November 22, 2007 (Thursday)
- Jordanian King Abdullah appoints technocrat Nader al-Dahabi as the new Prime Minister. (BBC)
- Bangladeshi feminist writer Taslima Nasreen leaves Kolkata after riots against her in which at least 43 people were hurt. (BBC)
- Argentinian defense minister Nilda Garré sacks the head of military intelligence, Brigadier General Osvaldo Montero, for plotting to replace her. (BBC)
- Sri Lanka bans the Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation charity, saying it "is funding the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam". (BBC)
- A bomb attack on a bus kills five people and hurts 12 in the Russian republic of North Ossetia-Alania. (BBC)
- England football coach Steve McClaren and his deputy Terry Venables are sacked after England lost 3-2 to Croatia at Wembley Stadium. (BBC)
- Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen says that Denmark will hold a new referendum on relinquishing its opt-outs, including an exemption from the European common currency, the euro, during the next four years. (AP via Google News)
- 2007 Pakistani state of emergency
- Pakistan is suspended from the Commonwealth of Nations again for its imposition of the state of emergency. (BBC)
- A contempt petition against Pervez Musharraf is filed in the Supreme Court of Pakistan.[citation needed]
- The Supreme Court of Pakistan dismisses the last remaining petition to challenge the dereliction of President Pervez Musharraf. (BBC)
- The head of IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, says the agency cannot be sure "about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities" in Iran. (BBC)
- A report by the EMCDDA says the number of cocaine users in the European Union has increased by one million in one year. (BBC)
- Two Iraqi soldiers and eight members of the Hawr Rajab Awakening Council are killed by al-Qaeda militants in Hawr Rajab. (BBC)
- Aid agencies say they have reached all areas of Bangladesh struck by cyclone Sidr, but more aid is needed for the survivors. (BBC)
- Farid Babayev, a Russian politician with the Yabloko party, is shot and seriously wounded in Makhachkala, Dagestan. (BBC)
- Nur Hassan Hussein, head of the Somali Red Crescent and former policeman, is named the new Prime Minister of Somalia. (BBC)
- Despite talks between the transport workers, the management and the government, the November 2007 strikes in France continue for a ninth day. (BBC)
- Tens of thousands of Venezuelan students march in Caracas in two different rallies, one to oppose Hugo Chávez and the other one to support him. (BBC)
- 2008 United States presidential election:
- New Hampshire sets January 8, 2008 as the date for the presidential primary, maintaining the tradition of being the first state to vote. (BBC)
- Hundreds of thousands of immigrants may not be able to vote because of delays at the Citizenship and Immigration Services agency. (BBC)