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This article covers breaking news and events in November 2012.
Daily events
Thursday November 1st 2012
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- Berlin / Germany : The Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg Winfried Kretschmann ( Greens ) takes office as President of the Federal Council . He is the first President of the Federal Council from the ranks of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party.
- Riyadh / Saudi Arabia : 22 people are killed in the explosion of a tanker truck.
Friday 2nd November 2012
- Abusir / Egypt : In the necropolis near Abusir, Czech archaeologists discover the remains of a princess grave from the Old Kingdom .
Sunday 4th November 2012
- Alexandria / Egypt : The auxiliary bishop of Beheira , Tawadros II , is elected 118th Pope of the Coptic Church .
Monday 5th November 2012
- Hyderabad / India : Cyclone Nilam kills 22 people in the province of Andhra Pradesh .
- Vienna / Austria : At the 13th awarding of the Nestroy Theater Prize , Dörte Lyssewski was honored as best actress and Joachim Meyerhoff as best actor.
Tuesday November 6, 2012
- Ceuta / Spain : 19 people drown in the accident of a refugee boat.
- Moscow / Russia : President Vladimir Putin dismisses Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov on allegations of corruption and replaces him with Governor of Moscow Oblast Sergei Kushugetowitsch Shoigu .
- San Juan / Puerto Rico : In a referendum , a majority of the population votes in favor of the country becoming the 51st state in the United States
- Taji / Iraq : 27 soldiers of the Iraqi military die in a car bomb attack.
- Washington, DC / United States : Democratic incumbent Barack Obama wins the presidential election against Republican challenger Mitt Romney . In the congressional elections taking place at the same time , the Republicans defend a majority of the seats in the House of Representatives over the Democrats . In the Senate election , the majority of the seats remain with the Democrats.
Thursday November 8, 2012
- Beijing / China : On the 18th Congress of the Communist Party is Xi Jinping to the Secretary-General appointed.
- Rome / Italy : The French Mireille Ballestrazzi is elected President of Interpol .
Friday 9th November 2012
- Batanguru / Indonesia : Floods and landslides caused by rain for days on the island of Sulawesi kill ten people.
- Diyarbakır / Turkey : The Turkish military kills 42 people in attacks on Kurdish extremist positions in Hakkari province .
- Kanbalu / Myanmar : 25 people are killed in a train accident and 62 others are injured.
- Santa Rosa de Osos / Colombia : ten indigenous people are murdered in a massacre by drug smugglers and protection racketeers.
- Washington, DC / United States : David Petraeus , head of the CIA secret service , resigns after an extramarital love affair becomes known .
Saturday 10th November 2012
- Cap-Haïtien / Haiti : 16 people drowned after heavy rainfall and subsequent floods.
- Colombo / Sri Lanka : 27 prisoners are killed in a mutiny in a prison.
- Pervari / Turkey : 17 soldiers are killed when a military helicopter crashes on Herekol Dağı Mountain in Siirt Province .
Sunday 11th November 2012
- Basel / Switzerland : The essays The calf before Gotthardpost of Peter von Matt won the Swiss Book Prize .
- Kabul / Afghanistan : 19 people are killed in bomb explosions in the provinces of Chost , Helmand and Kandahar .
- Kiel / Germany : Susanne Gaschke , editor of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , is elected mayor .
- Ljubljana / Slovenia : presidential elections
- Samburu County / Kenya : 29 people are killed in a police action against cattle thieves.
Monday November 12, 2012
- London / United Kingdom : In the wake of the abuse scandal involving the BBC presenter Jimmy Savile , program director George Entwistle , news director Helen Boaden and her deputy Stephen Mitchell announce their resignation.
- Moira / United Kingdom : The Northern Irish terrorist organization New Irish Republican Army (IRA) confesses to the murder of a security guard in a prison on November 1st. It's the first murder since the IRA was founded.
Tuesday November 13, 2012
- Auckland / New Zealand : There is a total solar eclipse over the South Pacific .
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The publishing house of the Frankfurter Rundschau files an application to open insolvency proceedings .
- Geneva / Switzerland : The 76.02 carat heavy Archduke Joseph is the auction house Christie's auctioned (about 16.8 million euros) for the record price of 21.47 million US dollars.
- São Paulo / Brazil : 31 people are killed in fighting between drug cartels and police.
Wednesday November 14, 2012
- Jerusalem / Israel : Operation Pillar of Cloud begins with attacks by the Israeli air force against facilities and members of Hamas in the Gaza Strip .
Friday November 16, 2012
- The Hague / Netherlands : Former Croatian General Ante Gotovina is acquitted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on appeal for Operation Oluja .
Saturday 17th November 2012
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- Freetown / Sierra Leone : Ernest Koroma is re-elected as president of the country.
- Hanover / Germany : At the federal party conference of the Greens , Claudia Roth is re-elected as party leader with 88.5% of the vote.
- Manfalut / Egypt : 50 people are killed when a train collides with a school bus .
Sunday November 18, 2012
- Dhaka / Bangladesh : Eleven people are killed in a fire in a slum.
Monday 19th November 2012
- Birsuat / Kazakhstan : After four months on the International Space Station, the spacemen Sunita Lyn Williams , Akihiko Hoshide and Yuri Malentschenko land in a Soyuz TMA-05M capsule in the province of Qostanai .
- Patna / India : 18 people are killed in a mass panic during the religious Diwali festival.
- Yangon / Myanmar : Barack Obama is the first incumbent US President to visit the country and hold talks with Head of State Thein Sein and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi .
Tuesday 20th November 2012
- Erfurt / Germany : The Federal Labor Court relaxes the right to strike in the labor law of the churches , which means that employees in church institutions may in future also strike under certain conditions.
- Goma / Democratic Republic of the Congo : Rebels from the March 23rd Movement conquer the city that has been cleared by the FARDC armed forces . The UN troops of the MONUSCO mission stationed in Goma are neutral.
Wednesday November 21, 2012
- Rawalpindi / Pakistan : 23 people are killed in a bomb attack on a Shiite place of worship.
- Sanaa / Yemen : Ten people died when a military plane crashed into a residential area.
- Vienna / Austria : Mongolia becomes the 57th participating state of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe .
Thursday November 22, 2012
- Aleppo / Syria : 13 people die in an air raid on a hospital.
- Gaza / Palestinian Territories : Israel and the radical Islamic Hamas agree on a ceasefire in the course of Operation Cloud Pillar.
Friday 23rd November 2012
- Duisburg / Germany : A memorial for the victims of the mass panic during the Love Parade 2010 will be inaugurated on the station forecourt .
- Hamburg / Germany : The publishing group Gruner + Jahr announces the discontinuation of the business newspaper Financial Times Deutschland on December 7, 2012.
Saturday 24th November 2012
- Ashulia / Bangladesh : 115 people are killed in a fire in a textile factory and more than 200 others are injured.
- Barcelona / Spain : The hall of fame of the international athletics federation is inaugurated.
- London / United Kingdom : Heavy rainfall in England and Wales kills several people.
Sunday 25th November 2012
- Barcelona / Spain : In the parliamentary elections in Catalonia , the party alliance Convergència i Unió of Generalitat President Artur Mas becomes the strongest force with 30.68% of the vote.
- Jaji / Nigeria : At least eleven people are killed in a Boko Haram car bomb attack on a church.
- São Paulo / Brazil : A sixth place in the last race of the Formula 1 season secures the German Sebastian Vettel the third title as driver world champion in a row. Winner of the race is McLaren -Pilot Jenson Button , followed by the Ferrari -Fahrer Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa .
Monday November 26, 2012
- Berlin / Germany : Ulrich Grillo is elected President of the Federation of German Industries .
- Doha / Qatar : The 18th UN Climate Change Conference begins.
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : Jürgen Fitschen is appointed President of the Association of German Banks .
- Titisee-Neustadt / Germany : At least 14 people are killed in a fire in a workshop for the disabled.
- Vienna / Austria : The trial against the former European politician Ernst Strasser , who is suspected of corruption , begins at the regional court .
Tuesday November 27, 2012
- Ramallah / Palestinian Territories : The body of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat , who died in 2004, is exhumed on suspicion of a violent death .
Wednesday November 28, 2012
- Berlin / Germany : The Berlin Jewish Community honors Chancellor Angela Merkel with the Heinz Galinski Prize .
- Berlin / Germany : The beta version of the German Digital Library is activated for the general public.
- Damascus / Syria : More than 60 people are killed in several attacks.
- Cairo / Egypt : Several hundred thousand people are demonstrating throughout the country against the expansion of the powers of President Mohammed Morsi , and the courts of cassation and appeals court are also on strike.
Thursday November 29, 2012
- The Hague / Netherlands : The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia acquits Ramush Haradinaj , the former leader of a regional unit of the Kosovar Paramilitary Liberation Army (UÇK) , on all charges. The allegations were that prisoners were executed and mistreated.
- Cairo / Egypt : The Constituent Assembly confirms the Sharia as the legal basis with a majority of delegates from Islamist parties .
- Kandahar / Afghanistan : Ten people are killed in a bomb attack in Urusgan province .
- New York / United States : The United Nations General Assembly gives the Palestinian Authority the status of observer at the United Nations .
Friday November 30th 2012
- Brazzaville / Republic of the Congo : An Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft of the airline Aero-Service had an accident while landing at the Maya-Maya airport and crashed into an adjacent residential area. 32 people are killed in the accident.
See also
- Nekrolog November 2012 for deaths this month
- List of annually recurring memorial and action days in November
- Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in November
Web links
Commons : November 2012 - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ The Presidents of the Federal Council. In: bundesrat.de . Retrieved November 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Dead in tanker truck explosion in Riyadh. In: Welt Online . November 1, 2012, accessed January 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Lost and Found, No. 1161: Princess Grave in Necropolis , accessed on November 2, 2012
- ^ Copts have a new pope: Tawadrous 118. Successor of the Apostle Mark , accessed on November 4, 2012
- ^ Cyclone Nilam aftermath: 22 dead, standing crops hit, trains canceled in Andhra Pradesh , accessed November 5, 2012
- ↑ Over 90 dead refugees between Morocco and Spain in two weeks , accessed on November 7, 2012
- ↑ Alleged fraud against Russian Defense Minister Putin dismisses Serdyukov , accessed on November 6, 2012
- ↑ stern.de: Puerto Rico wants to become the 51st state in the USA ( Memento from November 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 8, 2012
- ↑ 27 dead in bomb attack on Iraqi troops , accessed on November 6, 2012
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Obama wins presidential election , accessed on November 25, 2012.
- ↑ https://transition.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2012/federalelections2012.pdf
- ↑ Xi Jinping Appointed Secretary General of the 18th CPC Congress , accessed November 8, 2012
- ↑ Mireille Ballestrazzi, première femme à la tête d'Interpol (French), accessed on November 9, 2012
- ↑ Indonesia Lots of dead after floods , accessed November 9, 2012
- ↑ Turkish Army killed 42 Kurdish extremists , accessed on November 9, 2012
- ↑ Twenty five dead, dozens hurt in Burma train fire: government , accessed November 9, 2012
- ^ Blackmailers murder ten farmers in Colombia , accessed on November 9, 2012
- ^ Message from General David H. Petraeus (US Army Retired ), accessed November 9, 2012
- ^ Numerous dead again after rain in Haiti , accessed on November 10, 2012
- ↑ Bloody prison revolt in Sri Lanka | Currently Asia | DW.DE , accessed on November 10, 2012
- ↑ Helicopter crash in Siirt Province: 17 soldiers killed , accessed on November 10, 2012
- ↑ Swiss Book Prize . schweizerbuchpreis.ch. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
- ↑ FOCUS Online: Conflicts: Several bombs kill 19 people in Afghanistan , accessed on November 11, 2012
- ^ Journalist Gaschke is the new mayor of Kiel , accessed on November 11, 2012
- ↑ FOCUS Online: Danilo Türk in polls ahead: Slovenia elects new president , accessed on November 11, 2012
- ↑ Kenyan police ambush toll rises to 26 , accessed November 11, 2012
- ↑ TWO MORE BBC HEADS ROLL: News director Helen Boaden and her deputy 'step aside' over McAlpine fiasco , accessed November 12, 2012
- ^ New IRA confesses to first murder in Northern Ireland , accessed November 13, 2012
- ↑ "Frankfurter Rundschau" files for bankruptcy at spiegel.de, accessed on November 13, 2012
- ↑ Giant diamond auctioned for almost 17 million euros ( memento of November 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 14, 2012
- ↑ More than 30 deaths in outbreaks of violence in São Paulo , accessed on November 13, 2012
- ^ Spiegel.de: Operation against Hamas - Palestinians fear a new war , accessed on November 25, 2012.
- ↑ Ante Gotovina Serbs appalled by acquittal for Croatian general , accessed on November 16, 2012
- ^ Faz.net: Sierra Leone: President Koroma re-elected , accessed November 24, 2012.
- ↑ Dream result and real Candystorm for Claudia Roth , accessed on November 17, 2012
- ↑ Bangladesh Slum Fire Kills 11 , accessed November 18, 2012
- ↑ Night landing: ISS crew safely back on earth , accessed on November 19, 2012
- ↑ 18 dead due to mass panic at Hindu festival in India , accessed on November 19, 2012
- ↑ Obama extends a hand in friendship to Burma , accessed November 19, 2012
- ↑ zeit.de:Bundesarbeitsgericht eases the church's ban on strikes , accessed on November 20, 2012
- ↑ [1] , accessed on November 20, 2012
- ↑ Suicide bomber kills 20 near Rawalpindi Imambargah ( memento of November 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), on geo.tv (English), accessed on November 22, 2012
- ↑ Military plane crashes on the market in Sanaa: Ten dead , on Stimme.de
- ↑ derstandard.at: Mongolia becomes 57th member of the OSCE (accessed on November 25, 2012).
- ↑ Dozens Killed In Attack On Aleppo Hospital, Syrian Rebel Leader Says - CNN.com (English), November 22, 2012
- ↑ http://www.fr-online.de/politik/israel-gaza-israel-und-hamas-vereinbaren-waffenruhe,1472596,20929308.html ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Magnolias remember victims of the Love Parade disaster , accessed on November 24, 2012
- ^ Posting of the "Financial Times Deutschland" Mourning in salmon pink , accessed on November 23, 2012
- ↑ Dhaka Bangladesh clothes factory fire kills more than 100 , accessed November 25, 2012
- ↑ iaaf.org: IAAF President's Message ( memento of August 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at iaaf.org (PDF file, English; accessed on September 22, 2012).
- ↑ Fresh rain and gales set to worsen floods , accessed November 24, 2012
- ↑ spiegel.de: Split of Catalonia from Spain becomes less likely , accessed on November 26, 2011.
- ↑ BBC News - Nigeria blasts: Eleven dead at Kaduna barracks church , accessed November 25, 2012
- ↑ Live! Sebastian Vettel is world champion for the third time , accessed on November 25, 2012
- ↑ BDI makes Ulrich Grillo boss today , accessed on November 26, 2012
- ↑ In the country with the highest CO2 emissions in the world , accessed on November 26, 2012
- ↑ New bank president: Jürgen Fitschen: Old hand as the new face of an industry , accessed on November 26, 2012.
- ↑ spiegel.de: 14 dead in a fire in a workshop for the disabled , accessed on November 26, 2012.
- ↑ orf.at: in Dinner with Consequences , accessed on November 26, 2012.
- ^ Suspected poisoning: Experts take samples from Arafat's body , accessed on November 27, 2012
- ↑ Accepted, understood and protected - Jüdische Allgemeine , accessed on November 28, 2012
- ↑ Report at deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de (accessed on November 27, 2012).
- ↑ spiegel.de: More than 60 dead in attacks in Damascus , accessed on November 28, 2012.
- ↑ spiegel.de: Judges go on protest strike against Mursi , accessed on November 28, 2012.
- ↑ faz.net: Former KLA leader Haradinaj acquitted , accessed on November 29, 2012.
- ↑ zeit.de : Islamists vote for Sharia law as the legal basis in Egypt , accessed on November 29, 2012
- ↑ Roadside bomb kills 10 civilians in southern Afghanistan , accessed November 29, 2012
- ↑ spiegel.de: UN recognizes Palestine as a state , accessed on November 30, 2012.
- ↑ bazonline.ch: Freight plane crashes over residential area , accessed on December 1, 2012