Portal:Current events/2013 November 28

November 28, 2013 (Thursday)

Armed Conflicts and attacks

Syrian civil war:
- Syrian Army forces capture Deir Atiyah while rebels capture Otayba. (AFP) (Daily Star) (ABC)
- Three million people are now refugees from the conflict, as estimated by the United Nations. (SBS)
- One Syrian is killed and nine others injured in mortar shelling of the Russian embassy in Damascus. (Reuters)
- The US offers to destroy Syria chemical weapons at sea using the US Navy auxiliary vessel MV Cape Ray (T-AKR-9679). (BBC) (One News)
Post-civil war violence in Libya:
- Four Libyan soldiers are killed in clashes between the army and Islamist militias in the eastern city of Benghazi. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

Italian sisters Francesca and Elisabetta Grillo accuse celebrity chef Nigella Lawson and businessman Charles Saatchi of treating them as "worse than Filipino slaves". (Sydney Morning Herald) (BBC)
In the United States the holidays of Thanksgiving and the first day of Hanukkah occur on the same day. The event, dubbed Thanksgivukkah, last happened in 1888, and will not occur again for another 70,000+ years. (TIME) (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

2013 Pacific typhoon season:
- The death toll in the Philippines from Typhoon Haiyan reaches 5,560. (ABS-CBN)
2013 Borazjan earthquake:
- A 5.6 earthquake in Iran kills seven people and injures 30. (Reuters) (Sky News)
Ten people are killed in a blast at a weapons depot in southern Libya. (BBC)

Law and crime

Vietnam passes a new Constitution that reaffirms the dominant position of the Communist Party. (AP)
Former United States Marine Itzcoatl Ocampo commits suicide by eating Ajax while awaiting trial for six murders from 2011 and 2012. (FOX News)

Politics and elections

Science and Technology

China's first lunar vehicle is named 'YuTu' (Chinese:"玉兔", a pet rabbit of Moon goddess in Chinese myth see Jade rabbit) and is planned to launch from Xichang Satellite Launch Center before December 10, 2013. (NetEase)