Portal:Current events/2017 November 27
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November 27, 2017 (Monday)
Arts and culture
- Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
- Prince Harry announces his engagement to American actress Meghan Markle. (NBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- Morlanwelz train collision and runaway
- A passenger train collides with a car on a level crossing at Morlanwelz, Hainaut, Belgium, and is damaged by the subsequent fire. During recovery operations, it breaks free from the train hauling it, runs away for 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) and collides with a passenger train at Strépy-Bracquegnies. Two people are killed, seven are injured. (The Brussels Times)
Health and environment
- Health in Europe
- A European Union appeal committee votes to reauthorise the use of glyphosate as a herbicide for a five-year period. (The Guardian)
International relations
- International reactions to the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, Pastoral visits of Pope Francis
- Pope Francis arrives in Yangon to begin a six-day trip to Myanmar and Bangladesh, where he is expected to meet with the Rohingya people. (BBC) (Channel NewsAsia)
Law and crime
- Forced evictions in China
- Authorities in Beijing evict thousands of its migrant population in wake of a fire that left 19 people dead earlier this month, leaving many homeless in sub-zero temperatures. (Radio Free Asia) (Quartz)
Politics and elections
- 2017 Tehreek-e-Labaik protest
- The Pakistan Minister for Law Zahid Hamid resigns after days of protest over proposed changes to blasphemy laws. (CNN)
- 2017 Spanish constitutional crisis
- The Attorney General of Catalonia, José María Romero de Tejada, unexpectedly dies in Barcelona of pneumonia at the age of 69, few days after the death of the Attorney General of the State. (El País)