Portal:Current events/2011 November 28

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

Armed conflict and attacks

• Saboteurs blow up Egypt's gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan with the explosion occurring west of al-Arish in Sinai. (Reuters)
• In Yemen at least 25 people have been killed in fighting between Sunni and Shia groups. (Al-Jazeera)

Business and economy

• Fitch Ratings maintains the credit rating of the United States government at AAA, but downgrades its outlook on it to negative. This follows rival 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, denied 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. (N.Y. Times)

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 Parliament. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
• Ante Markovic, 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 some reports of violence. (Wall Street Journal)