Portal:Current events/2008 November 20
November 20, 2008 (Thursday)
- United States Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapses while giving a speech to the Federalist Society in Washington, D.C. (Politico)
- The Swedish Parliament ratifies the Treaty of Lisbon. (Dagens Nyheter)
- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter discovers evidence of enormous underground deposits of water ice on Mars; one such deposit, under Hellas Planitia, is estimated to be the size of Los Angeles. (NASA)
- Global financial crisis of 2008:
- Automotive industry crisis: Executives of the top three U.S. automakers (Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Chrysler) testify before Congress for a bailout package. (AP via Google)
- French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroën announces plans to cut 2,700 jobs due to falling demand in Europe. (BBC News)
- At least one person is dead and twenty injured after a bomb is thrown into a People's Alliance for Democracy protest compound in Bangkok, Thailand. (ABC)
- Piracy in Somalia:
- The Russian Navy announces that it will deploy more warships in the Gulf of Aden to curb piracy. (AFP via Google)
- The Indian Navy receives permission from the Somali government to enter its territorial waters in pursuit of pirates. (CNN-IBN)
- Five Guantánamo Bay detainees who successfully argued Boumediene v. Bush before the Supreme Court are ordered freed by Judge Richard J. Leon of the District Court for Washington, D.C. (The New York Times)