November 23, 2007 (Friday)
- Polish parliament speaker Bronisław Komorowski said that Poland's new government is set to be the first to ratify the EU's Reform Treaty. (EUobserver)
- 2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- The Supreme Court of Pakistan orders the Election Commission to declare Pervez Musharraf the winner in the 2007 Pakistani presidential election. (BBC)
- The Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Inam-ul-Haq, says the country's suspension from the Commonwealth of Nations is "unjustified". (BBC)
- The term of Lebanese President Émile Lahoud ends with no successor and a political dispute over who is in power. (BBC)
- A court in Copenhagen, Denmark, convicts three men for plotting terrorist attacks using triacetone triperoxide. (BBC)
- An Israeli psychiatrist and reserve officer is charged with giving classified information to Iran, Russia and Hamas. (BBC)
- The Senate of Nigeria declares the handover of the Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon was "illegal". (BBC)
- A bomb explosion kills at least 13 people and hurts 50 in the Ghazil pet market of Baghdad, Iraq. (BBC)
- The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control finds that the rate of new cases of AIDS in Europe has doubled since 1999. (BBC)
- Louise Christian, the lawyer for Alexander Litvinenko's wife, reveals that the polonium-210 that killed him probably came from a Russian nuclear plant. (BBC)
- Many employees of Paris Métro cross picket lines and return to work, defying the ongoing public-sector strikes. Transit officials report near-normal operation. (BBC)
- Typhoon Mitag remains stationary but threatens the Bicol Region, east of the Philippines, and is expected to make landfall in Virac, Catanduanes tomorrow. (GMANews.TV)
- The icebreaker/cruise ship MS Explorer sinks in the Southern Ocean after striking an iceberg. Everyone aboard is rescued.