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Current events of
April 17, 2009
(
2009-04-17
)
(Friday)
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An
airplane
crash
kills 11 people in
Papua
,
Indonesia
.
(UPI)
American Sterling Bank
in
Sugar Creek
,
Missouri
, is
closed
.
(MarketWatch)
The
Bangladesh
Police
arrest 31 suspected
Hizb ut-Tahrir
members for planning
terrorism
.
(AFP via
Sydney Morning Herald
)
The
Irish
political party
Fianna Fáil
departs the
Alliance for Europe of the Nations
and joins the
European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party
.
(EurActiv)
Two
earthquakes
kill 22 people in
Nangarhar Province
,
Afghanistan
.
(Sky News)
Peter Sunde
,
Fredrik Neij
,
Gottfrid Svartholm
, and
Carl Lundström
of
The Pirate Bay
are
found guilty
of
copyright infringement
and imprisoned until 2010.
(
New Zealand Herald
)
People's Alliance for Democracy
leader
Sondhi Limthongkul
is injured in an
apparent assassination attempt
in
Bangkok
,
Thailand
.
(
Los Angeles Times
)
A
recount
in
Moldova
's
parliamentary
election
confirms an "emphatic win" by the
Communist Party
.
(
Russia Today
)
The
trial
of
Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasāb
resumes.
(Al Jazeera)
Serbian
President
Boris Tadić
visits
Kosovo
.
(Deutsche Welle)
The
Czech Republic
invites
Belarussian
President
Alexander Lukashenko
to a
European Union
summit
in May.
(RIA Novosti)
Botswana
will reduce its output of
diamonds
by more than 50% in 2009.
(AFP)
Malagasy
President
Andry Rajoelina
issues an
arrest warrant
for former President
Marc Ravalomanana
.
(News 24)
South Africa
's
Army
enters
KwaZulu-Natal
province
to prevent violence during the
upcoming general election
.
(BBC)
Canada
restores
citizenship
to
foreigners
in an
amendment
to the
Citizenship Act of 1977
.
(
Wall Street Journal
)
The
Fifth
Summit of the Americas
begins in
Port-of-Spain
,
Trinidad and Tobago
.
(
Barbados Advocate
)
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