Chinese government donated a gift of 23 buses during a ceremony in Macedonia's capital. News of the donation ignited a torrent of criticism. Many asked: How could China make the donation to a foreign country when Chinese schools contend with shoddy transport?
(AP, 11/28/11)
2011 Nov 25, Egypt's military rulers announced that Kamal el-Ganzouri (78), a prime minister from ousted leader Hosni Mubarak's era, will head the next government. Tens of thousands of demonstrators packed Cairo's Tahrir Square after days of deadly clashes, demanding the military rulers step down and rejecting their choice of new prime minister. The Tahrir protest was countered by a rival demonstration in a square about three km (two miles) away, where more than 10,000 people gathered to show support for the military chanting "Down with Tahrir."
(AP, 11/25/11)(AFP, 11/26/11)
2011 Nov 25, In Egypt Mona al-Gharib (25), the pregnant wife of Syrian dissident and journalist Thaer al-Nashef, was reportedly abducted in Egypt by Syrian intelligence agents.
(AP, 11/26/11)
2011 Nov 25, In Egypt masked gunmen blew up a gas pipeline which supplies Egyptian gas to Israel, in the eighth such attack this year.
(AFP, 11/25/11)
2011 Nov 25, Ethiopia said it may contribute troops to the African Union force in Somalia fighting al-Qaida-affiliated insurgents.
(AP, 11/25/11)
2011 Nov 25, A shipment of nuclear waste reprocessed in France crossed into Germany on its way to a controversial storage site near the town of Dannenberg that protesters say is unsafe.
(AP, 11/25/11)
2011 Nov 25, Iceland's interior ministry said it had rejected an application by Huang Nubo's Zhongkun Group to buy 120 square miles (30,639 hectares) of land on the north shore of Iceland for a vast nature retreat in a deal that would have been worth about 1 billion Icelandic kronur ($8.8 million). On Nov 27 Huang said the rejection was indicative of anti-Chinese attitudes in the West.
(AP, 11/27/11)
2011 Nov 25, In Mali gunmen killed a German man in Timbuktu and seized three men from the Netherlands, South Africa and Sweden. Officials the next day ordered a plane to evacuate foreigners from the tourist destination.
(AP, 11/26/11)
2011 Nov 25, Mexican activists lodged a war-crimes complaint against President Felipe Calderon at the International Criminal Court, claiming his offensive against drug cartels has involved about 470 cases of human rights violations by the army or police. Defense officials detained Ezequiel "El Junior" Cardenas Rivera (23). Rivera's father was Antonio Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen, Gulf leader until he was killed by federal forces in November 2010.
(AP, 11/25/11)(AP, 11/29/11)
2011 Nov 25, Moroccans voted for a new parliament in Arab Spring-inspired elections that are facing a boycott by democracy campaigners who say the ruling monarchy isn't committed to real change. Under the new constitution, the largest party must form the government. The moderate Justice and Development Party (PJD) captured 107 seats in the 395-seat assembly.
(AP, 11/25/11)(AFP, 11/26/11)(AP, 11/28/11)
2011 Nov 25, Three Somali soldiers and a civilian were killed when a roadside bomb the officers picked up to detonate elsewhere exploded inside their vehicle in Mogadishu.
(AFP, 11/25/11)
2011 Nov 25, In Sri Lanka a storm, high winds and floods left at least 19 people dead along the southern coast. 43 fishermen were missing.
(AP, 11/25/11)(SFC, 11/26/11, p.A2)(AFP, 11/27/11)
2011 Nov 25, The Syrian military vowed to "cut every evil hand that targets Syrian blood," saying recent attacks on elite security forces marked a dangerous escalation in the country's 8-month-old crisis. Damascus faced the possibility of sweeping economic sanctions from the Arab League after missing a deadline to allow hundreds of observers into the country. A UN human rights panel expressed alarm at reports it received of security forces in Syria torturing children. Syrian security forces fired outside mosques in Daraa province. At least six people were killed as protesters flooded the streets in support of the Free Syrian Army. At least 10 troops and security service agents were killed in clashes with mutinous soldiers in Deir Ezzor.
(AP, 11/25/11)(AFP, 11/26/11)
2011 Nov 25, Vietnam’s PM Nguyen Tan Dung called for new legislation on protests "to ensure people's rights to freedom and democracy under the constitution and law." Vietnam's constitution allows for the right to demonstrate.
(AFP, 11/26/11)
2011 Nov 25, In Yemen tens of thousands returned to the streets across the country to reject the power-transfer deal and call for Saleh's trial for crimes ranging from corruption to lethal crackdowns on protests. Heavy fighting between government forces and defected military troops shook Sanaa, killing two people. Mohammed Basindawa, a former member of Saleh's ruling party, was chosen to head a national unity government.
(AP, 11/25/11)(AFP, 11/26/11)
2012 Nov 25, In Oakland, Ca., Diantay Powell shot and killed Raquel Gerstel (15) and Bobbie Sartain (16). On May 12, 2016, Powell (21) was convicted of 2nd degree murder and faced life in prison.
(SFC, 5/13/16, p.D3)
2012 Nov 25, In London the Rolling Stones held the first of 5 concerts to mark the 50th anniversary of their debut.
(SFC, 11/26/12, p.A2)
2012 Nov 25, In China 4 more self-immolations by ethnic
Tibetans were reported over the last two days in Gansu, Sichuan and Qinghai provinces. At least 20 students were hospitalized after a protest turned violent in Qinghai province's Hainan prefectur.
(AP, 11/27/12)
2012 Nov 25, In India hundreds of gay rights activists marched through New Delhi to demand that they be allowed to lead lives of dignity in the coun try’s deeply conservative society.
(AP, 11/25/12)
2012 Nov 25, Israel successfully tested its newest missile defense system, a step toward making the third leg of what Israel calls its "multilayer missile defense" operational.
(AP, 11/25/12)
2012 Nov 25, Italians voted in a primary for a center-left candidate to run in spring general elections that will in large part determine how Italy's tries to fix its troubled finances and emerge from a grinding recession. The race is expected to come down to a faceoff between Pier Luigi Bersani (61), the leader of the main center-left Democratic Party, and challenger Matteo Renzi (37), the mayor of Florence.
(AP, 11/25/12)
2012 Nov 25, Mexican authorities in Chihuahua state said they have recovered the remains of 19 people in two mass graves. 11 were found 25 mile southeast of Ciudad Juarez and 8 others tossed along a road near Rosales.
(SFC, 11/26/12, p.A2)
2012 Nov 25, In northcentral Nigeria a blast hit a church in military barracks in Jaji town, Kaduna state. The death toll in a twin suicide bombing rose to at least 30.
(AP, 11/25/12)(AP, 11/26/12)
2012 Nov 25, In northwestern Pakistan a bombing claimed by the Taliban killed at least six people and wounded some 90 others at a Shiite religious procession Dera Ismail Khan, as the minority Muslim sect observes the annual Ashoura holiday.
(AP, 11/25/12)
2012 Nov 25, Spanish voters in Catalonia choosing lawmakers for parliament amid a threat from Catalan leader Artur Mas to hold an independence referendum that would test the country's unity. Catalonia voters showed that they want the right to decide on possible independence, but split their votes between fractious separatist parties, making that overall goal less likely than ever.
(AP, 11/25/12)(AP, 11/26/12)
2012 Nov 25, Syrian rebels seized control of the Marj al-Sultan base on the outskirts of Damascus. At least 15 rebels and eight soldiers were killed in the fighting that started a day earlier.
(AP, 11/25/12)
2013 Nov 25, US national security advisor Susan Rice told Afghan President Hamid Karzai that a delay in signing a troubled security deal risked the US pulling troops out of the country completely next year.
(AFP, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 25, Chuck Blazer, a FIFA executive committee member, pleaded guilty to racketeering and other charges. Blazer said he and others had agreed to receive bribes in the votes for the hosts of the 1998 and 2010 World Cups. This became public in a 40-page US federal indictment unveiled on June 3, 2015.
(SFC, 6/3/15, p.A6)
2013 Nov 25, A federal judge in Arkansas approved a settlement that pays $84.9 million to 5,500 trucking companies that were cheated out of promised rebates by Pilot Flying J, the nation's largest diesel retailer.
(AP, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 25, In NYC a statuette of the the bird made for the 1941 film “Maltese Falcon" sold for $4.085 million. It was one of two cast, but the only one confirmed by Warner Bros. archives.
(SFC, 11/26/13, p.A6)
2013 Nov 25, Chico Hamilton (b.1921), drummer and jazz master, died in NYC. His music included the sound track for Roman Polanski’s film “Repulsion" (1965).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_Hamilton)(SFC, 11/27/13, p.E2)
2013 Nov 25, In Washington DC 10 former players filed a federal lawsuit against the National Hockey League over concussions.
(AFP, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 25, A sailboat passing through the southern Bahamas islands with about 150 Haitian migrants on board capsized after running aground, killing up to 30 people and leaving the rest clinging to the vessel for hours.
(AP, 11/27/13)
2013 Nov 25, Egyptian security forces fired tear-gas and dispersed university students who had defied a law passed a day earlier that restricts demonstrations.
(Reuters, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 25, The EU expressed strong disapproval of Russian pressure on Ukraine to reject an EU trade deal, while police fired tear gas at pro-Europe protesters in the former Soviet republic.
(Reuters, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 25, France offered weapons, training and intelligence cooperation to help Iraq combat worsening violence amid fears the country is on the verge of returning to all-out sectarian bloodshed.
(AFP, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 25, Leftist Honduran presidential candidate Xiomara Castro refused to accept partial official results that show her conservative rival on course to win elections, setting the stage for a drawn-out conflict.
(Reuters, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 25, In Iraq a double bombing at a market and other attacks killed at least 27 in and around Baghdad.
(AP, 11/25/13)(SFC, 11/26/13, p.A4)
2013 Nov 25, Israel approved plans to build more than 800 settler homes on occupied land, in a move Palestinians said was aimed at venting Israeli anger toward a historic deal Western powers have struck with Iran over its nuclear program.
(Reuters, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 25, Libyan troops struggling to establish control across the country clashed with militants in the eastern city of Benghazi and at least 9 people were killed in the fighting.
(Reuters, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 25, The Pakistani military deployed its first fleet of domestically developed drones, as police cracked down on a protest by demonstrators angry at the US for using similar aircraft to attack Islamic militants in the country.
(AP, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 25, Two Sudanese health ministry workers helping to vaccinate children in the Darfur region were killed. They were part of a team inoculating vulnerable children against measles in West Darfur state.
(AFP, 11/29/13)
2013 Nov 25, Thailand PM Yingluck Shinawatra invoked an emergency security law in large parts of Bangkok and surrounding areas to cope with escalating protests against her government. Anti-government protesters forced their way inside the Finance Ministry and burst through the gates of the Foreign Ministry compound, in an escalating bid to overthrow PM Yingluck Shinawatra.
(AP, 11/25/13)(Reuters, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 25, Ugandan police lobbed tear gas to disperse protesters angered by the ouster of Kampala mayor Erias Lukwago, who is a fierce critic of longtime President Yoweri Museveni.
(AP, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 25, The UN said Syria's government and opposition will hold their first peace talks on Jan. 22 in Geneva, in an attempt to halt the nearly 3-year-old civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people.
(AP, 11/25/13)
2014 Nov 25, The US FDA announced long-delayed calorie labeling rules, requiring establishment that sell prepared foods and have 20 or more location to post calorie content on the menus and displays. Compliance for most companies was due to November, 2015.
(SFC, 11/26/14, p.A6)
2014 Nov 25, A US federal judge struck down an Arkansas voter-approved gay marriage ban, but put the order on hold to allow the state to consider and appeal.
(SFC, 11/26/14, p.A6)
2014 Nov 25, In NYC the Lion costume from 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz" and the piano from the 1942 film “Casablanca" were each sold at auction for over $3 million.
(SFC, 11/26/14, p.A6)
2014 Nov 25, In Afghanistan two explosions shook Kabul, leaving seven army officers wounded after a bomb attack on their bus, while a grenade blast in the diplomatic quarter caused no casualties but led to the arrest of a suspect.
(Reuters, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, In Belarus Alexander Alesin, a military analyst for a well-known weekly newspaper, went missing since when he was reportedly snatched in a cafe in Minsk by unknown men. On Dec 8 police admitted holding him in jail.
(AP, 12/8/14)
2014 Nov 25, Benin’s country's health minister said 9 people have died from Lassa fever, a viral disease common in West Africa with symptoms similar to Ebola. Lassa fever is in the same virus family as Ebola.
(AP, 11/26/14)
2014 Nov 25, In Brazil a court ordered Rio de Janeiro state to pay for psychological treatments and provide monthly stipends for the widow and children of Brazilian laborer Amarildo de Souza, who was killed in police custody last year. In Rio de Janeiro one police officer was killed and another injured in a drive-by shooting during a routine patrol.
(AP, 11/26/14)
2014 Nov 25, Bulgarian police raided a mosque in the town of Pazardzhik and detained Ahmed Mussa Ahmed, a Roma Muslim religious leader suspected of spreading propaganda for the Islamic State group.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, A Cameroonian army operation freed 16 hostages, including Polish Catholic priest Mateusz Dziedzic, who were abducted by rebels from Central African Republic last month.
(Reuters, 11/26/14)
2014 Nov 25, In China an office of the State Council released a draft of the country’s first anti-domestic violence law.
(Econ, 12/6/14, p.47)
2014 Nov 25, Colombia's FARC rebels freed two captured soldiers partially meeting a condition to resume peace talks that the government has suspended until the guerrillas release hostages seized over the last two weeks, including an army general.
(Reuters, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, In Egypt an apartment building in Cairo collapsed, killing at least 17 people as rescuers and neighbors frantically dug through rubble with their hands to find survivors. Neighbors said the seven-story building had several floors illegally added onto it.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, France suspended the delivery of a warship to Russia, after months of speculation about what would be the biggest arms sale ever by a NATO country to the Kremlin.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, Pope Francis spoke before delegates of the EU Council in Strasbourg, France. He warned them that Europe had become too fearful and self-absorbed urged them to focus on poverty, immigration and joblessness.
(SFC, 11/26/14, p.A2)
2014 Nov 25, Hong Kong authorities attempted to clear a 2-month-old pro-democracy protest camp in Mong Kok district. Hundreds more protesters flooded the crowded neighborhood. 80 people were arrested.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, In Iraq Islamic State insurgents battled Iraqi forces in the center of Baiji, a week after the army broke their prolonged siege of the country's largest oil refinery just outside the town.
(Reuters, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, Japanese police arrested four South Korean men at a harbor where ferries depart for Busan on suspicion of stealing an ancient Buddha statue. A 5th man was arrested the next day. The stolen "Birth of Buddha" statue dates to sometime between the 9th and 11th centuries.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, Thousands of Kashmiris cast votes in state elections despite a boycott call by Muslim separatist groups that reject India's sovereignty over the disputed Himalayan region.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, Kenyan police used teargas to disperse demonstrators shouting "President, Stop the killings!" outside President Uhuru Kenyatta's offices, in a protest over 28 people killed in a weekend attack claimed by Islamist militants.
(Reuters, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf toured a new Chinese-built 100-bed treatment center for Ebola just outside Monrovia. It was exptected to begin receiving patientws nexdt week.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, Libyan security officials said warplanes have again bombed the Matiga military air base that until a day earlier was Tripoli's only functioning airport.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, In northern Mali the convoy of a visiting cabinet minister struck a roadside bomb, killing 2 soldiers and wounding four others.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, Nepal signed an agreement for an Indian company to build a $1 billion hydroelectric plant to boost supplies in the energy-starved Himalayan nation and export power to India.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, In Nigeria 2 teenage female suicide bombers blew themselves up in a crowded market in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing at least 44 people.
(AP, 11/25/14)(Reuters, 11/27/14)
2014 Nov 25, Pakistani fighter jets reportedly killed 20 militants in the North Waziristan tribal region. The military said it has cleared 90 percent of North Waziristan and that the militants are currently on the run.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, In Puerto Rico robbers approached Edwin Roman Acevedo (36), an off-duty police officer, outside a pharmacy in Trujillo Alto and announced they were holding him up. Roman used his department-issued gun to defend himself, but was shot three times and died.
(AP, 11/26/14)
2014 Nov 25, Syrian warplanes conducted a series of airstrikes on the northeastern city of Raqqa, killing at least 95 people. Some of the airstrikes hit a popular market near a museum and an industrial neighborhood, causing many civilian casualties.
(AP, 11/25/14)(AP, 11/26/14)
2014 Nov 25, A Turkish court banned media from reporting on a parliamentary investigation into corruption allegations against four ex-ministers, a move the opposition says amounts to protecting thieves.
(Reuters, 11/26/14)
2014 Nov 25, In the United Arab Emirates Osama al-Najjar, the son of a jailed activist, was himself sentenced to prison and fined after being convicted over messages sent on social media and of joining an illegal group. His father, Hussain al-Najjar, was one of 69 people convicted last year of plotting to overthrow the government.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, Yemeni security forces freed six Yemeni hostages and two foreigners in a raid in which 7 al Qaeda kidnappers were also killed. US special operations forces took part in a rescue mission in Hadramawt province.
(AP, 11/25/14)(AP, 11/26/14)
2015 Nov 25, The United States and its allies staged 27 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
(Reuters, 11/26/15)
2015 Nov 25, A new nuclear treaty with the United States governing South Korea's commercial nuclear activities during the next 20 years went into effect. The treaty, which replaces a previous accord reached in 1972, opens the possibility of South Korea gaining the ability to enrich uranium to produce non-weapons-grade nuclear fuel depending on future negotiations with the United States.
(AP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, Australian officials said at least 2 people have been killed and several others injured by huge wildfires that also destroyed homes near the southern city of Adelaide and continue to burn out of control.
(AP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, Bangladesh police commandos killed Al Bani, the suspected military chief of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, a banned Islamist group, in a shootout in Dhaka.
(Reuters, 11/26/15)
2015 Nov 25, In Belgium schools and much of the Brussels metro system reopened as the capital started to return to normal after four days of lockdown.
(Reuters, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, Brazilian police arrested Senator Delcidio do Amaral, a senior ruling party senator and a billionaire investment banker, in the intensifying probe of a huge corruption network centered on state oil giant Petrobras.
(AFP, 11/25/15)(SFC, 11/26/15, p.A4)
2015 Nov 25, Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh advocated banning female genital mutilation, giving hope to human rights activists who are urging Gambia to adopt a law against the practice.
(AP, 11/26/15)
2015 Nov 25, Germany said it will send up to 650 soldiers to Mali to provide some relief to France in its global fight against the Islamic State jihadists.
(AFP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, Indian media and a rights group accused the Assam Rifles paramilitary force of attempting to curtail press freedom by asking newspapers in the insurgency-hit northeastern state of Nagaland to stop publishing statements from a banned rebel group.
(AP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, In the Indian portion of Kashmir 3 heavily armed rebels stormed an army camp and were killed in a fierce gunbattle with soldiers. A civilian was also killed.
(AP, 11/25/15)(SFC, 11/26/15, p.A4)
2015 Nov 25, Iran's top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the United States is using "money and sexual attractions" to try to infiltrate the Islamic Republic.
(AP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, Pope Francis arrived in Kenya and was received at Nairobi's airport by President Uhuru Kenyatta on the first leg of a six-day pilgrimage that will also take him to Uganda and the Central African Republic. Francis urged all Kenyans to work for peace and forgiveness in order to heal ethnic, religious and economic divisions.
(AP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, In southeastern Niger 18 people were killed and 100 homes torched in an attack in the dead of night by Nigeria's Boko Haram fighters in the village of Wogom.
(AFP, 11/26/15)
2015 Nov 25, A year's worth of rain deluged parts of Qatar as seasonal storms moving through Saudi Arabia flooded streets in a city northwest of the capital, Riyadh.
(AP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, A Palestinian stabbed and critically wounded an Israeli soldier and was shot dead by troops in the Israeli-occupied West Bank at a road junction near a cluster of Palestinian villages and Jewish settlements.
(Reuters, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, Romania's Parliament approved a law that restricts what banks can reclaim from people who default on their mortgage payments. Lawmakers passed a law allowing banks to seize the property the loan was taken for, but not to seize other assets or claim further payment.
(AP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, Russia accepted its "full suspension" from world athletics over widespread doping without requesting a hearing from the International Association of Athletics Federations.
(AFP, 11/26/15)
2015 Nov 25, Russia sent an advanced missile system to Syria to protect its jets operating there and pledged its air force would keep flying missions near Turkish air space, sounding a defiant note after Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet.
(Reuters, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, The surviving crew member of a Russian warplane shot down by Turkey said the plane received no warnings from the Turkish Air Force and did not fly over Turkish air space. Navigator Konstantin Murakhtin was rescued by Russian and Syrian special forces after ejecting from the plane. The US said data showed the Russian aircraft had transited Turkish airspace.
(Reuters, 11/25/15)(SFC, 11/26/15, p.A4)
2015 Nov 25, Russia's natural gas giant Gazprom said it would stop shipping fuel supplies to Ukraine because Kiev had failed to make the required pre-payments on time.
(AFP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, Russian forces launched a heavy bombardment against insurgent-held areas in Syria's Latakia province, near where a Russian warplane had been shot down by Turkey the day before. Air strikes hit a crossing on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey's southern province of Kilis. The strikes reportedly hit a garage for commercial trailers, killing 3 people.
(Reuters, 11/25/15)(AP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, Ukraine decided to stop buying gas from Russia and closed its airspace to its giant eastern neighbor's airlines. The Ukrainian military said another soldier was killed in a new bout of clashes across the shattered war zone in the past 24 hours.
(AFP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, Venezuelan opposition election candidate Luis Manuel Diaz was shot dead while campaigning. The shooter was believed to be a member of an "armed gang" linked to the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).
(AFP, 11/26/15)
2016 Nov 25, In Alaska four people including an infant were shot and killed at a hotel in Fairbanks. McKay Hutton (22) was identified as the gunman in the murder-suicide.
(SSFC, 11/27/16, p.A8)
2016 Nov 25, San Francisco’s MUNI Metro passengers began riding for free following a hack of the agency’s computer systems. The hacker demanded 100 bitcoins, or about $73,000. Passengers continued to ride for free the next day as MUNI worked to restore its systems from backups. The system was restored on Nov 27.
(SFC, 11/29/16, p.A1)
2016 Nov 25, Pauline Oliveros (b.1932), accordionist, composer and experimentalist, died in New York. She influenced several generations of musicians with her call for a process she dubbed “deep listening."
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Oliveros)(SSFC, 11/27/16, p.C5)
2016 Nov 25, In Afghanistan a bomb blast in Jalalabad killed one police officer and wounded five people. Bomb blasts in eastern Nangarhar province killed five and left 27 others wounded.
(AP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, In Afghanistan VP Abdul Rashid Dostum encountered rival Ahmad Ishchi while watching a game of buzkashi and punched him in the face. Bodyguards beat Mr. Ishchi some more before carting him away in an armored vehicle. He has not been seen since. Dostum was acting president at this time as his boss was abroad.
(Econ, 12/3/16, p.33)
2016 Nov 25, Thousands of Bangladeshis marched in the streets of Dhaka to protest the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Smaller protests occurred in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
(AP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, British chef Stephen Port (41), convicted two days earlier of murdering three young men whom he met online, was sentenced to life in prison. Over a 15-month period Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor all overdosed on the psychoactive drug GHB. Port then dumped their bodies in and around a graveyard near his apartment.
(AFP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, Fidel Castro (90), former Cuban leader (1959-2006), died. He had led a rebel army to improbable victory, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 US presidents during his half century rule of Cuba. The Cuban government soon declared nine days of national mourning.
(AP, 11/26/16)
2016 Nov 25, In France British photographer David Hamilton (b.1933), known for his widely published nude images of underage girls, was found dead in his Paris home with a plastic bag over his head. Flavie Flament (42), who modelled for Hamilton almost 30 years ago, published an autobiographical novel last month in which she described being raped by a famous photographer during a shoot.
(AP, 11/26/16)
2016 Nov 25, Germany's Lufthansa airline canceled 830 short- and medium-haul flights affecting 100,000 passengers after a pilots' strike entered its third day in a long-running dispute over wages.
(AP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, In Hungary far-right Asotthalom mayor Laszlo Toroczkai said councilors have voted to ban the construction of mosques and the activity of muezzins, as well as the use of veils and headscarves like burqas, chadors and burkinis worn by Muslim women.
(AP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, India's top court stopped firecracker sales in and around New Delhi as the worst season for air pollution began.
(AP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, In Iran at least 44 people were killed and 100 injured when one passenger train collided with another at a station in the northern province of Semnan. Three railway officials were soon detained.
(Reuters, 11/25/16)(AFP, 11/26/16)
2016 Nov 25, In Iraq IS militants reportedly shot to death 27 civilians in Muhandiseen Park in northern Mosul.
(AP, 11/29/16)
2016 Nov 25, In Israel foreign firefighting planes helped tackle a wave of wildfires that have forced tens of thousands to flee their homes, as police announced a dozen related arrests. Israel received airborne assistance from Russia, Turkey, Greece and Croatia.
(AFP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, Rebels fighting against Indian rule in Kashmir ambushed a police patrol, killing two officers. Two militants and an Indian soldier died in a separate gunfight in the disputed region.
(AP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, Mexican authorities said Investigators searching clandestine graves have found 32 bodies and nine human heads in the southern state of Guerrero. After days of digging, they discovered a total of 32 bodies in 17 pits.
(AP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, Thousands of Filipinos, including more than a dozen nude students, protested against the hasty burial of dictator Ferdinand Marcos in a heroes' cemetery, in a growing political storm that's lashing the president who allowed the entombment.
(AP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented a Russian passport to US actor Steven Seagal (64) and said he hoped it would serve as a symbol of how the fractious ties between Moscow and Washington are starting to improve.
(Reuters, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, Russian aircraft maker MiG said Vano Mikoyan (b.1927), one of the developers of the MiG fighter jets for the Soviet and then Russian air force, has died.
(AP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, In Syria airstrikes on the northern village of Taqad killed at least five people including children. Opposition activists reported intense airstrikes and shelling on the besieged rebel-held eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo amid fighting on several fronts. Air strikes in Idlib province knocked out two medical centers dedicated to women and killed at least 12 people.
(AP, 11/25/16)(SFC, 11/26/16, p.A2)
2016 Nov 25, In southern Thailand two men suspected of involvement with violent unrest were killed in a shootout with police and soldiers who had been tracking them.
(AP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, Turkish media reported one soldier killed and five lightly wounded in the fight against the Islamic State group in al-Bab, northern Syria. Four opposition fighters were also reported killed in the clashes.
(AP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, In eastern Ukraine the Czech humanitarian organization Clovek v Tisni (People in Need, PIN) was banned from the Donetsk area by separatist authorities.
(Reuters, 11/27/16)
2017 Nov 25, In the SF Bay Area a collision left four people dead in a collision on I-80 in San Pablo. Fred Douglas Lowe (47) fled the scene but was soon caught and later charged with four counts of murder for driving under the influence and causing great bodily harm within 10 years of two other driving under the influence offenses. On March 6, 2019, Lowe was found guilty of murder.
(SFC, 11/30/17, p.D2)(SFC, 3/7/19, p.C4)
2017 Nov 25, In Britain a stolen car smashed into a tree in Leeds, killing five. The victims included a 12-year-old, two 15-year-olds, and two men aged 24 and 28. Two 15-year-old boys were held on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
(AP, 11/26/17)
2017 Nov 25, Authorities in China detained a woman suspected of abusing children at a Beijing kindergarten run by RYB Education, a US-listed company, in a case that has caused nationwide anger.
(AP, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 25, France’s President Emmanuel Macron announced an initiative to address violence and harassment against women in France marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. His plans aimed at erasing the sense of shame that breeds silence among victims and changing what he said is France's sexist culture.
(AP, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 25, Indonesia’s Mount Agung volcano on island of Bali erupted for a second time in less than a week, sending a grey-black plume of ash and steam at least 1,500 meters into the sky and leading several airlines to change flight plans.
(Reuters, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 25, Iraqi forces thrust north from the Euphrates Valley into the desert, opening up a new front in the drive to flush out fugitive Islamic State group fighters.
(AFP, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 25, At least 31 migrants died after their boat sank off Libya's western coast and some 200 others were picked up by the coastguard to be brought back to port in Tripoli.
(Reuters, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 25, Nigeria's military repelled an attempt by suspected Boko Haram militants to seize the northeastern town of Magumeri. At least three soldiers were killed and six others wounded in the fighting.
(Reuters, 11/26/17)
2017 Nov 25, Pakistani police launched an operation to clear Islamist protesters from an intersection linking the Islamabad with the garrison city of Rawalpindi, sparking other demonstrators across the country to take to the streets in solidarity and bringing major cities to a virtual standstill. The clashes in Islamabad left six dead and dozens wounded after security forces failed to disperse supporters of the Tehreek-i-Labaik Ya Rasool Allah party.
(AP, 11/25/17)(AP, 11/26/17)
2017 Nov 25, Pakistani police said a suicide bomber detonated his explosives vest in the southwestern city of Quetta, killing at least four people and wounding 19 others.
(AP, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 25, Russia’s RIA news agency reported that President Vladimir Putin has signed a law which will allow authorities to list foreign media operating in Russia as "foreign agents".
(Reuters, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 25, Russian Defense Ministry said Russian long-range bombers hit Islamic State targets in the northeast of Syria.
(Reuters, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 25, Senegal's national assembly lifted the parliamentary immunity of Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall, a leading opponent of President Macky Sall, opening the way for his trial on graft charges.
(AFP, 11/26/17)
2017 Nov 25, Hundreds of white South African farmers took to the streets of Pretoria, demanding government action over a wave of murders targeting their communities in rural areas. At least 72 white farmers have been murdered so far this year.
(AFP, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 25, A UN plane carrying desperately needed vaccines landed in the rebel-held Yemeni capital Sanaa after a three-week Saudi-led aid blockade that had sparked warnings thousands could die.
(AFP, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 25, Former Zimbabwe finance minister Ignatius Chombo, among those detained by the military when it seized power before Robert Mugabe resigned, was charged with three counts of corruption in offences that allegedly in 2004.
(Reuters, 11/25/17)
2018 Nov 25, In southern California the US Customs and Border Protection Agency temporarily shut down the San Ysidro border crossing and fired tear gas to push back migrants from the border fence. Hundreds of people tried to evade a Mexican police blockade and ran toward the border crossing that leads into San Diego.
(SFC, 11/26/18, p.A4)
2018 Nov 25, Two San Diego teenagers and a Mexican youth were found shot dead at an apartment complex in Tijuana. Christopher Alexis Gomez (17), Juan Suarez-Ojeda (18) and Mexican youth Angel Said Robles (17) were headed to a barbecue on Nov. 23 in Ensenada, south of Tijuana, and were supposed to return that night. The three teens were reportedly tortured before they were shot.
(AP, 11/30/18)
2018 Nov 25, In northern California firefighters said the Camp Fire in Butte County is now 100 percent contained. The death toll stood at 88 and 296 people were still reported missing.
(SFC, 11/26/18, p.A1)(SFC, 11/27/18, p.A9)
2018 Nov 25, In Florida a bicyclist died and another was critically injured after a car crashed into a group of 14 cyclists on a state road in Davie. The driver rep[orted that the sun was in her eyes.
(SFC, 11/26/18, p.A4)
2018 Nov 25, A winter storm blanketed much of the US central Midwest. Some 1200 flights were reported canceled.
(SFC, 11/26/18, p.A4)
2018 Nov 25, In Afghanistan hundreds of demonstrators in Shi'ite areas of Kabul and Bamyan province protested against the arrest of Alipur, an ethnic Hazara militia commander.
(Reuters, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, In western Afghanistan a Taliban ambush of a police convoy killed 20 policemen while 10 troops died in an insurgent attack on an army checkpoint in Farah province. In northern Faryab province the Taliban attacked an army check point in Qaisar district, killing 10 troops.
(AP, 11/26/18)
2018 Nov 25, Bahrain said it will hold a second round of voting for 31 of 40 seats in parliament next week, in an election from which opposition groups have been barred.
(Reuters, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, Chadian President Idriss Deby met with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, the first such visit by a leader of the central African nation which severed bilateral ties in 1972.
(Reuters, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, Egypt's highest appeal court upheld death sentences against nine defendants convicted for their involvement in the 2015 assassination of Hisham Barakat, the country's chief prosecutor.
(AP, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, European Union leaders finally sealed a Brexit deal, saying the package agreed with PM Theresa May was the best Britain will get in a warning to the British parliament not to reject it.
(Reuters, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, French Senate employee Benoit Quennedey, suspected of spying for North Korea, was detained. Quennedey has traveled to the Koreas in his role as the head of the French-Korean Friendship Association, and wrote a book and essays about North Korea.
(AP, 11/27/18)
2018 Nov 25, French economy minister Bruno Le Maire said Renault had launched an internal audit into Ghosn's pay. Nissan's former chairman Carlos Ghosn has denied allegations of financial misconduct, claiming he had no intention of making false reports.
(AFP, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, In northern India tens of thousands of Hindus gathered in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh state, and renewed calls to build a Hindu temple on a site where a 16th century mosque was attacked and demolished by Hindu hard-liners in 1992, sparking deadly Hindu-Muslim violence.
(AFP, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, In Indian-controlled Kashmir six rebels and an army soldier were killed in a gunbattle, sparking violent protests by residents seeking an end to Indian rule over the disputed region and leaving a teenage boy dead and 20 people injured.
(AP, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, Iraq's health ministry said least 21 people have died and tens of thousands displaced by heavy rains that have battered the country over two days.
(AFP, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, Israeli police overnight arrested Adnan Gheith, the Palestinian governor of Jerusalem, for the second time in as many months after an investigation related to a land sale.
(AFP, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, The Jordanian army killed four drug smugglers seeking to cross into the kingdom from Syria's southeastern desert border area.
(Reuters, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, Tens of thousands of Romanians braved hours of cold weather Sunday for the blessing of a grandiose Orthodox cathedral consecrated to mark 100 years since modern-day Romania was created in the aftermath of World War I. Romanian King Carol I passed a law for the cathedral to be built in 1884, but two world wars and decades of communism meant it never happened. Building work began on the neo-Byzantine structure in 2010.
(AP, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, Russia stopped three Ukrainian navy vessels from entering the Sea of Azov via the Kerch Strait by placing a huge cargo ship beneath a Russian-controlled bridge, with officials from both countries accusing the other of provocative behavior. A bilateral treaty gives both countries the right to use the sea, which lies between them and is linked by the narrow Kerch Strait to the Black Sea. Russian coast guards opened fire on three Ukrainian ships near the Kerch Strait and then seized them. Three Ukrainian sailors were wounded and 24 were detained.
(Reuters, 11/25/18)(Reuters, 11/26/18)
2018 Nov 25, Slovakia's PM Peter Pellegrini said his country will not support the UN pact on the treatment of migrants worldwide.
(Reuters, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, In Spain tens of thousands of protesters, many wearing purple, marched through Madrid and other cities to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
(Reuters, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena assured non-interference in ongoing investigations into abductions, killings of journalists and other crimes allegedly committed by those connected to the new prime minister and his Cabinet. Sirisena said he would not reinstate Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister even if he was able to prove his majority in parliament.
(AP, 11/25/18)(Reuters, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, Syrian officials said more than 100 people were treated at hospitals for a suspected poison gas attack the previous evening in the northern city of Aleppo that Damascus and Moscow blamed on rebels. Russian warplanes attacked rebel-held areas in northern Syria for the first time in weeks.
(AP, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, Voters in Taiwan passed a referendum asking that marriage be restricted to one man and one woman, a setback to LGBT couples hoping their island will be the first place in Asia to let same-sex couples share child custody and insurance benefits.
(AP, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, In Yemen a Saudi-led military coalition resumed air strikes against rebel supply lines around Hodeida, two days after a UN envoy visited the lifeline port city.
(AFP, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, In Yemen a suspected US drone strike killed six alleged al-Qaida militants in the country's southwest.
(AP, 11/26/18)
2019 Nov 25, Today marked International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Tens of thousands of women marched as the UN women's agency kicked off 16 days of activism against gender-based violence.
(Reuters, 11/25/19)(SFC, 11/27/19, p.A4)
2019 Nov 25, The US State Dept. said it has recalled its ambassador from South Sudan after the leaders of formerly warring factions failed to agree on a unity government.
(Reuters, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, The US Supreme Court allowed prominent climate scientist Michael Mann to pursue a defamation lawsuit against a conservative magazine and a think tank that compared him to a convicted child molester. The justices declined to hear appeals filed by National Review magazine and the Competitive Enterprise Institute seeking to overturn a lower court's ruling that allowed the lawsuit filed by scientist Michael Mann to go forward.
(Reuters, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, A US military official said Qatar and Kuwait have told the US that they will join a US-led naval coalition in the Gulf which was established in response to a series of attacks on oil tankers.
(Reuters, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, In California a fire ripped through brush and woodland on hills above the city of Santa Barbara early today, forcing some 5,500 residents to leave their homes. Most of the evacuees were able to return home the next day.
(Reuters, 11/26/19)(SFC, 11/27/19, p.A7)
2019 Nov 25, In Florida Chinese national Yujing Zhang was sentenced to eight months in prison and two years of supervised release over her arrest for trespassing at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida last March.
(ABC News, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, A teenage boy in Florida faced manslaughter charges he accidentally shot and killed two friends.
(ABC News, 11/27/19)
2019 Nov 25, Charles Schwab Corp agreed to buy TD Ameritrade Holding Corp in an all-stock deal valued at $26 billion, creating a brokerage giant in a market that has been ravaged by price wars.
(Reuters, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new record in 2018, rising faster than the average rise of the last decade and cementing increasingly damaging weather patterns.
(Reuters, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, British man Maurice Robinson (25) admitted plotting to assist unlawful immigration after 39 Vietnamese migrants were found dead in the back of a truck he was driving.
(AP, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, A second leak of secret Chinese Communist Party (CCP) documents revealed details of how over one million detainees in China are indoctrinated, controlled and punished in a huge network of internment camps. The papers, dated to 2017 and leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), have been dubbed The China Cables and feature instructions to “never allow escapes" from the camps.
(The Telegraph, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, In Congo DRC angry residents of the eastern city of Beni burned the town hall and stormed the United Nations peacekeeping mission after rebels killed eight people and kidnapped nine overnight in their latest assault.
(AP, 11/25/19)(Econ., 9/5/20, p.37)
2019 Nov 25, An Egyptian court has handed down death sentences to seven people convicted of carrying out attacks that killed 11 policemen in 2016. The Cairo Criminal Court also sentenced 18 others to 10-15 years in prison for the same charges.
(AP, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, Officials said at least seven people have died as heavy rain slammed the Riviera coasts of France and Italy, trapping travelers in their cars, as well as parts of western Greece.
(AP, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, It was reported that Louis Vuitton owner LVMH has agreed to buy Tiffany for $16.2 billion in its biggest acquisition yet, as the French luxury goods maker bets it can restore the U.S. jeweler's luster by investing in stores and new collections.
(Reuters, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, Thieves in Germany looted the historic Green Vault Museum in Dresden of potentially millions of dollars worth of valuables in a brazen heist early this morning. Police later said at least seven people were involved in the theft of the 18th-century jewels.
(SFC, 1/26/19, p.A2)(AP, 3/5/20)
2019 Nov 25, Supporters of Iran's government poured into central Tehran for a massive rally to condemn days of "rioting" that the Islamic republic blames on its foreign foes.
(AFP, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, Iran rejected a US court order for Tehran to pay $180 million in damages to a Washington Post reporter for jailing him on espionage charges.
(AFP, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, Amnesty Int’l. said at least 143 demonstrators have been killed across Iransince Nov. 15, almost all of them shot by security forces.
(AFP, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, Fiat Chrysler said it has already started 90% of the investments earmarked for Italy. FCA announced last year it would spend 5 billion euros ($5.5 billion) in Italy up to 2021.
(Reuters, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, In Japan Pope Francis appealed to world leaders to ensure that nuclear weapons are never used again, a day after he visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only cities ever to be hit by atomic bombs.
(Reuters, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, In Lebanon a key road in Beirut reopened following clashes throughout the night between rival groups, some of the worst violence since protests against the country’s ruling elite began last month. A business group representing much of the private sector called for a three-day general strike to press the country's divided politicians to form a government and end a crisis that has brought the economy to a standstill.
(AP, 11/25/19)(Reuters, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, Maltese police sources said Melvin Theuma, suspected of being the middleman in the murder of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, has been granted a presidential pardon in return for information about the case.
(Reuters, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, Russian military launched a Soyuz-2-1v/Volga rocket from Site 43 in Plesetsk, delivering a classified cargo into orbit. Russia launched its Kosmos 2542 satellite. 11 days later it disgorged another satellite named Kosmos 2543. On Jul 15, 2020, 2543 spat out another object, which sped off into the void.
(http://www.russianspaceweb.com/cosmos-2542.html)(Econ., 8/15/20, p.68)
2019 Nov 25, Retail subscription for Saudi Aramco's initial public offering (IPO) reached 21.77 billion Saudi riyals ($5.8 billion). The last day of subscription for the retail tranche of the share sale is Nov. 28. Aramco launched the IPO on Nov. 3. Aramco said it plans to sell 1.5% of the company, or about 3 billion shares, at an indicative price range of 30 riyals to 32 riyals, valuing the IPO at as much as 96 billion riyals ($25.6 billion) and giving the company a potential market value of between $1.6 trillion and $1.7 trillion.
(Reuters, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, In northern Thailand a wild deer was found dead in a national park with seven kg of plastic waste and other trash in its stomach. Officials estimated that the 10-year-old deer had died at least two days earlier.
(AP, 11/27/19)
2019 Nov 25, Turkish media say Turkey is poised to begin testing Russian-made S-400 air defense systems, despite threats of sanctions from the United States.
(AP, 11/25/19)
2020 Nov 25, President Trump pardoned Michael Flynn, his former national security adviser, who twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his conversations with a Russian diplomat.
(NY Times, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, The US Supreme Court, in a 5 to 4 vote, barred restrictions on religious services in New York that Gov. Andrew Cuomo had imposed. Justice Amy Coney Barrett played a decisive role.
(NY Times, 11/26/20)
2020 Nov 25, It was reported that the US will temporarily require visitors from Iran, Myanmar and a number of African nations to pay up to $15,000 in visa bonds in a new hardline immigration measure enacted late in Donald Trump's presidency. The rule takes effect December 24 for a duration of six months.
(AFP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, The Army Corps of Engineers denied a permit for the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska, most likely killing the project. Opponents of the mine said it would have irreversibly harmed salmon breeding grounds.
(NY Times, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, The NASDAQ composite index hit a record high gaining 57.62 points to close at 12,094.40.
(SFC, 11/26/20, p.C2)
2020 Nov 25, In Arizona hundreds of inmates at Eyman prison in Florence were involved in unrest that reportedly involved teargas and pepper spray being deployed against them.
(The Guardian, 11/27/20)
2020 Nov 25, California to date had 1,154,031 cases of coronavirus and 18,919 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 144,148 cases and 1,941 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 12,759,949 with the death toll at 262,080.
(sfist.com, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, A statewide order by Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly requiring facemasks went into effect. 62 counties joined the rule and 43 opted out.
(SFC, 11/28/20, p.A6)
2020 Nov 25, It was reported that the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska is creating the nation's largest tribal national park (444 acres) on a forested bluff overlooking the Missouri River and a historic site of its people. The new Ioway Tribal National Park will overlook a historic trading village where the Ioway people bartered for buffalo hides and pipestones with other tribes during the 13th to 15th centuries.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, James Wolfensohn (86), two-term president of the World Bank, died at his home in Manhattan. He had escaped a financially pinched Australian childhood to become a top Wall Street deal maker.
(NY Times, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Pennsylvania will not allow bars and restaurants to sell alcohol after 5 p.m. today, in an effort to dissuade gatherings on what is usually one of the busiest bar nights of the year.
(NY Times, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, In Texas police shot and killed a man who fired on officers and set his trailer on fire in San Antonio.
(AP, 11/26/20)
2020 Nov 25, Tesla Inc issued two recalls covering about 9,500 vehicles for roof trim that may separate and bolts that may not have been properly tightened.
(Reuters, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Diego Maradona (60), the Argentine soccer star with other worldly footwork, died of a heart attack in Tigre. He was ranked with Pelé among the best, and his ability to surprise and startle won over fans and even critics.
(NY Times, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev vowed to rebuild and revive the Kalbajar region, the latest territory that Armenian forces have ceded in a truce that ended six weeks of intense fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Britain unveiled plans for more massive state spending despite soaring debt on coronavirus fallout, including pay rises for nurses to support the ravaged economy as the nation embarks on its post-Brexit future.
(AFP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, AstraZeneca acknowledged a key mistake in the vaccine dosage received by some study participants, adding to questions about whether the vaccine’s apparently spectacular efficacy will hold up under additional testing.
(NY Times, 11/26/20)
2020 Nov 25, The Canadian Museum announced the winners of its national Nature Inspiration Awards for 2020. These annual awards, which began in 2014, recognize individuals, groups and organizations whose leadership, innovation and creativity connect Canadians with nature and the natural world.
(Global Newswire, 11/26/20)
2020 Nov 25, Chinese President Xi Jinping congratulated US President-elect Joe Biden and expressed hope for “win-win cooperation" amid conflicts over trade, technology and security that have plunged Sino-American relations to their lowest level in decades.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, China's top diplomat told Japan's leader that Beijing wants the two Asian powers to have good relations and cooperate in fighting the coronavirus and reviving their pandemic-hit economies, but the two sides remained at odds over an island dispute.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, It was reported that an inventor in Egypt is trialing a remote-control robot which can test for COVID-19, take the temperature of patients, and warn them if they don't wear masks at a private hospital north of Cairo.
(Reuters, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Germany's Cabinet approved legislation that would provide compensation to gay servicepeople who experienced discrimination in the military before a change of policy 20 years ago.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Bertelsmann, the German parent of Penguin Random House, outbid News Corp. with a $2.2 billion offer for Simon & Schuster, the fifth-biggest english-language publisher.
(Econ., 11/28/20, p.59)
2020 Nov 25, Germany reported a record 410 COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases increased by 18,633 to 961,320. The reported death toll rose by a record 410 to 14,771.
(Reuters, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, India's ruling Hindu BJP nationalist party approved legislation in Uttar Pradesh state that lays out a prison term for anyone found guilty of using marriage to force someone to change religion. The party describes such marriages as "love jihad," an unproven conspiracy theory used by its leaders and Hindu hard-line groups to accuse Muslim men of converting Hindu women by marriage.
(SFC, 11/26/20, p.A2)
2020 Nov 25, Indonesian authorities arrested Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Edhy Prabowo as he arrived in Jakarta following a working visit to the US. He was suspected of taking bribes related to exports of lobster larvae.
(SFC, 11/27/20, p.A2)
2020 Nov 25, Iran released Kylie Moore-Gilbert, the British-Australian academic who has been detained in the country for over two years on espionage charges, in exchange for three Iranian prisoners who were being held abroad.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian motorist who police say tried to carry out a car-ramming attack at a West Bank checkpoint.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Italy reported 722 COVID 19-related deaths, down from 853 the day before, and 25,853 new infections.
(Reuters, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Poland reported a new daily record of 674 coronavirus-related deaths.
(Reuters, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Poland said it will cull over 900,000 hens in a farm in the village of Wroniawy due to an outbreak of the H5N8 bird flu, which was discovered the previous evening.
(Reuters, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Thousands of people in Russia's Far East region of Primorye remained without heating or electricity, as local authorities and emergency services wrestled with the consequences of an unprecedented ice storm that hit the region last week.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Russia reported a record 507 coronavirus deaths in the last 24 hours, taking its national death toll to 37,538 since the pandemic began.
(Reuters, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, A mine in the Red Sea off Saudi Arabia's coast near Yemen exploded and damaged an oil tanker near Shuqaiq.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, A UN report said Israel’s blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip has cost the seaside territory as much as $16.7 billion in economic losses and sent poverty and unemployment skyrocketing.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Pope Francis called for global action to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2021 Nov 25, Total US COVID-19 cases reached over 48,107,102 with the death toll at 775,628.
(sfist.com, 11/26/21)
2021 Nov 25, Members of Native American tribes gathered in Plymouth, Mass., to mourn Indigenous people worldwide who have suffered centuries of racism and mistreatment in a tradition that began in 1970.
(SFC, 11/26/21, p.A8)
2021 Nov 25, Spectators once again lined the streets of Manhattan for the 95th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade after last year's spectacle was scaled down and closed to the public because of the coronavirus pandemic.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Australia announced it is sending police, troops and diplomats to the Solomon Islands to help after anti-government demonstrators defied lockdown orders and took to the streets for a second day in violent protests.
(AP, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Austria said it has found a case of bird flu on a small chicken farm near Vienna airport and is ordering poultry farms with more than 350 birds to keep them indoors.
(AP, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Belarusian and Russian fighter jets jointly patrolled Belarus' border, in the latest sign of Moscow's support for its ally in a standoff with the EU over migrants camped at the frontier with Poland.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Britain reported 47,240 new cases of COVID-19. A further 147 people were reported as having died within 28 days of a positive test for COVID-19.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore promised to end "dysfunction" within the military in a speech, as the nation braced for more protests against worsening insecurity.
(Reuters, 11/26/21)
2021 Nov 25, Statistics Canada said the murder rate in Canada last year rose to its highest level since 2005.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, China's Shanghai city detected three domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases with confirmed symptoms. This prompted Shanghai to limit tourism activities and a nearby city to cut public transport services, as China insisted on zero tolerance against letting clusters spread.
(Reuters, 11/26/21)
2021 Nov 25, State-backed media said Chinese tech group Baidu Inc and self-driving startup Pony.ai have won approval to launch paid driverless robotaxi services that will see the firms deploy not more than 100 vehicles in an area in China's capital Beijing.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, The Czech government declared a 30 day state of emergency involving early closure of bars and clubs and a ban on Christmas markets as the continent battled a surge in coronavirus cases.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Egypt's highest civilian court issued a final ruling upholding a death sentence for 21 suspected Islamist militants. The defendants were convicted of belonging to Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis group, which changed its name to Sinai Province after pledging allegiance to the Islamic State.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Egypt unveiled a restored road connecting two ancient temple complexes in Karnak and Luxor in a lavish ceremony aimed at raising the profile of one of the country's top tourist spots.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Ethiopia’s government issued a new order aiming to restrict media reporting of the country’s yearlong war, prohibiting the sharing of non-official information on “military-related movements, battlefront results and situations".
(AP, 11/26/21)
2021 Nov 25, The EU's drug regulator approved the use of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of five and 11 paving the way for them to be given a first shot as Europe struggles with a surge in cases.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, French authorities announced that booster shots would be made available to everyone aged over 18, rather than just the over-65s and those with underlying health issues.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Investigators with Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission delivered a final report to the president Thursday, identifying and recommending prosecution for those most responsible for crimes and human rights abuses committed during the 22-year rule of former President Yahya Jammeh.
(AP, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Germany said a case of African swine fever (ASF) has been found in a wild boar in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, close to a case found on a farm in the state earlier in November.
(AP, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, The number of new daily cases in Germany hit a record of 75,961 and its total death toll reached 100,119 since the start of the pandemic.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Indonesia's Constitutional Court ordered the government to amend parts of a 2020 job creation law within two years, citing procedural flaws in how the controversial legislation was handled.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Protests against COVID-19 restrictions in the French territory of Martinique intensified and the situation is "very strained," after rioters injured police officers, attacked journalists and set fire to the state representative's residence.
(Reuters, 11/26/21)
2021 Nov 25, It was reported that the Mexican government is rapidly running out of tools to control the expansion of the feared Jalisco cartel on the front lines of Mexico’s narco war in the western state of Michoacan and the stalled ground effort is being supplemented by an increasingly sophisticated aerial conflict.
(AP, 11/26/21)
2021 Nov 25, Portugal said it is bringing back some tight pandemic restrictions as of Dec. 1 in response to a recent rise in coronavirus infections.
(SFC, 11/26/21, p.A7)
2021 Nov 25, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis swore in a new coalition government led by a Liberal former army general and declared an end to a months-long political crisis that had gripped the Eastern European nation.
(AP, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, A methane explosion at a coal mine in Russia's Siberia killed 11 people and injured more than 40, with dozens of others remaining trapped at the Listvyazhnaya mine in the Kemerova region. The death toll soon rose to at least 52.
(AP, 11/25/21)((SFC, 11/26/21, p.A4)
2021 Nov 25, Sierra Leone's anti-corruption commission indicted six officials on corruption allegations, including an opposition front-runner for the 2023 presidential election.
(Reuters, 11/26/21)
2021 Nov 25, Slovakia went into a two-week lockdown, as the country with one of the EU's lowest vaccination rates reported a critical situation in hospitals and new infections that topped global tables.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, In Somalia a large explosion outside a school in Mogadishu killed at least eight people including students.
(AP, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, South African scientists said they have detected a new COVID-19 variant in small numbers and are working to understand its potential implications. They said variant B.1.1.529 has a "very unusual constellation" of mutations, which are concerning because they could help it evade the body's immune response and make it more transmissible.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, South Korea said it will start a task force to consider outlawing the centuries-old practice of dog meat consumption.
(SFC, 11/26/21, p.A2)
2021 Nov 25, In Sudan tens of thousands protested in the streets of Khartoum and other cities, keeping up the pressure on military leaders after they struck a deal to bring back a civilian prime minister deposed in a coup one month ago.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, In Turkey riot police fired pepper gas to disperse demonstrators who gathered in Istanbul to protest violence against women, some chanting "government resign", nearly five months after Turkey withdrew from a treaty on the issue.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Pope Francis declared five Catholic priests who were killed during the Paris Commune revolutionary government that took control of Paris in 1871 were martyrs who were killed out of “hatred for the faith".
(AP, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Vietnam said an African swine fever outbreak is spreading widely in the country and is hurting the local farming industry, forcing the culling of three times the number of hogs culled last year.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2022 Nov 25, The Biden administration has banned approvals of new telecommunications equipment from China's Huawei Technologies and ZTE because they pose "an unacceptable risk" to US national security. The FCC said it had adopted the final rules, which also bar the sale or import of equipment made by Chinese surveillance equipment maker Dahua Technology Co, video surveillance firm Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co Ltd and telecoms firm Hytera Communications Corp Ltd.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Total US COVID-19 cases reached over 98,670,340 with the death toll at 1,080,882.
(sfist.com, 11/26/22)
2022 Nov 25, Irene Cara Escalara (63), American singer and actress, died in Florida. She rose to prominence in 1980 for her role as Coco Hernandez in the 1980 musical film Fame, and for recording the film's title song "Fame", which reached number 1 in several countries.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Cara)
2022 Nov 25, Amazon Inc said it will shut down a food-delivery business it was testing in India.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, President Ilham Aliyev said that Azerbaijan did not want France to take part in its peace talks with Armenia, and called off a four-way meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and European Council head Charles Michel in Brussels on Dec. 7.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, From Buenos Aires to Bogota, women across Latin America took to the streets in marches to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, demanding more action from authorities.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, In Brazil three people were killed and at least eight injured when a shooter opened fire at two schools in Espirito Santo state. Officials said an unidentified teenager in military attire had opened fire at two schools.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Britain's National Crime Agency obtained a civil recovery order relating to nearly 54 million pounds ($65 million) of suspected criminal property held in accounts with Barclays.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, The UK's Treasury department said Britain and Singapore have signed a deal to try to break down trade barriers in the fintech sector by opening new regular talks between regulators and businesses.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly unveiled millions of pounds in additional support for Ukraine during a visit to Kyiv, as the country grapples with Russian air strikes on vital infrastructure with winter setting in.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Cuban counterpart Pres. Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez pledged mutual support over their fellow communist states’ “core interests" at a meeting further hailing a return to face-to-face diplomacy by Beijing.
(AP, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, In China frustration simmered among residents and business groups navigating stricter COVID-19 control curbs as the country reported another record high of daily infections just weeks after hopes had been raised of easing measures. China reported 35,183 new COVID-19 infections for today, of which 3,474 were symptomatic and 31,709 were asymptomatic, setting a new high for the third consecutive day.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)(Reuters, 11/26/22)
2022 Nov 25, A Beijing court sentenced Canadian singer Kris Wu (32) to 13 years in jail after finding him guilty of crimes including rape, just over a year after his arrest in China, where he was born and built a lucrative career. Wu was detained on July 31 last year after an 18-year-old Chinese student publicly accused him of inducing her and other girls, some of them younger than 18, to have sex with him.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, The head of the European Commission said the EU will step up efforts to provide Ukraine with support to restore and maintain power and heating.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Germany-based BMW raised its planned investment in an electric vehicle factory under construction in Hungary to over two billion euros ($2.08 billion) and said it will build a 500-million-euro high-voltage battery assembly plant on site.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia said Ghana has ordered all large-scale mining companies to sell 20% of their entire stock of refined gold at their refineries to the Bank of Ghana from Jan. 1, 2023.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, A Hong Kong court found Cardinal Joseph Zen (90), one of Asia's most senior Roman Catholic clerics, guilty of failing to register a now-disbanded fund for pro-democracy protesters and fined him HK$4,000($512).
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Iran's World Cup team did not sing their country's anthem, in apparent solidarity with protesters. Iran scored twice after the eighth minute of stoppage time to snatch a stunning 2-0 win over Wales that breathed new life into their World Cup campaign in Qatar and left the Welsh flat on their backs and facing a make-or-break decider against England. Iran threatened the families of its soccer squad after the players refused to sing the country's national anthem.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)(Business Insider, 11/29/22)
2022 Nov 25, It was reported that far-right politician Itamar Ben-Gvir will be Israel's national security minister under a coalition deal with PM-designate Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, in what is set to be the most right-wing government in the country's history.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Japan-based Toyota Motor Corp launched its second hybrid car in India, a seven-seat people-carrier, as part of a broader strategy to double-down on the sale of electrified vehicles in emerging markets.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Malawi's Anti-Corruption Bureau said it has arrested and charged the country's Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima over graft allegations, following months of investigation over his conduct.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Pakistan's central bank unexpectedly raised its key policy rate by 100 basis points to 16% to ensure high inflation does not get entrenched.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, In Panama the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, known by its initials as CITES, ended. The conference moved to enact some of the most significant protection for shark species targeted in the fin trade and scores of turtles, lizards and frogs whose numbers are being decimated by the pet trade.
(AP, 11/26/22)
2022 Nov 25, Peru President Pedro Castillo named Minister of Culture Betssy Chavez as the country's new prime minister.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Portugal's parliament passed the majority Socialist government's 2023 budget, which aims to further slash the deficit and debt even as economic growth is expected to slow down sharply.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Qatar, the 2022 World Cup host, was eliminated from the tournament after a 3-1 loss to Senegal.
(Yahoo/Sports, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, President Vladimir Putin met with more than a dozen mothers of Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine, telling those who had lost sons that he and the entire leadership shared their suffering. Ghana's government is planning a new policy where gold rather than US dollar reserves will be used to buy oil products.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Russian attacks on Kherson over the last 24 house killed at least 10 civilians and wounding dozens more,, triggering a hospital evacuation.
(NY Times, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, PM Patrice Trovoada said the island nation of Sao Tome and Principe thwarted a coup attempt overnight. Former soldier, Arlecio Costa, was detained in relation to the coup.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, In Somalia al-Shabaab militants attacked a military base in the central Galgaduud region. The early morning attack in the village of Qayib included suicide car bombs.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol warned the government might step in to break up a nationwide strike by truckers, describing it as an illegal and unacceptable move to take the national supply chain "hostage" during an economic crisis, as the trucker strike entered a second day.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, It was reported that South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co and SK On plan to invest about 2.5 trillion won ($1.88 billion) to build a new joint venture battery factory in the United States. The new factory was likely to be located in Georgia.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Millions of Ukrainians were still without heat or power after the most devastating Russian air strikes on its energy grid so far, with residents warned to brace for further attacks and stock up on water, food and warm clothing. The IAEA said Ukraine's four nuclear power plants have been reconnected to the national power grid after losing off-site power earlier this week.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, UN experts said the Taliban's treatment of Afghan women and girls, including their exclusion from parks and gyms as well as schools and universities, may amount to a crime against humanity.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Venezuelan government representatives arrived in Mexico City to sign a "social agreement" with their political opponents, after talks between the two sides have been on ice for more than a year.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
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2348 BCE Nov 25, Biblical scholars have long asserted this to be the day of the Great Deluge, or Flood. [see Jul 17, 2348]
(HN, 11/25/98)
1120 Nov 25, Countess of Perche, bastard daughter of English king Henry I, drowned along with William (17), English crown prince and son of Henry I.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1177 Nov 25, Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and his armored knights encountered the Muslim army of Saladin below the castle of Montgisard and defeated them in a surprise attack.
(ON, 6/07, p.6)
1357 Nov 25, Charles IV issued a letter of protection of Jews of Strasbourg and Alsace.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1456 Nov 25, Jacques Coeur, French merchant and banker, died in battle.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1562 Nov 25, Lope Felix de Vega, dramatist and poet (Angelica, Arcadia), was born in Madrid, Spain.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1640 Nov 25, Giles Farnaby, composer, died.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1688 Nov 25, Princess Anne fled from London to Nottingham.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1715 Nov 25, England granted the 1st patent to an American. It was for processing corn.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1744 Nov 25, Austrian forces pillaged and killed Jews of Prague.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1758 Nov 25, In the French and Indian War British forces under General John Forbes captured Fort Duquesne (the site of present day Pittsburgh, est. 1754). George Washington participated in the campaign. Forbes renamed the site Fort Pitt after William Pitt the Elder, who directed British military policy in the Seven Years' War of 1756-'63. Before his arrival, the French had burned the fort and retreated.
(AP, 11/25/97)(ON, 9/05, p.5)(HNQ, 7/17/98)
1766 Nov 25, Pope Clement XIII warned of dangers of anti-Christian writings
(MC, 11/25/01)
1783 Nov 25, The British evacuated New York, their last military position in the United States during the Revolutionary War.
(AP, 11/25/97)
1787 Nov 25, Franz Xavier Gruber, Austria, organist and composer (Silent Night), was born.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1815 Nov 25, Johann Peter Saloman (70), composer, died.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1834 Nov 25, Jean-Baptist Colyns, composer, was born.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1834 Nov 25, Delmonico's, one of NY's finest restaurants, provided a meal of soup, steak, coffee & half a pie for 12 cents.
(SFEC, 5/18/97, Z1 p.6)
1835 Nov 25, Andrew Carnegie (d.1919), American industrialist, was born to a poor weaver in Dunfermline, Scotland. He emigrated to the US in 1848 and worked as a superintendent for the Pennsylvania Railroad. In invested in iron manufacturing, railroad cars and oil and moved into the steel business by 1873 where he improved quality and lowered costs. He sold his interests at age 65 and retired to Scotland. He donated $5 million to a pension fund for his workers and gave away an estimated $350 million over the next 2 decades for public libraries, church organs and other causes: There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money."
(WSJ, 1/11/98, p.R18)(AP, 11/25/99)
1844 Nov 25, Carl Benz, pioneer of early motor cars, was born.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1846 Nov 25, Carry Nation (d.1911) was born Carry Amelia Moore in Kentucky. After her first husband died a drunkard, she married David Nation and they moved to Medicine Lodge, Kansas. There, she was elected president of the local chapter of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Even though Kansas was technically a dry state, Medicine Lodge had seven saloons. When Carry Nation's appeals to close the saloons were ignored, she took matters into her own hands--she drove a buggy, full of bricks and stones she had wrapped in newspapers, up to a saloon, smashed its mirrors, glasses, bottles and windows, and said to the proprietor as she left, "I have finished. God be with you." Nation repeated her barroom attacks across the state and the country. One of her last actions was at Washington's Union Depot, where she used three hatchets that she called Faith, Hope and Charity. Nation was arrested about 30 times for her saloon rampages.
(HNPD, 11/25/98)
1847 Nov 25, Friederich von Flotow's opera "Martha" was produced in Vienna.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1863 Nov 25, The Union ended the siege of Chattanooga, Tenn., with the Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tenn.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1864 Nov 25, A Confederate plot to burn NYC failed.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1864 Nov 25, Confederates retreated at Sandersville, Georgia.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1864 Nov 25, David Roberts (b.1796), Scottish painter, died. He toured Egypt and the Holy Land from 1838-1840. His work there made him a prominent Orientalist painter.
(SSFC, 7/24/11, p.F7)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Roberts_%28painter%29)
1867 Nov 25, US Congress commission looked into impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1867 Nov 25, Alfred Nobel patented dynamite.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1876 Nov 25, Colonel Ronald MacKenzie destroyed Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife’s village, in the Bighorn Mountains near the Red Fork of the Powder River, during the so-called Great Sioux War.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1878 Nov 25, In London a trial opened to hear the suit of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) against critic John Ruskin for libel. After a 2-day hearing the jury found Ruskin guilty and awarded Whistler one farthing, a quarter of a penny. Whistler later authored “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies" (1890).
(www.abcgallery.com/W/whistler/whistlerbio.html)(ON, 4/03, p.9)
1880 Nov 25, Leonard Sidney Woolf (d.1969), English publisher, writer, was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Woolf)
1881 Nov 25, Pope John the 23rd (1958-1963) was born Angelo Roncalli near Bergamo, Italy.
(AP, 11/25/97)(MC, 11/25/01)
1884 Nov 25, John B. Meyenberg of St. Louis patented evaporated milk.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1893 Nov 25, Joseph W. Krutch, US naturalist, was born.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1895 Nov 25, Wilhelm Kempff, pianist (Unter dem Zimbelstern), was born in Juterbog, Germany.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1896 Nov 25, Virgil Thompson, American composer, was born. His work included “Four Saints in Three Acts" and “The Mother of Us All."
(HN, 11/25/00)
1897 Nov 25, Spain granted Puerto Rico autonomy.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1900 Nov 25, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Nixon's 1st opponent, (Rep-D-Ca), was born.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1901 Nov 25, Japanese Prince Ito arrived in Russia to seek concessions in Korea.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1901 Nov 25, Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (62), German composer and music theorist, died.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1902 Nov 25, Franz Lehar's opera "Wiener Fraueen," premiered in Vienna.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1903 Nov 25, In San Francisco Alexander Garnett shot and killed Major J.W. McClung at the Palace Hotel apartment of Mrs. Lillian Hitchcock Coit. Coit soon left the city and spent the next 6 years in Paris. Garnett was convicted and sentenced to 15 years at San Quentin, but only began serving time in 1909 following an appeal and restoration of records due to the 1906 fire.
(SSFC, 9/13/09, DB p.46)
1905 Nov 25, Jules Massenet's opera "Thais" had its 1st American performance.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1908 Nov 25, The first issue of The Christian Science Monitor was published.
(AP, 11/25/08)
1910 Nov 25, Alwin Nikolais, choreographer, was born.
(HN, 11/25/00)
1913 Nov 25, Lewis Thomas, physician and author, was born. His work included “The Lives of a Cell."
(HN, 11/25/00)
1914 Nov 25, Joe DiMaggio, baseball star, was born in Martinez, Ca.
(SFC, 10/15/04, p.F13)
1914 Nov 25, German Field Marshal Fredrich von Hindenburg called off Lodz offensive 40 miles from Warsaw, Poland. The Russians lost 90,000 to the Germans’ 35,000 in two weeks of fighting.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1915 Nov 25, Augusto Pinochet (d.2006), general, coup leader and president of Chile (1974-1990), was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet)
1915 Nov 25, Albert Einstein first presented his "General Theory of Relativity" to a group of scientists in Berlin. General Relativity was presented to the Prussian Academy of Sciences over the course of four lectures. In 2000 David Bodanis authored "E=MC²: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation."
(http://tinyurl.com/hbdgz9h)(SFC, 11/26/96, p.A7)(SFEC, 10/22/00, Par p.23)(Econ, 11/28/15, p.70)
1918 Nov 25, Chile and Peru severed relations.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1920 Nov 25, Radio station WTAW of College Station, Texas, broadcast the first play-by-play description of a football game, between the University of Texas and Texas A&M.
(AP, 11/25/00)
1920 Nov 25, The 1st Thanksgiving Parade was held in Philadelphia.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1921 Nov 25, Hirohito became regent of Japan.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1922 Nov 25, Archaeologist Howard Carter entered King Tut's tomb.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1923 Nov 25, Transatlantic broadcasting from England to America for the first time.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1926 Nov 25, Poul [William] Anderson, American sci-fi author (7 Hugos, Mirkheim), was born.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1930 Nov 25, An earthquake in Shizouka, Japan, killed 187.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1938 Nov 25, Charles Starkweather, murderer (Midwest killing spree), was born.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1939 Nov 25, Shelagh Delaney, playwright whose work included “A Taste of Honey," was born.
(HN, 11/25/00)
1939 Nov 25, Germany reported four British ships sunk in the North Sea, but London denied the report.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1940 Nov 25, Woody Woodpecker debuted with the release of Walter Lantz's "Knock Knock."
(MC, 11/25/01)
1940 Nov 25, The ship Patria, carrying illegal immigrants, sank in port of Haifa, 200 died.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1941 Nov 25, German Jews in Netherlands were declared stateless.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1943 Nov 25, U-600 sank in the Atlantic Ocean.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1943 Nov 25, Anti-Fascist Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ZAVNOBiH) adopted a resolution declaring Bosnia and Herzegovina an equal community of Serbs, Muslims and Croats. Bosnia was founded by anti-fascist partisans.
(http://tinyurl.com/hxrp9qt)(Econ, 12/5/15, p.53)
1944 Nov 25, Two Japanese planes struck the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier in kamikaze attacks that left 69 dead and 35 injured.
(WSJ, 11/8/08, p.W9)
1944 Nov 25, Baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis died at age 78.
(AP, 11/25/97)
1946 Nov 25, Supreme Court granted Oregon Indians land payment rights from the U.S. government.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1947 Nov 25, In NYC Cuba-born ballerina Alicia Alonso (1920-2019) partnered with Igor Youskevitch in the premier of George Balanchine's "Theme and Variations."
(SFC, 10/18, p.C9)
1947 Nov 25, Movie studio executives meeting in New York agreed to blacklist the "Hollywood Ten" who were cited a day earlier and jailed for contempt of Congress for failing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
(AP, 11/25/99)
1947 Nov 25, The Big Four met to discuss Germany and the European economy.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1949 Nov 25, [Boris] Alexander Godunov, dancer and actor (Die Hard), was born in Sakhalin, USSR.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1949 Nov 25, "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" appeared on music charts. It was originally an advertising jingle.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1949 Nov 25, Luther "Bill" Robinson (b.1878), famed actor and tap dancer known as "Bojangles," died in NYC.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Robinson)
1950 Nov 25, Mao Anying (b.1922), the eldest son of Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui, was killed by an American air strike during the Korean war.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Anying)
1951 Nov 25, A truce line between U.N. troops and North Korea was mapped out at the peace talks in Panmunjom, Korea.
(HN, 11/25/00)
1952 Nov 25, George Meany was appointed chairman of AFL.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1953 Nov 25, "Guys & Dolls" closed at 46th St Theater NYC after 1200 performances.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1955 Nov 25, The Interstate Commerce Commission banned segregation in interstate travel.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1956 Nov 25, Fidel Castro and his 81 rebel exiles departed Mexico to liberate Cuba from the corrupt dictatorship of Fulgencia Batista. Che Guevara had recently joined Fidel and his band of Cuban rebel exiles as their doctor.
(TOH, 1982, p.1956)(SFC, 6/16/97, p.D3)(SFC, 10/15/97, p.C2)
1957 Nov 25, President Eisenhower suffered a slight stroke.
(AP, 11/25/97)
1958 Nov 25, Charles F. Kettering (82), inventor of the auto self-starter, died.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1960 Nov 25, John F. Kennedy Jr. (d.1999), son of JFK, lawyer, magazine publisher (George), was born in NYC.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1960 Nov 25, "Amos 'n' Andy" made its last broadcast on CBS radio.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1960 Nov 25, CBS ended last 4 radio soap operas (Ma Perkins, Right to Happiness, Young Dr Malone & 2nd Mrs. Burton) and canceled 4 other series.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1963 Nov 25, Assassinated President John F. Kennedy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
(AP, 11/25/97)(HN, 11/25/98)
1964 Nov 25, Eleven nations gave a total of $3 billion to rescue the value of the British currency.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1968 Nov 25, Upton B. Sinclair (b.1878), US novelist and social reformer (Jungle), died at age 90. His work included almost 50 novels, over 20 nonfiction books, plays and countless pieces of journalism. In 1975 Leon A. Harris Jr. (d.2000) authored "Upton Sinclair, American Rebel." In 2006 Anthony Arthur authored “Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair."
(www.americanwriters.org/writers/sinclair.asp)(WSJ, 2/23/06, p.D8)(WSJ, 6/10/06, p.P8)
1969 Nov 25, Pres. Nixon announced an unconditional renunciation of biological weapons.
(SFC, 2/19/00, p.A14)(http://tinyurl.com/9yy6bc)
1970 Nov 25, Walter Hickel (1919-2010), former governor of Alaska and US Secretary of the Interior, was fired by Pres. Nixon after sending Nixon a letter critical of how the president handled student protests following the National Guard shootings at Kent State.
(AH, 10/04, p.42)(SSFC, 5/9/10, p.C8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Hickel)
1970 Nov 25, Yukio Mishima (45), Japanese author and nationalist (Hara-kiri), invaded military headquarters in Tokyo and committed ritual suicide samurai-style. His death was an act of protest after he failed to persuade the country's Self Defense Force to stage a coup and renounce the US-imposed postwar constitution that banned Japanese aggressive military action. His books included "The Sound of Waves" and "The Temple and the Golden Pavilion." In 1998 Jiro Fukushima published a memoir that contained 15 letters from Mishima and descriptions of a sexual liaison with Mishima. A lawsuit soon halted book sales.
(SFEC, 1/25/98, Z1 p.2)(SFC, 10/21/99, p.B7)
1973 Nov 25, Pres. Nixon called for a ban on Sunday gasoline sales.
(http://dotlibrary.dot.gov/Historian/chronology.htm)
1973 Nov 25, Albert DeSalvo, Boston strangler, was stabbed to death in prison. DeSalvo, the self-admitted Boston strangler, had been tried and convicted on unrelated assaults. 13 women were killed in Boston between 1962-1964. DNA evidence was sought in 1999. Susan Kelly wrote a book in 1995 on the Boston Strangler.
(SFC, 7/10/99, p.A3)(www.us.imdb.com/name/nm1108915/)
1973 Nov 25, Greek President George Papadopoulos was ousted in a bloodless military coup led by police chief Brigadier Dimitris Ioannides. Gen'l. Faidon Gizikis was named president. Adamantios Androutsopoulis (d.2000 at 81) was named premier. The dictatorship ended in 1974.
(AP, 11/25/97)(SFC, 6/28/99, p.A19)(SFC, 11/15/00, p.B6)
1973 Nov 25, Three Palestinians hijacked a KLM B747 enroute to New Delhi to Abu Dhabi.
(www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/incidents.html)
1973 Nov 25, Laurence Harvey (b.1928), film actor, died in London of cancer. He was an Academy Award-nominated Lithuanian-born actor who achieved fame in British and American films.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Harvey)
1974 Nov 25, Irish Republican Army was outlawed in Britain following deaths of 21. IRA bombs in British pubs killed 28 and wounded over 200 in the last 2 months.
{Northern Ireland, Britain}
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevention_of_Terrorism_Act_(Northern_Ireland))(WSJ, 3/12/04, p.A11)
1974 Nov 25, Nick Drake (b.1948), English musician and composer, died from an overdose of prescription drugs. His albums included "Five Leaves Left" (1969), "Bryter Layter," and "Pink Moon" (1971). Paul Humphries in 1997 authored the biography "Nick Drake: A Biography."
(WSJ, 2/10/99, p.A20)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Drake)
1974 Nov 25, Former U.N. Secretary-General U Thant died in New York at age 65.
(AP, 11/25/97)
1975 Nov 25, The Portuguese Communist Party under Alvaro Cunhal attempted a coup in Lisbon with leftist army paratroops.
(WSJ, 10/14/98, p.A22)
1975 Nov 25, Suriname gained Independence from the Netherlands and adopted a new flag.
(SFC, 9/6/96, p.A14)(http://flagspot.net/flags/sr.html)
1979 Nov 25, Israel returned the Alma oil field in A-Tour to Egypt.
(www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/time70s.html)
1980 Nov 25, Sugar Ray Leonard regained the World Boxing Council welterweight championship when Roberto Duran abruptly quit in the eighth round at the Louisiana Superdome.
(AP, 11/25/00)
1981 Nov 25, In the Seychelle Islands a group of mercenaries poising as a touring rugby team staged an ill-fated attempted takeover of the country.
(www.strategypage.com/militaryforums/516-637.aspx)
1983 Nov 25, Syria and Saudi Arabia announced a cease-fire in PLO civil war in Tripoli.
(www.defense-update.com/2005/02/arafats-dissidents-challenge-to-abu.html)
1984 Nov 25, William Schroeder of Jasper, Ind., became the 2nd man to receive a Jarvik-7 artificial heart, at Humana Hospital Audubon in Kentucky. He lived 620 days on the device.
(AP, 11/25/04)
1985 Nov 25, Ronald W. Pelton, a former employee of the National Security Agency, was arrested on espionage charges. Pelton was later convicted of selling secrets about signals intelligence to Soviet agents between 1980-1985 for $35,000 plus expenses. Pelton was released in 2015.
(AP, 11/25/05)(SFC, 11/25/15, p.A8)
1985 Nov 25, Elsa Morante (b.1912), Italian writer, died. Her books included “House of Liars" (1948). In 2008 Lily Tuck authored the biography “Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante."
(WSJ, 9/27/08, p.W11)
1986 Nov 25, Secret arms sales to Iran were uncovered with Lt. Col. Oliver North directing the proceeds to the contras in Nicaragua. The Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels. Secretary Fawn Hall smuggled important documents out of Lt. Col. Oliver North’s office.
(TMC, 1994, p.1986)(AP, 11/25/97)(HN, 11/25/98)
1987 Nov 25, Harold Washington, the first black mayor of Chicago (1983-1987), died at age 65 after suffering a heart attack in his City Hall office.
(AP, 11/25/97)
1987 Nov 25, In the "Night of the Gliders" two fighters of the PFLP-GC crossed from Lebanon into Israel on hang-gliders and killed six Israeli soldiers. The attack was considered as one of the triggers for the first intifada.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Gliders)
1988 Nov 25, An earthquake centered in eastern Canada and measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale was felt widely across Canada and in the northeastern United States.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1989 Nov 25, More than 500,000 demonstrators gathered in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where they scoffed at a Communist Party shakeup and cheered Alexander Dubcek, the reformer ousted in 1968.
(AP, 11/25/99)
1990 Nov 25, Poland held its first popular presidential election. Solidarity founder Lech Walesa, who received a plurality of votes, won a runoff the following month.
(AP, 11/25/00)
1991 Nov 25, President George H.W. Bush threatened to veto anti-crime legislation heading for a final vote in Congress, accusing Democrats of producing a bill that would actually weaken law enforcement.
(AP, 11/25/01)
1991 Nov 25, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev suffered a setback in his bid to hold the Soviet Union together when leaders of seven republics refused to endorse a treaty creating a new political union.
(AP, 11/25/01)
1992 Nov 25, The Commerce Department reported that the gross domestic product, the sum of all goods and services produced within U.S. borders, had advanced at a brisk 3.9 percent seasonally adjusted annual rate during the third quarter of 1992.
(AP, 11/25/97)
1993 Nov 25, Violence broke out in the Gaza Strip, a day after Israeli undercover soldiers killed Imad Akel, the head of the military wing of Hamas.
(HN, 11/25/98)
1993 Nov 25, Egyptian Prime Minister Atef Sedki escaped an attempt on his life when Islamic militants detonated a car bomb near his motorcade. The attack killed a 5-year-old girl. Yasser al-Siri, a member of the “media committee" of the Islamic Jihad, was tried and convicted in absentia for the assassination attempt. Siri fled to the UK and obtained political asylum.
(HN, 11/25/98)(WSJ, 10/26/01, p.A19)
1993 Nov 25, Anthony Burgess (b.1917) died in London at age 76. He was a British author of 34 books of fiction and 15 of non-fiction as well as plays, librettos and a considerable body of serious. His last book, a novel called “A Dead Man in Deptford," is actually an idiosyncratic biography of Christopher Marlowe. Burgess is best known today for his novel “Clockwork Orange." His final book, “Byrne," was a novel in verse of 8-line stanzas (ottova rima) published in 1997. In 2002 Roger Lewis authored the biography “Anthony Burgess."
(WSJ, 4/28/95, p.A-8)(SFEC, 9/14/97, BR p.3)(HN, 11/25/98)(FT, 12/14/02, p.IV)
1994 Nov 25, NATO warplanes buzzed the besieged "safe haven" of Bihac in northwest Bosnia but did not carry out airstrikes against rebel Serbs.
(AP, 11/25/99)
1994 Nov 25, Sony Corporation co-founder Akio Morita retired as chairman of the electronics giant for health reasons.
(AP, 11/25/04)
1995 Nov 25, In his weekly radio address, President Clinton appealed to America’s values and interests as he pleaded for support for the Bosnia peace agreement.
(AP, 11/25/00)
1995 Nov 25, In Texas Victor Saldano and Mexican friend Jorge Chavez, drunk and high on crack cocaine, were seen holding Paul King at gunpoint in a parking lot. King (46) was abducted from a Plano supermarket, robbed and shot. In 1996 Saldano, an illegal alien from Argentina, was convicted and sentenced to death for the killing. In 2017 a federal court agreed to review the case.
(http://tinyurl.com/yd5539n5)(AP, 6/29/17)
1995 Nov 25, Serbs in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo took to the streets by the thousands to protest the peace plan, vowing to fight to the death.
(AP, 11/25/00)
1996 Nov 25, President Clinton won a victory on the trade front by getting Pacific Rim leaders meeting in the Philippines to accept the year 2000 as a deadline for cutting tariffs on information technology.
(AP, 11/25/97)
1996 Nov 25, Testifying for a second day at a civil trial, O.J. Simpson again denied killing Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, but couldn't explain how blood believed to be the victims' got into his Bronco, or how he suffered hand cuts.
(AP, 11/25/97)
1996 Nov 25, In Belarus Pres. Lukashenko claimed victory in a referendum that proposed restarting his 5-year term with broad new powers. It extended his term to 2001, granted him immunity from prosecution, gave him control of key political positions from judgeships to Parliament seats and the authority to declare a state of emergency at will. Russia said that all nuclear warheads from Belarus had been returned.
(SFC, 11/26/96, p.B2) (WSJ, 12/3/96, p.A18)(WSJ, 11/26/96, p.A1)
1996 Nov 25, In Iraq the government agreed to implement the UN conditions set for a $2 billion oil-for-food sale.
(SFC, 11/26/96, p.B3)
1996 Nov 25, In Belgrade, Serbia, 100,000 demonstrators protested the nullification of municipal election results.
(SFC, 11/26/96, p.B2)
1997 Nov 25, President Clinton and Pacific Rim leaders meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, approved a rescue strategy for Asian economies shaken by plunging currencies, bank failures and bankruptcies. The 2-day APEC summit in Vancouver closed and leaders agreed to an IMF bailout plan. Forum leaders also agreed to admit Russia, Vietnam and Peru into the organization as of 1998.
(SFC, 11/26/97, p.C2)(HN, 11/25/98)
1997 Nov 25, The FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) ordered the dismantling of the 160-year-old Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River in Maine. The commission refused to reissue a license to Edwards Manufacturing Co. and ordered Edwards to pay the estimated $6.4 million cost of removing its dam.
(SFC, 11/26/97, p.A7)
1997 Nov 25, Federal indictments were brought against 19 people, who included mobsters from the Genovese and Bonanno families, corporate executives of HealthTech and stockbrokers of the Wall Street firm Meyers Pollock Robbins Inc. for racketeering, extortion and securities fraud.
(SFC, 11/26/97, p.B1)
1997 Nov 25, Teamsters President Ron Carey announced he was taking an unpaid leave of absence to fight an election overseer's decision barring him from a rerun. Hours later a federal oversight board accused him of diverting union money to his 1996 re-election campaign.
(SFC, 11/26/97, p.A3) (HN, 11/25/98)
1997 Nov 25, In Washington DC Police Chief Larry D. Soulsby resigned just hours before a police lieutenant roommate was charged with extorting money from married men who frequented gay bars. The chief and his lieutenant shared a cut-rate luxury apartment obtained under false premises.
(SFC, 11/26/97, p.A3)
1997 Nov 25, In the Congo it was reported that police flogged 10 journalists for attending a news conference by politician Z’Ahidi Arthur Ngoma. Ngoma and five supporters were arrested after the conference.
(SFC, 11/28/97, p.B5)
1997 Nov 25, It was reported that Iraq’s agency for electronic eavesdropping, known as Project 858, spied on UN weapons inspectors.
(SFC, 11/25/97, p.A8)
1997 Nov 25, Dr. Kamuzu Banda (99), dictator of Malawi from 1964-1994, died in South Africa (www.dispatch.co.za/1997/11/27/page%2019.htm). His official birthday was given as May 14, 1906.
(SFC, 11/27/97, p.B8)
1997 Nov 25, In Mexico two high-ranking army officers were charged with murder in the Sep 8 killings. It was the first time in modern Mexican history that a civilian court had brought charges against an army officer.
(WSJ, 11/26/97, p.A1)
1997 Nov 25, In Russia Richard Bliss (29), an employee of Qualcomm Comm., was arrested for spying while performing land surveys using satellite receivers in Rostov-on-Don. Qualcomm was under contract to install a cellular phone system. Bliss was later released for a Christmas holiday with some assurance that he would return for trial.
(SFC, 12/6/97, p.A8)(SFC, 12/24/97, p.A3)
1997 Nov 25, The South Korean stock market hit a low of 439.59, its lowest point since Jul, 1987.
(SFC, 11/26/97, p.C2)
1998 Nov 25, In Michigan a prosecutor brought charges of first-degree murder against Dr. Jack Kevorkian for administering a lethal injection last Sept. to a terminally ill man who wished to die.
(SFC, 11/26/98, p.A1)
1998 Nov 25, In Washington state an explosion at the Equilon Puget Sound Refining Co. at Anacortes killed 6 people.
(SFC, 11/26/98, p.A3)
1998 Nov 25, Flip Wilson (64), the fist successful black host of a TV variety show, the Flip Wilson Show from 1970-1974, died in Malibu, Calif.
(SFC, 11/26/98, p.B9)(AP, 11/25/99)
1998 Nov 25, From Belarus it was reported that food rationing had been imposed for milk, meat and other goods due to shortages.
(SFC, 11/26/98, p.B5)
1998 Nov 25, In Britain 5 members of the House of Lords voted 3 to 2 to reject former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s claim of immunity from extradition. The rejection came one day before Pinochet’s 83rd birthday. The final decision rested with Home Sec. Jack Straw.
(SFC, 11/26/98, p.A1,B2)(SFC, 11/27/98, p.A1)
1998 Nov 25, In India state elections were held in Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan, and Mizoram. Polls predicted a setback for the ruling BJP.
(SFC, 11/26/98, p.B3)
1998 Nov 25, President Jiang Zemin arrived in Tokyo for the first visit to Japan by a Chinese head of state since World War II. Zemin and Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi decided not to sign a joint declaration on the relationship between their countries during the Jiang’s 6-day visit, the first ever by a Chinese head of state. Zemin wanted a written apology from Japan for WW II atrocities that began with a 1931 Japanese invasion. Only verbal apologies were made.
(SFC, 11/26/98, p.B3)(AP, 11/25/99)
1998 Nov 25, In Poland the cold weather left another 8 people dead, mostly middle-aged drinkers who died outside.
(SFC, 11/26/98, p.B5)
1998 Nov 25, In Turkey the government of Mesut Yilmaz lost a vote of confidence 314-214. Pres. Demirel was expected to ask Yilmaz to stay on until an interim government is formed.
(SFC, 11/26/98, p.B2)
1999 Nov 25, A 5-year-old boy, one of 14 escapees from Cuba, was saved by sport fisherman off Florida while 9 people drowned. The fate of Elian Gonzalez was in question after his father called for his return to Cuba. This set off an international custody battle between relatives in Miami and Elian's father in Cuba.
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.A3)(SFC, 12/1/99, p.A7)(AP, 11/25/06)
1999 Nov 25, Britain and France called for a 50-60 thousand European Union rapid reaction force.
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.B2)
1999 Nov 25, In Chechnya Russian forces fired hundreds of rockets into Grozny in its fiercest assault in the 3-month offensive.
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.A20)
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)
1999 Nov 25, A 5-year-old boy, one of 14 escapees from Cuba, was saved by fisherman while 9 people drowned. The fate of Elian Gonzalez was in question after his father called for his return to Cuba. His rescue set off an international custody battle between relatives in Miami and Elian’s father in Cuba.
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.A3)(SFC, 12/1/99, p.A7)(AP, 11/25/00)
1999 Nov 25, In Nigeria at least 27 people were killed at a food market in Kedu when Yoruba traders, backed by members of the militant Odua People's Congress, clashed with Hausa counterparts.
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.B4)
1999 Nov 25, In Zurich fireworks caused light damage to 3 US-related buildings. Responsibility was taken by a group called Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal.
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.B4)
2000 Nov 25, Hundreds of military veterans and retirees, angered by the rejection of overseas absentee ballots in Florida, held a noisy demonstration in Pensacola, one of several rallies Republicans and Democrats staged across Florida.
(AP, 11/25/01)
2000 Nov 25, In Azerbaijan an earthquake hit Baku and at least 3 people were killed. 20 people died of heart attacks.
(SSFC, 11/26/00, p.D6)(WSJ, 11/27/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 25, In Bangladesh 52 people were killed in a fire at the Chowdhury Knitwear Garments factory at Shibpur.
(SSFC, 11/26/00, p.D9)(SSFC, 4/15/01, p.D1)
2000 Nov 25, Israeli soldiers killed 4 Palestinians and wounded over 30 in a series of clashes that undermined field level cooperation. 2 students and 2 bakers were killed by Israeli soldiers, who claimed Jamal Abdel Razek was a leader of the Tanzim militia traveling with 3 bodyguards.
(SSFC, 11/26/00, p.A18)(SFC, 12/6/00, p.A16)
2000 Nov 25, In the Netherlands the last day of the Global Warming conference at the Hague produced only a declaration of intent to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A compromise between US and EU negotiators failed. An increase of 4.5 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit was predicted in the coming 100 years if greenhouse gas emissions were not reduced.
(SFC, 11/25/00, p.C1)(SSFC, 11/26/00, p.A18)
2000 Nov 25, In Peru Walter Ledesma, the new defense minister, announced the immediate dismissal of 12 generals.
(SSFC, 11/26/00, p.D9)
2000 Nov 25, In the Philippines military troops retook Camp Bushra in Lanao del Sur province and reported 10 rebels killed. The rebels reported 22 military casualties.
(SFC, 11/27/00, p.A8)
2001 Nov 25, Scientists at Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass., said they created the world’s 1st cloned human embryo, which they let grow for just a few hours. China’s Dr. Lu Guangxiu later claimed that her Xiangya Medical College team had cloned a human embryo 2 years earlier.
(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/6/02, p.A1)
2001 Nov 25, Taliban troops near Mazar-e-Sharif staged a prison revolt and hundreds were reported killed. US marines landed near Kandahar marking the 1st major use of US ground troops in Afghanistan. 5 Americans were injured by an American bomb and 1 CIA agent, Johnny Michael Spann (32), was reportedly killed.
(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A1)(SFC, 11/27/01, p.A8)(SFC, 11/29/01, p.A1)(NW, 12/10/01, p.31)
2001 Nov 25, Ethiopia sent troops into the northeastern Somali region of Puntland to help Col. Abdullahi Yussuf regain power. Yussuf was overthrown Aug 26 after his 3-year term ended. On Nov 21 Yussuf launched an attack on Garoweh, the capital of Puntland and said it was to crush Islamic terrorists.
(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A11)(WSJ, 11/28/01, p.A10)
2001 Nov 25, In Honduras Pres. elections Ricardo Maduro (50) led polls over Rafael Pineda of the governing Liberal Party. Early returns showed Maduro with a 52% lead.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A18)(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A12)
2001 Nov 25, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 13-year-old Palestinian youth during a clash in the West Bank. Israeli forces carried out missile strikes in the Gaza Strip.
(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A9)
2002 Nov 25, Pres. Bush signed into law the Department of Homeland Security and named Tom Ridge as head of the Cabinet-level office.
(SFC, 11/26/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 25, US federal investigators reported that they had uncovered the largest identity theft ring ever seen. They alleged that 3 men had victimized over 30,000 people and caused the loss of millions.
(SFC, 11/26/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 25, Space shuttle Endeavour arrived at the international space station, delivering one American and two Russians, and another girder for the orbiting outpost.
(AP, 11/25/03)
2002 Nov 25, Eugene V. Rostow (89), former US State Department official, died.
(AP, 11/25/03)
2002 Nov 25, Karel Reisz (b.1926), Czech-born film director, died in London. He fled Nazi occupation in 1938. His film career began in Britain and moved on to Hollywood where his work included "The French Lieutenant's Woman."
(SFC, 11/28/02, p.A30)
2002 Nov 25, In France striking truckers blockaded roadways in about 20 locations, but police intervened to dismantle several barricades that had slowed access to airports and highways.
(AP, 11/25/02)
2002 Nov 25, Indian security forces shot dead two suspected Muslim militants who had attacked Hindu temples in Indian Kashmir, ending a bloody siege that cast a shadow over efforts to bring peace to the disputed region.
(AP, 11/25/02)
2002 Nov 25, An overloaded bus crashed off a bridge into a boulder-strewn gorge in central India, killing at least 36 people and injuring 45.
(Reuters, 11/25/02)
2002 Nov 25, Israeli troops shot and killed an 8-year-old Palestinian boy in Nablus as hundreds of youths ignored a curfew and threw stones at soldiers on their way home from school. Israeli troops and armored vehicles pulled out of Bethlehem.
(AP, 11/25/02)
2002 Nov 25, Floods caused by 2 days of heavy rains in Morocco killed at least 37 people, collapsed homes, shut down rail travel and damaged the country's huge oil refinery.
(AP, 11/26/02)
2002 Nov 25, Pakistan's military said it had killed and wounded several Indian troops in the heaviest exchange of fire across the military control line in disputed Kashmir in recent days.
(AP, 11/25/02)
2002 Nov 25, Philippine communist rebels, fleeing pursuing soldiers, torched a mobile phone relay station at Puerto Galera, a resort close to the capital Manila which is one of the country's best-known scuba diving spots.
(Reuters, 11/25/02)
2003 Nov 25, The US Senate gave final congressional approval to historic Medicare legislation combining a new prescription drug benefit with measures to control costs before the baby boom generation reaches retirement age.
(WSJ, 11/3/04, p.A6)(AP, 11/25/08)
2003 Nov 25, The US Commerce Dept. Reported profits at American companies rose 30% in the 3rd quarter compared to a year earlier.
(WSJ, 11/26/03, p.A1)
2003 Nov 25, Gail Knisley (62) was shot and killed while riding in a car on a highway in Columbus, Ohio. It was the only fatality in a series of shootings that terrified area drivers. A suspect, Charles A. McCoy Jr., was arrested March 17, 2004. McCoy later pleaded guilty to manslaughter and 10 other charges, and was sentenced to 27 years in prison.
(AP, 11/25/04)(AP, 11/25/08)
2003 Nov 25, In East Texas Carolyn Click was strangled to death by her son Tracy Beatty. Beatty was executed for her murder on Nov. 9, 2022.
(https://tinyurl.com/mvfe3euw)(SFC, 11/11/22, p.A19)
2003 Nov 25, In Cambodia PM Hun Sen's nephew was arrested on murder charges for allegedly shooting to death two people after a car crash.
(AP, 11/25/03)
2003 Nov 25, In Colombia 800 fighters of a feared right-wing militia piled their weapons and ammunition on the floor in a disarmament ceremony touted by the government as a first step toward ending four decades of war. The army recovered a body believed to be that of a Japanese businessman abducted more than three years ago.
(AP, 11/25/03)
2003 Nov 25, In Colombia Abelardo Forero (91), a journalist and politician who tried to soothe a nation wracked by violence, died. In 1978, Forero launched a television show, "The Past in the Present," that brought to life Colombia's tumultuous history. The award-wining program ran for 15 years.
(AP, 11/26/03)
2003 Nov 25, In Congo 2 ferries collided in a storm on Mai-Ndombe lake. At least 182 people were killed and more than 100 others were missing.
(AP, 11/27/03)(AP, 11/28/03)
2003 Nov 25, Georgian lawmakers set a new presidential election for Jan 4. The foreign debt stood at $1.8 billion, the unemployment rate was 30% and the average monthly salary was $20.
(AP, 11/25/03)(SFC, 11/26/03, p.A13)
2003 Nov 25, The Indian and Pakistani armies agreed to stop firing across their frontier, including in disputed Kashmir, starting at midnight in a further easing of tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
(AP, 11/25/03)
2003 Nov 25, In southern India an explosion at a state-run factory that makes detonators killed at least 10 workers.
(AP, 11/25/03)
2003 Nov 25, Sales of Mexican green onions plunged after a hepatitis outbreak in the US was traced to northwestern Mexico, forcing farmers in this valley to defend the safety of their produce and find ways to stay afloat financially.
(AP, 11/25/03)
2003 Nov 25, Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo said he will surrender ousted Liberian leader Charles Taylor to face a war crimes trial if Liberia asks.
(AP, 11/25/03)
2003 Nov 25, Saudi police killed 2 militants and seized a car bomb ready for detonation in post Ramadan celebrations.
(WSJ, 11/26/03, p.A1)
2003 Nov 25, The UN said AIDS will kill 3 million people this year and infect 5 million. The global HIV tally was put at 40 million.
(WSJ, 11/26/03, p.A1)
2003 Nov 25, In Yemen security forces arrested Saudi-born Mohammed Hamdi al-Ahdal (32), the alleged mastermind of the attacks on the USS Cole, at a hide-out west of the capital, San'a. Al-Ahdal was later sentenced to three years for the French tanker attack, but was not charged in the Cole case.
(AP, 11/26/03)(SFC, 11/26/03, p.A10)(AP, 11/25/08)
2004 Nov 25, Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the UN nuclear watchdog IAEA, said a deal was reached with Brazil on inspecting its uranium enrichment plant.
(AP, 11/25/04)
2004 Nov 25, The 3rd IUCN World Conservation Congress closed in Bangkok. Its final resolutions included a resolution urging governments to limit the use of loud noise sources in the world’s oceans.
(SFC, 12/13/04, p.C1)
2004 Nov 25, In China Yan Yanming (21) broke into a high school dormitory in Ruzhou with a knife and killed 8 students. A series of knife attacks have hit Chinese schools in recent months. Yanming was executed Jan 18, 2004.
(AP, 11/26/04)(AP, 1/20/05)
2004 Nov 25, Congo Pres. Joseph Kabila suspended 6 cabinet ministers and 10 directors of state-run companies. A parliamentary inquiry alleged they had embezzled government funds.
(AP, 11/26/04)
2004 Nov 25, Eight former pro-Jakarta militiamen were convicted in East Timor for crimes against humanity committed in the mayhem surrounding a 1999 UN-backed vote that led to the country's separation from Indonesia.
(AFP, 11/29/04)
2004 Nov 25, Ethiopia finally accepted a special commission's ruling designed to resolve a border dispute with Eritrea that sparked a devastating war between 1998 and 2000.
(AFP, 11/25/04)
2004 Nov 25, French President Jacques Chirac set aside years of acrimony over the bombing of a French passenger jet in the 1980s and declared a "new chapter" in relations with Libya.
(AP, 11/25/04)
2004 Nov 25, Leading Sunni Muslim politicians in Iraq urged postponement of the Jan. 30, 2005, national elections. However, the elections ended up taking place as scheduled.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2004 Nov 25, A mortar attack killed four employees of a British security firm and wounded 15 others in the Baghdad's Green Zone. Two Marines were killed and 3 others wounded when they came under fire during house-clearing operations in Fallujah. 3 rebels were killed in response.
(AP, 11/26/04)
2004 Nov 25, An Iraqi official said more than 2,000 people have been killed so far in the U.S.-Iraqi operation against the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
(AP, 11/25/04)
2004 Nov 25, In Mexico the bodies of 9 people, including three federal agents, were discovered at two sites outside Cancun, and police are blaming the killings on a drug turf war.
(AP, 11/26/04)
2004 Nov 25, Mexican federal investigators said that two Mexico City police and 27 other people face homicide charges in the horrific vigilante killings of two federal agents this week.
(AP, 11/26/04)
2004 Nov 25, Myanmar announced it is to free more than 5,000 prisoners on top of the nearly 4,000 announced last week.
(AP, 11/25/04)
2004 Nov 25, Nicaragua's congress voted to give itself the power to ratify and dismiss Cabinet ministers and other officials in a deepening political crisis touched off by anti-corruption efforts.
(AP, 11/26/04)
2004 Nov 25, In Singapore China Aviation Oil, CAO Singapore, filed for bankruptcy protection following an estimated loss of $550 million from a series of bets on oil prices.
(WSJ, 12/6/04, p.A1)
2004 Nov 25, The UN World Food Program said it has suspended its operations in most of the Sudanese state of North Darfur and relocated its staff to the capital due to renewed clashes between rebels and government forces.
(AP, 11/25/04)
2004 Nov 25, Ukraine's Supreme Court prohibited making the results of the nation's disputed presidential election official until it considers an appeal.
(AP, 11/25/04)
2005 Nov 25, It was reported that thieves in Baltimore had stolen some 130 aluminum light poles over the last few weeks.
(SFC, 11/25/05, p.A8)
2005 Nov 25, Massachusetts’ attorney general said it is opening an investigation into several supermarkets that opened on Thanksgiving in defiance of the state’s Puritan-era blue laws.
(SFC, 11/26/05, p.C2)
2005 Nov 25, Nine inmates escaped from the Yakima County Jail in Washington state; all were recaptured, although one was at large for three weeks.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2005 Nov 25, Members of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) gave the title of "endangered" to 11 new species.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, In Afghanistan a Swedish soldier died from wounds suffered in a roadside bomb blast. He was one of 4 wounded by the blast in Mazar-e-Sharif.
(AP, 11/26/05)
2005 Nov 25, The European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica reported that carbon dioxide in the current atmosphere is greater than at any time during the last 650,000 years.
(SFC, 11/25/05, p.A1)
2005 Nov 25, In Belgium a one-day strike interrupted production at the Volkswagen AG plant in the outskirts of Brussels as trade unions protested planned government changes to retirement policy.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, George Best (59), one of the most dazzling players in soccer history who also reveled in a hard-drinking, playboy lifestyle, died in London after decades of alcohol abuse.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, Canada pledged $4.3 billion in a landmark deal with Indian and northern Inuit communities to help lift them from the poverty and disease that has plagued their neglected reserves for more than a century.
(AP, 11/26/05)
2005 Nov 25, Pushing China's foreign exchange reform ahead by another step, the central bank carried out its first currency swap deals with local banks in a move that could help bring more flexibility to the market.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, China's Ministry of Agriculture confirmed a bird flu outbreak in Zalantun city in northern China's Inner Mongolia bringing to 23 the number of outbreaks of the disease.
(Reuters, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, Newspapers in Dubai reported that police had raided a hotel chalet in Ghantout and arrested 26 men as they celebrated a wedding ceremony. 22 of the 26 arrested were from the Emirates.
(SSFC, 11/27/05, p.A23)
2005 Nov 25, EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn officially opened landmark negotiations on closer ties between Bosnia and the 25-member European Union.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, In Guadeloupe youths set up flaming tire barricades and threw rocks at police in clashes sparked by a motorcycle crash at a police checkpoint.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, In India more than 60 people were feared drowned after two crowded buses were washed away in floods in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, Indonesia said it would begin producing the bird flu drug Tamiflu, while Vietnam and China reported new outbreaks of the virus among poultry.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, Susanne Osthoff, a German aid worker and archaeologist, was kidnapped in Iraq; she was released more than three weeks later.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2005 Nov 25, Israel handed over the remains of three Hezbollah guerrillas to Lebanon in a bid to defuse tensions after fierce border clashes, but Hezbollah's leader said his group will keep trying to kidnap Israeli soldiers.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, Across Italy public transportation ground to a halt, public offices shut down and thousands rallied as part of a general strike against the government's 2006 budget.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, In Lithuania the prosecutor general's office said a Lithuanian man suspected of helping Nazis round up Jews during World War II will stand trial in a Vilnius court. Algimantas Dailide (84), who moved to the US in 1955 and lived there until he was deported in 2003 for lying about his wartime past, is accused of being a member of the Nazi-sponsored Lithuanian Security Police, known as the Saugumas, which took part in the arrests of Jews during the war.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas opened the Gaza-Egypt border in a festive ceremony, a milestone for the Palestinians who for the first time took control of a frontier crossing without Israeli veto powers and gained some freedom of movement.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party held primaries in six West Bank cities to choose candidates for a January parliament election.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, Poland's defense minister signed an order that will give researchers access to most of the Warsaw Pact's top-secret archives, including decisions related to the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, Hissene Habre, Chad's former dictator, was freed after a Senegalese court said it had no jurisdiction to rule on his extradition to Belgium to stand trial for war crimes.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, Slovakia joined the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) as a first step towards adopting the European Union's common euro currency.
(AFP, 11/26/05)
2005 Nov 25, Swiss authorities said they will block major foreign acquisitions by the telecommunications operator Swisscom because of financial risk to the state, which holds most of the company's shares.
(AFP, 11/25/05)
2005 Nov 25, In Vietnam former British glam rocker Gary Glitter was charged with committing "obscene acts with children" and could face more serious charges that carry the death penalty.
(AP, 11/25/05)
2006 Nov 25, James Wolfensohn, former World Bank chief, warned that Western nations must prepare for a future dominated by China and India, whose rapid economic rise will soon fundamentally alter the balance of power. He spoke at the University of New South Wales for the 2006 Wallace Wurth Memorial Lecture.
(AFP, 11/26/06)
2006 Nov 25, In NYC Sean Bell (23) and two other unarmed men in a car were killed hours before Bell was to have married the mother of his two children. The confrontation with police stemmed from an undercover operation by 7 officers investigating the Kalua Cabaret in Queens. Two officers were later indicted for manslaughter, and a third was charged with reckless endangerment; all pleaded not guilty. In 2008 three NYPD detectives were acquitted of all charges in the case.
(AP, 11/27/06)(AP, 11/25/07)(AP, 4/25/08)
2006 Nov 25, Insurgents attacked NATO-led forces Saturday near the Tirin Kot district of Uruzgan province. NATO returned fire and called in attack aircraft, killing approximately 50 insurgents.
(http://tinyurl.com/yfs28z)(WSJ, 11/27/06, p.A1)
2006 Nov 25, In Argentina Nora Dalmasso (51) was strangled in her Buenos Aires suburban home. In 2007 her son, Facundo Macarron (20), was charged with her murder and aggravated sexual abuse.
(SSFC, 6/17/07, p.A16)
2006 Nov 25, Bahrain, an island nation of 700,000 citizens, held elections. More than 200 candidates vied for the National Assembly's 40-seat lower house. 40 members of the upper chamber are appointed by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, who can veto parliamentary legislation. Shiites and opposition members say the system preserves Sunni dominance.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 25, Health workers began a drive across Bangladesh to immunize 24 million children under five against polio to combat the crippling virus that has staged a comeback in the South Asian nation.
(AFP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 25, A group of 18 English tourists was robbed by heavily armed gunmen shortly after arriving in Rio de Janeiro for vacation. Last month, gunmen attacked a bus carrying Chinese tourists and robbed them of $17,000.
(AP, 11/26/06)
2006 Nov 25, In eastern Chad fighting broke out between the national army and rebels, and rebels claimed they had seized the major city in the area.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 25, Congo’s government and the UN said fighters loyal to warlord Laurent Nkunda attacked army positions in eastern Congo with small arms and heavy weapons. Nkunda controlled thousands of fighters and claimed the loyalty of the 81st and 83rd army brigades, the troops involved in the most recent clashes.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 25, A third batch of Indonesians left to join a UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, bringing the Asian nation's Middle East deployment to more than 830 troops.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 25, Gunmen broke into two Shiite homes and killed 21 men in front of their relatives in Baladruz. Coalition forces north of Baghdad attacked 3 vehicles carrying 12 insurgents. Soldiers opened fire on the cars when they ignored warning shots, and all the militants were killed. 13 bodies were found dumped in various parts of Baghdad. Iraqi police killed at least 36 insurgents and wounded dozens after scores of militants armed with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades attacked government buildings in the center of Baqouba. At least 11 more suspected militants were killed in Baqouba after nightfall. One US soldier was killed in Diyala by a roadside bomb. 2 US Marines were killed in Anbar province.
(AP, 11/25/06)(AP, 11/26/06)(SSFC, 11/26/06, p.A13)
2006 Nov 25, Israel and the Palestinians agreed to a cease-fire to end a five-month Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip and the firing of rockets by Palestinian militants into the Jewish state. Hamas' leader, Damascus-based supreme leader Khaled Mashaal, said his group was willing to give peace negotiations with Israel six months to reach an agreement for a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank, but threatened a new uprising if the talks fail.
(AP, 11/25/06) (AP, 11/25/07)
2006 Nov 25, Hezbollah renewed its threat to stage mass protests aimed at bringing down Lebanon's US-backed government as the Cabinet scheduled meeting to vote on an international tribunal to try suspects in the killing of a former prime minister.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 25, In Mexico singer Valentin Elizalde (27) was ambushed and gunned down along with his manager and driver following a performance in Reynosa. His ballads included narco-corridos, which honored the exploits of drug dealers.
(SSFC, 11/26/06, p.A19)
2006 Nov 25, In the southern Philippines the Leonida II, a small ferry, capsized in rough waters, leaving 19 passengers missing while 66 people were rescued.
(AP, 11/26/06)
2006 Nov 25, US Vice President Dick Cheney arrived in Saudi Arabia for talks with King Abdullah, apparently seeking the Sunni royal family's influence and tribal connections to calm Iraq after an especially violent week.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 25, Sri Lankan warplanes attacked a camp housing Tamil Tiger rebel suicide bombers in the country's north.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 25, In Thailand a regional representative for teachers said more than 300 schools in the south will close indefinitely Nov 27, after attacks by suspected Muslim insurgents left two teachers dead.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2006 Nov 25, A UN agency said that Israel laid mines in Lebanon during this summer's war between the Jewish state and the Lebanon-based Hezbollah group, the first time Israel has been accused of planting mines during the latest fighting.
(AP, 11/25/06)
2007 Nov 25, Kevin Dubrow (52), lead singer for the 1980s heavy metal band Quiet Riot, died in Las Vegas from an accidental cocaine overdose.
(AP, 12/11/07)
2007 Nov 25, NATO's ISAF confirmed that airstrikes targeted and killed 3 Taliban militants who were planting mines in nearby Gardez.
(AP, 11/25/07)
2007 Nov 25, Newly elected leader Kevin Rudd moved quickly to bring Australia into international talks on fighting global warming, and to head off potentially thorny relations with the United States and key Asian neighbors.
(AP, 11/25/07)
2007 Nov 25, More than 50 people were missing after a boat, possibly being ferried by human traffickers, sank off a southern Bangladesh island bordering Myanmar waters.
(AP, 11/26/07)
2007 Nov 25, In northeastern Brazil a section of stands at a soccer stadium gave way as fans cheered at the end of a game, killing eight people.
(AP, 11/26/07)
2007 Nov 25, Actor Neil Hope, who starred as Derek "Wheels" Wheeler on the popular 1980s TV series "Degrassi Junior High," died. He had little contact with relatives and friends in his final years and died alone in an Ontario rooming house. His death was not made public until 2012.
(AP, 2/18/12)
2007 Nov 25, In China 6 people were confirmed dead and 7 others were reported missing after an iron tailing dam collapsed early this morning in northeast Liaoning Province.
(Reuters, 11/25/07)
2007 Nov 25, Croatia held parliamentary elections. Exit polls and preliminary results showed that the ruling conservatives and opposition center-left Social Democrats were virtually tied.
(AP, 11/26/07)
2007 Nov 25, In France youths assaulted a police station, torched cars and vandalized stores in a rampage that injured 21 police officers in Villiers-le-Bel, a rundown Paris suburb. The violence was prompted when two teens were killed in a motorbike crash with a police patrol car.
(AP, 11/26/07)
2007 Nov 25, Two strong earthquakes struck Indonesia’s eastern island of Sumbawa and killed at least three people, including a child, and injured 45 others.
(AP, 11/26/07)(Econ, 12/1/07, p.58)
2007 Nov 25, In Iraq a parked car bomb exploded in a crowded area near a medical complex in Baghdad, killing at least nine people and wounding more than 30. A roadside bomb targeted an Iraqi army patrol at an intersection in a northeastern Baghdad neighborhood, killing one civilian and wounding eight others. Masked gunmen killed 11 relatives of a journalist critical of the Iraqi government, according to colleagues and the media advocacy group Reporters Without Border.
(AP, 11/25/07)(AP, 11/27/07)
2007 Nov 25, In Malaysia some 10-20 thousand ethnic Indians clashed with police at a rally in downtown Kuala Lumpur to demand economic equality.
(AP, 11/27/07)(AP, 12/16/07)
2007 Nov 25, An army spokesman and Palestinian medics said Israeli troops killed two armed Palestinians in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip overnight.
(AFP, 11/25/07)
2007 Nov 25, Pakistan’s exiled former PM Nawaz Sharif returned home to a hero's welcome and called on President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to end emergency rule before elections, a fresh challenge to the US-backed leader. The army said that 30 pro-Taliban fighters and one Pakistani soldier died in an operation to capture militant positions in the Swat valley.
(AP, 11/25/07)
2007 Nov 25, In the Philippines Typhoon Mitag hit Isabela province after killing 8 people in other parts of the country. A week earlier Typhoon Hagibis left 13 people before heading toward Vietnam. It then reversed direction and headed back toward the Philippines.
(SFC, 11/26/07, p.A10)
2007 Nov 25, Dozens of members of a Russian opposition party and other activists were detained by police as they tried to gather for a protest rally in central St. Petersburg.
(AP, 11/25/07)
2007 Nov 25, In Sudan Gillian Gibbons (54), a British teacher, was put under detention for allegedly insulting Islam's prophet by allowing children to call a teddy bear Mohammed. She was arrested because of a complaint under Article 125 of the penal code, which provides punishment for publicly insulting or degrading any religion, its rites, beliefs and sacred items or humiliating its believers. On Nov 28 Sudan charged Gibbons with inciting religious hatred.
(AFP, 11/26/07)(AP, 11/27/07)(AP, 11/28/07)
2007 Nov 25, In Uganda Commonwealth leaders called on Pakistan to remain engaged with the group as they wrapped up a summit here that saw the suspension of President Pervez Musharraf's country.
(AP, 11/25/07)
2008 Nov 25, The Bush administration unveiled a set of new programs intended to pump an additional $800 billion into the economy and thaw still-frozen credit markets. The US Federal Reserve said it will buy up to $600 billion in mortgage-backed assets in another attempt to deal with the financial crisis.
(AP, 11/25/08)(AP, 11/26/08)
2008 Nov 25, The Bush administration imposed financial sanctions on four people it called "cronies" of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe whose support allegedly allowed Mugabe to undermine democracy.
(AP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 25, The US said it will freeze about $64 million in anti-poverty aid to Nicaragua amid accusations that local elections were fraudulent.
(AP, 11/26/08)
2008 Nov 25, The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) said the list of banks it considers to be in trouble shot up nearly 50 percent to 171 during the third quarter.
(AP, 11/26/08)
2008 Nov 25, A judge ruled that a strict Florida law that blocks gay people from adopting children is unconstitutional, declaring there was no legal or scientific reason for sexual orientation alone to prohibit anyone from adopting.
(AP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 25, Gerald Schoenfeld (b.1924), head of the Shubert Organization, died in NYC. From 1972 he and Bernard B. Jacobs (d.1996) reinvigorated the commercial theater business.
(SFC, 11/27/08, p.B8)
2008 Nov 25, Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded at a meeting with a UN Security Council team that the international community set a "timeline" for ending military intervention in Afghanistan.
(AFP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 25, In Australia BHP Billiton dropped its controversial hostile takeover bid for rival Rio Tinto because of the global economic crisis.
(AFP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 25 Armenia won its second straight gold medal at the Chess Olympiad in Germany by defeating China 2.5-1.5 in the 11th and final round.
(AP, 11/26/08)
2008 Nov 25, In Britain the application process began for a national identity card for some foreign nationals in an attempt to combat terrorism and identity fraud. On June 30, 2009, home secretary Alan Johnson said Britons would not be required to have the new ID cards. A British law went into effect that allows courts to prevent someone from being forced into marriage, a move that comes as governments across Europe confront immigrant practices that sometimes clash with more liberal values. On Oct 12, 2011, Britain’s highest court ruled that the ban on foreign spouses aged under 21 entering Britain is unlawful.
(AP, 11/25/08)(Econ, 7/4/09, p.55)(AP, 10/12/11)
2008 Nov 25, In Britain a Sheffield man (56) was sentenced to life in prison for raping his children for more than 25 years, from the time they were between 8 and 10, beating them when they resisted. Between them, the daughters bore their father seven surviving children. Two more died at birth; the other pregnancies ended in abortion or miscarriage.
(AP, 11/26/08)
2008 Nov 25, Bulgaria lost euro220 million ($286 million) in promised payments from the EU because of its failure to tackle corruption.
(www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1227620855.75/)
2008 Nov 25, In Egypt the state news agency MENA reported that Coptic Pope Shenuda III has banned Egyptian Christians from praying in a church-owned building in Cairo after sectarian clashes there with Muslims.
(AFP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 25, EU ministers sought to enlist counterparts from 27 African countries in a new effort to curb the flood of illegal immigration.
(AFP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 25, Greenland polling stations opened in a referendum on expanding home rule. Voters overwhelmingly approved a plan for more autonomy from Denmark and to take advantage of potential oil reserves off the glacial island's coast.
(AP, 11/25/08)(AP, 11/26/08)
2008 Nov 25, In eastern India suspected communist rebels blew up a bridge, killing five police officers who were escorting election officials in Chattisgarh state.
(AP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 25, Iran said it has broken a spy ring working for Israel’s intelligence service, Mossad. The prosecutor general said it would the death penalty for 3 suspects in custody.
(SFC, 11/26/08, p.A8)
2008 Nov 25, In northern Iraq 2 American servicemen were killed when a gunman in an Iraqi army uniform opened fire while they were distributing humanitarian aid.
(AP, 11/26/08)
2008 Nov 25, It was reported that Ireland plans to impose tough new penalties on beggars for the first time since the Potato Famine 160 years ago.
(AP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 25, In Mexico 7 bodies were dumped before dawn at a school soccer field in the border city of Juarez.
(AP, 11/26/08)
2008 Nov 25, Nigeria’s state media said the country has signed a $780 million (605 million euros) loan agreement with the World Bank to finance three projects.
(AFP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 25, Pakistan said its Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has shut down a unit that spied on domestic politicians.
(SFC, 11/26/08, p.A3)
2008 Nov 25, Russian warships arrived in Venezuela in a show of strength aimed at the United States as Moscow seeks to expand its influence in Latin America.
(AP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 25, In eastern Sri Lanka 12 people, including three suspected Tiger rebels, were killed in fresh violence. Heavy fighting raged on three fronts around the northern town of Kilinochchi, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's (LTTE) political headquarters.
(AFP, 11/26/08)
2008 Nov 25, In Thailand Bangkok's main international airport halted all flight operations after anti-government protesters stormed the departures area.
(AFP, 11/25/08)
2008 Nov 25, Indochina Airlines, Vietnam’s first privately owned airline, began operations.
(www.india-server.com/news/vietnam-launches-indochina-airlines-4811.html)
2009 Nov 25, US federal prosecutors said a young woman from Mexico was smuggled over the border and forced to work as a prostitute for years in Brooklyn, and the remains of an infant were found in concrete at the home where she was held prisoner. NYPD officials discovered the bin a day earlier, with the remains of an infant inside. Domingo Salazar (33) and his wife, Norma Mendez (32), appeared in US District Court in Brooklyn on sex trafficking charges and were being held without bail.
(AP, 11/26/09)
2009 Nov 25, A new report said Wal-Mart Stores Inc's demand for rock-bottom prices from suppliers in China means some of these companies are forcing their employees to work in sweatshop-like conditions.
(Reuters, 11/25/09)
2009 Nov 25, Toyota said it would fix accelerator pedals on 4.26 million vehicles to prevent them from becoming stuck and leading to unintentional acceleration.
(AFP, 11/25/09)(Econ, 12/12/09, p.76)
2009 Nov 25, Mullah Omar, the Taliban's reclusive leader, issued a Muslim holiday message calling on Afghans to break off relations with the government, which he described as a 'stooge' administration.
(AP, 11/25/09)
2009 Nov 25, Officials said flooding from heavy rains has killed 12 people in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay and forced more than 20,000 to flee their homes. Most of the dead were in southern Brazil, including eight in Rio Grande do Sul.
(AP, 11/25/09)
2009 Nov 25, Australian Northern Territory officials said some 6,000 feral camels are running wild in the remote outback community of Docker River in search of water, smashing infrastructure and invading the airstrip.
(AFP, 11/25/09)
2009 Nov 25, British PM Gordon Brown says 10 NATO nations are ready to offer about 5,000 more troops for the war in Afghanistan.
(AP, 11/25/09)
2009 Nov 25, The British government said Scotland will be given greater tax-raising powers under the biggest shake-up of the nation's finances for 30 years.
(Reuters, 2/16/12)
2009 Nov 25, The Canadian dollar rose to a one-week high against the US dollar after the Russian central bank said it was preparing to invest some of its foreign exchange reserves in the Canadian currency.
(Reuters, 11/25/09)
2009 Nov 25, A court in northern China sentenced five leaders of an unauthorized Protestant church to prison terms of up to 7 years on charges including illegal assembly. Their arrests stemmed from a Sept. 13 raid by police and hired security guards on sunrise services held in a dormitory building by the 50,000-member Linfen Fushan Church in Linfen, northern Shanxi province.
(AP, 11/26/09)
2009 Nov 25, A Chinese health official said eight cases of swine flu mutation have been detected amid longstanding concerns among scientists that the virus could change into a more dangerous form.
(AP, 11/25/09)
2009 Nov 25, In western Democratic Republic of Congo at least 73 people were killed and others missing after a logging boat sank in Lake Mai Ndombe in Bandundu province.
(Reuters, 11/28/09)
2009 Nov 25, Dubai, whose extravagant building projects have been largely put on hold since the start of the global financial crisis, said it would ask creditors at its flagship firms Dubai World and property developer Nakheel to delay repayment on billions of dollars of debt until May 30, 2010 at the earliest.
(Reuters, 11/26/09)(Econ, 11/28/09, p.83)
2009 Nov 25, Iranian Pres. Ahmadinejad arrived in Caracas for a meeting with President Hugo Chavez, as the two outspoken anti-US leaders try to boost ties.
(AFP, 11/25/09)
2009 Nov 25, An Iranian cleric said religious authorities have started taking control of schools, part of a wider ideological drive by hard-liners to wage what authorities call a "soft war" against Western influence.
(AP, 11/25/09)
2009 Nov 25, Iran stopped the yacht, “Kingdom of Bahrain," owned by Sail Bahrain as it sailed from Bahrain to the Gulf city of Dubai. It had been due to join the 360-mile (580km) Dubai-Muscat Offshore Sailing Race, which was to begin Nov. 26. Five British sailors were detained. The 5 sailors were released on Dec 2.
(AP, 11/30/09)(AP, 12/2/09)
2009 Nov 25, In Iraq a double bombing killed 4 people and injured 25 civilians in Karbala ahead of the 4-day Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha. 6 others were killed in an overnight raid by insurgents on a home north of Baghdad.
(AP, 11/25/09)(SFC, 11/26/09, p.A2)
2009 Nov 25, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu proposed a 10-month freeze on West Bank settlement construction in what he says is an attempt to jumpstart Mideast peace talks. The freeze would not include east Jerusalem, the area of the holy city claimed by the Palestinians for a future capital.
(AP, 11/25/09)
2009 Nov 25, In Mali gunmen kidnapped Pierre Camatte, a French national, in the remote east. The kidnapping was attributed to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Camatte was released on Feb 23, 2010.
(Reuters, 11/26/09)(AFP, 12/1/09)(SFC, 2/24/10, p.A2)
2009 Nov 25, Pakistan charged seven men in last year's Mumbai terror attacks, its first indictments in a case watched closely by India and the United States to see if Islamabad makes good on promises to punish those responsible.
(AP, 11/25/09)
2009 Nov 25, In Saudi Arabia rare, heavy rainstorms soaked pilgrims and flooded the road into Mecca, snarling Islam's annual hajj as some 2.5 million Muslims headed for the holy sites. The downpours add an extra hazard on top of intense concerns about the spread of swine flu. The torrential rains killed at least 106 people. Most of the deaths occurred in Jiddah, where streets were swamped with water, some houses collapsed and mudslides took place, and in areas around the main highway to Mecca.
(AP, 11/25/09)(AFP, 11/25/09)(AP, 11/26/09)(AP, 11/28/09)
2009 Nov 25, Voters in St. Vincent and the Grenadines rejected a referendum on whether or not to break their ties with Britain's monarchy, even as Queen Elizabeth II is made a rare visit to the region.
(AP, 11/25/09)(AP, 11/26/09)
2009 Nov 25, Yves Rossy, a Swiss adventurer, landed in the Atlantic after trying to soar from Morocco to Spain on jet-powered wings.
(SFC, 11/27/09, p.A2)
2009 Nov 25, A United Nations report confirmed that one of Africa's most brutal rebel movements relies on a vast, international network of supporters in at least 25 countries including in the US and Europe who facilitate arms trafficking, money transfers and day-to-day operational support. The findings are a scathing indictment of how little has been done by the international community to cut off logistical support to the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), an ethnic Hutu militia which has wreaked havoc in Congo.
(AP, 11/25/09)
2009 Nov 25, Zimbabwe's state media said the ailing public health system will receive a 180 million US dollar boost to fight HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria from the Global Fund.
(AP, 11/25/09)
2010 Nov 25, US authorities found a sophisticated tunnel used to smuggle drugs between Mexico and San Diego, the second such discovery in the region in less than a month. Investigators seized some 20 tons of marijuana. The 2,200-foot passage ran from a residence in Tijuana to a warehouse in San Diego's Otay Mesa area.
(AP, 11/25/10)(SFC, 11/27/10, p.A5)
2010 Nov 25, San Francisco based Del Monte said it has agreed to be acquired by a group led by KKR & Co. in a $4 billion deal. KKR, Vestar Capital Partners and Centerview Partners agreed to pay $19 a share in cash and would assume $1.3 billion in net debt.
(SFC, 11/26/10, p.C1)
2010 Nov 25, The Afghan deputy attorney general said his office has arrested two employees of the nation's electoral commission and two people working in the money transfer business on allegations of fraud in the September parliamentary elections. In eastern Afghanistan 2 insurgent facilitators were arrested on separate operations. NATO captured a Haqqani leader in the eastern Afghan province of Khost.
(AP, 11/25/10)(AP, 11/28/10)
2010 Nov 25, British PM David Cameron defended a new index aimed at measuring the population's social and environmental wellbeing rather than just its wealth.
(AFP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 25, Bernard Matthews (80), Britain’s largest turkey processor, died. He began in 1950 with an investment in 20 eggs. In 1953 he bought a derelict country house, Great Witchingham Hall, where he and his wife, Joyce, raised turkeys in all but one of the 36 rooms. It is still the company headquarters.
(AP, 11/26/10)
2010 Nov 25, China’s state media said Shanghai is suffering from its worst November air quality in five years after the local government lifted pollution controls that were in place for the six-month World Expo. China started publishing hourly air-quality information for major cities across the country as the world's top source of greenhouse gas emissions tries to rein in its notorious pollution.
(AFP, 11/25/10)(AFP, 11/26/10)
2010 Nov 25, Colombian prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for retired Gen. Miguel Maza Marquez (73), a former domestic security chief, who they say participated in the Aug 18, 1989, assassination of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan.
(AP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 25, The EU high court ruled that there is no such thing as "pure chocolate," ending an EU-Italy food fight over chocolate labels. It also said the EU's 1999 chocolate labeling rules make no room for a "pure chocolate" reference like the one Italy enacted in a 2003 law.
(AP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 25, European lawmakers voted in favor of an independent, UN-backed investigation into violence in Western Sahara that has left up to 11 people dead in the disputed territory.
(Reuters, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 25, India told financial firms to review their exposure to a string of companies whose executives were arrested on suspicion of taking millions of dollars in bribes.
(AFP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 25, Iraq's PM Nouri al-Maliki appealed to the country's warring political factions for unity after formally accepting a request by the president to form the next government, part of a deal to end an eight-month deadlock over who would lead the country the next four years.
(AP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 25, Italian students occupied the Leaning Tower of Pisa and Rome's Colosseum to protest education cuts and university reforms being considered by parliament.
(AP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 25, Macedonia police raided the building housing A1 television, a private channel often critical of PM Gruevski’s government.
(Econ, 2/26/11, p.57)(www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP0jAsK9sog)
2010 Nov 25, In Mexico preliminary data was released by the National Institute for Statistics and Geography. It said Mexico had 112.3 million inhabitants as of July, 3.6 million more than experts had projected.
(AP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 25, A court in Nigeria charged an alleged member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards and three Nigerians over a shipment of mortars and rockets seized in the main port of Lagos last month.
(Reuters, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 25, Nigeria's anti-corruption police raided the offices of US firm Halliburton and arrested 12 people in a bribery case involving former Halliburton unit KBR Inc. Houston-based engineering firm KBR pleaded guilty last year to US charges that it paid $180 million in bribes between 1994 and 2004 to Nigerian officials to secure $6 billion in contracts for the Bonny Island liquefied natural gas project.
(Reuters, 11/27/10)
2010 Nov 25, In Pakistan a paramilitary soldier was killed and six others wounded, two of them critically, in a bomb attack on the outskirts of Hangu in the northwest. Pakistan said that most of the explosives used in bomb attacks on its territory were smuggled from Afghanistan but insisted it was limiting the cross-border movement of insurgents fighting US troops.
(AFP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 25, South Africa said it has launched an anti-corruption unit to investigate government officials misusing funds and receiving bribes.
(AP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 25, South Korea's defense minister resigned amid intense criticism two days after a North Korean artillery attack killed four people on a small island near the Koreas' disputed frontier.
(AP, 11/25/10)
2010 Nov 25, Zimbabwe's PM Morgan Tsvangirai filed court papers filed saying Pres. Mugabe violated the constitution with his unilateral appointment of 10 provincial governors last month. Tsvangirai said the power-sharing agreement requires the president to consult with the prime minister before making key appointments, and that Mugabe did not.
(AP, 11/25/10)
2011 Nov 25, In Los Angeles a shopper pepper-sprayed other bargain hunters and robbers in South Carolina and northern California shot at customers to steal their Black Friday purchases, marring the start of the US holiday shopping season.
(Reuters, 11/26/11)
2011 Nov 25, In Ohio two bodies were found believed to be related to a Craigslist ad that according to police lured victims to a lethal robbery scheme that already left one person dead. Two people related to the killings were custody. A 3rd body was found in the same area. On Oct 30, 2012, Ohio teenager Brogan Rafferty was convicted of aggravated murder for his role in the plot. Prosecutors said Brogan shot and killed 3 victims after robbing them. In 2018 the state Supreme Court upheld a death sentence for Richard Beasley (58), who had partnered with Rafferty.
(SFC, 11/26/11, p.A6)(SSFC, 12/4/11, p.A14)(SFC, 10/31/12, p.A4)(SFC, 2/10/18, p.A5)
2011 Nov 25, Felicity Aston (33), a British adventurer, set out on skis from the Ross Ice Shelf in a historic solo attempt to cross Antarctica.
(SFC, 11/26/11, p.A2)
2011 Nov 25, Australia loosened its highly charged policy of mandatory detention for asylum seekers who arrive by boat, freeing 27 from overcrowded, prison-like conditions and estimating more than 100 would be released monthly.
(AP, 11/25/11)
2011 Nov 25, Australia said it will create the world's largest marine reserve in the Coral Sea. The proposal includes seas beyond the already protected Great Barrier Reef Marine Park off northeast Australia.
(AP, 11/25/11)
2011 Nov 25, Britain’s Deputy PM Nick Clegg unveiled a £1 billion youth contract to create hundreds of thousands of work and training placements for jobless youngsters.
(AFP, 11/25/11)
2011 Nov 25, The British government published its new Cyber Security Strategy, setting out how the UK will support economic prosperity, protect national security and safeguard the public’s way of life by building a more trusted and resilient digital environment.
(www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/news/protecting-and-promoting-uk-digital-world)
2011 Nov 25, A study by Canadian scientists found that South Africa and Zimbabwe suffer the worst economic losses due to doctors emigrating, while Australia, Canada, Britain and the United States benefit the most from recruiting doctors trained abroad.
(Reuters, 11/25/11)
2011 Nov 25, The Chinese government donated a gift of 23 buses during a ceremony in Macedonia's capital. News of the donation ignited a torrent of criticism. Many asked: How could China make the donation to a foreign country when Chinese schools contend with shoddy transport?
(AP, 11/28/11)
2011 Nov 25, Egypt's military rulers announced that Kamal el-Ganzouri (78), a prime minister from ousted leader Hosni Mubarak's era, will head the next government. Tens of thousands of demonstrators packed Cairo's Tahrir Square after days of deadly clashes, demanding the military rulers step down and rejecting their choice of new prime minister. The Tahrir protest was countered by a rival demonstration in a square about three km (two miles) away, where more than 10,000 people gathered to show support for the military chanting "Down with Tahrir."
(AP, 11/25/11)(AFP, 11/26/11)
2011 Nov 25, In Egypt Mona al-Gharib (25), the pregnant wife of Syrian dissident and journalist Thaer al-Nashef, was reportedly abducted in Egypt by Syrian intelligence agents.
(AP, 11/26/11)
2011 Nov 25, In Egypt masked gunmen blew up a gas pipeline which supplies Egyptian gas to Israel, in the eighth such attack this year.
(AFP, 11/25/11)
2011 Nov 25, Ethiopia said it may contribute troops to the African Union force in Somalia fighting al-Qaida-affiliated insurgents.
(AP, 11/25/11)
2011 Nov 25, A shipment of nuclear waste reprocessed in France crossed into Germany on its way to a controversial storage site near the town of Dannenberg that protesters say is unsafe.
(AP, 11/25/11)
2011 Nov 25, Iceland's interior ministry said it had rejected an application by Huang Nubo's Zhongkun Group to buy 120 square miles (30,639 hectares) of land on the north shore of Iceland for a vast nature retreat in a deal that would have been worth about 1 billion Icelandic kronur ($8.8 million). On Nov 27 Huang said the rejection was indicative of anti-Chinese attitudes in the West.
(AP, 11/27/11)
2011 Nov 25, In Mali gunmen killed a German man in Timbuktu and seized three men from the Netherlands, South Africa and Sweden. Officials the next day ordered a plane to evacuate foreigners from the tourist destination.
(AP, 11/26/11)
2011 Nov 25, Mexican activists lodged a war-crimes complaint against President Felipe Calderon at the International Criminal Court, claiming his offensive against drug cartels has involved about 470 cases of human rights violations by the army or police. Defense officials detained Ezequiel "El Junior" Cardenas Rivera (23). Rivera's father was Antonio Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen, Gulf leader until he was killed by federal forces in November 2010.
(AP, 11/25/11)(AP, 11/29/11)
2011 Nov 25, Moroccans voted for a new parliament in Arab Spring-inspired elections that are facing a boycott by democracy campaigners who say the ruling monarchy isn't committed to real change. Under the new constitution, the largest party must form the government. The moderate Justice and Development Party (PJD) captured 107 seats in the 395-seat assembly.
(AP, 11/25/11)(AFP, 11/26/11)(AP, 11/28/11)
2011 Nov 25, Three Somali soldiers and a civilian were killed when a roadside bomb the officers picked up to detonate elsewhere exploded inside their vehicle in Mogadishu.
(AFP, 11/25/11)
2011 Nov 25, In Sri Lanka a storm, high winds and floods left at least 19 people dead along the southern coast. 43 fishermen were missing.
(AP, 11/25/11)(SFC, 11/26/11, p.A2)(AFP, 11/27/11)
2011 Nov 25, The Syrian military vowed to "cut every evil hand that targets Syrian blood," saying recent attacks on elite security forces marked a dangerous escalation in the country's 8-month-old crisis. Damascus faced the possibility of sweeping economic sanctions from the Arab League after missing a deadline to allow hundreds of observers into the country. A UN human rights panel expressed alarm at reports it received of security forces in Syria torturing children. Syrian security forces fired outside mosques in Daraa province. At least six people were killed as protesters flooded the streets in support of the Free Syrian Army. At least 10 troops and security service agents were killed in clashes with mutinous soldiers in Deir Ezzor.
(AP, 11/25/11)(AFP, 11/26/11)
2011 Nov 25, Vietnam’s PM Nguyen Tan Dung called for new legislation on protests "to ensure people's rights to freedom and democracy under the constitution and law." Vietnam's constitution allows for the right to demonstrate.
(AFP, 11/26/11)
2011 Nov 25, In Yemen tens of thousands returned to the streets across the country to reject the power-transfer deal and call for Saleh's trial for crimes ranging from corruption to lethal crackdowns on protests. Heavy fighting between government forces and defected military troops shook Sanaa, killing two people. Mohammed Basindawa, a former member of Saleh's ruling party, was chosen to head a national unity government.
(AP, 11/25/11)(AFP, 11/26/11)
2012 Nov 25, In Oakland, Ca., Diantay Powell shot and killed Raquel Gerstel (15) and Bobbie Sartain (16). On May 12, 2016, Powell (21) was convicted of 2nd degree murder and faced life in prison.
(SFC, 5/13/16, p.D3)
2012 Nov 25, In London the Rolling Stones held the first of 5 concerts to mark the 50th anniversary of their debut.
(SFC, 11/26/12, p.A2)
2012 Nov 25, In China 4 more self-immolations by ethnic
Tibetans were reported over the last two days in Gansu, Sichuan and Qinghai provinces. At least 20 students were hospitalized after a protest turned violent in Qinghai province's Hainan prefectur.
(AP, 11/27/12)
2012 Nov 25, In India hundreds of gay rights activists marched through New Delhi to demand that they be allowed to lead lives of dignity in the coun try’s deeply conservative society.
(AP, 11/25/12)
2012 Nov 25, Israel successfully tested its newest missile defense system, a step toward making the third leg of what Israel calls its "multilayer missile defense" operational.
(AP, 11/25/12)
2012 Nov 25, Italians voted in a primary for a center-left candidate to run in spring general elections that will in large part determine how Italy's tries to fix its troubled finances and emerge from a grinding recession. The race is expected to come down to a faceoff between Pier Luigi Bersani (61), the leader of the main center-left Democratic Party, and challenger Matteo Renzi (37), the mayor of Florence.
(AP, 11/25/12)
2012 Nov 25, Mexican authorities in Chihuahua state said they have recovered the remains of 19 people in two mass graves. 11 were found 25 mile southeast of Ciudad Juarez and 8 others tossed along a road near Rosales.
(SFC, 11/26/12, p.A2)
2012 Nov 25, In northcentral Nigeria a blast hit a church in military barracks in Jaji town, Kaduna state. The death toll in a twin suicide bombing rose to at least 30.
(AP, 11/25/12)(AP, 11/26/12)
2012 Nov 25, In northwestern Pakistan a bombing claimed by the Taliban killed at least six people and wounded some 90 others at a Shiite religious procession Dera Ismail Khan, as the minority Muslim sect observes the annual Ashoura holiday.
(AP, 11/25/12)
2012 Nov 25, Spanish voters in Catalonia choosing lawmakers for parliament amid a threat from Catalan leader Artur Mas to hold an independence referendum that would test the country's unity. Catalonia voters showed that they want the right to decide on possible independence, but split their votes between fractious separatist parties, making that overall goal less likely than ever.
(AP, 11/25/12)(AP, 11/26/12)
2012 Nov 25, Syrian rebels seized control of the Marj al-Sultan base on the outskirts of Damascus. At least 15 rebels and eight soldiers were killed in the fighting that started a day earlier.
(AP, 11/25/12)
2013 Nov 25, US national security advisor Susan Rice told Afghan President Hamid Karzai that a delay in signing a troubled security deal risked the US pulling troops out of the country completely next year.
(AFP, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 25, Chuck Blazer, a FIFA executive committee member, pleaded guilty to racketeering and other charges. Blazer said he and others had agreed to receive bribes in the votes for the hosts of the 1998 and 2010 World Cups. This became public in a 40-page US federal indictment unveiled on June 3, 2015.
(SFC, 6/3/15, p.A6)
2013 Nov 25, A federal judge in Arkansas approved a settlement that pays $84.9 million to 5,500 trucking companies that were cheated out of promised rebates by Pilot Flying J, the nation's largest diesel retailer.
(AP, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 25, In NYC a statuette of the the bird made for the 1941 film “Maltese Falcon" sold for $4.085 million. It was one of two cast, but the only one confirmed by Warner Bros. archives.
(SFC, 11/26/13, p.A6)
2013 Nov 25, Chico Hamilton (b.1921), drummer and jazz master, died in NYC. His music included the sound track for Roman Polanski’s film “Repulsion" (1965).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_Hamilton)(SFC, 11/27/13, p.E2)
2013 Nov 25, In Washington DC 10 former players filed a federal lawsuit against the National Hockey League over concussions.
(AFP, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 25, A sailboat passing through the southern Bahamas islands with about 150 Haitian migrants on board capsized after running aground, killing up to 30 people and leaving the rest clinging to the vessel for hours.
(AP, 11/27/13)
2013 Nov 25, Egyptian security forces fired tear-gas and dispersed university students who had defied a law passed a day earlier that restricts demonstrations.
(Reuters, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 25, The EU expressed strong disapproval of Russian pressure on Ukraine to reject an EU trade deal, while police fired tear gas at pro-Europe protesters in the former Soviet republic.
(Reuters, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 25, France offered weapons, training and intelligence cooperation to help Iraq combat worsening violence amid fears the country is on the verge of returning to all-out sectarian bloodshed.
(AFP, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 25, Leftist Honduran presidential candidate Xiomara Castro refused to accept partial official results that show her conservative rival on course to win elections, setting the stage for a drawn-out conflict.
(Reuters, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 25, In Iraq a double bombing at a market and other attacks killed at least 27 in and around Baghdad.
(AP, 11/25/13)(SFC, 11/26/13, p.A4)
2013 Nov 25, Israel approved plans to build more than 800 settler homes on occupied land, in a move Palestinians said was aimed at venting Israeli anger toward a historic deal Western powers have struck with Iran over its nuclear program.
(Reuters, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 25, Libyan troops struggling to establish control across the country clashed with militants in the eastern city of Benghazi and at least 9 people were killed in the fighting.
(Reuters, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 25, The Pakistani military deployed its first fleet of domestically developed drones, as police cracked down on a protest by demonstrators angry at the US for using similar aircraft to attack Islamic militants in the country.
(AP, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 25, Two Sudanese health ministry workers helping to vaccinate children in the Darfur region were killed. They were part of a team inoculating vulnerable children against measles in West Darfur state.
(AFP, 11/29/13)
2013 Nov 25, Thailand PM Yingluck Shinawatra invoked an emergency security law in large parts of Bangkok and surrounding areas to cope with escalating protests against her government. Anti-government protesters forced their way inside the Finance Ministry and burst through the gates of the Foreign Ministry compound, in an escalating bid to overthrow PM Yingluck Shinawatra.
(AP, 11/25/13)(Reuters, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 25, Ugandan police lobbed tear gas to disperse protesters angered by the ouster of Kampala mayor Erias Lukwago, who is a fierce critic of longtime President Yoweri Museveni.
(AP, 11/25/13)
2013 Nov 25, The UN said Syria's government and opposition will hold their first peace talks on Jan. 22 in Geneva, in an attempt to halt the nearly 3-year-old civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people.
(AP, 11/25/13)
2014 Nov 25, The US FDA announced long-delayed calorie labeling rules, requiring establishment that sell prepared foods and have 20 or more location to post calorie content on the menus and displays. Compliance for most companies was due to November, 2015.
(SFC, 11/26/14, p.A6)
2014 Nov 25, A US federal judge struck down an Arkansas voter-approved gay marriage ban, but put the order on hold to allow the state to consider and appeal.
(SFC, 11/26/14, p.A6)
2014 Nov 25, In NYC the Lion costume from 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz" and the piano from the 1942 film “Casablanca" were each sold at auction for over $3 million.
(SFC, 11/26/14, p.A6)
2014 Nov 25, In Afghanistan two explosions shook Kabul, leaving seven army officers wounded after a bomb attack on their bus, while a grenade blast in the diplomatic quarter caused no casualties but led to the arrest of a suspect.
(Reuters, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, In Belarus Alexander Alesin, a military analyst for a well-known weekly newspaper, went missing since when he was reportedly snatched in a cafe in Minsk by unknown men. On Dec 8 police admitted holding him in jail.
(AP, 12/8/14)
2014 Nov 25, Benin’s country's health minister said 9 people have died from Lassa fever, a viral disease common in West Africa with symptoms similar to Ebola. Lassa fever is in the same virus family as Ebola.
(AP, 11/26/14)
2014 Nov 25, In Brazil a court ordered Rio de Janeiro state to pay for psychological treatments and provide monthly stipends for the widow and children of Brazilian laborer Amarildo de Souza, who was killed in police custody last year. In Rio de Janeiro one police officer was killed and another injured in a drive-by shooting during a routine patrol.
(AP, 11/26/14)
2014 Nov 25, Bulgarian police raided a mosque in the town of Pazardzhik and detained Ahmed Mussa Ahmed, a Roma Muslim religious leader suspected of spreading propaganda for the Islamic State group.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, A Cameroonian army operation freed 16 hostages, including Polish Catholic priest Mateusz Dziedzic, who were abducted by rebels from Central African Republic last month.
(Reuters, 11/26/14)
2014 Nov 25, In China an office of the State Council released a draft of the country’s first anti-domestic violence law.
(Econ, 12/6/14, p.47)
2014 Nov 25, Colombia's FARC rebels freed two captured soldiers partially meeting a condition to resume peace talks that the government has suspended until the guerrillas release hostages seized over the last two weeks, including an army general.
(Reuters, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, In Egypt an apartment building in Cairo collapsed, killing at least 17 people as rescuers and neighbors frantically dug through rubble with their hands to find survivors. Neighbors said the seven-story building had several floors illegally added onto it.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, France suspended the delivery of a warship to Russia, after months of speculation about what would be the biggest arms sale ever by a NATO country to the Kremlin.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, Pope Francis spoke before delegates of the EU Council in Strasbourg, France. He warned them that Europe had become too fearful and self-absorbed urged them to focus on poverty, immigration and joblessness.
(SFC, 11/26/14, p.A2)
2014 Nov 25, Hong Kong authorities attempted to clear a 2-month-old pro-democracy protest camp in Mong Kok district. Hundreds more protesters flooded the crowded neighborhood. 80 people were arrested.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, In Iraq Islamic State insurgents battled Iraqi forces in the center of Baiji, a week after the army broke their prolonged siege of the country's largest oil refinery just outside the town.
(Reuters, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, Japanese police arrested four South Korean men at a harbor where ferries depart for Busan on suspicion of stealing an ancient Buddha statue. A 5th man was arrested the next day. The stolen "Birth of Buddha" statue dates to sometime between the 9th and 11th centuries.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, Thousands of Kashmiris cast votes in state elections despite a boycott call by Muslim separatist groups that reject India's sovereignty over the disputed Himalayan region.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, Kenyan police used teargas to disperse demonstrators shouting "President, Stop the killings!" outside President Uhuru Kenyatta's offices, in a protest over 28 people killed in a weekend attack claimed by Islamist militants.
(Reuters, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf toured a new Chinese-built 100-bed treatment center for Ebola just outside Monrovia. It was exptected to begin receiving patientws nexdt week.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, Libyan security officials said warplanes have again bombed the Matiga military air base that until a day earlier was Tripoli's only functioning airport.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, In northern Mali the convoy of a visiting cabinet minister struck a roadside bomb, killing 2 soldiers and wounding four others.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, Nepal signed an agreement for an Indian company to build a $1 billion hydroelectric plant to boost supplies in the energy-starved Himalayan nation and export power to India.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, In Nigeria 2 teenage female suicide bombers blew themselves up in a crowded market in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing at least 44 people.
(AP, 11/25/14)(Reuters, 11/27/14)
2014 Nov 25, Pakistani fighter jets reportedly killed 20 militants in the North Waziristan tribal region. The military said it has cleared 90 percent of North Waziristan and that the militants are currently on the run.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, In Puerto Rico robbers approached Edwin Roman Acevedo (36), an off-duty police officer, outside a pharmacy in Trujillo Alto and announced they were holding him up. Roman used his department-issued gun to defend himself, but was shot three times and died.
(AP, 11/26/14)
2014 Nov 25, Syrian warplanes conducted a series of airstrikes on the northeastern city of Raqqa, killing at least 95 people. Some of the airstrikes hit a popular market near a museum and an industrial neighborhood, causing many civilian casualties.
(AP, 11/25/14)(AP, 11/26/14)
2014 Nov 25, A Turkish court banned media from reporting on a parliamentary investigation into corruption allegations against four ex-ministers, a move the opposition says amounts to protecting thieves.
(Reuters, 11/26/14)
2014 Nov 25, In the United Arab Emirates Osama al-Najjar, the son of a jailed activist, was himself sentenced to prison and fined after being convicted over messages sent on social media and of joining an illegal group. His father, Hussain al-Najjar, was one of 69 people convicted last year of plotting to overthrow the government.
(AP, 11/25/14)
2014 Nov 25, Yemeni security forces freed six Yemeni hostages and two foreigners in a raid in which 7 al Qaeda kidnappers were also killed. US special operations forces took part in a rescue mission in Hadramawt province.
(AP, 11/25/14)(AP, 11/26/14)
2015 Nov 25, The United States and its allies staged 27 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
(Reuters, 11/26/15)
2015 Nov 25, A new nuclear treaty with the United States governing South Korea's commercial nuclear activities during the next 20 years went into effect. The treaty, which replaces a previous accord reached in 1972, opens the possibility of South Korea gaining the ability to enrich uranium to produce non-weapons-grade nuclear fuel depending on future negotiations with the United States.
(AP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, Australian officials said at least 2 people have been killed and several others injured by huge wildfires that also destroyed homes near the southern city of Adelaide and continue to burn out of control.
(AP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, Bangladesh police commandos killed Al Bani, the suspected military chief of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, a banned Islamist group, in a shootout in Dhaka.
(Reuters, 11/26/15)
2015 Nov 25, In Belgium schools and much of the Brussels metro system reopened as the capital started to return to normal after four days of lockdown.
(Reuters, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, Brazilian police arrested Senator Delcidio do Amaral, a senior ruling party senator and a billionaire investment banker, in the intensifying probe of a huge corruption network centered on state oil giant Petrobras.
(AFP, 11/25/15)(SFC, 11/26/15, p.A4)
2015 Nov 25, Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh advocated banning female genital mutilation, giving hope to human rights activists who are urging Gambia to adopt a law against the practice.
(AP, 11/26/15)
2015 Nov 25, Germany said it will send up to 650 soldiers to Mali to provide some relief to France in its global fight against the Islamic State jihadists.
(AFP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, Indian media and a rights group accused the Assam Rifles paramilitary force of attempting to curtail press freedom by asking newspapers in the insurgency-hit northeastern state of Nagaland to stop publishing statements from a banned rebel group.
(AP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, In the Indian portion of Kashmir 3 heavily armed rebels stormed an army camp and were killed in a fierce gunbattle with soldiers. A civilian was also killed.
(AP, 11/25/15)(SFC, 11/26/15, p.A4)
2015 Nov 25, Iran's top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the United States is using "money and sexual attractions" to try to infiltrate the Islamic Republic.
(AP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, Pope Francis arrived in Kenya and was received at Nairobi's airport by President Uhuru Kenyatta on the first leg of a six-day pilgrimage that will also take him to Uganda and the Central African Republic. Francis urged all Kenyans to work for peace and forgiveness in order to heal ethnic, religious and economic divisions.
(AP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, In southeastern Niger 18 people were killed and 100 homes torched in an attack in the dead of night by Nigeria's Boko Haram fighters in the village of Wogom.
(AFP, 11/26/15)
2015 Nov 25, A year's worth of rain deluged parts of Qatar as seasonal storms moving through Saudi Arabia flooded streets in a city northwest of the capital, Riyadh.
(AP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, A Palestinian stabbed and critically wounded an Israeli soldier and was shot dead by troops in the Israeli-occupied West Bank at a road junction near a cluster of Palestinian villages and Jewish settlements.
(Reuters, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, Romania's Parliament approved a law that restricts what banks can reclaim from people who default on their mortgage payments. Lawmakers passed a law allowing banks to seize the property the loan was taken for, but not to seize other assets or claim further payment.
(AP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, Russia accepted its "full suspension" from world athletics over widespread doping without requesting a hearing from the International Association of Athletics Federations.
(AFP, 11/26/15)
2015 Nov 25, Russia sent an advanced missile system to Syria to protect its jets operating there and pledged its air force would keep flying missions near Turkish air space, sounding a defiant note after Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet.
(Reuters, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, The surviving crew member of a Russian warplane shot down by Turkey said the plane received no warnings from the Turkish Air Force and did not fly over Turkish air space. Navigator Konstantin Murakhtin was rescued by Russian and Syrian special forces after ejecting from the plane. The US said data showed the Russian aircraft had transited Turkish airspace.
(Reuters, 11/25/15)(SFC, 11/26/15, p.A4)
2015 Nov 25, Russia's natural gas giant Gazprom said it would stop shipping fuel supplies to Ukraine because Kiev had failed to make the required pre-payments on time.
(AFP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, Russian forces launched a heavy bombardment against insurgent-held areas in Syria's Latakia province, near where a Russian warplane had been shot down by Turkey the day before. Air strikes hit a crossing on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey's southern province of Kilis. The strikes reportedly hit a garage for commercial trailers, killing 3 people.
(Reuters, 11/25/15)(AP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, Ukraine decided to stop buying gas from Russia and closed its airspace to its giant eastern neighbor's airlines. The Ukrainian military said another soldier was killed in a new bout of clashes across the shattered war zone in the past 24 hours.
(AFP, 11/25/15)
2015 Nov 25, Venezuelan opposition election candidate Luis Manuel Diaz was shot dead while campaigning. The shooter was believed to be a member of an "armed gang" linked to the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).
(AFP, 11/26/15)
2016 Nov 25, In Alaska four people including an infant were shot and killed at a hotel in Fairbanks. McKay Hutton (22) was identified as the gunman in the murder-suicide.
(SSFC, 11/27/16, p.A8)
2016 Nov 25, San Francisco’s MUNI Metro passengers began riding for free following a hack of the agency’s computer systems. The hacker demanded 100 bitcoins, or about $73,000. Passengers continued to ride for free the next day as MUNI worked to restore its systems from backups. The system was restored on Nov 27.
(SFC, 11/29/16, p.A1)
2016 Nov 25, Pauline Oliveros (b.1932), accordionist, composer and experimentalist, died in New York. She influenced several generations of musicians with her call for a process she dubbed “deep listening."
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Oliveros)(SSFC, 11/27/16, p.C5)
2016 Nov 25, In Afghanistan a bomb blast in Jalalabad killed one police officer and wounded five people. Bomb blasts in eastern Nangarhar province killed five and left 27 others wounded.
(AP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, In Afghanistan VP Abdul Rashid Dostum encountered rival Ahmad Ishchi while watching a game of buzkashi and punched him in the face. Bodyguards beat Mr. Ishchi some more before carting him away in an armored vehicle. He has not been seen since. Dostum was acting president at this time as his boss was abroad.
(Econ, 12/3/16, p.33)
2016 Nov 25, Thousands of Bangladeshis marched in the streets of Dhaka to protest the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Smaller protests occurred in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
(AP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, British chef Stephen Port (41), convicted two days earlier of murdering three young men whom he met online, was sentenced to life in prison. Over a 15-month period Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor all overdosed on the psychoactive drug GHB. Port then dumped their bodies in and around a graveyard near his apartment.
(AFP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, Fidel Castro (90), former Cuban leader (1959-2006), died. He had led a rebel army to improbable victory, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 US presidents during his half century rule of Cuba. The Cuban government soon declared nine days of national mourning.
(AP, 11/26/16)
2016 Nov 25, In France British photographer David Hamilton (b.1933), known for his widely published nude images of underage girls, was found dead in his Paris home with a plastic bag over his head. Flavie Flament (42), who modelled for Hamilton almost 30 years ago, published an autobiographical novel last month in which she described being raped by a famous photographer during a shoot.
(AP, 11/26/16)
2016 Nov 25, Germany's Lufthansa airline canceled 830 short- and medium-haul flights affecting 100,000 passengers after a pilots' strike entered its third day in a long-running dispute over wages.
(AP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, In Hungary far-right Asotthalom mayor Laszlo Toroczkai said councilors have voted to ban the construction of mosques and the activity of muezzins, as well as the use of veils and headscarves like burqas, chadors and burkinis worn by Muslim women.
(AP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, India's top court stopped firecracker sales in and around New Delhi as the worst season for air pollution began.
(AP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, In Iran at least 44 people were killed and 100 injured when one passenger train collided with another at a station in the northern province of Semnan. Three railway officials were soon detained.
(Reuters, 11/25/16)(AFP, 11/26/16)
2016 Nov 25, In Iraq IS militants reportedly shot to death 27 civilians in Muhandiseen Park in northern Mosul.
(AP, 11/29/16)
2016 Nov 25, In Israel foreign firefighting planes helped tackle a wave of wildfires that have forced tens of thousands to flee their homes, as police announced a dozen related arrests. Israel received airborne assistance from Russia, Turkey, Greece and Croatia.
(AFP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, Rebels fighting against Indian rule in Kashmir ambushed a police patrol, killing two officers. Two militants and an Indian soldier died in a separate gunfight in the disputed region.
(AP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, Mexican authorities said Investigators searching clandestine graves have found 32 bodies and nine human heads in the southern state of Guerrero. After days of digging, they discovered a total of 32 bodies in 17 pits.
(AP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, Thousands of Filipinos, including more than a dozen nude students, protested against the hasty burial of dictator Ferdinand Marcos in a heroes' cemetery, in a growing political storm that's lashing the president who allowed the entombment.
(AP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented a Russian passport to US actor Steven Seagal (64) and said he hoped it would serve as a symbol of how the fractious ties between Moscow and Washington are starting to improve.
(Reuters, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, Russian aircraft maker MiG said Vano Mikoyan (b.1927), one of the developers of the MiG fighter jets for the Soviet and then Russian air force, has died.
(AP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, In Syria airstrikes on the northern village of Taqad killed at least five people including children. Opposition activists reported intense airstrikes and shelling on the besieged rebel-held eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo amid fighting on several fronts. Air strikes in Idlib province knocked out two medical centers dedicated to women and killed at least 12 people.
(AP, 11/25/16)(SFC, 11/26/16, p.A2)
2016 Nov 25, In southern Thailand two men suspected of involvement with violent unrest were killed in a shootout with police and soldiers who had been tracking them.
(AP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, Turkish media reported one soldier killed and five lightly wounded in the fight against the Islamic State group in al-Bab, northern Syria. Four opposition fighters were also reported killed in the clashes.
(AP, 11/25/16)
2016 Nov 25, In eastern Ukraine the Czech humanitarian organization Clovek v Tisni (People in Need, PIN) was banned from the Donetsk area by separatist authorities.
(Reuters, 11/27/16)
2017 Nov 25, In the SF Bay Area a collision left four people dead in a collision on I-80 in San Pablo. Fred Douglas Lowe (47) fled the scene but was soon caught and later charged with four counts of murder for driving under the influence and causing great bodily harm within 10 years of two other driving under the influence offenses. On March 6, 2019, Lowe was found guilty of murder.
(SFC, 11/30/17, p.D2)(SFC, 3/7/19, p.C4)
2017 Nov 25, In Britain a stolen car smashed into a tree in Leeds, killing five. The victims included a 12-year-old, two 15-year-olds, and two men aged 24 and 28. Two 15-year-old boys were held on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
(AP, 11/26/17)
2017 Nov 25, Authorities in China detained a woman suspected of abusing children at a Beijing kindergarten run by RYB Education, a US-listed company, in a case that has caused nationwide anger.
(AP, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 25, France’s President Emmanuel Macron announced an initiative to address violence and harassment against women in France marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. His plans aimed at erasing the sense of shame that breeds silence among victims and changing what he said is France's sexist culture.
(AP, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 25, Indonesia’s Mount Agung volcano on island of Bali erupted for a second time in less than a week, sending a grey-black plume of ash and steam at least 1,500 meters into the sky and leading several airlines to change flight plans.
(Reuters, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 25, Iraqi forces thrust north from the Euphrates Valley into the desert, opening up a new front in the drive to flush out fugitive Islamic State group fighters.
(AFP, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 25, At least 31 migrants died after their boat sank off Libya's western coast and some 200 others were picked up by the coastguard to be brought back to port in Tripoli.
(Reuters, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 25, Nigeria's military repelled an attempt by suspected Boko Haram militants to seize the northeastern town of Magumeri. At least three soldiers were killed and six others wounded in the fighting.
(Reuters, 11/26/17)
2017 Nov 25, Pakistani police launched an operation to clear Islamist protesters from an intersection linking the Islamabad with the garrison city of Rawalpindi, sparking other demonstrators across the country to take to the streets in solidarity and bringing major cities to a virtual standstill. The clashes in Islamabad left six dead and dozens wounded after security forces failed to disperse supporters of the Tehreek-i-Labaik Ya Rasool Allah party.
(AP, 11/25/17)(AP, 11/26/17)
2017 Nov 25, Pakistani police said a suicide bomber detonated his explosives vest in the southwestern city of Quetta, killing at least four people and wounding 19 others.
(AP, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 25, Russia’s RIA news agency reported that President Vladimir Putin has signed a law which will allow authorities to list foreign media operating in Russia as "foreign agents".
(Reuters, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 25, Russian Defense Ministry said Russian long-range bombers hit Islamic State targets in the northeast of Syria.
(Reuters, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 25, Senegal's national assembly lifted the parliamentary immunity of Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall, a leading opponent of President Macky Sall, opening the way for his trial on graft charges.
(AFP, 11/26/17)
2017 Nov 25, Hundreds of white South African farmers took to the streets of Pretoria, demanding government action over a wave of murders targeting their communities in rural areas. At least 72 white farmers have been murdered so far this year.
(AFP, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 25, A UN plane carrying desperately needed vaccines landed in the rebel-held Yemeni capital Sanaa after a three-week Saudi-led aid blockade that had sparked warnings thousands could die.
(AFP, 11/25/17)
2017 Nov 25, Former Zimbabwe finance minister Ignatius Chombo, among those detained by the military when it seized power before Robert Mugabe resigned, was charged with three counts of corruption in offences that allegedly in 2004.
(Reuters, 11/25/17)
2018 Nov 25, In southern California the US Customs and Border Protection Agency temporarily shut down the San Ysidro border crossing and fired tear gas to push back migrants from the border fence. Hundreds of people tried to evade a Mexican police blockade and ran toward the border crossing that leads into San Diego.
(SFC, 11/26/18, p.A4)
2018 Nov 25, Two San Diego teenagers and a Mexican youth were found shot dead at an apartment complex in Tijuana. Christopher Alexis Gomez (17), Juan Suarez-Ojeda (18) and Mexican youth Angel Said Robles (17) were headed to a barbecue on Nov. 23 in Ensenada, south of Tijuana, and were supposed to return that night. The three teens were reportedly tortured before they were shot.
(AP, 11/30/18)
2018 Nov 25, In northern California firefighters said the Camp Fire in Butte County is now 100 percent contained. The death toll stood at 88 and 296 people were still reported missing.
(SFC, 11/26/18, p.A1)(SFC, 11/27/18, p.A9)
2018 Nov 25, In Florida a bicyclist died and another was critically injured after a car crashed into a group of 14 cyclists on a state road in Davie. The driver rep[orted that the sun was in her eyes.
(SFC, 11/26/18, p.A4)
2018 Nov 25, A winter storm blanketed much of the US central Midwest. Some 1200 flights were reported canceled.
(SFC, 11/26/18, p.A4)
2018 Nov 25, In Afghanistan hundreds of demonstrators in Shi'ite areas of Kabul and Bamyan province protested against the arrest of Alipur, an ethnic Hazara militia commander.
(Reuters, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, In western Afghanistan a Taliban ambush of a police convoy killed 20 policemen while 10 troops died in an insurgent attack on an army checkpoint in Farah province. In northern Faryab province the Taliban attacked an army check point in Qaisar district, killing 10 troops.
(AP, 11/26/18)
2018 Nov 25, Bahrain said it will hold a second round of voting for 31 of 40 seats in parliament next week, in an election from which opposition groups have been barred.
(Reuters, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, Chadian President Idriss Deby met with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, the first such visit by a leader of the central African nation which severed bilateral ties in 1972.
(Reuters, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, Egypt's highest appeal court upheld death sentences against nine defendants convicted for their involvement in the 2015 assassination of Hisham Barakat, the country's chief prosecutor.
(AP, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, European Union leaders finally sealed a Brexit deal, saying the package agreed with PM Theresa May was the best Britain will get in a warning to the British parliament not to reject it.
(Reuters, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, French Senate employee Benoit Quennedey, suspected of spying for North Korea, was detained. Quennedey has traveled to the Koreas in his role as the head of the French-Korean Friendship Association, and wrote a book and essays about North Korea.
(AP, 11/27/18)
2018 Nov 25, French economy minister Bruno Le Maire said Renault had launched an internal audit into Ghosn's pay. Nissan's former chairman Carlos Ghosn has denied allegations of financial misconduct, claiming he had no intention of making false reports.
(AFP, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, In northern India tens of thousands of Hindus gathered in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh state, and renewed calls to build a Hindu temple on a site where a 16th century mosque was attacked and demolished by Hindu hard-liners in 1992, sparking deadly Hindu-Muslim violence.
(AFP, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, In Indian-controlled Kashmir six rebels and an army soldier were killed in a gunbattle, sparking violent protests by residents seeking an end to Indian rule over the disputed region and leaving a teenage boy dead and 20 people injured.
(AP, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, Iraq's health ministry said least 21 people have died and tens of thousands displaced by heavy rains that have battered the country over two days.
(AFP, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, Israeli police overnight arrested Adnan Gheith, the Palestinian governor of Jerusalem, for the second time in as many months after an investigation related to a land sale.
(AFP, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, The Jordanian army killed four drug smugglers seeking to cross into the kingdom from Syria's southeastern desert border area.
(Reuters, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, Tens of thousands of Romanians braved hours of cold weather Sunday for the blessing of a grandiose Orthodox cathedral consecrated to mark 100 years since modern-day Romania was created in the aftermath of World War I. Romanian King Carol I passed a law for the cathedral to be built in 1884, but two world wars and decades of communism meant it never happened. Building work began on the neo-Byzantine structure in 2010.
(AP, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, Russia stopped three Ukrainian navy vessels from entering the Sea of Azov via the Kerch Strait by placing a huge cargo ship beneath a Russian-controlled bridge, with officials from both countries accusing the other of provocative behavior. A bilateral treaty gives both countries the right to use the sea, which lies between them and is linked by the narrow Kerch Strait to the Black Sea. Russian coast guards opened fire on three Ukrainian ships near the Kerch Strait and then seized them. Three Ukrainian sailors were wounded and 24 were detained.
(Reuters, 11/25/18)(Reuters, 11/26/18)
2018 Nov 25, Slovakia's PM Peter Pellegrini said his country will not support the UN pact on the treatment of migrants worldwide.
(Reuters, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, In Spain tens of thousands of protesters, many wearing purple, marched through Madrid and other cities to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
(Reuters, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena assured non-interference in ongoing investigations into abductions, killings of journalists and other crimes allegedly committed by those connected to the new prime minister and his Cabinet. Sirisena said he would not reinstate Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister even if he was able to prove his majority in parliament.
(AP, 11/25/18)(Reuters, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, Syrian officials said more than 100 people were treated at hospitals for a suspected poison gas attack the previous evening in the northern city of Aleppo that Damascus and Moscow blamed on rebels. Russian warplanes attacked rebel-held areas in northern Syria for the first time in weeks.
(AP, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, Voters in Taiwan passed a referendum asking that marriage be restricted to one man and one woman, a setback to LGBT couples hoping their island will be the first place in Asia to let same-sex couples share child custody and insurance benefits.
(AP, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, In Yemen a Saudi-led military coalition resumed air strikes against rebel supply lines around Hodeida, two days after a UN envoy visited the lifeline port city.
(AFP, 11/25/18)
2018 Nov 25, In Yemen a suspected US drone strike killed six alleged al-Qaida militants in the country's southwest.
(AP, 11/26/18)
2019 Nov 25, Today marked International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Tens of thousands of women marched as the UN women's agency kicked off 16 days of activism against gender-based violence.
(Reuters, 11/25/19)(SFC, 11/27/19, p.A4)
2019 Nov 25, The US State Dept. said it has recalled its ambassador from South Sudan after the leaders of formerly warring factions failed to agree on a unity government.
(Reuters, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, The US Supreme Court allowed prominent climate scientist Michael Mann to pursue a defamation lawsuit against a conservative magazine and a think tank that compared him to a convicted child molester. The justices declined to hear appeals filed by National Review magazine and the Competitive Enterprise Institute seeking to overturn a lower court's ruling that allowed the lawsuit filed by scientist Michael Mann to go forward.
(Reuters, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, A US military official said Qatar and Kuwait have told the US that they will join a US-led naval coalition in the Gulf which was established in response to a series of attacks on oil tankers.
(Reuters, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, In California a fire ripped through brush and woodland on hills above the city of Santa Barbara early today, forcing some 5,500 residents to leave their homes. Most of the evacuees were able to return home the next day.
(Reuters, 11/26/19)(SFC, 11/27/19, p.A7)
2019 Nov 25, In Florida Chinese national Yujing Zhang was sentenced to eight months in prison and two years of supervised release over her arrest for trespassing at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida last March.
(ABC News, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, A teenage boy in Florida faced manslaughter charges he accidentally shot and killed two friends.
(ABC News, 11/27/19)
2019 Nov 25, Charles Schwab Corp agreed to buy TD Ameritrade Holding Corp in an all-stock deal valued at $26 billion, creating a brokerage giant in a market that has been ravaged by price wars.
(Reuters, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new record in 2018, rising faster than the average rise of the last decade and cementing increasingly damaging weather patterns.
(Reuters, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, British man Maurice Robinson (25) admitted plotting to assist unlawful immigration after 39 Vietnamese migrants were found dead in the back of a truck he was driving.
(AP, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, A second leak of secret Chinese Communist Party (CCP) documents revealed details of how over one million detainees in China are indoctrinated, controlled and punished in a huge network of internment camps. The papers, dated to 2017 and leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), have been dubbed The China Cables and feature instructions to “never allow escapes" from the camps.
(The Telegraph, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, In Congo DRC angry residents of the eastern city of Beni burned the town hall and stormed the United Nations peacekeeping mission after rebels killed eight people and kidnapped nine overnight in their latest assault.
(AP, 11/25/19)(Econ., 9/5/20, p.37)
2019 Nov 25, An Egyptian court has handed down death sentences to seven people convicted of carrying out attacks that killed 11 policemen in 2016. The Cairo Criminal Court also sentenced 18 others to 10-15 years in prison for the same charges.
(AP, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, Officials said at least seven people have died as heavy rain slammed the Riviera coasts of France and Italy, trapping travelers in their cars, as well as parts of western Greece.
(AP, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, It was reported that Louis Vuitton owner LVMH has agreed to buy Tiffany for $16.2 billion in its biggest acquisition yet, as the French luxury goods maker bets it can restore the U.S. jeweler's luster by investing in stores and new collections.
(Reuters, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, Thieves in Germany looted the historic Green Vault Museum in Dresden of potentially millions of dollars worth of valuables in a brazen heist early this morning. Police later said at least seven people were involved in the theft of the 18th-century jewels.
(SFC, 1/26/19, p.A2)(AP, 3/5/20)
2019 Nov 25, Supporters of Iran's government poured into central Tehran for a massive rally to condemn days of "rioting" that the Islamic republic blames on its foreign foes.
(AFP, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, Iran rejected a US court order for Tehran to pay $180 million in damages to a Washington Post reporter for jailing him on espionage charges.
(AFP, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, Amnesty Int’l. said at least 143 demonstrators have been killed across Iransince Nov. 15, almost all of them shot by security forces.
(AFP, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, Fiat Chrysler said it has already started 90% of the investments earmarked for Italy. FCA announced last year it would spend 5 billion euros ($5.5 billion) in Italy up to 2021.
(Reuters, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, In Japan Pope Francis appealed to world leaders to ensure that nuclear weapons are never used again, a day after he visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only cities ever to be hit by atomic bombs.
(Reuters, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, In Lebanon a key road in Beirut reopened following clashes throughout the night between rival groups, some of the worst violence since protests against the country’s ruling elite began last month. A business group representing much of the private sector called for a three-day general strike to press the country's divided politicians to form a government and end a crisis that has brought the economy to a standstill.
(AP, 11/25/19)(Reuters, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, Maltese police sources said Melvin Theuma, suspected of being the middleman in the murder of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, has been granted a presidential pardon in return for information about the case.
(Reuters, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, Russian military launched a Soyuz-2-1v/Volga rocket from Site 43 in Plesetsk, delivering a classified cargo into orbit. Russia launched its Kosmos 2542 satellite. 11 days later it disgorged another satellite named Kosmos 2543. On Jul 15, 2020, 2543 spat out another object, which sped off into the void.
(http://www.russianspaceweb.com/cosmos-2542.html)(Econ., 8/15/20, p.68)
2019 Nov 25, Retail subscription for Saudi Aramco's initial public offering (IPO) reached 21.77 billion Saudi riyals ($5.8 billion). The last day of subscription for the retail tranche of the share sale is Nov. 28. Aramco launched the IPO on Nov. 3. Aramco said it plans to sell 1.5% of the company, or about 3 billion shares, at an indicative price range of 30 riyals to 32 riyals, valuing the IPO at as much as 96 billion riyals ($25.6 billion) and giving the company a potential market value of between $1.6 trillion and $1.7 trillion.
(Reuters, 11/25/19)
2019 Nov 25, In northern Thailand a wild deer was found dead in a national park with seven kg of plastic waste and other trash in its stomach. Officials estimated that the 10-year-old deer had died at least two days earlier.
(AP, 11/27/19)
2019 Nov 25, Turkish media say Turkey is poised to begin testing Russian-made S-400 air defense systems, despite threats of sanctions from the United States.
(AP, 11/25/19)
2020 Nov 25, President Trump pardoned Michael Flynn, his former national security adviser, who twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his conversations with a Russian diplomat.
(NY Times, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, The US Supreme Court, in a 5 to 4 vote, barred restrictions on religious services in New York that Gov. Andrew Cuomo had imposed. Justice Amy Coney Barrett played a decisive role.
(NY Times, 11/26/20)
2020 Nov 25, It was reported that the US will temporarily require visitors from Iran, Myanmar and a number of African nations to pay up to $15,000 in visa bonds in a new hardline immigration measure enacted late in Donald Trump's presidency. The rule takes effect December 24 for a duration of six months.
(AFP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, The Army Corps of Engineers denied a permit for the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska, most likely killing the project. Opponents of the mine said it would have irreversibly harmed salmon breeding grounds.
(NY Times, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, The NASDAQ composite index hit a record high gaining 57.62 points to close at 12,094.40.
(SFC, 11/26/20, p.C2)
2020 Nov 25, In Arizona hundreds of inmates at Eyman prison in Florence were involved in unrest that reportedly involved teargas and pepper spray being deployed against them.
(The Guardian, 11/27/20)
2020 Nov 25, California to date had 1,154,031 cases of coronavirus and 18,919 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 144,148 cases and 1,941 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 12,759,949 with the death toll at 262,080.
(sfist.com, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, A statewide order by Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly requiring facemasks went into effect. 62 counties joined the rule and 43 opted out.
(SFC, 11/28/20, p.A6)
2020 Nov 25, It was reported that the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska is creating the nation's largest tribal national park (444 acres) on a forested bluff overlooking the Missouri River and a historic site of its people. The new Ioway Tribal National Park will overlook a historic trading village where the Ioway people bartered for buffalo hides and pipestones with other tribes during the 13th to 15th centuries.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, James Wolfensohn (86), two-term president of the World Bank, died at his home in Manhattan. He had escaped a financially pinched Australian childhood to become a top Wall Street deal maker.
(NY Times, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Pennsylvania will not allow bars and restaurants to sell alcohol after 5 p.m. today, in an effort to dissuade gatherings on what is usually one of the busiest bar nights of the year.
(NY Times, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, In Texas police shot and killed a man who fired on officers and set his trailer on fire in San Antonio.
(AP, 11/26/20)
2020 Nov 25, Tesla Inc issued two recalls covering about 9,500 vehicles for roof trim that may separate and bolts that may not have been properly tightened.
(Reuters, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Diego Maradona (60), the Argentine soccer star with other worldly footwork, died of a heart attack in Tigre. He was ranked with Pelé among the best, and his ability to surprise and startle won over fans and even critics.
(NY Times, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev vowed to rebuild and revive the Kalbajar region, the latest territory that Armenian forces have ceded in a truce that ended six weeks of intense fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Britain unveiled plans for more massive state spending despite soaring debt on coronavirus fallout, including pay rises for nurses to support the ravaged economy as the nation embarks on its post-Brexit future.
(AFP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, AstraZeneca acknowledged a key mistake in the vaccine dosage received by some study participants, adding to questions about whether the vaccine’s apparently spectacular efficacy will hold up under additional testing.
(NY Times, 11/26/20)
2020 Nov 25, The Canadian Museum announced the winners of its national Nature Inspiration Awards for 2020. These annual awards, which began in 2014, recognize individuals, groups and organizations whose leadership, innovation and creativity connect Canadians with nature and the natural world.
(Global Newswire, 11/26/20)
2020 Nov 25, Chinese President Xi Jinping congratulated US President-elect Joe Biden and expressed hope for “win-win cooperation" amid conflicts over trade, technology and security that have plunged Sino-American relations to their lowest level in decades.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, China's top diplomat told Japan's leader that Beijing wants the two Asian powers to have good relations and cooperate in fighting the coronavirus and reviving their pandemic-hit economies, but the two sides remained at odds over an island dispute.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, It was reported that an inventor in Egypt is trialing a remote-control robot which can test for COVID-19, take the temperature of patients, and warn them if they don't wear masks at a private hospital north of Cairo.
(Reuters, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Germany's Cabinet approved legislation that would provide compensation to gay servicepeople who experienced discrimination in the military before a change of policy 20 years ago.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Bertelsmann, the German parent of Penguin Random House, outbid News Corp. with a $2.2 billion offer for Simon & Schuster, the fifth-biggest english-language publisher.
(Econ., 11/28/20, p.59)
2020 Nov 25, Germany reported a record 410 COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases increased by 18,633 to 961,320. The reported death toll rose by a record 410 to 14,771.
(Reuters, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, India's ruling Hindu BJP nationalist party approved legislation in Uttar Pradesh state that lays out a prison term for anyone found guilty of using marriage to force someone to change religion. The party describes such marriages as "love jihad," an unproven conspiracy theory used by its leaders and Hindu hard-line groups to accuse Muslim men of converting Hindu women by marriage.
(SFC, 11/26/20, p.A2)
2020 Nov 25, Indonesian authorities arrested Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Edhy Prabowo as he arrived in Jakarta following a working visit to the US. He was suspected of taking bribes related to exports of lobster larvae.
(SFC, 11/27/20, p.A2)
2020 Nov 25, Iran released Kylie Moore-Gilbert, the British-Australian academic who has been detained in the country for over two years on espionage charges, in exchange for three Iranian prisoners who were being held abroad.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian motorist who police say tried to carry out a car-ramming attack at a West Bank checkpoint.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Italy reported 722 COVID 19-related deaths, down from 853 the day before, and 25,853 new infections.
(Reuters, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Poland reported a new daily record of 674 coronavirus-related deaths.
(Reuters, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Poland said it will cull over 900,000 hens in a farm in the village of Wroniawy due to an outbreak of the H5N8 bird flu, which was discovered the previous evening.
(Reuters, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Thousands of people in Russia's Far East region of Primorye remained without heating or electricity, as local authorities and emergency services wrestled with the consequences of an unprecedented ice storm that hit the region last week.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Russia reported a record 507 coronavirus deaths in the last 24 hours, taking its national death toll to 37,538 since the pandemic began.
(Reuters, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, A mine in the Red Sea off Saudi Arabia's coast near Yemen exploded and damaged an oil tanker near Shuqaiq.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, A UN report said Israel’s blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip has cost the seaside territory as much as $16.7 billion in economic losses and sent poverty and unemployment skyrocketing.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2020 Nov 25, Pope Francis called for global action to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
(AP, 11/25/20)
2021 Nov 25, Total US COVID-19 cases reached over 48,107,102 with the death toll at 775,628.
(sfist.com, 11/26/21)
2021 Nov 25, Members of Native American tribes gathered in Plymouth, Mass., to mourn Indigenous people worldwide who have suffered centuries of racism and mistreatment in a tradition that began in 1970.
(SFC, 11/26/21, p.A8)
2021 Nov 25, Spectators once again lined the streets of Manhattan for the 95th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade after last year's spectacle was scaled down and closed to the public because of the coronavirus pandemic.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Australia announced it is sending police, troops and diplomats to the Solomon Islands to help after anti-government demonstrators defied lockdown orders and took to the streets for a second day in violent protests.
(AP, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Austria said it has found a case of bird flu on a small chicken farm near Vienna airport and is ordering poultry farms with more than 350 birds to keep them indoors.
(AP, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Belarusian and Russian fighter jets jointly patrolled Belarus' border, in the latest sign of Moscow's support for its ally in a standoff with the EU over migrants camped at the frontier with Poland.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Britain reported 47,240 new cases of COVID-19. A further 147 people were reported as having died within 28 days of a positive test for COVID-19.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore promised to end "dysfunction" within the military in a speech, as the nation braced for more protests against worsening insecurity.
(Reuters, 11/26/21)
2021 Nov 25, Statistics Canada said the murder rate in Canada last year rose to its highest level since 2005.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, China's Shanghai city detected three domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases with confirmed symptoms. This prompted Shanghai to limit tourism activities and a nearby city to cut public transport services, as China insisted on zero tolerance against letting clusters spread.
(Reuters, 11/26/21)
2021 Nov 25, State-backed media said Chinese tech group Baidu Inc and self-driving startup Pony.ai have won approval to launch paid driverless robotaxi services that will see the firms deploy not more than 100 vehicles in an area in China's capital Beijing.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, The Czech government declared a 30 day state of emergency involving early closure of bars and clubs and a ban on Christmas markets as the continent battled a surge in coronavirus cases.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Egypt's highest civilian court issued a final ruling upholding a death sentence for 21 suspected Islamist militants. The defendants were convicted of belonging to Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis group, which changed its name to Sinai Province after pledging allegiance to the Islamic State.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Egypt unveiled a restored road connecting two ancient temple complexes in Karnak and Luxor in a lavish ceremony aimed at raising the profile of one of the country's top tourist spots.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Ethiopia’s government issued a new order aiming to restrict media reporting of the country’s yearlong war, prohibiting the sharing of non-official information on “military-related movements, battlefront results and situations".
(AP, 11/26/21)
2021 Nov 25, The EU's drug regulator approved the use of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of five and 11 paving the way for them to be given a first shot as Europe struggles with a surge in cases.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, French authorities announced that booster shots would be made available to everyone aged over 18, rather than just the over-65s and those with underlying health issues.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Investigators with Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission delivered a final report to the president Thursday, identifying and recommending prosecution for those most responsible for crimes and human rights abuses committed during the 22-year rule of former President Yahya Jammeh.
(AP, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Germany said a case of African swine fever (ASF) has been found in a wild boar in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, close to a case found on a farm in the state earlier in November.
(AP, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, The number of new daily cases in Germany hit a record of 75,961 and its total death toll reached 100,119 since the start of the pandemic.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Indonesia's Constitutional Court ordered the government to amend parts of a 2020 job creation law within two years, citing procedural flaws in how the controversial legislation was handled.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Protests against COVID-19 restrictions in the French territory of Martinique intensified and the situation is "very strained," after rioters injured police officers, attacked journalists and set fire to the state representative's residence.
(Reuters, 11/26/21)
2021 Nov 25, It was reported that the Mexican government is rapidly running out of tools to control the expansion of the feared Jalisco cartel on the front lines of Mexico’s narco war in the western state of Michoacan and the stalled ground effort is being supplemented by an increasingly sophisticated aerial conflict.
(AP, 11/26/21)
2021 Nov 25, Portugal said it is bringing back some tight pandemic restrictions as of Dec. 1 in response to a recent rise in coronavirus infections.
(SFC, 11/26/21, p.A7)
2021 Nov 25, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis swore in a new coalition government led by a Liberal former army general and declared an end to a months-long political crisis that had gripped the Eastern European nation.
(AP, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, A methane explosion at a coal mine in Russia's Siberia killed 11 people and injured more than 40, with dozens of others remaining trapped at the Listvyazhnaya mine in the Kemerova region. The death toll soon rose to at least 52.
(AP, 11/25/21)((SFC, 11/26/21, p.A4)
2021 Nov 25, Sierra Leone's anti-corruption commission indicted six officials on corruption allegations, including an opposition front-runner for the 2023 presidential election.
(Reuters, 11/26/21)
2021 Nov 25, Slovakia went into a two-week lockdown, as the country with one of the EU's lowest vaccination rates reported a critical situation in hospitals and new infections that topped global tables.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, In Somalia a large explosion outside a school in Mogadishu killed at least eight people including students.
(AP, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, South African scientists said they have detected a new COVID-19 variant in small numbers and are working to understand its potential implications. They said variant B.1.1.529 has a "very unusual constellation" of mutations, which are concerning because they could help it evade the body's immune response and make it more transmissible.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, South Korea said it will start a task force to consider outlawing the centuries-old practice of dog meat consumption.
(SFC, 11/26/21, p.A2)
2021 Nov 25, In Sudan tens of thousands protested in the streets of Khartoum and other cities, keeping up the pressure on military leaders after they struck a deal to bring back a civilian prime minister deposed in a coup one month ago.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, In Turkey riot police fired pepper gas to disperse demonstrators who gathered in Istanbul to protest violence against women, some chanting "government resign", nearly five months after Turkey withdrew from a treaty on the issue.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Pope Francis declared five Catholic priests who were killed during the Paris Commune revolutionary government that took control of Paris in 1871 were martyrs who were killed out of “hatred for the faith".
(AP, 11/25/21)
2021 Nov 25, Vietnam said an African swine fever outbreak is spreading widely in the country and is hurting the local farming industry, forcing the culling of three times the number of hogs culled last year.
(Reuters, 11/25/21)
2022 Nov 25, The Biden administration has banned approvals of new telecommunications equipment from China's Huawei Technologies and ZTE because they pose "an unacceptable risk" to US national security. The FCC said it had adopted the final rules, which also bar the sale or import of equipment made by Chinese surveillance equipment maker Dahua Technology Co, video surveillance firm Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co Ltd and telecoms firm Hytera Communications Corp Ltd.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Total US COVID-19 cases reached over 98,670,340 with the death toll at 1,080,882.
(sfist.com, 11/26/22)
2022 Nov 25, Irene Cara Escalara (63), American singer and actress, died in Florida. She rose to prominence in 1980 for her role as Coco Hernandez in the 1980 musical film Fame, and for recording the film's title song "Fame", which reached number 1 in several countries.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Cara)
2022 Nov 25, Amazon Inc said it will shut down a food-delivery business it was testing in India.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, President Ilham Aliyev said that Azerbaijan did not want France to take part in its peace talks with Armenia, and called off a four-way meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and European Council head Charles Michel in Brussels on Dec. 7.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, From Buenos Aires to Bogota, women across Latin America took to the streets in marches to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, demanding more action from authorities.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, In Brazil three people were killed and at least eight injured when a shooter opened fire at two schools in Espirito Santo state. Officials said an unidentified teenager in military attire had opened fire at two schools.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Britain's National Crime Agency obtained a civil recovery order relating to nearly 54 million pounds ($65 million) of suspected criminal property held in accounts with Barclays.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, The UK's Treasury department said Britain and Singapore have signed a deal to try to break down trade barriers in the fintech sector by opening new regular talks between regulators and businesses.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly unveiled millions of pounds in additional support for Ukraine during a visit to Kyiv, as the country grapples with Russian air strikes on vital infrastructure with winter setting in.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Cuban counterpart Pres. Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez pledged mutual support over their fellow communist states’ “core interests" at a meeting further hailing a return to face-to-face diplomacy by Beijing.
(AP, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, In China frustration simmered among residents and business groups navigating stricter COVID-19 control curbs as the country reported another record high of daily infections just weeks after hopes had been raised of easing measures. China reported 35,183 new COVID-19 infections for today, of which 3,474 were symptomatic and 31,709 were asymptomatic, setting a new high for the third consecutive day.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)(Reuters, 11/26/22)
2022 Nov 25, A Beijing court sentenced Canadian singer Kris Wu (32) to 13 years in jail after finding him guilty of crimes including rape, just over a year after his arrest in China, where he was born and built a lucrative career. Wu was detained on July 31 last year after an 18-year-old Chinese student publicly accused him of inducing her and other girls, some of them younger than 18, to have sex with him.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, The head of the European Commission said the EU will step up efforts to provide Ukraine with support to restore and maintain power and heating.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Germany-based BMW raised its planned investment in an electric vehicle factory under construction in Hungary to over two billion euros ($2.08 billion) and said it will build a 500-million-euro high-voltage battery assembly plant on site.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia said Ghana has ordered all large-scale mining companies to sell 20% of their entire stock of refined gold at their refineries to the Bank of Ghana from Jan. 1, 2023.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, A Hong Kong court found Cardinal Joseph Zen (90), one of Asia's most senior Roman Catholic clerics, guilty of failing to register a now-disbanded fund for pro-democracy protesters and fined him HK$4,000($512).
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Iran's World Cup team did not sing their country's anthem, in apparent solidarity with protesters. Iran scored twice after the eighth minute of stoppage time to snatch a stunning 2-0 win over Wales that breathed new life into their World Cup campaign in Qatar and left the Welsh flat on their backs and facing a make-or-break decider against England. Iran threatened the families of its soccer squad after the players refused to sing the country's national anthem.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)(Business Insider, 11/29/22)
2022 Nov 25, It was reported that far-right politician Itamar Ben-Gvir will be Israel's national security minister under a coalition deal with PM-designate Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, in what is set to be the most right-wing government in the country's history.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Japan-based Toyota Motor Corp launched its second hybrid car in India, a seven-seat people-carrier, as part of a broader strategy to double-down on the sale of electrified vehicles in emerging markets.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Malawi's Anti-Corruption Bureau said it has arrested and charged the country's Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima over graft allegations, following months of investigation over his conduct.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Pakistan's central bank unexpectedly raised its key policy rate by 100 basis points to 16% to ensure high inflation does not get entrenched.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, In Panama the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, known by its initials as CITES, ended. The conference moved to enact some of the most significant protection for shark species targeted in the fin trade and scores of turtles, lizards and frogs whose numbers are being decimated by the pet trade.
(AP, 11/26/22)
2022 Nov 25, Peru President Pedro Castillo named Minister of Culture Betssy Chavez as the country's new prime minister.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Portugal's parliament passed the majority Socialist government's 2023 budget, which aims to further slash the deficit and debt even as economic growth is expected to slow down sharply.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Qatar, the 2022 World Cup host, was eliminated from the tournament after a 3-1 loss to Senegal.
(Yahoo/Sports, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, President Vladimir Putin met with more than a dozen mothers of Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine, telling those who had lost sons that he and the entire leadership shared their suffering. Ghana's government is planning a new policy where gold rather than US dollar reserves will be used to buy oil products.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Russian attacks on Kherson over the last 24 house killed at least 10 civilians and wounding dozens more,, triggering a hospital evacuation.
(NY Times, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, PM Patrice Trovoada said the island nation of Sao Tome and Principe thwarted a coup attempt overnight. Former soldier, Arlecio Costa, was detained in relation to the coup.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, In Somalia al-Shabaab militants attacked a military base in the central Galgaduud region. The early morning attack in the village of Qayib included suicide car bombs.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol warned the government might step in to break up a nationwide strike by truckers, describing it as an illegal and unacceptable move to take the national supply chain "hostage" during an economic crisis, as the trucker strike entered a second day.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, It was reported that South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co and SK On plan to invest about 2.5 trillion won ($1.88 billion) to build a new joint venture battery factory in the United States. The new factory was likely to be located in Georgia.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Millions of Ukrainians were still without heat or power after the most devastating Russian air strikes on its energy grid so far, with residents warned to brace for further attacks and stock up on water, food and warm clothing. The IAEA said Ukraine's four nuclear power plants have been reconnected to the national power grid after losing off-site power earlier this week.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, UN experts said the Taliban's treatment of Afghan women and girls, including their exclusion from parks and gyms as well as schools and universities, may amount to a crime against humanity.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
2022 Nov 25, Venezuelan government representatives arrived in Mexico City to sign a "social agreement" with their political opponents, after talks between the two sides have been on ice for more than a year.
(Reuters, 11/25/22)
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