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Current events of
November 17, 2009
(
2009-11-17
)
(Tuesday)
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A prominent
human rights
campaigner for the
Western Sahara
region,
Aminatou Haidar
, who is on
hunger strike
at an airport in the
Canary Islands
, is to appear in a
Spanish
court on charges of public disorder.
(Reuters)
(AFP)
The head of the opposition in
Comoros
is arrested after openly criticising
President
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi
.
(IOL)
Slovakia
and the
Czech Republic
mark the 20th anniversary of the
Velvet Revolution
which overthrew the
communist
government of
Czechoslovakia
.
(CNN)
(BBC)
A
Russian
icebreaker with 100 tourists on board is stranded in ice in the
Antarctic
.
(AP)
(RIA Novosti)
Israel
approves a further 900 settler homes in a settlement in
East Jerusalem
.
(
Daily Telegraph
)
(Xinhua)
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Piracy in Somalia
:
A chemical tanker, the
Singapore
-operated
MV Theresa VIII
with 28
North Koreans
on board, is seized by
Somali pirates
northwest of the
Seychelles
.
(BBC)
(AP)
The
Spanish
ship
Alakrana
and its crew of 36 are released after a US$3.5 million ransom is paid.
(Al Jazeera)
(Channel News Asia)
An inquiry into a scandal known as "
Indonesia
's
Watergate
" says a police case against two anti-corruption officials should be dropped.
(
Jakarta Post
)
(BBC)
(UPI)
South African
human rights activist
Kumi Naidoo
becomes the executive director of
Greenpeace
, the first African to head the organisation.
(AP)
U.S. President
Barack Obama
continues his
first trip to China
and meets with Chinese President
Hu Jintao
and Premier
Wen Jiabao
.
(Reuters)
(Xinhua)
(
Asia Times Online
)
The death toll after a ferry collided with an oil barge in the
Irrawaddy Delta
, off the coast of
Burma
, rises to 50.
(Al Jazeera)
The Original of Laura
, an incomplete novel by Russian writer
Vladimir Nabokov
, is published 32 years after his death despite his wish that its manuscript be burned.
(BBC News)
(
The Independent
)
(
The Cornell Daily Sun
)
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