Portal:Current events/2009 August 19
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August 19, 2009 (Wednesday)
- Seven car bombs are detonated in Baghdad, killing at least 95, and wounding nearly 600. (The Times)
- Sierra Leone's annual rains kill 15 people and displace hundreds of others. (IOL)
- The United States and Switzerland sign an agreement designed to end a tax evasion dispute surrounding UBS U.S. customers. (BBC)
- Spanish police capture two suspected members, Aitzol Etxaburu and Andoni Sarasola, of the Basque-region separatist group ETA. (CNN)
- John Marek becomes the 68th death row inmate in the state of Florida, United States to be executed by lethal injection since the death sentence was re-instated in 1979.(Miami Herald)