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Current events of
December 17, 2008
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2008-12-17
)
(Wednesday)
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Ruins of an entire ancient city
belonging to the
Wari culture
are discovered in northern
Peru
.
(BBC)
South Korean
actress
Ok So-ri
is given an eight-month suspended prison sentence for
adultery
after the
Constitutional Court
refused to strike down a law criminalizing adultery.
(BBC)
Iraqi
Parliament
Speaker
Mahmoud al-Mashhadani
announces his resignation because of chaos over the treatment of
Muntadhar al-Zaidi
, the
Al-Baghdadia TV
journalist who
threw his shoes
at
United States
President
George W. Bush
.
(Telegraph)
A
U.S. State Department
panel recommends that
Blackwater Worldwide
should be dropped as the main
private security contractor
for American diplomats in Iraq.
(BBC)
The
United Nations
passes a resolution authorizing foreign countries to conduct military raids on land or by sea in pursuit of
Somali
pirates
.
(Washington Post)
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