Portal:Current events/2007 November 20
November 20, 2007 (Tuesday)
- 2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- Thousands of people escape Pakistan's Swat district, where the Pakistan Army is fighting with pro-Taliban militants. (BBC)
- More than 100 journalists are arrested for protesting against the state of emergency and media restrictions. (BBC)
- The Government of Pakistan releases 3,400 people who were jailed during the state of emergency. (BBC)
- Pakistan Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retired) Qazi Mohammad Farooq announces the next general elections will be held on January 8, 2008.[citation needed]
- November 2007 strikes in France:
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
- The Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert and the President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas are formally invited to the 2007 Mideast peace conference. (BBC)
- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert holds talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Sharm el-Sheikh. (BBC)
- The Cambodia Tribunal holds its first public hearing, evaluating a bail request by Khang Khek Ieu. (BBC)
- The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe reverses its decision not to monitor the 2007 Russian legislative election. (BBC)
- Manfo Kwaku Asiedu is sentenced to 33 years in jail for his role in the 21 July 2005 London bombings. (BBC)
- Warren Jeffs, the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, is sentenced to five years to life in jail for complicity in rape. (BBC)
- Jordanian voters go to the polls in the 2007 parliamentary election. (BBC)
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations members sign their first charter at the 13th ASEAN Summit in Singapore. (BBC)
- Bangladesh calls for more international aid for the survivors of cyclone Sidr. (BBC)
- The death toll from the 2007 Zasyadko mine disaster rises to at least 90. (BBC)
- Manouchehr Mottaki, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, announces Iran has agreed to a new round of talks about Iraq with the United States. (BBC)
- The United Nations reduces its estimate of how many people are infected with HIV in 2007 from nearly 40 million to 33 million. (BBC)
- The UK's HM Revenue and Customs admits that it has lost two computer discs which contained data, including bank details and National Insurance numbers, about every family with a child under 16 in the country. (BBC)