Portal:Current events/2013 November 11
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November 11, 2013 (Monday)
Business and economy
- A general strike in Nepal against next week's election shuts down schools, markets and industries. (AP via New Zealand Herald)
Disasters and accidents
- An international aid effort is underway to help the Philippines cope with the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan. (ABC News Online)
- At least four people are killed and eight injured as a seven story building catches fire in Vikhroli, a suburb of the Indian city of Mumbai. (Zee News)
- At least 100 people are killed in a tropical cyclone in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Three members of the Iranian rock band The Yellow Dogs are shot and killed in Brooklyn, New York by a member of a different band. The shooter then commits suicide. (CNN)
Religion
- Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci, the longtime director of the Sistine Chapel Choir, from 1956 to 1997, dies at the age of 96. At the time of his death he was the 2nd-oldest living member of the College of Cardinals. (Catholic World News)