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Current events of
November 29, 2011
(
2011-11-29
)
(Tuesday)
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Business and economy
American Airlines
, the world's
fourth-largest airline
, files for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy
.
(CNN)
(Reuters)
International relations
Six staff members at the
British
embassy in
Tehran
are taken hostage after the embassy is stormed by
Iranian
students.
(BBC)
(AP via
Times of India
)
The
UN Security Council
condemns the attack on the British embassy.
(CNN-IBN)
FARS News Agency
states that Iranian police have secured the release of the six hostages.
(USA Today)
A new
Russian
anti-missile early-warning facility equipped with Voronezh-DM radar opens in
Kaliningrad Oblast
.
(Voice of America)
(BBC)
Law and crime
Dr.
Conrad Murray
is sentenced to four years in jail for
involuntary manslaughter
in
Los Angeles
in connection to the
death of Michael Jackson
in 2009.
(CNN)
,
(AP via
Sydney Morning Herald
)
Anders Behring Breivik
is declared to have been
criminally insane
when he committed the
2011 Norway attacks
that killed 77 people.
(
The Telegraph
)
Seven people, including a toddler, are shot while recording a
music video
in
Oakland
,
California
.
(AP via Google News)
Politics and elections
The
Prime Minister of Thailand
,
Yingluck Shinawatra
, is hospitalised in
Bangkok
with suspected food poisoning.
(AP via
Times of India
)
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