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Current events of
April 23, 2009
(
2009-04-23
)
(Thursday)
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General Motors
will temporarily close 13
factories
in the
United States
and
Mexico
.
(AP via
Miami Herald
)
The
Taliban
's
Students' Movement
captures
Buner District
in
Pakistan
.
(WSJ)
Judge
Tomas Norström of
The Pirate Bay
's
trial
is revealed to be a member of the same
copyright protection organizations
as several
entertainment industry
representatives.
(
TT
via
The Local
)
India
's
general election
begins its second of five phases.
(BBC)
The
International Monetary Fund
forecasts that the
world economy
will not
recover
until 2010.
(CNN)
Prime Minister
of
Lesotho
Pakalitha Mosisili
survives an apparent
assassination
attempt.
(BBC)
Two
suicide attacks
near
Baqubah
and in
Baghdad
,
Iraq
,
kill
at least 87 people.
(CNN)
Iraq
's
government
calculates that more than 110,000
Iraqis
have died since the
Iraq War
began
in 2003.
(AP)
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