Portal:Current events/2010 September 8
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September 8, 2010 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and incidents
- Mexican marines arrest seven gunmen suspected in participating in the massacre of 72 Central and South American migrants in San Fernando, Tamaulipas. (AP via Fox News)
Arts and culture
- A Charities Aid Foundation survey finds that Australia, New Zealand and Canada are the most generous contributors to charity. (Canadian Press via Google News)
Disasters
- Two workers are missing and more than thirty workers are trapped in an oil rig in the Shengli oil field off Dongying in China's Shandong province. (AFP via Google News)
- The state of emergency in Christchurch, New Zealand, is extended for another week following an aftershock to Saturday's earthquake in Lyttelton. (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Eight people are missing and at least fifty-four houses are destroyed in a wildfire burning west of Boulder, Colorado, in the United States. (CNN)
- The remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine causes widespread flooding in the US states of Texas and Oklahoma with at least two people dead. (AP via Yahoo! News)
International relations
- South Korea unveils sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program. (Xinhua via Sina)
- Japan detains a Chinese fishing boat found near the disputed Pinnacle Islands in the East China Sea. (Xinhua)
Law and crime
- The New South Wales parliament votes to legalise adoption by same sex couples in Australia's most populous state. (AAP via Sydney Morning Herald)
- Police in Europe shut down 49 servers and detain ten people in a raid across thirteen countries in a crackdown on film piracy. (AFP via the Melbourne Age)
- The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit dismisses a lawsuit associated with the Central Intelligence Agency's practice of "extraordinary rendition". (New York Times)
Politics and government
- The Parliament of Sri Lanka passes the 18th Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka which removes the two-term limit on the presidency and allows him to choose the judges and commissioners monitoring elections, human rights, and other affairs. (BBC) (New York Times) (The Australian)