Portal:Current events/2008 November 27
November 27, 2008
(
2008-11-27
)
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An
Airbus A320
owned by
Air New Zealand
with 7 people aboard crashes into the sea off the southern French coast during a training flight, exactly 29 years to the day (
NZDT
) after
Air New Zealand Flight 901
crashed in Antarctica.
(CNN)
A Polish
ABW
secret service report says the shooting incident in
Georgia
involving
Polish
President
Lech Kaczyński
and Georgian President
Mikheil Saakashvili
was most likely "a provocation" staged by the Georgians
(The Warsaw Voice)
2008 Santa Catarina floods
: The
Brazilian
federal government
authorizes nearly 2 billion
reais
(881 million U.S. dollars) in emergency relief funds.
(Reuters)
Russia
and
Brazil
call for the first
BRIC
(Brazil, Russia,
India
,
China
) summit of major emerging market countries in Russia to respond to the
financial crisis
in 2009.
(Reuters)
A
suicide
car bomb
explodes near the
United States
embassy
in
Kabul
,
Afghanistan
, with at least one person dead.
(AP via The New York Times)
An Australian soldier is killed and several injured in fighting in
Oruzgan Province
, Afghanistan.
(Sydney Morning Herald)
2008 Thai political crisis
:
The government declares a
state of emergency
over two airports.
(BBC News)
(BangkokPost.com)
The Criminal Court of Thailand throws out a defamation lawsuit brought by former Prime Minister
Thaksin Shinawatra
against the
People's Alliance for Democracy
.
(Bangkok Post)
Thai companies, agencies and some schools send their employees/students home for security reasons and after the coup rumours.
(Nation Multimedia)
People's Alliance for Democracy
protesters close down
Don Mueang International Airport
a day after closing down
Suvarnabhumi Airport
, leaving
Bangkok
without any airports.
(AFP via ABC)
The international transferring is moved to the closest
U-Tapao International Airport
, but it will take more than one and a half hours to reach Bangkok by car.
(Nation Multimedia)
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