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Current events of
September 8, 2010
(
2010-09-08
)
(Wednesday)
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Armed conflicts and incidents
Mexican marines
arrest seven gunmen suspected in participating in the massacre of 72
Central
and
South American
migrants in
San Fernando, Tamaulipas
.
(AP via Fox News)
Arts and culture
A
Charities Aid Foundation
survey finds that
Australia
,
New Zealand
and
Canada
are the most generous contributors to
charity
.
(Canadian Press via Google News)
Disasters
Two workers are missing and more than thirty workers are trapped in an
oil rig
in the Shengli oil field off
Dongying
in
China
's
Shandong
province.
(AFP via Google News)
The
state of emergency
in
Christchurch
,
New Zealand
, is extended for another week following an
aftershock
to
Saturday's earthquake
in
Lyttelton
.
(
Sydney Morning Herald
)
Eight people are missing and at least fifty-four houses are destroyed in a
wildfire
burning west of
Boulder
,
Colorado
, in the
United States
.
(CNN)
The remnants of
Tropical Storm Hermine
causes widespread flooding in the
US
states of
Texas
and
Oklahoma
with at least two people dead.
(AP via Yahoo! News)
International relations
South Korea
unveils
sanctions
against
Iran
for its
nuclear program
.
(Xinhua via Sina)
Japan
detains a
Chinese
fishing boat
found near the disputed
Pinnacle Islands
in the
East China Sea
.
(Xinhua)
Law and crime
The
New South Wales
parliament
votes to legalise
adoption
by
same sex couples
in
Australia
's most populous state.
(AAP via Sydney Morning Herald)
Police
in
Europe
shut down 49
servers
and detain ten people in a raid across thirteen countries in a crackdown on
film piracy
.
(AFP via the
Melbourne Age
)
The
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
dismisses a lawsuit associated with the
Central Intelligence Agency
's practice of "
extraordinary rendition
".
(
New York Times
)
Politics and government
The
Parliament of Sri Lanka
passes the 18th Amendment to the
Constitution of Sri Lanka
which removes the
two-term limit
on the
presidency
and allows him to choose the judges and commissioners monitoring elections, human rights, and other affairs.
(BBC)
(New York Times)
(The Australian)
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