Portal:Current events/2009 November 21
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- Prime Minister Gordon Brown travels to Cumbria to meet victims of the recent floods (BBC News)
- For the first time in his presidency, U.S. President Barack Obama's job approval rating slips below 50 percent in the Gallup polls daily tracking survey. (Reuters)
- A research concludes that Homo floresiensis, discovered in 2003, is a distinct species and not a previously known species with dwarfism or microcephaly. (Telegraph.co.uk) (U.S. News)
- Sri Lanka's government announces Tamil refugees held in camps since the end of the conflict with the Tamil Tigers will be free to leave the camps next month. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (The Island)
- A gas blast at a coal mine in Heilongjiang province, northeastern China kills 42 people and traps 66. (BBC) (Xinhua) (AP)
- The Large Hadron Collider, the largest atom collider in the world, is restarted after a fourteen-month delay for repairs. (The Daily Telegraph) (BBC) (Reuters)
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