Portal:Current events/November 2014

November 2014 was the eleventh month of that common year. The month, which began on a Saturday, ended on a Sunday after 30 days.

This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from November 2014.

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  • Prosecutors in Lithuania charge an employee at the state air navigation company for spying for Belarus over civilian and military air operations. (Reuters)
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  • The Bank of England fires Martin Mallett, once its chief foreign exchange dealer, due to evidence that he was in some degree complicit in market manipulation. (Telegraph)

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  • Umbrella Revolution
    • Following a court injunction authorising the clearance of protest sites, pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong are warned they could face arrest if they do not leave the sites. (Reuters)

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  • A doctor is arrested, believed responsible for the deaths of 13 women in a state-run sterilization clinic in Chhattisgarh, India. (BBC)
  • A spokeswoman for the public prosecutor in Switzerland confirms existence of open criminal investigations regarding several people who may have taken part in manipulation of the currency exchange markets; such investigations are also underway in the United States and Britain. (Reuters)
  • A United States Secret Service report outlines numerous security failures that enabled Omar Gonzalez to enter the White House. (Washington Post)

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  • Comet landing
    • The Philae landing craft is now "stable" after bouncing hundreds of metres from its initial touchdown, and is sending pictures from the surface of the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. (BBC)

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  • Swedish submarine incidents:
    • Sweden releases a sonar image it says is proof that a foreign submarine entered its waters in October. The grainy image shows underwater tracks allegedly left by the vessel. (BBC)

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  • A fire at a food processing plant kills at least 18 workers in Shandong, China. (South China Morning Post)
  • US planes are warned to avoid an Alaskan volcano, Pavlof. (News.com.au)
  • At least four people are killed in mudslides in southern Switzerland and northern Italy after days of heavy rain. (BBC)

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  • Influenza A virus subtype H5N1
    • Authorities in the Netherlands ban the sale of poultry and eggs following the discovery of the bird flu virus at a chicken farm. Authorities in the United Kingdom have also confirmed that the virus has been discovered at a Yorkshire duck farm with the birds being culled. (AP)

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War in Afghanistan:
A suicide bombing attack in Kabul kills at least two people. (Reuters), (AP)
Israeli–Palestinian conflict:
Four rabbis (three American and one British) are killed, and eight other people wounded in a terrorist attack on a Jerusalem synagogue by two men armed with meat cleavers and guns. The two attackers were killed by police who arrived at the scene. One of the policemen died from his wounds. (BBC)
Benjamin Netanyahu vows for a heavy response and blames recent incitement by Palestinian leaders as Fatah officially condemns the attack while Hamas and Islamic Jihad praise it and call for more similar attacks. (The Guardian)

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UNESCO declares the Rizal Monument in Manila, Machu Picchu of Peru, Camino de Santiago of Spain, and the Dampier Archipelago of Australia as World Heritage Sites in Danger. (GMA News)

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South Korea launches a new National Safety Agency with more than 10,000 staff to replace the Korea Coast Guard, blamed by President Park Geun-hye for a poor response to the sinking of MV Sewol. (Reuters)
November 2014 North American cold wave
Lake-effect snow pummels areas around the Great Lake states, including New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio, stranding hundreds of vehicles and causing Erie County, New York, to declare a state of emergency. (The Weather Channel)

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Human Rights Watch claims that police in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's capital Kinshasa had killed at least 51 people in extrajudicial killings in a crackdown on kuluna gangs last November. (AP)

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Kenneth Mapp, an independent, is elected Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands in the gubernatorial runoff election over Democrat Donna Christensen. (Virgin Islands News Online)
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzō Abe calls a snap election for mid-December, two years ahead of schedule. (BBC)
Romanian presidential election:
Teodor Meleșcanu becomes the second Foreign minister of Romania in just eight days to resign because of organizational problems which have left thousands of Romanians abroad unable to vote in the elections. (Independent Balkan News Agency)
Hong Kong protests:
Hong Kong authorities start dismantling a protest site in Admiralty following a court order. (Voice of America)
Andrew Little is elected to lead the New Zealand Labour Party following the resignation of David Cunliffe in September. (Bloomberg News)
The United States Senate narrowly defeats legislation on the Keystone XL Pipeline, intended to allow oil from the oil sands of Canada to flow to the Gulf Coast of Texas. (New York Times)

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Jamaica win the 2014 Caribbean Cup defeating Trinidad and Tobago in the final following a penalty shootout.(CONCACAF)

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LittleBigPlanet 3 releases on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 in North America.
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  • A block of flats collapses in the Egyptian capital Cairo killing at least 10 people. (BBC)

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  • Frantic trading in energy company stocks, especially the suppliers of oil-services, shaves billions off the market capitalization of publically traded businesses within this sector. (Reuters)

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  • The death toll from a mass overdose in a Venezuelan prison after prisoners storm a prison infirmary during a prison uprising rises to 35. A hundred other prisoners are receiving treatment. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
  • Tuğçe Albayrak, an advocate for harassed women, succumbs to her injury from a November 15 attack. German police have already arrested a suspected man. (The Independent)

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  • Heavy flooding in the south of France claims five lives and forces more than 3000 people to leave their homes. (NDTV)

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