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In the 2008 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Governor-General Michaëlle Jean prorogues the Canadian Parliament until January 26, 2009, at the request of Prime Minister Stephen Harper (pictured). The move was to avoid a confidence vote, versus a coalition government.
In the Thai political crisis, the Constitutional Court dissolves three parties in the ruling coalition, and Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat resigns.
A cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe spreads, with hundreds dead and over 10,000 people infected since August 2008.
Rioting over disputed election results kills more than 381 people and injures hundreds in Jos, Nigeria.
Attacks at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel and several other locations in Mumbai, India, kill 183 people and injure hundreds.
The people of Greenland pass a referendum regarding greater autonomy from Denmark.

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December 4, 2008 (Thursday)

The Congress of Argentina approves the seizure of Aerolíneas Argentinas, the country's biggest airline carrier. (BBC)
The body of first President of Afghanistan Mohammad Daud Khan is identified, three decades after he died. (BBC)
2008 Canadian political dispute: Canada's Governor General Michaëlle Jean accepts Prime Minister Stephen Harper's request to suspend Parliament until late-January from in a bid to avoid a motion of no-confidence to be voted Monday. (CBC) (CTV)

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December 3, 2008 (Wednesday)

British House of Commons Speaker, Michael Martin, accuses the police of not having a search warrant before they entered Damian Green's Commons office and failing to inform the Serjeant at Arms that they were entitled to ask for one.(BBC News) (Hansard)
Police in Zimbabwe break up a march by doctors and nurses to protest the 2008 Zimbabwean cholera outbreak. (BBC)

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December 2, 2008 (Tuesday)

The General Accounting Office releases a report that claims that the oversight of the Troubled Assets Relief Program requires additional actions to ensure "integrity, accountability, and transparency". (Washington Post) (bloomberg.com) (Wall Street Journal) (CNN Money)
The 2008 Zimbabwean cholera outbreak has claimed 425 lives and affected 10,000 people since August 2008. (Telegraph.co.uk)
NATO 2008 Brussels summit
- NATO member countries decide not to offer MAP to Georgia and Ukraine, the war in South Ossetia and the Ukrainian government collapse being the main reasons.(Deutsche Welle)
- Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer says NATO will start "conditional and graduated re-engagement" with Russia. NATO-Russia relations were frozen since the 2008 war in South Ossetia. (BBC)
United States Senate election in Georgia, 2008: Voters in the U.S. state of Georgia go to the polls for a runoff election between incumbent Senator Saxby Chambliss of the Republican Party and Jim Martin of the Democratic Party. Chambliss is reelected, ending the Democratic Party's hopes of having 60 Senators to avoid a filibuster. (Reuters), (New York Times)
The Reserve Bank of Australia cuts interest rates by 100 basis points to 4.25%. (News Limited)
2008 Thai political crisis:
- A blast at Don Mueang Airport kills at least one anti-government protestor and injures another 22. (BBC)
- Thailand's Constitutional Court dissolves the People's Power Party (PPP), the Thai Nation Party and the Neutral Democratic Party due to voter fraud and bans party leaders including the Prime Minister of Thailand Somchai Wongsawat from participating in politics for five years. A new party, Puea Thai (For Thais) is to be formed and a vote on a new PM is expected on 8 December. (BBC), (Forbes)

December 2, 2008 Wikinews articles

December 1, 2008 (Monday)

The Liberal Party, New Democratic Party, and Bloc Québécois of Canada sign an agreement to form a coalition Government with Stéphane Dion as leader, with the intention of toppling the Conservative Government that was elected less than two months before. (CTV News)
Ibrahim Tai, president of the Indian Muslim Council, says that the terrorist attacks on Mumbai were inconsistent with Islam, and the perpetrators should not be buried in Muslim graveyards (BBC News)
A suicide bomb attack kills 10 people, including two policemen, in the southern province in Helmand in Afghanistan. (BBC)
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warns Pakistan that it must cooperate fully with the investigation into the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. (AP via International Herald Tribune)
United States President-elect Barack Obama announces his national security team to his transition advisory board, among them being Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, who was nominated Secretary of State. (Reuters)
2008 Thai political crisis:
- The People's Alliance for Democracy leaves protesting at the Thai Government House and distributes protesters to Bangkok's two airports, Suvarnabhumi and Don Muang, for security reasons. (Nation Multimedia)
- Flights to Bangkok are canceled and moved to other parts of the country, such as Phuket, Chiang Mai and Chonburi. (BBC News), (Bangkok Post)
- Military leaders call upon feuding parties to end the dispute before King Bhumibol Adulyadej's birthday on 5 December. (Nation Multimedia)

December 1, 2008 Wikinews articles

November 30, 2008 (Sunday)

Romania's Social Democratic Party wins the most votes in both houses of Parliament in the legislative election. (Bloomberg), (VoA)
Nine headless bodies are found in Tijuana, Baja California, as the Mexican Drug War continues. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
India's home minister Shivraj Patil has submitted his resignation, taking "moral responsibility" for the Mumbai attacks. (BBC News)
2008 Thai political crisis: A grenade attack on a People's Alliance for Democracy rally in Bangkok injures at least 46 people. (AP via Melbourne Age)

November 30, 2008 Wikinews articles

November 29, 2008 (Saturday)

In an interview, U.S. President George W. Bush names No Child Left Behind as one of his most significant achievements and hopes to be remembered for the current situation in Iraq (ABC News)
Hundreds of people are reported to have been killed in the central Nigerian town of Jos after Christians and Muslims clashed over the result of a local election. (BBC)
2008 Thai political crisis: People's Alliance for Democracy protestors force the Royal Thai Police to abandon a checkpoint outside Suvarnabhumi Airport. (Reuters)
2008 Santa Catarina floods: The number of confirmed deaths rise to 105 people. (G1)
November 2008 Mumbai attacks:
- The death toll from the attacks rises to 160 with a further 327 people missing. (Melbourne Age)
- The Mumbai terror attacks have finished with all militants at the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower shot dead. (AFP, Reuters via News Limited)
The BlackSheeps win MGP Nordic 2008 held in Aarhus, Denmark. The BlackSheeps had a lead of 74 points at the end of voting. (Sveriges Television)

November 29, 2008 Wikinews articles

November 28, 2008 (Friday)

Five people are arrested in France and Romania as a result of an investigation into the killing of Brahim Deby, a son of the President of Chad Idriss Deby. (AP via Google News)
Black Friday: As the Christmas shopping season begins in the United States, two are shot at a Toys R Us store in Palm Desert, California, and a Wal-Mart employee is crushed in a stampede after shoppers broke down a front door in Valley Stream, New York. (KABC)(Bloomberg)
November 2008 Mumbai attacks: Indian security forces attack a Jewish centre in Mumbai where gunmen are holding an unknown number of hostages. (BBC)
United Kingdom Conservative Party Shadow Minister Damian Green is arrested for alleged leaking of Government immigration statistics (BBC)
2008 Thai political crisis:
- The Prime Minister of Thailand, Somchai Wongsawat, declares a state of emergency to allow police to clear Bangkok's two international airports of protesters. (Radio Australia)
- The government deputy spokesman has announced that PM Somchai will still stay in Chiang Mai because of unsettled army situation and closure of the two airports in Bangkok. (Nation Multimedia)
- People's Alliance for Democracy has prepared the third set of its leaders, in case its first and second set are arrested or assassinated, but have not announced the leaders' names yet. (Bangkok Post)
- ASTV, a TV firm broadcasting a People's Alliance for Democracy's demonstration is bombed with grenades and gunfire on early morning of Friday (GMT +7). (Nation Multimedia)
- About 5,000 Muslim Haj pilgrims are unable to leave the airport to Mecca. (Bangkok Post)
Canada faces a parliamentary crisis as the opposition Liberals, NDP and Bloc Québécois reject the policies in the Conservative minority government's "economic update." Following talks between the Liberals and NDP, plans are unveiled to hold a vote of no confidence and replace the Conservatives with a Liberal-NDP coalition. (Globe and Mail)

November 28, 2008 Wikinews articles

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