Current events of 11 November 2009 (2009-11-11) (Wednesday) edit history watch

Raymond Jessup is sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexual assault of an underage girl after the April 2008 raid of the YFZ Ranch in Eldorado, Texas. (UPI). Two bloggers from Azerbaijan, Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade, are sentenced by a court for "hooliganism" in a restaurant scuffle linked to the posting of a satirical video dressed as a donkey on Youtube that mocked government restrictions on civil liberties. (BBC) (Trend News Agency) (Taiwan News) A gold mining operation is investigated by Chinese authorities after allegations it has damaged part of the Great Wall of China in Inner Mongolia. (Xinhua) (BBC) (Times of South Africa) Iran protests to Oxford University's Queen's College over a scholarship in memory of the slain Iranian student Neda Agha Soltan. (AP) Officials in Brazil investigate the cause of a massive power cut which may have affected a fifth of the population and neighbouring Paraguay. (BBC) (New York Times) Yemen criticises "interference" by Iran in the conflict with Houthi rebels in the country, after Iran criticised Saudi Arabian intervention in the conflict. (Khaleej Times) (Yemen News Agency) (AFP) Anti-monarchy protesters and riot police clash in Montreal, Quebec during a tour by Prince Charles. (Metro) (The Daily Telegraph) (CBC) A Russian-born German man is sentenced to life imprisonment for fatally stabbing Marwa El-Sherbini in a court, an attack that caused uproar in the Muslim world. (AP) (NY Times) (Deutsche Welle) The discovery of a new dinosaur species, named Aardonyx celestae, in South Africa is announced. (IOL) (AP) (AFP) Cambodia rejects a request by Thailand to extradite ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. (Phnom Penh Post) (Thai News Agency) (BBC) South Korean troops are put on high alert for possible retaliation after a naval clash with North Korea yesterday. (Al Jazeera) (AP) Local government offices in southern Nepal shut in protest after a senior local official is slapped by Deputy Agriculture Minister Karima Begam. (BBC) (Telegraph Nepal) (IOL) For the first time since World War I, the leaders of Germany and France appear together at a ceremony on Remembrance Day to commemorate the end of the conflict. (MSNBC)