Portal:Current events/2009 November 21
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- Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Pope Benedict XVI agree to "seek closer relations" in a meeting in Rome (BBC News)
- Prime Minister Gordon Brown travels to Cumbria to meet victims of the recent floods that have hit the area. (BBC News)
- U.S. President Barack Obama's job approval rating slips below 50 percent in a daily tracking survey by Gallup poll. (Reuters)
- Ireland's main opposition party Fine Gael reaches its highest ever level of support in the latest Red C opinion poll to be published in The Sunday Business Post. (RTÉ)
- 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)
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