| | | Daily Bulletin | 28.11.2011 | 19:30 UTC | | | For the first time since the ouster of former leader Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians are casting their ballots for a new parliament. The outcome of the election will decide the future of Egypt's fragile, nascent democracy.  | | |  | Voters in the Democratic Republic of Congo go to the polls amid violence and organizational problems. Against a divided opposition, incumbent President Joseph Kabila is expected to win a new five-year term.  | | | | |  | A UN-appointed commission has found that Syria's military and security forces committed crimes against humanity in their crackdown on protesters. Damascus rejects all accusations of arbitrary violence against protesters.  | | | | |  | It comes as no surprise that Europe's economic prospects are dim, but no one had, so far, talked of a recession. Now the OECD has come out and said the r-word.  | | | | |  | Tension near the border between Serbia and northern Kosovo is high. Serb protesters have used small firearms to injure two NATO peacekeepers attempting to remove roadblocks to the border.  | | | | Annual negotiations to tackle climate change are again underway - this year amid a deepening financial crisis and the imminent expiry of the Kyoto Protocol. Click here for DW's coverage of talks in Durban, South Africa.  | | |  | A convoy of nuclear waste containers is on the last stretch of its journey to Germany for storage, after police removed hundreds of protesters from railroad tracks and roads using water canons and pepper spray.  | | | | |  | | © 2011  | | | | | |
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