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Current events of
September 20, 2009
(
2009-09-20
)
(Sunday)
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Precious
wins the People's Choice Award at the
2009 Toronto International Film Festival
.
(BBC)
(
Cape Times
)
(CBC)
(
The Sydney Morning Herald
)
(CNN)
61st Primetime Emmy Awards
Toni Collette
wins the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for playing Tara Gregson on
United States of Tara
.
(AP via Google News)
Alec Baldwin
wins the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for playing
Jack Donaghy
on
30 Rock
.
(AP via Google News)
Glenn Close
wins the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for playing Patty Hewes on
Damages
.
(AP via San Francisco Chronicle)
Bryan Cranston
wins the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for playing Walter White on
Breaking Bad
.
(AP via San Francisco Chronicle)
Mad Men
wins the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series.
(AP via Google News)
30 Rock
wins the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series.
(AP via Google News)
Trafigura
oil trading firm agrees to
pay more than $46 million compensation
to more than 30,000 people in
Côte d'Ivoire
who say they were made ill by dumped waste in 2006.
(BBC)
(Al Jazeera)
(
The Sydney Morning Herald
)
(Reuters)
(France 24)
(
The Times
)
More than 140
Shiite
Houthi rebels are killed in northern
Yemen
after they attempt to take over the government palace in the city of
Sa'dah
.
(Yemen News Agency)
(AFP)
(Press TV)
In
Havana
's
Plaza de la Revolución
,
Juanes
,
Silvio Rodríguez
and
Miguel Bosé
headline
Cuba
's largest open-air concert since the
1959 Revolution
.
(
Granma
)
(BBC)
(Associated Press)
Colombian
President
Álvaro Uribe
eases the terms for the release of 24 police and soldiers being held by
Marxist
FARC
rebels.
(BBC)
Democratic Republic of Congo
transfers
Grégoire Ndahimana
to the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
(ICTR) to stand trial for the massacre of at least 2,000
Rwandan
Tutsis
during the
1994 genocide
.
(Reuters)
The
Government of Ireland
approves the introduction of a national
postal code
.
(RTÉ)
Tribesmen attack a village in south
Sudan
, overwhelming soldiers guarding the settlement and killing an unknown number.
(IOL)
Somalia
's
al-Shabaab
insurgents warn schools not to use textbooks provided by
United Nations
agencies and other donors they accuse of being un-
Islamic
.
(IOL)
(BBC)
(
The Daily Telegraph
)
(
The Washington Post
)
The bust of a
Sumerian
king is among eight stolen antiques recovered in an undercover operation by
Iraqi
police.
(BBC)
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