Portal:Current events/2013 November 29

• Chief of Army Staff (Pakistan)
  
  • Genral Raheel Sharif took over the command of army chief of Pakistan Army.(New Army Chief - Dawn News)

• Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):
  • A wave of violence in Iraq kills 52 people, most of whom were kidnapped and then shot dead. (Dawn)
• Syrian civil war:
  • Four people are killed in a mortar attack on the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. (Al Jazeera)
• Senkaku Islands dispute:
  • China deploys fighter jets to the Chinese Air Defense Identification Zone, as tensions escalate further over the disputed islands in the East China Sea. (Bloomberg)

• Three previously unpublished short stories by J. D. Salinger are leaked online against the late author's wishes. (BBC)
• Spanish channel Canal Nou cease broadcasting when the police pull the plug at 12:19 AM GMT, ending its 23 years of broadcasting.

• Joe Hockey, the Treasurer of Australia, rejects a proposed A$3.4 billion takeover bid by American company Archer Daniels Midland for agribusiness GrainCorp. (ABC)

• LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 carrying 27 passengers and six crew members disappears in Namibia. (BBC)
• An unknown number are dead as a result of a police helicopter that crashed into a crowded pub on the north bank of the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland. (BBC) (AFP via NineMSN)

• 2013 Thai protests:
  • Several opposition parties including the Civil Movement for Democracy hold a protest march on the headquarters of Thailand's ruling Puea Thai party in Bangkok. (Reuters) (IBN Live)
  • A thousand protesters enter the headquarters of the Royal Thai Army. (RTE)
• 2013 Ukraine pro-European Union protests:
  • With their demands not being met, protests are scheduled to continue until at least Sunday 1 December 2013. (Seven News)

• At least part of Comet C/2012 S1 (also known as Comet Ison) emerged from behind the Sun's corona. (CNN)