Portal:Current events/2009 October 9
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October 9, 2009 (Friday)
- A United Nations plane from Uruguay attached to MINUSTAH monitoring the Haiti–Dominican Republic border crashes near Fonds-Verrettes, killing at least 11 people from Jordan and Uruguay. (BBC) (Xinhua) (Associated Press)
- General Motors finalizes a deal to sell Hummer to China's Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company. (The Wall Street Journal)
- In an attempt to determine the extent of lunar ice, NASA crashes two unmanned spacecraft into the Moon's south pole. (Toronto Star)
- Treaty of Lisbon:
- A statement on Polish President Lech Kaczyński's website says a signing ceremony of the treaty will take place on Saturday at 1000 GMT. (EuActive)
- Czech President Václav Klaus, the last remaining leader against the Lisbon Treaty, says the country must negotiate an opt-out from parts of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union before it proceeds with the ratification process. (Bloomberg) (RTÉ)
- Only the Czech government could make such a request, but Czech Prime minister Jan Fischer says that President Klaus had not given the cabinet any information about his latest demands.(BBC News)
- Aung San Suu Kyi is permitted to meet international diplomats to discuss international sanctions against Burma. (The Times) (Bangkok Post) (Irish Examiner) (CNN)
- U.S. president Barack Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” (The New York Times) (Nobel Foundation)
- More than 181 people are killed in floods in the Philippines. (IOL) (Times of India)
- Six Vietnamese pro-democracy activists are sentenced to up to six years in prison for "spreading propaganda" against the government. (BBC) (UPI) (Reuters India)
- French police arrest a researcher at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) for suspected links to Al-Qaeda. (BBC) (Taiwan News)
- Wallace Souza, the former Brazilian state legislator and host of Canal Livre who faces accusations of drug trafficking and murder, surrenders to police after being a fugitive for four days. (CNN)
- India plans a new offensive against Maoist Naxalite rebels active in parts of the country. (AFP) (Outlook India)
- A suspected suicide car-bomber kills 49 people in the Pakistani city of Peshawar in an attack that the government said underscored the need for an all-out offensive against the Pakistani Taliban. (Reuters)
- Two people die after being overcome by sweat and about 19 others are hospitalised at a spiritual retreat in Arizona, USA. (BBC)
- Public amputations on three men accused of robbery occur in Somalia. (TVNZ)