Events in November 2008
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Nov. 2
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Rupiah Banda is sworn in Zambian President. |
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Russia, Libya sign a civilian nuclear deal. |
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Nov. 4
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Democrat Senator from Illinois Barack Obama an African-American wins the U.S. presidential polls defeating Republican John McCain. |
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Iranian Parliament impeaches Interior Minister Ali Kordan for being in possession of a fake Oxford University honorary degree. |
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Nov. 6
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Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk is crowned Bhutan’s Fifth Druk Gyalpo, or Dragon King by his father Jigme Singye Wangchuk at a coronation ceremony in Thimphu. |
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Nov. 7
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Fifty school children and teachers are killed after a school in Petionville on the outskirts of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince caves in.Oman and India agree to set up a joint investment fund whose seed money could go up to $1.5 billion. Two MoUs inked to ensure welfare of Indian workforce and priority for Indians in recruitment. |
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The U.K. revokes the visa of Thailand’s ousted Prime Minister, Thakshin Shinatwara, making him unable to return to London where he has been living in exile. |
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Nov. 8
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New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark loses power to John Key a multi-millionaire former banker in general elections. |
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Twenty people are killed of gas poisoning in an accident aboard a new Russian nuclear submarine, to be leased to India, during underwater sea trial in the Sea of Japan. |
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Nov. 9
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All the three perpetrators of the October 2002 bombings in Bali, Indonesia that left 202 killed, on death row are executed by a firing squad at a prison complex in central Java. |
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China unveils a $570-billion stimulus package to offset adverse global economic conditions by boosting domestic demand. |
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Nov. 10
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India signs a “landmark” defence agreement with Qatar, besides pact on security and law enforcement. |
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At least 31 persons are killed and 71 wounded in twin bomb blasts in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. |
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Nov. 11
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Mohammed Nasheed is sworn in Maldives President and Mohammed Waheed Hassan takes oath as Vice-President. |
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Nov. 13
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Global stock markets fall after Germany announces recession. |
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The U.N. to send 3,000 more troops to Congo to bolster the world’s largest peacekeeping mission. |
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Ilustrado, a novel by Filipino author Miguel Syjuco wins the $10,000 Man Asian Literary Prize. |
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Nov. 14
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Ann E. Dunwoody becomes the first woman four-star general in the U.S. military. |
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Nov. 15
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The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh moots a coordinated global fiscal stimulus to mitigate the severity of recession addressing the G-20 Summit in Washington. Declaration focuses on reforming international financial institutions. |
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The Sri Lankan military captures Pooneryn, the last strategic sea base of the LTTE. Army opens up a land route to Jaffna after 20 years. |
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Nov. 16
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Somali pirates hijack Sirius Star, a Saudi Arabian oil supertanker 830 km off the Kenyan coast. |
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Nov. 17
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Iraq and the U.S. sign troop pullout pact requiring Washington to withdraw its soldiers by 2011. |
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Japan slides into recession in seven years. |
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Nov. 20
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Deepening global recessionary trend pushes the world stocks to 5-1/2 year lows. |
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Nov. 22
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I am for no-first-use of nuclear weapons, says the Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and assures Islamabad will not interfere in Jammu and Kashmir. |
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Nov. 23
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The U.S. government to plough a fresh $20 billion to rescue banking giant Citigroup. To shoulder most of the potential losses on $306 billion of high risk assets. |
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Nov. 24
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Hundreds of LTTE cadres are killed as the Sri Lankan military tries to gain control over Kilinochchi.People’s Alliance for Democracy, an umbrella alliance of anti-government groups in Thailand lays siege to Parliament. Take control of state-of-the-art Suvarnabhumi airport. |
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Nov. 25
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Maninderpal Singh Kohli is sentenced to lifer by a London court in the 2003 murder of 17-year-old British schoolgirl Hannah Foster. |
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The British government rolls out its controversial biometric identity cards scheme for non-European foreign nationals. |
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Nov. 27
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Iraq’s Parliament gives nod for a landmark military pact that will see all U.S. troops pull out by 2011-end. |
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