Portal:Current events/2007 November 23

November 23, 2007 (Friday)

Polish parliament speaker Bronisław Komorowski said that Poland's new government is set to be the first to ratify the EU's Reform Treaty. (EUobserver)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- The Supreme Court of Pakistan orders the Election Commission to declare Pervez Musharraf the winner in the 2007 Pakistani presidential election. (BBC)
- The Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Inam-ul-Haq, says the country's suspension from the Commonwealth of Nations is "unjustified". (BBC)
The term of Lebanese President Émile Lahoud ends with no successor and a political dispute over who is in power. (BBC)
A court in Copenhagen, Denmark, convicts three men for plotting terrorist attacks using triacetone triperoxide. (BBC)
An Israeli psychiatrist and reserve officer is charged with giving classified information to Iran, Russia and Hamas. (BBC)
The Senate of Nigeria declares the handover of the Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon was "illegal". (BBC)
A bomb explosion kills at least 13 people and hurts 50 in the Ghazil pet market of Baghdad, Iraq. (BBC)
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control finds that the rate of new cases of AIDS in Europe has doubled since 1999. (BBC)
Louise Christian, the lawyer for Alexander Litvinenko's wife, reveals that the polonium-210 that killed him probably came from a Russian nuclear plant. (BBC)
Many employees of Paris Métro cross picket lines and return to work, defying the ongoing public-sector strikes. Transit officials report near-normal operation. (BBC)
Typhoon Mitag remains stationary but threatens the Bicol Region, east of the Philippines, and is expected to make landfall in Virac, Catanduanes tomorrow. (GMANews.TV)
The icebreaker/cruise ship MS Explorer sinks in the Southern Ocean after striking an iceberg. Everyone aboard is rescued.

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