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Current events of
February 10, 2009
(
2009-02-10
)
(Tuesday)
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Collision
of
Iridium Satellite LLC
's
Iridium 33
and
Russia
's
Kosmos-2251
in
low-Earth orbit
.
(Reuters)
(
New York Times
)
South Africa
announces that a
general election
will be held on April 22, 2009.
(CNN)
Automotive industry crisis of 2008-2009
:
United States
automaker
General Motors
announces it will
cut
10,000 jobs in its
salaried
workforce
and the pay of remaining employees.
(AP via Google News)
English
automaker
Bentley
cuts
220 jobs and all
salaries
by 10 percent.
(Press Association via Google News)
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg
is named
Germany
's
Federal Minister of Economics and Technology
.
(
IHT
)
Russian financial crisis of 2008–2009
:
Russia
will request postponement of repayment of
US$
400 billion in
private-sector
debt
to foreign banks.
(Reuters)
The
Russia Tower
will be reduced in size, due to funding issues and the construction of the
Moscow International Business Centre
.
(
Moscow Times
)
Swiss
financial services
company
UBS AG
lost 19.7 billion
francs
for
fiscal year
2008 and will
cut
15,000 jobs throughout 2009.
(
The Street
)
Israel
's
legislative election
takes place.
(Reuters)
Zimbabwe
's
dollar
depreciates
and its
cholera
epidemic
has killed more than 3,000 people.
(Sky News)
The
United States
Senate
approves the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
.
(CNN)
(
New York Times
)
The
United Kingdom
imposes new
visa
requirements on
nationals
from
Bolivia
,
Lesotho
,
South Africa
,
Swaziland
, and
Venezuela
.
(BBC)
Mexico
will nationally register all its
mobile phone
users and catalog their
fingerprints
.
(Reuters)
An
EF4
tornado
kills
at least eight people and injures 50 in
Lone Grove
,
Oklahoma
,
United States
.
(
The Oklahoman
)
Fifty thousand people
protest
living costs
in
Guadeloupe
and
Martinique
.
(MSNBC)
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