Palestinian and Syrian officials on November 23 condemned a new Israeli law mandating a national referendum ahead of any withdrawal from annexed east Jerusalem or the Golan Heights.

Authorities have arrested 11 people in connection with a suspected terror plot targeting Belgium, officials there said Tuesday.

As the uproar around the new security measures at U.S. airports gets intense, a new poll finds that Americans mostly support the full-body scanning but are divided on the intensive frisking.

Haiti's deadly cholera epidemic is spreading faster than originally estimated and is likely to result in hundreds of thousands of cases and last up to a year, a senior U.N. official said on November 23.

At least 14 people were killed and 13 others injured when a roof collapsed on the morning of November 23 in northwest Pakistan's Swat area, local media reported.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired artillery into the water near its tense western sea border with the Republic of Korea (RoK) on November 23, injuring at least 14 RoK miltary personnel and two civilians, the Yonhap news agency reported.

A second robot has arrived at the site of a coal mine in New Zealand where an explosion has trapped 29 workers underground, police said.

At least 345 people were killed in a stampede during festival celebrations in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh on November 22.

Israel started building a barrier along its border with Egypt on November 22. The Israeli government says it is to prevent illegal immigrants from crossing into the country and to stop smuggling.

Ireland begins two nervous weeks of political maneuvering on November 23 as the government dares the opposition to block an austerity budget on which a multi-billion euro bailout is riding.