Events in November 2005
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Nov. 2
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The British Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, David Blunkett quits Cabinet over charges of breaking the code of conduct. |
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Iran allows IAEA experts to revisit a high-security military site in Parchin to check for nuclear-related works. |
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The quake toll in Pakistan is put at 73,000 dead and 69,000 injured. |
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Zanzibar’s incumbent President, Amani Abeid Karume takes oath of office after being re-elected for a second term. |
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Noshir Gowadia an Indian-American Engineer who helped develop the B-2 stealth bomber technology is held by the FBI in Maui, Hawaii on charges of selling top secret information to eight foreign countries. |
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Nov. 3
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Lewis “Scooter” Libby pleads not guilty in the CIA name leak scandal. He is the first White House official to be indicted while in office since Orville Babcock, President Ulysses Grant’s secretary, charged 130 years ago for a whisky tax scam. |
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The Spanish Parliament gives its nod for statute on greater autonomy for the northern region of Catalonia. |
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Nov. 4
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At least 70 persons are killed after a motorboat capsizes in the Arabian Sea off Southern Pakistan. |
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Jobless youth rampage through Paris and its suburbs for the ninth successive day burning 900 cars, besides buses. Lobbing of a police grenade into a mosque adds to the tension. |
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Polish archaeologists announce unearthing of the mortal remains of Nicolaus Copernicus beneath the floor of Frombork Cathedral. The actual discovery was done this August. |
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Nov. 5
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The Fourth Summit of the Americas gets off to a stormy start amid protests in Mar Del Plaba, Argentina. The Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, comes down on the U.S., free trade pact. |
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The U.S. and Iraqi forces launch operation Steel Curtain a major offensive in the Al-Qaeda stronghold of Al-Anbar near the Syrian border. This follows Iron Fist and River Gate also along the Euphrates valley. |
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Nov. 6
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China reports bird flu in humans. |
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Azerbaijanis cast votes in Presidential polls. |
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The Myanmar Government begins move to shift capital from Yangon to Pyinmana in Mandalay division in the central part of the country. |
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Iran and Iraq resume air services stalled for 25 years. |
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Anthony Sawoniuk (84), the only person convicted in a British court of Nazi war crimes dies in custody six years after his conviction for the murder of 18 Jews in 1942 during German occupation of Belarus. |
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Over 6,000 fowls are killed in a village near Huainan city of Chiana’s Anhui province in a highly pathogenic bird outbreak. |
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Nov. 7
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Violence sweeps 300 French towns as vandals burn more than 1,400 vehicles. Copycat attacks are reported from Brussels and Berlin. |
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A ferry with 200 persons aboard sinks in the Bay of Bengal while sailing to Chittagong port in Bangladesh. |
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The former Peruvian President, Alberto Fujimori, is arrested in Chile after flying from Japan defying an international arrest warrant. |
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The U.S. Supreme Court decides to consider the legality of special military commissions to try accused terrorists for war crimes. |
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Diamond major De Beers decides to hand over part of its South African mining arm to black investors. |
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Nov. 8
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Australian police crack major terrorist plot following raids in Sydney and Melbourne and arrest Algerian-born cleric Abu Bakr. |
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The U.N. extends up to December 31, 2006 the mandate of the U.S.-led multi-national force in Iraq. |
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Violence continues for the twelfth night across France’s underprivileged urban immigrant ghettos and 1,173 vehicles are burnt. |
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The U.S. signs a deal with China limiting imports of Chinese textiles. |
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Nov. 9
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The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, suffers defeat on an anti-terrorist legislation, the first such since taking power in 1997. |
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The fifth round of the six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear programme begins in Beijing. |
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Top terror suspect Azahari Husin wanted in the October 2002 Bali blasts blows himself up after being cornered by Indonesian police at his East Java hideout. |
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A Boeing flight dubbed the Worldliner sets out from Hong Kong on a non-stop trip to London. |
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Fifty two persons are killed as suicide bombers target three U.S.-owned hotels in the Jordanian capital Amman. |
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Nov. 10
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Thirtyseven persons are killed as suicide bombers strike in a Baghdad hotel and Saddam’s home town of Tikrit. |
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The Boeing Worldliner arrives in London breaking the record for the longest non-stop flight by a commercial jet after a journey of more than 18,662 km. |
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Beijing unveils a set of five doll mascots for the 2008 Olympic Games. |
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Nov. 11
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Germany enters a new era as the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Social Democrats reach a historic deal to form a Left-Right “grand coalition.” |
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Ezzat Ibrahim al-Dowri, the second man during Saddam’s regime in Iraq dies. |
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Nov. 12
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SAARC nations need to regenerate arteries of transport and link up with rest of Asia to profit from the resurgence in the region, says the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, at the inaugural of the 13th summit of the grouping in Dhaka. The Sri Lankan President, Chandrika Kumaratunga moots a South Asian Economic Union. |
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Several Taliban leaders and ex-communists have won seats in Afghan Parliament official results of the September 18 polls reveal. |
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Nov. 13
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The SAARC invites Afghanistan to join as its eighth member. China and Japan have also evinced interest to become observers and guidelines will be finalised soon, says the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh at the closing ceremony of the summit. |
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The Dhaka Declaration decides to set up a SAARC Poverty Alleviation Fund and to declare 2006-2015 the SAARC Decade of Poverty Alleviation. |
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Jordanian security forces arrest Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi allegedly the fourth member of a suicide squad that targeted three U.S.-owned hotels in Amman. |
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A Briton Andrew Simpson ‘becomes’ the first man in the world to get rid of the HIV virus after being diagnosed with the disease in August 2002. |
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Nov. 14
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“Sri Lanka Ratna”, the island-nation’s highest honour for non-nationals is conferred on N.Ram, Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu, Lord Naseby from the U.K. and novelist and poet Michael Ondaatje. Arthur C. Clarke science fiction writer gets Sri Lanka Bhimanya and Lakshman Kadirgamar is a posthumous recipient of the award. |
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The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, promotes Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov to Deputy Prime Minister. Dmitry Medvedev is made First Deputy Prime Minister. |
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Militants kill two Bangladesh judges in a bomb attack in the district headquarters town of Jhalakati. |
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Amjad al-Hinawi, a top Hamas leader is killed in a shootout by Israeli troops. |
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Russia and Uzbekistan sign a military pact. |
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Nov. 15
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Israel and Palestine reach agreement on opening the Gaza-Egypt border crossings. |
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Nov. 16
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The world needs the Internet to unleash the true potential of its people, but the lifeblood of the digital revolution is freedom, says the U.N. Secretary General, Kofi Annan, inaugurating the World Summit on the Information Society at Kram, near the Junisian capital of Tunis. |
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Nov. 17
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Voters cast ballots in the Sri Lankan presidential polls. |
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Nov. 18
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Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Mahinda Rajapakse, is declared elected President defeating Ranil Wickremesinghe of the United National Party. |
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Seventy eight Shia worshippers are killed and 90 injured after suicide bombers attack the Greater and the Smaller Khanaqin mosques in north-eastern Iraq. Thirtytwo militants are killed in gunbattles in western Iraq. |
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The leaders of Germany’s Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats sign a pact forming the first left-right coalition government since the 1960s. |
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Nov. 19
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The October 8 earthquake has presented a ‘lifetime opportunity’ for India and Pakistan to better ties, says the Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf at the world meet of donors in Islamabad. Fifty nations pledge $5.4 billion. |
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Mahinda Rajapakse is sworn in Sri Lankan President. “War is not my method,” he says and promises to usher in a “new Sri Lanka.” |
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Thirty six Iraqi mourners are killed as a suicide bomber drives his car into a tent set up in a public square in Abu Saydah town. |
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The Taliban kidnaps a Border Roads Organisation worker and Keralite Ramankutty Maniappan in Afghanistan’s Nimroz province and threatens to kill him. |
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Jacques Diouf of Senegal is re-elected to a third six-year term as Director General of the United Nations Food for Agriculture Organisation. |
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Nov. 20
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“China will continue to build up democracy with its own characteristics,” says President, Hu Jintao after talks with his U.S. counterpart George W. Bush. |
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The Iranian Parliament backs move to begin uranium enrichment and end U.N. surprise inspections. |
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The Japanese Hayabusa probe lands on asteroid Itokawa. |
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Nov. 21
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The Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, quits the Likud Party and forms the National Responsibility Party. March 28 is set as date for fresh polls. |
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Ratnasiri Wickremanayake is sworn in Sri Lanka Prime Minister. |
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Kenyans cost ballots in a referendum on a draft constitution. |
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A Dutchman Frans van Anraat goes on trial on charges of complicity in genocide in Iran and Iraq in the 1980s. |
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Nov. 22
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Angela Merkel is elected Germany’s first woman Chancellor, heading the second grand coalition in the nation’s post-war history. |
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The Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki concedes defeat in a landmark referendum. |
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Afghan militants kill the BRO driver Ramankutty Maniappan of Chingoli village in Kerala’s Alappuzha district near Delaram in Nimroz province. |
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Nov. 23
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Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf wins the Liberian presidential runoff besting footballer George Weah becoming the first woman head of state of Africa’s oldest republic. |
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A 25-member Sri Lankan Cabinet is sworn into office. Mangala Samaraweera is the new Foreign Minister and Anura Bandaranaike takes oath as the Tourism Minister. |
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The former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is indicted and placed under house arrest on tax evasion and corruption charges. |
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Eighteen miners are killed in a flooded coalmine in China’s Hebei province. |
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Nov. 24
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Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, registers his party as Kadima the Hebrew word for faith. |
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Thirty persons are killed in a car bomb blast outside a hospital in Iraq. |
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Nov. 25
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Palestinians formally open a border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, for the first time since Israel occupied the coastal territory in 1967. |
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Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II calls for “determined and collective action” to tackle the “scourge of terrorism” at the inaugural of the Commonwealth summit in Valletta, Malta. |
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Poland publishes a Warsaw Pact map detailing plans for Soviet nuclear strikes against western Europe in case of a NATO attack. |
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Nov. 26
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Japanese Hyabusa probe lands on the faraway asteroid and collects samples in an unprecedented mission. |
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A German orchaeologist and four peace activists are kidnapped by Iraqi militants. |
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Two women Lama al-Sulaiman and Nashwa Taher bag seats in the Jeddah chamber of commerce, the first to win any elected position in Saudi Arabia. |
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Nov. 27
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The Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union — Patriotic Front sweeps the Senate polls. |
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Chechnya votes to elect its first Parliament since Russia crushed a separatist regime in the region six years ago. |
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At least 134 persons are killed after coal dust catches fire triggering a blast in a mine in Heilongjiang province, northeast China. |
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Nov. 28
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The trial of the former Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants resumes in Baghdad and the court hears first witness testimony. |
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The 12-day gathering of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change attended by 189 nations is launched in the Canadian capital Montreal. |
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The Canadian Prime Minister, Paul Martin’s Liberal minority government is ousted by a no-confidence vote in Parliament. |
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The world’s first facial transplant is done on a French woman in Amiens. |
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Nov. 30
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The Kyoto protocol on limiting pollution becomes fully operational. |
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In a major breakthrough China develops its first AIDS drug. |
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