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Shootings wound at least five members of the Sri Lankan cricket team and kill at least five policemen near the Gaddafi Stadium (pictured) in Lahore, Pakistan.
President of Guinea-Bissau João Bernardo Vieira is assassinated during an armed attack on his residence in Bissau.
Insurance firm AIG announces fourth quarter losses for 2008 of $61.7 billion, the largest quarterly loss in corporate history.
Over €7 million is stolen from the Bank of Ireland in College Green, Dublin, in the largest bank robbery in the Republic of Ireland's history.
Milan Milutinović, a former President of Serbia, is acquitted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on charges of war crimes.

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March 3, 2009 (Tuesday)

Raimundo Pereira, the President of Guinea-Bissau's National People's Assembly, is sworn in as the interim Head of State following the assassination of President João Bernardo Vieira. (Reuters)
The European Court of Human Rights rules Turkey's government violated the property rights of a Greek Orthodox foundation by seizing its land and orders it to pay €105,000 in fines. (Reuters)
The National Committee of the 11th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which will last for nine days, starts its annual session with a focus on the global financial crisis. (Xinhua News)
Former Yukos businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky again stands trial for alleged financial crimes. (Moscow Times)
Six Sri Lankan cricket players are wounded and six Pakistani policemen are killed in shootings near Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium; two civilians are also killed. (Sky News), (BBC)
A minor earthquake, measuring 2.8 on the Richter Scale, strikes Folkstone, England. (BBC News)
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown meets with US President Barack Obama at the White House. (BBC)
Three people are feared trapped after the Cologne municipal archives building collapses, destroying parts of a nearby building. (Spiegel Online)

March 3, 2009 Wikinews articles

March 2, 2009 (Monday)

United States President Barack Obama nominates Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services. (AP via MSNBC)
Late 2000s recession:
- Consumer spending in the U.S. rose in January after six successive monthly declines. (AP via MSNBC)
- American International Group announces a loss of US$61.7 billion for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2008. (Dow Jones via CNNMoney)
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls below 7,000 for the first time since 1997. (MarketWatch)
- Sweden's IF Metall trade union agrees to reductions in wages and working time by maximums of 20 percent. (IHT)
A winter storm in the eastern United States causes the cancellation of 1,000 flights and cuts hundreds of thousands of people's electricity. (Reuters via News Daily)
President João Bernardo Vieira of Guinea-Bissau is assassinated in Bissau. (BBC)
Palestinians accuse Israel of planning ethnic cleansing in Bustan, East Jerusalem. (Sky News)
North Korea's and the United Nations' military commands meet in South Korea for the first time since 2002. (Reuters)
It is announced that two thousand Tamil people have been killed and 5,000 injured in Vanni District during Sri Lanka's civil war. (AP) (BBC)

March 2, 2009 Wikinews articles

March 1, 2009 (Sunday)

The Basque Nationalist Party wins a plurality of seats in Spain's Basque Country's parliamentary elections. (CNN)
Canada's Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute discovers a new method to create embryonic-like stem cells that could cure spinal-cord injuries and Parkinson's disease. (CTV News)
The United States Coast Guard searches Florida's west coast for a fishing vessel carrying National Football League players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith. (Fox News)
China's first lunar probe, Chang'e 1, impacts the Moon. (Xinhua News)
The United States, Israel, and Canada will boycott the Durban Review Conference. (Jewish News Weekly) (Haaretz) (Forbes)
ASEAN concludes its annual summit in Hua Hin, Thailand, and calls for coordinated action against the current recession. (Reuters)

March 1, 2009 Wikinews articles

February 28, 2009 (Saturday)

Carpatair Flight 128 – a Saab 2000 bound for Timişoara, Romania, from Chişinău, Moldova, and carrying 51 people – makes an emergency landing at Traian Vuia International Airport without its forward landing gear. (Phillyburbs)
Burma's government announces it will allow Rohingyas who have fled to neighboring countries to return only if they identify themselves as Bengalis. (BBC)
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao holds the first online discussion with Internet users before the National People's Congress's annual plenary session. (People's Daily)
The Standing Committee of China's NPC approves the Food Safety Law, which will enhance supervision and strengthen quality standards. (Xinhua)
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declares a state of emergency, due to severe drought. (BBC)
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe vows to continue his policy of distributing land from white to black farmers. (BBC)
Colombia's military kills ten and captures eight Revolutionary Armed Forces members in Cundinamarca. (BBC)
A gene linked to a genetic motor neurone disease is discovered. (BBC)
Bangladesh's Army finds more mass graves where Bangladesh Rifles mutinied in Dhaka. (BBC)
The Holy See claims that the Roman Catholic Church's number of priests is slowly rising. (BBC)

February 28, 2009 Wikinews articles

February 27, 2009 (Friday)

A report by China's State Council criticizes the United States' human rights record. (People's Daily)`
United States President Barack Obama announces he will withdraw most soldiers from the Iraq War by August 2010. (BBC)
China's Armed Police shoot a Tibetan monk as he immolates himself in Sichuan. (BBC)
Global financial crisis of 2008–2009:
- ASEAN, Australia, and New Zealand sign a free trade agreement to increase commerce. (Bloomberg)
- The U.S. gross domestic product fell 6.2% in the final fiscal quarter of 2008. (MarketWatch)
- Lloyds Banking Group reports that HBOS lost £10.8 billion during 2008. (BBC)
- The U.S. federal government will increase its equity stake in Citigroup to 36%. (MarketWatch)
- Japan's industrial production fell by 10% in January 2009. (MarketWatch)
- Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány requests that the European Union aid Eastern Europe with US$230 billion. (Bloomberg)
Bangladesh's military arrests 300 Rifles for mutiny and discovers a mass grave containing 58 officers killed during the revolt. (Sky News) (BBC)
Seven million euros are stolen from the Bank of Ireland in Dublin. (Irish Times)
At least 50 people are killed in combat between Southern Sudan and militias in Malakal. (BBC)
The animated sitcom The Simpsons becomes the longest-running U.S. primetime television series after Fox Broadcasting confirms two more seasons. (BBC)
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez claims that former Cuban President Fidel Castro recently appeared publicly in Havana for the first time since 2006. (Irish Times)
China's Navy and Denmark's Navy thwart Somali pirate attacks on Italian and Chinese merchant vessels in the Gulf of Aden. (China Daily) (Canadian Press)

February 27, 2009 Wikinews articles

February 26, 2009 (Thursday)

United States President Barack Obama will withdraw most soldiers from the Iraq War by August 2010. (CNN)
The Bangladesh Rifles surrender after the government promises amnesty. (BBC)
Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah begin peace deliberations in Cairo, Egypt. (New York Times)
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia acquits former Serbian President Milan Milutinović of committing war crimes. (New York Times)
General Motors reports a US$9.6 billion loss, due to the current automotive industry crisis. (New York Times)
Switzerland's UBS AG appoints former Credit Suisse CEO Oswald Grübel as its new Group CEO. (BBC)
China's Navy and Denmark's Navy rescue Italian and Chinese merchant vessels from Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden. (BBC)
The Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, catches fire, five months after it was bombed. (BBC)
Latvian President Valdis Zatlers names former Finance Minister Valdis Dombrovskis as the new Prime Minister. (BBC)
Ajmal Kasab, the 2008 Mumbai attacks' lone surviving gunman, is charged with waging war against India. (Sky News)
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group reports a 2008 loss of £24.1 billion. (BBC)
Thirteen thousand civil servants stage a one-day strike action in Ireland. (RTÉ)
Former Guinean President Lansana Conté's eldest son confesses to drug trafficking. (BBC)
An outbreak of dengue fever in Bolivia has killed 18 people and infected 31,000. (BBC)
The University of Reading identifies the oldest words in the English language. (BBC)
A study by the scientific journal Nature shows that HIV is evolving to resist the human immune system. (BBC)
The earliest footprints evidencing modern human foot anatomy and gait are discovered in Koobi Fora, Kenya. (BBC)
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault receives 90,000 food crop seed samples. (BBC)
The United States Defense Department allows news agencies to publicize photographs of the coffins of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. (BBC)

February 26, 2009 Wikinews articles

February 25, 2009 (Wednesday)

The United Nations' Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimates that 15,000 refugees have fled from southern Darfur to the Zam Zam refugee camp in the north. (CNN)
United States President Barack Obama nominates former Washington Governor Gary Locke to serve as the next Secretary of Commerce. (Baltimore Sun)
An improvised explosive device kills three British Army soldiers in the Gerishk District of Afghanistan's Helmand Province. (CNN)
Three people set themselves on fire near Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. (BBC)
Iran tests its first nuclear power plant at Bushehr. (Guardian)
Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 crashes at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, killing nine people and injuring 84. (BBC)
The Bangladesh Rifles mutiny in Dhaka, killing one person and injuring eight. (AFP via Google News)
Antarctica's subglacial Gamburtsev Mountain Range is mapped. (BBC)
Two thousand Gardaí protest against Ireland's government at Dublin's Leinster House. (RTÉ)
A bus crashes in Indian-administered Kashmir, killing 35 people and injuring 15. (BBC)
The Special Court for Sierra Leone convicts three Revolutionary United Front commanders of war crimes and crimes against humanity during an 11-year civil war. (BBC)
Former Estonian Police Chief Herman Simm is jailed for 12.5 years for selling classified information on NATO to Russia. (BBC)
Serbia suspends 11 Belgrade corrections officers for aiding the escape of assassin Milorad Ulemek. (BBC)
Japan's exports plunged 45.7% in January 2009. (BBC)
The U.S. State Department criticizes China's human rights record. (BBC)
Islamist terrorist group Al-Shabaab seizes Hudur, Somalia. (BBC)
The U.S. arrests 750 people in a national crackdown on Mexican drug cartels. (BBC)
A Syrian arms dealer is jailed for 30 years for conspiring to sell weapons to Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces. (BBC)
Former Indian Communications Minister Sukhram is jailed for three years for corruption. (BBC)
An Australian study classifies a fossilized fish as one of the earliest known vertebrates to use internal fertilization. (BBC)
Iraq's Council of Representatives lifts the immunity of Mohammed al-Dayni, an MP accused of organizing the 2007 bombing of Parliament. (Al-Jazeera)

February 25, 2009 Wikinews articles

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Ongoing events
Automotive industry crisis International recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia International recognition of Kosovo Global financial crisis French Caribbean general strikes Icelandic financial crisis Irish banking crisis Malagasy protests NATO Expansion & Accession for Albania and Croatia Nord-Kivu campaign Piracy in Somalia Russian financial crisis Treaty of Lisbon ratification World food price crisis Zimbabwean cholera outbreak edit sidebar

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Elections
Recent 30 January: Somalia, President (by the parliament) 8 February: Turkmenistan, Parliament (3^rd Round) 8 February: Liechtenstein, Parliament 8 February: Switzerland, Referendum on freedom of movement with the European Union 10 February: Israel, Parliament 11 February: French Polynesia, President (by the parliament) 15 February: Venezuela, Constitutional referendum 16 February: Bangladesh, President (by the parliament) Upcoming edit sidebar

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Upcoming Austria: Josef Fritzl Canada: Larry O'Brien Estonia: Herman Simm Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim Netherlands: ICTY Radovan Karadžić Singapore: Chee Soon Juan and others Singapore: Peter Lloyd U.S.: Aníbal Acevedo Vilá U.S.: Viktor Bout U.S.: Noshir Gowadia U.S.: William J. Jefferson U.S.: James Charles Kopp U.S.: Bernard L. Madoff U.S.: Ehren Watada U.S.: Mayor Sheila Dixon U.S.: Joseph Bruno Ongoing Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Iraq: Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal Italy: Raffaele Sollecito, Amanda Knox Netherlands: ICC Thomas Lubanga Netherlands: ICTY Peru: Alberto Fujimori Republic of China (Taiwan): Chen Shui-bian Sierra Leone: SCfSL Charles Taylor Sweden: The Pirate Bay Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra US: Jena Six US: Phil Spector edit sidebar

Upcoming holidays and observances
March February 25 - April 11: Lent (Western Christianity) 2 – 20: Nineteen Day Fast (Bahá'í Faith) 2 – April 18: Great Lent (Eastern Christianity) 3: Liberation Day (Bulgaria) 3: Mother's Day (Georgia) 3: Admission Day (Florida) 3: Hinamatsuri (Japan) 3: Martyrs' Day (Malawi) 3: Town Meeting Day (Vermont) 4: World Maths Day 4: Saint Casimir's Day (Lithuania) 4: Charter Day (Pennsylvania) 4: Sultan’s Installation Anniversary (Terengganu) 4: Admission Day (Vermont) 5: St Piran's Day (Cornwall) 5: Gospel Day (French Polynesia) 5: Learn from Lei Feng Day (People's Republic of China) 5: Custom Chiefs' Day (Vanuatu) 6: World Day of Prayer 6: Independence Day (Ghana) 6: Foundation Day (Norfolk Island) 6: Alamo Day (Texas) 7: Teachers' Day (Albania) 8: International Women's Day 8: Revolution Day (Syria) 8: Girl Scout Sunday (Girl Guides and Girl Scouts) edit sidebar

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