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Current events of
January 26, 2009
(
2009-01-26
)
(Monday)
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The
United States
Senate
confirms
Timothy F. Geithner
as
Secretary of the Treasury
.
(
The New York Times
)
2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict
:
An
Israeli
soldier
is killed and three others injured in a
bombing
at the
Gaza Strip
border.
(BBC)
Nine youths are arrested for alleged
nationalist
attacks on
Arabs
in
Upper Nazareth
.
(
Jerusalem Post
)
Icelandic
Prime Minister
Geir Haarde
announces the collapse of his
coalition
government
in the wake of the
country's financial crisis
.
(BBC)
United States
pharmaceutical company
Pfizer
announces it will buy rival
Wyeth
in a
US$
68-billion deal.
(BBC)
A gunman
kills two people and injures seven others
in
Portland
,
Oregon
, before shooting and critically wounding himself.
(Sky News)
Forty people are killed when a
riverboat
sinks in central
Vietnam
.
(CNN)
A
state of emergency
is declared in
Coatesville
,
Pennsylvania
, following a series of
arson
attacks.
(
USA Today
)
A set of human
octuplets
are
born alive
for the
second time
in the
United States
.
(BBC)
(
Los Angeles Times
)
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