Current Events for the Week of 21 September 2009
Current Events for Monday, 21 September 2009
- Iranian Atomic Energy Organization chief Ali Akbar Salehi: Iran planning ten new nuclear enrichment plants in 2010/2011
- Group of Seven (G7) talks fail to calm Eurozone fears over Greece, euro (€) dips
- U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Space Shuttle Endeavour heads for International Space Station (ISS) with final two main pieces to install
- U.S. federal government to remain closed Monday after U.S. Mid-Atlantic storm cripples nation’s capital
- Xinhua: Chinese authorities shut-down “hacker-training website,” arrest three
- Former U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission head Hans Blix: former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw gave incorrect answers at official Iraq war inquiry
- Costa Rican election results puts Laura Chinchilla on-course for nation’s presidency
- U.S. President Barack Obama to hold televised healthcare summit between Democrats, Republicans
- Former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin hints presidential run in 2012 a possibility
- Haitian lawyers, rights activists: Haitian judicial system may not be able to try ten Americans accused of kidnapping
- Middletown, Connecticut gas plant explosion kills at least five
- Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yanukovich claims win in presidential election, calls for Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to resign
- Iranian security forces arrest seven in connection with last year’s election unrest, claims some employed by U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen claims organization should be “global security forum”
- U.S. Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke: U.S. not currently negotiating with Taliban
- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad orders production of higher-grade nuclear reactor fuel
- Mudslide kills eleven in rain-sodden Mexico
- Iraqi Shi’a militant group Asaib al-Haq claims it has captured U.S. contractor
- Yemeni government gives Shi’a rebels timeline to disarm
- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas “awaiting” U.S. clarification on offer to mediate indirect talks between Palestinian Authority, Israel
- U.S. unemployment rate fell to 9.7% in January
- Twin car bombs kill forty, wound 145 in Kerbala
- American Haiti-relief helicopter crashes in the Dominican Republic, kills two U.S. aid workers
- Afghan President Hamid Karzai considering conscription to fill thinning army ranks
- Toyota planning recall of Prius
- Lebanese searchers recover black box from Egyptian flight that crashed off its shores
- 6.4-magnitude earthquake hits off southern coast of Japan, near Ryukyu Islands
- Chinese scientists claims to have found “3,000 dinosaur footprints”
- Australian firm signs $60 billion deal to supply Chinese power plants
- Thousands mourn Karachi bomb dead
- Ill Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua to write letter turning power over to Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan
- English heroin user tests positive for anthrax, following nine Scottish deaths from anthrax-tainted heroin
- Microsoft: seventeen-year-old bug to be addressed in February security update
- U.S. Department of Justice still “not happy” with deal to allow Google to build digital library
- Five crates of British explorer Ernest Shackleton’s Scotch whiskey at the South Pole
Current Events for Tuesday, 9 February 2010
- Taiwan announces it is no longer looking to purchase U.S. submarines
- Filippino presidential campaigning begins without clear leader
- Iran begins work on 20% nuclear fuel
- Weather closes Washington, D.C. federal offices for second day
- U.S. Representative John Murtha (D., PA) dies after complications to gall bladder surgery
- HuffingtonPost.com: The New York Times set to publish “damning” story about New York State Governor David Patterson that will “force him to resign“, Governor Patterson defiant
- Ukrainian Prime Minister Tymoshenko to formally challenge election results putting opposition leader Yanukovich in the presidency
- Nissan reports return to profit in fourth-quarter 2009
- New twenty-seven member strong team of European Union (E.U.) commissioners set to receive approval of E.U. members of parliament
- More than twenty arrested in largest Colombian drug raid in a decade
- North Korea tells Chinese diplomats it is “committed” to a non-nuclear peninsula, U.N. Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for Political Affairs B. Lynn Pascoe on his way to Pyongyang
- Senior Pakistani politician, leader of one faction of the Pakistan Muslim League Sheikh Rahid Ahmed survives Rawalpindi gun attack
- University of California, Berkeley researchers: “third-hand smoke” still releases carcinogens
- Sri Lankan opposition leader General Sarath Fonseka arrested, party mulls future
- International Criminal Court (ICC) dismisses charges against first Darfur war crimes suspect, Sudanese rebel leader Bahar Idriss Abu Garda
- Yemeni al-Qa`ida faction calls for jihad against U.S., its allies
- Cassini-Huygens probe returns more data related to sub-surface Enceladus sea
- Australia increases aid to Burma, justifies move
- Avalanche kills at least seventeen Indian soldiers in Indian-administered Kashmir
- Chinese authorities still looking for melamine-tainted milk
- Afghan President Karzai wants security handover to begin “this year”
Current Events for Wednesday, 9 February 2010
- “Snowmaggedon“ cripples the Mid-Atlantic
- Haitian judge planning to release ten American missionaries accused of kidnapping thirty-three Haitian children
- ABC News releases aerial photographs of Ground Zero as the World Trade Centers collapsed on 9/11
- British government loses court battle to prevent disclosure of secret U.S. intelligence relating to allegations of “cruel and inhumane“ treatment of suspected terrorists
- The Wall Street Journal: Iran to suspend Google’s email service indefinitely
- Thousands of General Fonseka supporters clash with government proponents
- Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri: daily Israeli jet incursions creating a “very dangerous situation”
- Pakistan reports “credible information” Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is dead
- Honda begins recall of some 400,000 vehicles over airbag issues
- Former U.S. Congressman Charlie Wilson, famous for involvement in Mujahideen fight against Soviets in Afghanistan, dies
- Turkish court sentences Kurdish newspaper editor to twenty-one years in prison for sympathizing with outlawed Parti Karkerani Kurdista (Kurdistan Workers’ Party, PKK)
- University of Copenhagen researchers extract deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)from hair found in Greenland permafrost, reconstruct face
- Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou vows to “take any necessary measures” to reduce Grecian deficit
- Google announces plans to build “ultra high-speed” broadband network in U.S.
- U.S. trade deficit rose 10% in December 2009 to $40.2 billion
- Suicide bomber kills at least twelve Khyber, some police
- Warner Music to stop licensing music to free streaming providers because those services are “not positive for the industry”
- Hundreds of Somali Islamists “pour” into Mogadishu
- Devout Hindu wins right in British court to be cremated on funeral pyre
- Democracy advocate, U.S. citizen jailed by Burmese court for three years
- U.S. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs pokes fun at former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin’s “crib notes” from Tea Party Movement address
- Nigerian Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan assumes presidential powers
- Google unveils Buzz
- South African orphanage fire kills at least fifteen
- Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez declares energy emergency over power shortages
- Early figures show Super Bowl XLIV breaks Mash series finale as most watched television show in history