Portal:Current events/2009 September 30
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September 30, 2009 (Wednesday)
- The death toll from an earthquake and tsunami in the Samoan Islands region in the South Pacific rises to at least 113. (The Age) (AFP)
- A 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes western Indonesia, killing at least 75 and trapping thousands of people under rubble. (Reuters) (The Guardian) (Jakarta Globe)
- Guinea's military leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara bans all "subversive" gatherings and demonstrations in the aftermath of opposition protests. (BBC) (Associated Press)
- Diplomatic officials from the United States and Burma hold their first high level meetings in New York City. (Press Trust of India) (BBC)
- 24 people are killed and 62 injured after a church collapses in Nepal. (Times of India) (Associated Press) (Himalayan Times)
- The death toll from Typhoon Ketsana across Southeast Asia rises to 300. (Associated Press) (CNN)
- The United States is to withdraw 4,000 troops from Iraq by the end of October. (Al Jazeera) (The Washington Post)
- Several Sudanese political parties boycott a conference on the future of South Sudan. (Al Jazeera)
- The final report of an international fact-finding mission concludes that Georgia started the 2008 South Ossetia war. (New York Times)
- Former President of Peru Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to six years in jail for corruption by a court in Lima. (BBC)