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Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs misplaces the records of child benefit claimants in the United Kingdom, leaving up to 7.25 million households susceptible to identity theft.

A methane explosion kills 90 miners and leaves 10 missing in a mine disaster in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases its fourth report on climate change, indicating that Earth and humanity are now in danger due to global warming.

Russia's deputy finance minister Sergei Storchak, one of Russia's top officials on international financial relations and head of the stabilization fund, is detained as part of a criminal investigation.

Opposition leader Hashim Thaci's Democratic Party of Kosovo declares victory in the parliamentary election, promising to declare Kosovo's independence if mediation efforts fail.

More than 3,000 are killed as Cyclone Sidr (pictured) makes landfall in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh with wind speeds up to 250 km/h (155 mph).

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Current events of November 21, 2007 (2007-11-21) (Wednesday)

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2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- Opposition politician and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Imran Khan is released from prison in Punjab. (BBC) (AndhraNews.net)
- Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry tries to leave his house in Islamabad but is blocked by security forces. (BBC)
- Major General Waheed Arshad announces the Pakistan Army has killed 40 pro-Taliban militants in the Shangla District in the last two days. (BBC)
- Pakistani security forces kill senior Balochistan Liberation Army leader Balach Marri. (AndhraNews.net) (BBC)
November 2007 strikes in France:
- Transport unions start talks with management and the government over pension reforms in the eighth consecutive day of strike. (BBC)
- Public railway company SNCF says its TGV train network has been disrupted by a "concerted campaign of sabotage". (BBC)
- President Nicolas Sarkozy asks the police to make sure those who sabotaged the TGV network are "punished with the most extreme severity". (BBC)
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the White House wants to broker a permanent deal between Israel and the Palestinian Authority before President George W. Bush leaves office. (BBC)
Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs Luis Amado says Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is not welcome at the December European Union-African Union summit in Lisbon. United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he will not attend if Mugabe is present. (BBC)
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan claims that United States President George W. Bush was involved in the Plame affair. (BBC)
Former President of France Jacques Chirac is probed by a judge for alleged embezzlement of public funds when he was Mayor of Paris. (BBC)
Researchers in Kyoto, San Francisco, and Wisconsin publish evidence of turning human skin cells into stem cells by the retroviral insertion of genes. (NY Times)
The death toll from flooding caused by cyclone Guba in the Oro Province of Papua New Guinea rises to 150. (BBC)
The Islamic Action Front loses most of its seats in the 2007 Jordanian parliamentary election. (BBC)
The Bangladesh Army says it has reached almost all areas affected by cyclone Sidr. (BBC)
The Nigerian Army is deployed in Kano State after six people died in clashes during local elections. (BBC)
The United Nations General Assembly approves Resolution 62/9, stating that the "emergency phase" in Chernobyl is over, and the "recovery phase" should start. (BBC)
About 1,000 people a day are returning to Iraq from Syria and Jordan. (BBC)
A South African Police Oryx helicopter crashes near Wepener, killing 14 officers. (BBC)
The Indian Army is deployed in Kolkata after a riot against Bangladeshi feminist writer Taslima Nasreen erupts into violence. (BBC)

Current events of November 20, 2007 (2007-11-20) (Tuesday)

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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. (AndhraNews.net)
November 2007 strikes in France:
- French President Nicolas Sarkozy vows to continue his economic reforms. (BBC)
- Students and civil servants join transport workers in the strike. (BBC)
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)

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Recent deaths
November 20: Ian Smith 19: Dick Wilson 15: Joe Nuxhall 12: Ira Levin 12: Louis Galen 11: Delbert Mann 11: Dick Nolan 10: Laraine Day 10: Norman Mailer 8: Chad Varah 6: Hank Thompson 6: George Osmond 6: Enzo Biagi 5: Nils Liedholm 3: Ryan Shay 2: Charmaine Dragun 2: Witold Kiełtyka 2: The Fabulous Moolah 2: Igor Moiseyev 1: Paul Tibbets

Ongoing armed conflicts
Acholiland insurgency Arab-Israeli conflict Colombian armed conflict Iraq War Communist and Islamic Insurgency in the Philippines Waziristan War Hamas-Fatah clashes War in Somalia Turkey-PKK conflict Second Chechen War 2007 Ogaden conflict South Thailand insurgency Sri Lankan Civil War War in Afghanistan Darfur conflict

Elections
Recent October 21: Turkey, constitutional referendum October 21: Poland, Parliament October 21: Kyrgyzstan, constitutional referendum October 20–24: Tokelau, referendum on self-determination October 27: Oman, Assembly October 28: Argentina, President and Parliament November 3: Northern Mariana Islands, Legislature November 4: Guatemala, President (2^nd round) November 5: Trinidad and Tobago, Parliament November 7: Saskatchewan, Canada, legislative elections November 11: Slovenia, President (2nd round) November 13: Denmark, Folketing November 17: Kosovo, Parliament November 19: Marshall Islands, Legislature November 20: Jordan, Parliament Upcoming November 21: Lebanon, President November 24: Australia, Parliament November 25: Croatia, Parliament November 25: European Union, Parliament (Romania) November 25: Romania, voting system referendum

Trials
Upcoming U.S.: Steven L. Jordan U.S.: James Charles Kopp U.S.: Ehren Watada U.S.: Tom DeLay U.S.: William J. Jefferson Ongoing Australia: Robert Farquharson Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Canada: Robert Pickton China: Zhou Zhengyi China: Chen Liangyu Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal Netherlands: Hofstad Network Netherlands: ICC Thomas Lubanga Netherlands: ICTY Peru: Alberto Fujimori (extradition) Sierra Leone: SCfSL Charles Taylor U.S.: Jena Six U.S.: Brian Nichols U.S.: José Padilla U.S.: Phil Spector

Upcoming holidays and observances
November 20: Mexican Revolution (Mexico) 20: Independence Day (Yemen) 22: Thanksgiving (United States) 22: Independence Day (Lebanon) 25: Independence Day (Suriname) 26: Independence Day (Mongolia) 28: Independence Day (Panama) 28: Independence Day (Albania) 30: Independence Day (Barbados) edit sidebar