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Current events of
November 9, 2008
(
2008-11-09
)
(Sunday)
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A total of
€
750 million of
cocaine
is seized
off the coast of
Ireland
, in the largest such seizure in the country's history.
(The Sunday Business Post)
The
Latvian
government effectively nationalizes the country's second-largest bank,
Parex
, acquiring a controlling 51% stake for the symbolic sum of just two
lati
.
(Reuters)
The owner of the
Haitian
school that
collapsed
is arrested on charges of involuntary
manslaughter
.
(UPI)
An accident aboard
K-152
Nerpa
, a nuclear-powered
Russian
Navy
submarine
doing a test run in the
Sea of Japan
, kills more than 20 people.
(Al Jazeera)
Huda bin Abdul Haq
,
Imam Samudra
, and
Amrozi bin Nurhasyim
are
executed by firing squad
on
Kambangan Island
in
Indonesia
for their involvement in the
2002 Bali bombings
.
(BBC News)
An
anti-police riot
in
Shenzhen
,
China
involving 400 people, takes place after a police official threw a
walkie-talkie
at a motorcyclist causing his death.
(AFP via Yahoo! News)
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