Around the World (November 12, 2008)

[Kamal_Farran]

***TOP STORY***
The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 departed on her last voyage from Southampton, UK to Dubai, UAE. She will become a floating hotel at Palm Jumeirah.
http://cunard.com/AboutCunard/NewsReleases.asp?Cat=&View=ViewArticle&Mode=News&ContentID=6656&Active=News
http://thecunarders.co.uk/cunardlinehistory.html


***2008 RUSSIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS***
Russian regulators halt trading on one of the country's two main stock indexes, the MICEX, after it fell 6.5%, dragged down by commodity and banking shares.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g3MmiL5T-f4bcgouFyNR3y3DlqhAD94CKLN80


***OTHER NEWS***
A Holocaust survivor group announces the abandonment of negotiations with the Mormon church over the latter's continued posthumous baptism of Jews killed in the Holocaust.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/11/baptizing.dead.jews.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Death toll, public outrage rise in aftermath of Haiti school collapse
http://wsws.org/articles/2008/nov2008/hait-n11.shtml

Egypt's antiquities chief, Zahi Hawass, announces the discovery of a 4,300-year-old pyramid belonging to Queen Sesheshet, mother of King Teti.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/11/11/egypt.pyramid.discovery.ap/index.html?eref=rss_world

Former President Chen Shui-bian of the Republic of China is arrested while the anti-corruption prosecutors have asked a three-judge panel to formally detain the former President.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/11/taiwan.former.president.handcuffs/index.html

Germany announces new charges against John Demjanjuk in the deaths of 29,000 people at the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland during the Holocaust.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7721631.stm

Mohamed Nasheed is sworn in as the new President of the Maldives.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/11/maldives.president/index.html?eref=edition_asia

The Indian Navy foils an attempt by Somali pirates to hijack a merchant ship in Gulf of Aden.
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Indian-Navy-foils-attack-by-pirates-rescue-ship/384257/

Turkey - Financial crisis hits textile industry
http://wsws.org/articles/2008/nov2008/turk-n11.shtml

UN - World Leaders Should Press Saudis on Intolerance
King Abdullah to Speak at Saudi-Sponsored UN Interfaith Meeting
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2008/11/10/saudia20173.htm

Workers Struggles - The Americas
Argentine bank employees strike
Buenos Aires teachers to strike next week
Civic strike in Peruvian City of Tacna
Copper strike ends
Michigan strike entering third week
Texas transit workers end strike
York University on strike
http://wsws.org/articles/2008/nov2008/wkrs-n11.shtml


***YOUTUBE TODAY***
Escape from Lebanon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU72G_iRPQw