Portal:Current events/2011 November 28

Current events of November 28, 2011 (2011-11-28) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Saboteurs attack Egypt's gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan, destroying a section of the pipeline west of al-Arish in Sinai. (Reuters)
• At least 25 people are killed in fighting between Sunni and Shia groups in Yemen. (Al-Jazeera)

Business and economy

• Fitch Ratings maintains the credit rating of the United States government at AAA, but downgrades its outlook on the government to negative. This follows rival ratings agency Standard & Poor's downgrade of the U.S. credit rating in August. (Fox Business)
• Jed S. Rakoff, a judge at the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, denies approval to a settlement agreement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the investment bank Citigroup, which the SEC has charged with deceiving investors about the conditions under which a certain portfolio's investments had been chosen. (New York Times)

International relations

• The government of Sudan expels Kenya's ambassador, following the Kenyan High Court's ruling that it will arrest Omar al-Bashir, the President of Sudan, if he enters Kenya. (CNN)
• The 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference (also known as COP 17) begins in Durban, South Africa. (Joburg.org.za)

Politics and elections

• Voters in Egypt go to the polls for the first round of voting in parliamentary elections. (Reuters)
• The Prime Minister of Kuwait, Sheikh Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, and his cabinet resign after protesters storm the national Parliament. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
• Ante Marković, the last Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, dies in the Croatian capital Zagreb. (AP via Washington Post)
• Voters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo go to the polls for a general election, with outbreaks of election violence reported. (Wall Street Journal)