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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- A British soldier is killed in a bomb attack in Afghanistan, marking the 385th British combat fatality in Afghanistan since 2001. (BBC)
- Business and economy
- Disasters
- 2011 Thailand floods:
- The death toll from the ongoing flooding in Thailand reaches 529. (AFP via Google)
- Floods are predicted to enter the centre of the Thai capital, Bangkok, early next week, according to the Thai Flood Relief Operations Command (FROC). The FROC furthermore states that floodwaters are now moving underground in sewers, and the last remaining road out of the city to southern Thailand is expected to flood. (The National) (Bangkok Post)
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- 2011 Syrian uprising:
- The Syrian government continues its crackdown on protesters and army defectors in the city of Homs, killing dozens of civilians in the process. (Al Jazeera)
- The United Nations reports that the death toll of the eight-month-old Syrian uprising has reached 3,500. (BBC)
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- Science
- NASA observes the asteroid YU55 as it makes a close Earth flyby, passing within 0.85 lunar distances (about 201,700 miles) of the Earth. YU55 is approximately 400 metres (1,300 ft) across, and is the largest asteroid to make a close pass since 1976. (BBC)(WSJ) (SLOOH)
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- Flooding continues in Italy with seven people having died in the past week and thousands of people ordered to evacuate in Turin as the Po River continues to rise. (BBC)
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Economic
Medical
Political
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Elections |
- 13: Equatorial Guinea, Constitutional referendum
- 13: South Ossetia, President and Referendum
- 18: Moldova, President (indirect)
- 20: Spain, General
- 21: Marshall Islands, Parliament
- 24: Gambia, President
- 25: Morocco, Parliament
- 26: New Zealand, General and Voting method referendum
- 28 November/5 December: Egypt, Parliament (1st round)
- 28: Democratic Republic of the Congo, General
- 28: Guyana, Parliament
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Recently concluded
- Cambodia: Kang Kek Iew
- France: John Galliano
- Germany: John Demjanjuk
- Italy: Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito
- Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir
- Netherlands: Geert Wilders
- Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko
- United Kingdom: Levi Bellfield, Robert Black, Vincent Tabak
- United States: Faisal Shahzad, Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Rod Blagojevich, Casey Anthony, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Conrad Murray
Ongoing
- Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
- Canada: Russell Williams
- China: Organized crime in Chongqing
- France: Church of Scientology, Jacques Chirac, Carlos the Jackal
- Germany: Heinrich Boere
- Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
- Iran: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani
- Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
- Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY)
- Palau: Tommy Remengesau
- Peru: Joran van der Sloot
- Philippines: Andal Ampatuan, Jr.
- Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev
- Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
- Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
- South Africa: Chris Mahlangu
- Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
- Turkey: Ergenekon network
- United States: Roger Clemens, Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Jared Lee Loughner, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout
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