Portal:Current events/2009 June 9
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June 9, 2009 (Tuesday)
- Romania's newly elected right-wing Greater Romania Party MEP George "Gigi" Becali is ordered by court not to leave the country. (BBC)
- Three workers are missing after an explosion at a ConAgra Foods plant in Garner, North Carolina, United States. (CNN)
- 2009 swine flu outbreak: World Health Organisation Director-General Margaret Chan believes "on the surface of it" that a pandemic has been reached. She also said that "once I get indisputable evidence, I will make the announcement," and will meet with governments on Wednesday regarding reports about the outbreak. (Associated Press via Breitbart.com)
- Indians in Australia allege more attacks against them in Sydney. (BBC)
- Dáil Éireann debates a motion of no confidence against the Government of Ireland as George Lee and Maureen O'Sullivan make their debuts in the 30th Dáil. (RTÉ)
- Two Democrats cross party lines and join Republicans to swing control of the Senate of the U.S. state of New York to the Republican Party. (WCBS New York)
- Royal Dutch Shell is to pay out $15.5m (£9.7m) in a legal settlement over its alleged complicity in the 1995 execution of several Nigerian environmental activists, including author Ken Saro-Wiwa, in Nigeria in 1995. (RTÉ) (Sky News)
- Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, is pelted with eggs by protestors and forced to abandon a press conference. (BBC)
- Lloyds Banking Group announce the closure of all Cheltenham & Gloucester branches in the UK and the loss of about 1,660 jobs. (BBC)
- The trial of William Jefferson, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, on charges of bribery and racketeering gets underway. (Washington Post)
- The chairman of Anglo Irish Bank discloses to the Oireachtas Committee on Finance and Public Service that some senior staff at the bank have impaired loans to the bank. (RTÉ)
- A study suggests that the HIV prevalence rate in South Africa has leveled off at 10.9% and it could be falling in the under-19 age group. (BBC)
- An explosion kills 11 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan. (BBC) (RTÉ)
- A notebook of Pablo Picasso sketches worth several million euro is discovered stolen from the Musée Picasso in Paris. (The Irish Times)