Portal:Current events/2007 November 14

November 14, 2007 (Wednesday)

Strikes in France:
- French transport and energy workers' strike against President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reform broadens, disrupting especially rail services. (BBC)
- President Nicolas Sarkozy calls for negotiations and a speedy end to the strikes, but the unions refuse. (BBC)
The 2007 National Book Awards go to Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke), fiction, Tim Weiner (Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA), non-fiction, Sherman Alexie (The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian), young people's literature, and Robert Hass (Time and Materials), poetry. (Reuters)
German train drivers start a 62-hour train strike against Deutsche Bahn, asking for a 31% pay increase. (BBC)
The European Parliament far right bloc, Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty, collapses after five Romanian MEPs resign following Alessandra Mussolini's claim that Romanians are "habitual law-breakers". (BBC)
A 7.7-magnitude earthquake hits northern Chile, near the town of Calama. Two deaths and over a hundred injuries are reported. (BBC)
President of Ghana John Kufuor is involved in a car accident in Accra, but is not hurt. (BBC)
Hossein Mousavian, a former Iranian nuclear negotiator, is charged with espionage by Iran's intelligence ministry. He allegedly gave classified information to the British embassy. (BBC)
Iraqi insurgency: A roadside bomb kills two civilians near Baghdad's Green Zone. (BBC)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan is arrested at the University of the Punjab in Lahore. (BBC)
- Pakistani forces kill at least 16 Taliban militants in heavy fighting in the Swat valley. (BBC)
Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's liberal-conservative government has secured a third term in office following early parliamentary elections to the Folketing. (The Times)
High Speed 1 (formerly known as the Channel Tunnel Rail Link) opens for commercial use in Britain, linking London St. Pancras, which also opened for commercial use, to the Channel Tunnel. (BBC)

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