Portal:Current events/2013 November 21

• Drone attacks in Pakistan:
  • Pakistani officials claim that an American drone strike on an Islamic seminary has killed six people, including two Afghan Taliban leaders and a leader of the Haqqani network. (AP)
• Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):
  • A truck bomb detonates in a vegetable market in northeastern Iraq, killing at least 31 people. (AP via ABC)

• 2013 Riga Maxima superstore collapse:
  • 54 people are killed, many injured as a Maxima superstore collapses in the Latvian capital Riga. (AFP via ABC Online)

• 2013 global surveillance disclosures:
  • Indonesian protesters gather outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta and protesters burn Australian flags to protest alleged bugging of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's phone. (AAP via Weekly Times)

• A Honduran Vice-minister of Defense states that the Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, Mexico's most-wanted drug lord, may be hiding in Honduras. (InSight Crime)
• Metropolitan Police arrested two suspects after three women are rescued from a residential address in Lambeth, South London, after thirty years of captivity. (BBC)
• The parole board in the U.S. state of Alabama grants posthumous pardons to three members of the Scottsboro boys falsely accused of raping a white teenager. (Wall Street Journal)

• The Japanese Coast Guard claims that a volcanic eruption has created a new islet in the Bonin Islands south of Japan. (AP)

• Sheffield City Council begins the demolition of the Don Valley Stadium athletics stadium in Sheffield, England. (BBC)