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Global News Archive for November 2007:
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U.N. Examining Myanmar Crackdown
A United Nations envoy arrived in Myanmar on Sunday to begin the first independent investigation into the military government?s September crackdown on protests led by Buddhist monks and students...
New York Times - November 11, 2007
Musharraf Refuses to Give Date for Ending Rule by Decree
The Pakistani president suggested that de facto martial law would continue indefinitely, saying that it would ensure ?fair and transparent elections.?...
New York Times - November 11, 2007
Lancaster voted off Strictly show
Model Penny Lancaster Stewart is the sixth celebrity to leave BBC One show Strictly Come Dancing...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
MPs urge action on Galileo costs
The UK must stop the EU Galileo sat-nav system going ahead until funding concerns are resolved, say MPs...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Policeman stabbed making arrest
A police sergeant is stabbed and slashed as he tries to arrest a man in a Sussex town centre...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Tuerk leads in Slovenia elections
Former diplomat Danilo Tuerk is set to be Slovenia's new president, as preliminary poll results give him a huge lead...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Chavez in Spanish king coup jibe
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez steps up his row with Spain's king by asking how much he knew of a 2002 coup...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Football: Giantkillers' tough ties
Torquay United and Rushden and Diamonds face potentially tricky ties in the FA Cup second round...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Tennis: Henin retains Madrid title
Justine Henin completes her year with victory over Maria Sharapova in the Sony Ericsson Championships final...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Ronaldo brace puts Man Utd top
Man Utd move three points clear at the top of the Premier League as Cristiano Ronaldo scores twice in the win over Blackburn...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
5,000 'illegals' work in security
Thousands of illegal immigrants were cleared for jobs as security staff, says the Home Office...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
UFF given the order to stand down
The UDA orders the standing down of part of its organisation, the Ulster Freedom Fighters...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
UK pupils 'least globally aware'
A British Council survey suggests 11 to 16-year-olds in the UK have relatively low international awareness...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Meredith's body flown to the UK
The body of murdered British student Meredith Kercher is flown to Heathrow Airport from Rome...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Italy fans rampage after killing
Italian football fans react violently inside and outside stadiums to the police shooting of a Lazio supporter...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Bomb Wounds Several in Algerian Village
A car bomb badly damaged a police station in a village east of Algiers, wounding several people, residents said...
New York Times - November 11, 2007
Toll in China Coal Mine Gas Leak Rises to 35
The death toll from a gas leak at a coal mine in southwestern China has risen to 35, state media said...
New York Times - November 11, 2007
Ulster Paramilitary Group Renounces Violence
The major Northern Ireland Protestant paramilitary group, the Ulster Defense Association, said that the group would not surrender its weapons to international officials...
New York Times - November 11, 2007
Israeli Police Raid Government Offices
Israeli police raided government offices as part of three criminal investigations into Prime Minister Ehud Olmert?s conduct in a previous cabinet post...
New York Times - November 11, 2007
Musharraf Gives No Date for End to Rule
The Pakistani president suggested Sunday that the de facto martial law would continue indefinitely, including during parliamentary elections in January...
New York Times - November 11, 2007
McLaren pulls out of jungle show
Former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren pulls out of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Outing for giant military rocket
The Delta IV Heavy - the US military's biggest satellite launcher - has flown for only the second time...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Standard Life ends Resolution bid
Standard Life abandons its £4.6bn bid to buy rival insurer Resolution, leaving the way clear for rival suitor Pearl...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
'Coffee jar device' caused blast
A device in a coffee jar caused a security alert on Remembrance Day in County Down, police say...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Chocolate staff to vote on strike
Workers at Cadbury's vote in favour of holding a ballot on strike action over a planned factory closure...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Israeli police swoop in PM probe
Israeli police raid 20 locations in connection with a corruption probe into PM Ehud Olmert...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Freed Turkish troops face charges
Eight Turkish troops captured and then freed by Kurdish rebels face unspecified charges at home, reports say...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Talks fail to end Sudan stand-off
A committee set up to resolve a stand-off between north and south Sudan stops working after just days...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Football: Benayoun ruled out
Yossi Benayoun will miss Israel's Euro 2008 game against Russia, dealing England's qualifying hopes a major blow...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Cricket: India take one-day lead
Yuvraj Singh produces a fine all-round display to lead India to victory over Pakistan in the third ODI in Kanpur...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Sunday's football as it happened
Man Utd beat Blackburn to go top on a busy day of Premier League and FA Cup action...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Security staff employed illegally
Immigrants who are in the UK illegally have been cleared for jobs as security staff, the Home Office confirms...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Aitken to lead study on prisons
Former Cabinet member Jonathan Aitken, who was jailed for perjury, will lead a prison reform study...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Italian police kill football fan
An Italian football fan is shot dead by police during a fight between rival fans at a motorway stop in Tuscany...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Russian Tanker Spills Oil
A severe storm broke a Russian oil tanker in two between the Azov and Black Seas, stranding 13 crew members and spilling more than 1,000 tons of fuel oil...
New York Times - November 11, 2007
Sack bad teachers, says adviser
Sub-standard teachers should be sacked to make way for better colleagues, an education expert suggests...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Ministers lead Wales' remembrance
The first minister and his deputy join Wales' national service of remembrance as memorials are held nationwide...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Emirates orders 82 Airbus planes
Emirates orders 82 Airbus jets, in a deal worth more than $20bn (£9.6bn) for the European plane-maker...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
UFF being stood down at midnight
The UDA is to stand down part of its organisation, the Ulster Freedom Fighters, from midnight...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Two charged with farmhouse murder
Two men are charged with the murder of a 39-year-old woman at a Cornish farmhouse...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Fan dies in Italy football fight
An Italian football fan is killed during fighting between rival fans at a motorway stop in Tuscany, say police...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
UN envoy to probe Burma crackdown
A UN rights envoy is allowed into Burma for the first time in four years, vowing to probe a government crackdown...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Football: Benayoun may be out
Yossi Benayoun is "very doubtful" to play for Israel against Russia, dealing England's Euro 2008 qualifying hopes a major blow...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Live - Premier League & FA Cup
Birmingham and Aston Villa go head-to-head in Sunday's early game ahead of a busy afternoon of Premier League and FA Cup action...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Village crashes blamed on sat nav
There are claims drivers using satellite navigation systems have had a spate of accidents in a restored village...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
40% of UK adults pray - survey
Prayer makes people feel 'peaceful and content' with 40% engaged in the spiritual activity, a survey shows...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Russian oil tanker splits in half
About 1,300 tonnes of fuel oil are spilled as a Russian tanker is torn in half during a storm near the Black Sea...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Musharraf calls for January poll
Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf says new elections will be held as early as the first week of January...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Tory Aitken returns to politics
Former Conservative minister Jonathan Aitken, who was jailed for perjury, will lead a prison reform study...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Nation and troops honour war dead
The Queen leads a Remembrance Sunday ceremony commemorating Britain's war dead...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Thousands March in Malaysia to Demand Electoral Changes
The police in Kuala Lumpur used water cannons and fired tear gas on Saturday to disperse protesters in one of the biggest anti-government rallies in nearly a decade...
New York Times - November 11, 2007
The World: As It Rises, Russia Stirs Baltic Fears
Prosperity is on the rise, but many worry about the motives behind Russian investment in Eastern Europe...
New York Times - November 11, 2007
Ireland to Vote Next Year on European Union Treaty
Ireland is expected to hold a referendum in the first half of next year on a planned treaty to reform the European Union institutions...
New York Times - November 11, 2007
Trust Us: So, What About Those Nukes?
Pakistan says the technology is under control. But Washington wonders...
New York Times - November 11, 2007
Balkans? Idolatry Delights Movie Fans and Pigeons
In a phenomenon that is either delighting or alarming cultural critics, monuments to icons of Hollywood and popular culture are sprouting across the Balkans...
New York Times - November 11, 2007
Mogadishu Death Toll Rises After Reprisals
Around 60 people have been killed in Somalia?s capital after two days of reprisal attacks by Ethiopian soldiers...
New York Times - November 11, 2007
Ambush by Insurgents Kills 6 U.S. and 3 Afghan Soldiers
Six American soldiers and three Afghan soldiers were killed Friday when insurgents ambushed them in eastern Afghanistan, NATO officials said Saturday...
New York Times - November 11, 2007
China Confirms Poison Was on Toy Beads
Also, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said that seven more children had been sickened by the toys...
New York Times - November 11, 2007
Jordan, Fearing Islamists, Tightens Grip on Elections
Jordan?s government has dropped plans to change its electoral law, prohibited some critics from seeking office and threatened to bar independent observers...
New York Times - November 11, 2007
Turkish Newspapers Vie for Fluency in Two Societies
More than half a dozen Turkish dailies jostle for space on German newsstands, trying to attract the attention of the roughly 2.7 million ethnic Turks living in the country...
New York Times - November 11, 2007
Homeworkers 'paid below minimum'
Many of the UK's homeworkers are earning a salary below the national minimum wage, a report claims...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
London mayor backs police chief
London Mayor Ken Livingstone backs Met Commissioner Sir Ian Blair over media calls for him to resign...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Broadway stagehands on strike
Stagehands at theatres on New York's Broadway go on strike, shutting more than 20 plays and musicals...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Lebanon delays presidential vote
Lebanon's presidential election is postponed for a third time, the speaker of parliament, Nabih Berri, announces...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Detectives quizzed over expenses
Two detectives are being investigated over allegations staff credit cards were used to pay for personal expenses...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Security staff employed illegally
Immigrants who are in the UK illegally have been cleared for jobs as security staff, the Home Office confirms...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
Nation poised to honour war dead
The Queen is to lead a Remembrance Sunday ceremony commemorating Britain's war dead...
BBC News - November 11, 2007
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