Portal:Current events/2009 April 23
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April 23, 2009 (Thursday)
- General Motors will temporarily close 13 factories in the United States and Mexico. (AP via Miami Herald)
- The Taliban's Students' Movement captures Buner District in Pakistan. (WSJ)
- Judge Tomas Norström of The Pirate Bay's trial is revealed to be a member of the same copyright protection organizations as several entertainment industry representatives. (TT via The Local)
- India's general election begins its second of five phases. (BBC)
- The International Monetary Fund forecasts that the world economy will not recover until 2010. (CNN)
- Prime Minister of Lesotho Pakalitha Mosisili survives an apparent assassination attempt. (BBC)
- Two suicide attacks near Baqubah and in Baghdad, Iraq, kill at least 87 people. (CNN)
- Iraq's government calculates that more than 110,000 Iraqis have died since the Iraq War began in 2003. (AP)