Portal:Current events/2011 November 23

November 23, 2011 (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Egypt protests: Violent anti-regime protests enter their fifth day in Cairo's Tahrir Square, with 35 people killed and over 3,200 injured to date in clashes between protesters and security forces. (CNN)

Disasters

Six people, including three children, are killed in an air crash in the Superstition Mountains in the U.S. state of Arizona. (Sydney Morning Herald)

International relations

The United States announces that it will stop observing the 1990 Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. The decision comes four years after Russia withdrew compliance from the treaty. (Spacewar)
In a warning to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan calls al-Assad's ongoing crackdown on protests cowardice, comparing al-Assad to past dictators such as Adolf Hitler and Muammar Gaddafi. (CNN)
Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh legally agrees to step down. (The Guardian)

Science

The European Space Agency claims to have made contact with Russia's stranded Fobos-Grunt probe, two days after the closure of the spacecraft's window for launch to Mars. (Discovery.com)

Sports