Portal:Current events/2009 November 21
November 21, 2009 (Saturday)
- Protestors gather at the French Embassy in Dublin in a continuation of the dispute with FIFA over the controversial handball incident in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying match between France and Republic of Ireland. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times) (BBC)
- President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak says on national television he will not tolerate the "humiliation" of Egyptian nationals abroad following the riots between Algeria and Egypt over a qualifying match for the 2010 World Cup. (BBC)
- Italian police arrest two Pakistani nationals suspected of providing logistical support to the group responsible for the attacks in Mumbai in 2008. (The Hindu) (Reuters) (BBC News)
- Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Pope Benedict XVI agree to "seek closer relations" in a meeting in Rome. (BBC News) (The Daily Telegraph) (Associated Press)
- Floods in Great Britain and Ireland:
- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown travels to Cumbria to meet victims of the floods that have affected the area. (BBC News)
- Ireland's Emergency Co-Ordination Committee meets to discuss the flooding. Green Party leader and Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government John Gormley visits the scene of the worst damage in Cork and describes it as "a once in 800 years event". (RTÉ) (The Irish Times) (Sky News) (The Straits Times)
- U.S. President Barack Obama's job approval rating slips below 50 percent in a daily tracking survey by Gallup poll. (Reuters)
- New research concludes that Homo floresiensis, discovered in 2003, is a distinct species and not a previously known species with dwarfism or microcephaly. (The Daily Telegraph) (U.S. News)
- Sri Lanka's government announces that 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)
- The Netherlands win the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song "Click Clack" by Ralf Mackenbach. (NOS)