November 29, 2013 (Friday)
Defence
- Chief of Army Staff (Pakistan)
- Genral Raheel Sharif took over the command of army chief of Pakistan Army.(New Army Chief - Dawn News)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):
- 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)
Arts and culture
- Three previously unpublished short stories by J. D. Salinger are leaked online against the late author's wishes.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.
Business and economy
- 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)
Disasters and accidents
- 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)
Politics and elections
- 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)
Science and technology