by MONITOR
PRESIDENT Musharraf of Pakistan declared a state of emergency ahead of the Supreme Court's judgement on his eligibility for election as President while still an army officer. Stan O'Neal resigned as chief executive of Merrill Lynch after leading the company to its first quarterly loss in six years. He left with a $160 million package. In Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner easily won the Presidential election; she will take over from her husband, Nestor Kirchner, on December 10. The United Nations General Assembly voted by 184 votes to 4 to encourage the United States to drop its 40-year-old trade embargo against Cuba. Some 25'000 poor people, most of them landless farmers, ended a march on Delhi from various parts of India to demand land reform the loss of land to industrial development.
THE WEEK THAT WAS
12/11/2013 00:00
Also in Holiday
- Spain wants Britons to show they have 113.40 euros, £97, per day for their holidays
- Major security alert at Mallorca airport, surprise landing of flights from Morocco and Namibia
- Big changes on the horizon when Britons travel to Mallorca
- Over two hours for Britons to get through Palma airport queues
- Living in a motorhome in Palma: "It'll only get worse"
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