[edit] 28 November 2005 (Monday)

• Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has called the former prime minister Iyad Allawi's comments "nonsense". Allawi claimed that the human rights abuses in Iraq were as bad now as they were under Saddam Hussein. Talabani stated that the government was against any form of torture or harming of Prisoners. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
• Reports that Darshan Singh has been dismissed as chief hangman of Singapore are denied by prison officials. They would not say if he would perform the hanging of Nguyen Tuong Van. (ABC)
• Canadian federal election, 2006: Prime Minister Paul Martin's minority government is defeated in a confidence motion by a vote of 171 - 133. The Prime Minister announces he will request a dissolution of parliament from the Governor General tomorrow. (CBC).
• The tribunal trying Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants adjourned for a second time after hearing posthumous evidence. (BBC)
• EU Justice commissioner Franco Frattini makes an unprecedented call for the suspension of privileges, for any member state found to have hosted a CIA black site. (ABC)
• Running water is restored to the city of Harbin, in Heilongjiang, China after several days of a water cut-off due to the toxic benzene spill. Yilan County, Heilongjiang, however, is still without running water. (The Guardian)
• The United Nations Climate Change Conference opens in Montreal. - (Government of Canada)