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Current events of
February 13, 2009
(
2009-02-13
)
(Friday)
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The
United States
Congress
approves the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
.
(BBC)
Zimbabwe
's
Republic Police
charge
Roy Bennett
of the
Movement for Democratic Change
with
treason
.
(BBC)
The
Peanut Corporation of America
files for
Chapter 7
bankruptcy
and
liquidation
.
(Reuters via
Forbes
)
Germany
's
economy
shrank by 2.1 percent in the
fourth fiscal quarter
of
2008
.
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
A
suicide bomber
kills 40 people and injures 60 others in
Karbala
,
Iraq
.
(AP via Fox News)
China
's
government
urges
Yves Saint Laurent
's
estate
to return two
Qing Dynasty
sculptures
scheduled for
auction
in
Paris
.
(Bloomberg)
Australia
's
Senate
approves a
$
42-billion
economic
stimulus package
.
(BBC)
Israeli
Defense Forces
in the
Gaza Strip
discover
grenades
made by
Hamas
from
humanitarian supplies
.
(
Jerusalem Post
)
Germany
's
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
and the
United States
'
454 Life Sciences
map
the
Neanderthal
genome
.
(AP via Google News)
Lloyds Banking Group
warns that
HBOS
wil register a loss of
£
8.5 billion for
2008
.
(Sky News)
Unix time
equalled "1234567890" at 23:31:30
UTC
.
(
The Times
)
British Airways
CityFlyer
Flight 8456
crash-lands
at
London
's
City Airport
.
(RTÉ)
A
passenger train
derails
in
Bhubaneswar
,
Orissa
,
India
, killing at least 15 people and injuring 150 others.
(Thaindian News)
The
Air Accident Investigation Unit
finds that
Virgin Atlantic Airways
'
Airbus A340s
contain faulty
electrical wiring
.
(AAIU)
Six crew members are missing after
China's
MV
Changhai 178
capsizes
in the
South China Sea
.
(Xinhua)
At least 40
FDLR
members are
killed
in
airstrikes
in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo
.
(BBC)
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