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Current events of
September 24, 2008
(
2008-09-24
)
(Wednesday)
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At least 17 civilians are killed in battles between
Islamist
militants
and
African Union
peacekeepers in the
Somali
capital
Mogadishu
.
(CNN)
Subprime mortgage crisis
President of the United States
George W. Bush
addresses the nation on prime time television
to discuss the crisis and the
Paulson plan
. He warns that the
United States
faces a "long and painful recession" if the package is not passed.
(AP via
San Francisco Chronicle
)
(Canadian Press via Google News)
Senator
John McCain
, the
Republican Party
nominee in the
presidential election
, postpones campaigning and seeks deferral of a
presidential debate
so that he can return to
Washington D.C.
to discuss the
subprime mortgage crisis
and the
Paulson Plan
.
(
The New York Times
)
President Bush invites Senator McCain, Senator
Barack Obama
the
Democratic Party
and leaders of the
United States Congress
to a meeting at the
White House
tomorrow to discuss the crisis.
(AP via the
New York Sun
)
Preliminary findings made for the
American Geophysical Union
that support the
Clathrate gun hypothesis
, indicate the possible release of millions of tons of
methane
, a
greenhouse gas
, from
Arctic
seabeds
.
(
The Independent
)
The
Diet
elects
Taro Aso
of the
Liberal Democratic Party
as the new
Prime Minister of Japan
.
(AP via CNN)
(AFP)
Tomislav Nikolić
announces that his party (a splinter from the
Serbian Radical Party
) will be called
Serbian Progressive Party
and that it will be founded on 21 October 2008.
(B92)
Typhoon Hagupit
hits
Vietnam
, the
Philippines
and southern
China
, killing at least eight.
(BBC News)
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