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In tennis, Rafael Nadal of Spain and Kim Clijsters (pictured) of Belgium win the men's and women's singles, respectively, at the US Open, with Nadal achieving the career grand slam.
Voters in Turkey approve constitutional changes in a referendum.
In basketball, the FIBA World Championship concludes with the United States defeating Turkey to win the tournament.
In rugby union, the Tri Nations Series concludes with New Zealand beating Australia to win the tournament undefeated.
The American film Somewhere, directed by Sofia Coppola, wins the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.
The Iranian government suspends the sentence of death by stoning for Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani amidst international pressure.
The Labor Party, led by Prime Minister Julia Gillard, forms a minority government after a federal election in Australia that resulted in a hung parliament.

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15 September 2010 (Wednesday)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

At least 12 people die in Pakistan's North Waziristan province as United States drone attacks continue for a second day. (Xinhua)

Business and economy

Japan intervenes in the foreign exchange market for the first time in six years to reduce the exchange rate for the yen in order to stimulate the Japanese economy. (Reuters)
News Corporation sells the Fiji Times to Fijian company Motibhai two weeks before a deadline set by the government of interim Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama. (Radio New Zealand)

International relations

A Chinese fishing boat returns to Quanzhou after being captured by the Japan Coast Guard off the disputed Senkaku Islands. (Xinhua)

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14 September 2010 (Tuesday)

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Indian police open fire on stone-throwing protesters in Indian-administered Kashmir, injuring 10 people. (AFP)
One Palestinian gunman is killed and four more are wounded in a Gaza firefight after launching RPGs and missiles at Israeli soldiers. (Ynetnews)
French police evacuate the Eiffel Tower and the surrounding Champ de Mars park in Paris following a bomb threat. (AFP via Google News)

Business and economy

Kia Motors suspends exports to Iran partly in response to South Korea's sanctions against Iran's nuclear program. (AFP via Google)
Virgin Blue fights for approval of its transtasman alliance with Air New Zealand. (Nzherald)
Cisco Systems, the provider of computer networking products and services headquartered in San Jose, California, announced that it will break with a long-standing policy and issue a stock dividend during the current fiscal year. (Cisco Blogs)
A study funded by Pfizer, makers of the smoking cessation drug Varenicline, claims it would be financially wise for governments to fund smoking cessation treatments. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

British singer George Michael is given a sentence of eight weeks for driving under the influence of cannabis at the Highbury Corner Magistrates Court in London. (BBC)

Disasters

2010 Atlantic hurricane season
- Hurricane Julia becomes the fifth hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season. (Reuters)
- Mexico and Belize issue warnings about Tropical Storm Karl which is threatening the Yucatan Peninsula. (CNN)

International relations

A third Iranian diplomat defects and applys for asylum in Europe over the disputed presidential election last year. (Al Jazeera)
China cancels a visit of a senior official to Japan amid a row over the arrest of a Chinese skipper near the Senkaku disputed islands. (BBC)
Iran releases United States hiker Sarah Shourd from Evin Prison following payment of bail. (CNN) (Al Jazeera)
Viviane Reding, the European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, describes France's deportation of Roma migrants as a "disgrace". (Voice of America)
A second round of Middle East peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority concludes in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (Jerusalem Post)

Law and crime

Ukrainian prosecutors say that former Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko ordered the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze in 2000. (UNIAN) (Bloomberg) (BBC)

Politics

Peruvian President Alan Garcia names José Chang as Prime Minister, replacing Javier Velásquez as part of a cabinet reshuffle. (Andina) (BBC)
The head of Guinea's electoral commission who was convicted for electoral fraud, Ben Sekou Sylla, dies, ahead of a presidential run-off on Sunday. (Reuters) (BBC)
France passes a resolution banning full face veils after a 246-1 vote in the Senate. The law must still be reviewed by the Constitutional Council before coming into effect. (Ynetnews)
The Governor-General of Australia swears in Julia Gillard as Prime Minister of Australia and her Ministry. (AAP via Sydney Morning Herald) (ABC Online)
Naoto Kan is reelected as the leader of the Democratic Party of Japan and therefore as Prime Minister of Japan, defeating powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa. (Xinhua) (Reuters)
Robert Gates, the United States Secretary of Defense, outlines a $100 billion savings plan for his Department. (UPI)
Cecilia Romero resigns as the head of the Mexican National Institute of Migration in the wake of massacre of 72 migrants at the hands of a drug cartel. (AP via San Francisco Chronicle)
United States primary elections
- Christine O'Donnell is elected the Republican Party candidate in the Delaware US Senate race. (The Guardian)
- Representative Charles Rangel wins the Democratic primary election for New York's 15th congressional district despite facing 13 ethics allegations in the House. (CNN)

Sport

FIFA investigates allegations that a fake Togo national football team played against Bahrain last week. (BBC) (AP)
Reggie Bush of the New Orleans Saints gives up his Heisman Trophy won while playing for the USC Trojans due to receiving improper payments. (ESPN)

September 14, 2010 Wikinews articles

American professional wrestler Mike "Bastion Booger" Shaw dies aged 53

13 September 2010 (Monday)

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At least 18 people are dead after protests in Jammu and Kashmir following reported burning of a Koran in the United States. (BBC) (IBN Live) (Times of India), (Voice of America)
Peter Hain reveals Nelson Mandela was "breathing fire" down a phone about Tony Blair's role in invading Iraq. (BBC News)
A civilian is killed and six people injured in fighting in Iraq's Diyala Governorate. (Xinhua)

Business and economy

Cuba announces plans to cut up to half a million public sector jobs to revive the island's economy, in the biggest private sector shift since the 1959 revolution. (BBC),(Al Jazeera), (CNN)
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision based in Basel, Switzerland, increases capital requirements for banks around the world to be introduced on 1 January 2015. (The Australian)
Harley-Davidson workers in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin approve a new contract freezing pay and cutting jobs following a threat to move production from the state cutting 1,350 jobs. (AP via Google News)
A study of Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture employees shows that the food industry has been successfully withholding information from inspectors and pressuring the government agencies to withdraw or alter policies which promote food safety. (Reuters)

Disasters

At least 14 people die after a Conviasa ATR 42 crashes near Ciudad Guayana in Venezuela's Bolívar State. (Voice of America)
Monsoon flooding on the Yamuna River threatens the Taj Mahal in Agra, India after more than 800,000 cusecs of water had to be released from a barrage in Haryana, while hundreds of nearby villages flooded and flooding continues in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. (MSN India) (The Weather Network)

International relations

Russian diplomat Yuri Fedotov takes office as the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. (AP)

Politics

The ruling National Resistance Movement in Uganda endorses incumbent President Yoweri Museveni to run for a fourth term in presidential elections in early 2011. (AFP) (Xinhua)
A rare congress of the Korean Workers' Party in North Korea is postponed amid speculation about the health of Kim Jong-il. (Radio Television Hong Kong) (Voice of Russia) (Arirang)
André-Joseph Léonard, the Archbishopric of Mechelen-Brussels and head of Belgium's Roman Catholic Church, announces how the church will deal with widespread cases of sexual abuse within its ranks. (BBC), (AFP via Yahoo! News)
US defense officials claim they are preparing to notify Congress of plans to sell $60 billion of military equipment to Saudi Arabia. (CNN) (Reuters)

Sport

Rafael Nadal of Spain wins the Men's Singles at the 2010 US Open defeating Novak Djokovic of Serbia 6-4 5-7 6-4 6-2 becoming the seventh man in history to win all four Grand Slam titles. (BBC)

September 13, 2010 Wikinews articles

Australian rules football: Drouin through to 2010 Gippsland Football League Grand Final

12 September 2010 (Sunday)

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At least 3 people are killed by a United States missile attack on a home where associates of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan chief Hafiz Gul Bahadur were believed to be staying in northwest Pakistan. (AP via Fox News)
Israeli soldiers identify a group of armed men approaching Israel from Gaza near Kibbutz Erez, killing three; Palestinian sources claim that two were farmers. (The Jerusalem Post) (BBC) (Reuters)
Danish police state that there is no evidence that a small explosives blast in a Copenhagen hotel ties into a larger terror plot. (Al Jazeera)
A curfew is imposed on Srinagar and other large towns in Kashmir after police clashes with people protesting against Indian rule yesterday. (BBC)
At least 24 people are injured in clashes between supporters of rival political parties in several parts of Conakry ahead of a presidential run-off election in Guinea. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (Japan Today)

Arts and culture

French film director Claude Chabrol, a founding member of the French New Wave, dies. (The Guardian) (France 24) (The New York Times) (The Daily Telegraph) (Press TV)
Lady Gaga wins eight MTV Video Music Awards at the 2010 ceremony including Video of the Year for "Bad Romance". (MTV)

Disasters

The 33 miners involved in the 2010 Copiapó mining accident are permitted to smoke cigarettes after one month of underground entrapment. (BBC) (AFP via The Sydney Morning Herald)
95 farm workers are rescued from difficult living conditions in two south-eastern states (Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro (state)) of Brazil. (BBC)
2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion:
- The death toll rises to 7 from a pipeline explosion in San Bruno, California, near the U.S. city of San Francisco. (Bay City News via San Francisco Chronicle)
- The California Public Utilities Commission orders Pacific Gas and Electric to perform a survey of all natural gas lines in California following the explosion. (AP via The Houston Chronicle)
2010 Atlantic hurricane season:
- Hurricane Igor strengthens to Category 4 in the Atlantic Ocean. (AFP via Google News)
- Tropical Storm Julia forms in the Atlantic with a tropical storm warning issued for parts of the Cape Verde Islands. (AP via Houston Chronicle)

International relations

Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu states that 10-month restrictions on the building of Israeli settlements in the West Bank will no longer apply after they expire later this month. (Al Jazeera)
The Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), an important trade pact, comes into force between China and Taiwan. Hundreds of thousands of people protested against it in Taiwan but it was unanimously approved by the island's parliament. (BBC)
2 French judges and 17 other legal experts land in Rwanda ahead of a week-long inquiry into the killing of President Juvénal Habyarimana, whose plane with French crew on board was shot down in 1994. (BBC)
2009 detention of American hikers by Iran: Iran announces its willingness to release Sarah Shourd, a U.S. hiker arrested in 2009, on bail and says that she will be permitted to leave the country. (BBC) (The Guardian) (AP via The Independent) (Al Jazeera)
Mexican marines capture alleged Beltrán Leyva Cartel leader Sergio Villarreal Barragán in the state of Puebla. (The Guardian)

Law and crime

President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev approves a plan to overhaul Russia's police system. (IANS via Sulekha)
Malaysia's police force is debated following the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy. (Al Jazeera)
Australia sends an official to the Indonesian province of Maluku to investigate claims that Detachment 88, part of the Indonesian National Police, tortured a group of seperatists. (AAP via Sydney Morning Herald)
Airplane cleaners in the Philippines locate a newborn male baby human which had been discarded in a toilet bin. (AFP via The Sydney Morning Herald)

Politics and elections

Turkish constitutional referendum, 2010:
- Voters in Turkey go to the polls for a referendum to amend the constitution. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (Xinhua)
- The constitutional changes are reported to have been "approved" by the people. (BBC)
Néstor Kirchner, former President of Argentina and current Secretary-General of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), has surgery on a blocked coronary artery. (BBC)

Sport

Albanians jeer Serbs following a Serbian defeat in an international basketball game leading to clashes in Mitrovica. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera)
In basketball, the United States defeats Turkey 81-64 in the 2010 FIBA World Championship Final to win the 2010 FIBA World Championship. (Toronto Sun)
The men's singles final and women's doubles finals for the 2010 US Open tennis final are postponed until Monday due to rain. (Xinhua)

September 12, 2010 Wikinews articles

11 September 2010 (Saturday)

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A man is arrested after a minor explosion at a hotel in Copenhagen, amid heightened security fears in Denmark. (BBC) (Deutsche Welle) (Reuters)
U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta is awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the ongoing War in Afghanistan, the first living recipient to be so honored since the Vietnam War. (The Guardian)

Arts and culture

Eid al-Fitr:
- Muslims around the world celebrate the feast of Eid al-Fitr marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. (AP via Google News)
- Tens of thousands of people protest against Indian rule in Kashmir during a rare Eid al-Fitr event. (BBC)
U.S. film director Sofia Coppola wins the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice International Film Festival for her film Somewhere. (BBC)
US actor Kevin McCarthy best known for his roles in Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Death of a Salesman dies. (Playbill)

Business and economy

Greek protests against austerity:
- Police tear gas people in Thessaloniki as tens of thousands of people protest against Prime Minister George Papandreou's austerity plans. (BBC) (The Guardian) (Al Jazeera)
- A doctor throws a shoe at the prime minister and is promptly arrested and locked up with two bystanders. They are later released unharmed. (The Times of India) (CNN)
Air Zimbabwe fires pilots on strike for better pay. (BBC)
Mining in 3 eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo provinces is suspended by President Joseph Kabila to allow for a clean-up of operations. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)

Disasters

At least 10 people are killed and 20 others are injured during a gas explosion near Mashhad, Khorasan Razavi. A fire burns for 3 hours. (Al Jazeera) (Xinhua) (Press TV) (Tehran Times)
Officials in 3 Egyptian governorates declare a state of emergency after a barge leaked some 100 tons of gasoline into the Nile River north of Aswan. (AP)
Mexico experiences its record worst ever rainy season. (The China Post) (The Age)
A moderate earthquake strikes Indonesia's North Maluku province. (ABC Online)
The death toll rises to 6 from the pipeline explosion in San Bruno, California near the U.S. city of San Francisco. (AP via Silicon Valley Mercury News)
Four people are dead and twenty-five people are hospitalised after a Coach USA Megabus crashes into a railroad overpass in Salina, New York. (CNN)
More than 300 flights from Shanghai, China are delayed due to torrential rain caused by Tropical Storm Meranti. (Xinhua)
Hurricane Igor reaches Category 1 in the Atlantic Ocean. (UPI)

International relations

France condemns as "unacceptable" remarks made by former Cuban leader Fidel Castro expressing sympathy with the Roma migrants it is trying to rid itself of. (BBC) (AFP via France24)
North Korea proposes the resumption of family reunions with South Korea. (BBC) (Yonhap)
Jordan signs a nuclear co-operation treaty with Japan to build a nuclear power plant within 10 years. (Press TV)

Law and crime

Sex abuse campaigners meet at a conference in Islington, North London, to call for "action not words" from Pope Benedict XVI ahead of his visit to the UK. (BBC)
9 Serb paramilitaries are indicted over the deaths of 43 ethnic Albanians in May 1999. (Al Jazeera)
At least 8 police officers are killed and several others are wounded in San Miguel, Putumayo, Colombia, near its border with Ecuador. 2 of the perpetrators are then killed in the jungle. (BBC)
Police in Somalia say they have foiled an attack by Islamist militants against the seaport in the capital Mogadishu. (Reuters) (Sify)

Politics

Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard announces her new Cabinet, with former PM Kevin Rudd named as the Minister for Foreign Affairs. (ABC Online)
The United States commemorates the anniversary of the September 11 attacks with events in New York City, the Pentagon Memorial in Washington D.C. and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, near where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed. (AFP via ABC News)
2010 Qur'an-burning controversy:
- Thousands of Afghans protest in Badakhshan province over U.S. plans to hold an "International Burn-a-Koran Day", despite its cancellation. (Reuters)
- Hundreds of Americans engage in heated competing demonstrations in New York City, blocking streets and being overseen by mounted police and dog units. (BBC)
- Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center in America says the group will not burn the Koran "not now, not ever". (BBC)

Sport

The 3 Pakistan national cricket team members alleged to have spot fixed by the UK's News of the World tabloid arrive back in Pakistan; they deny any involvement. (DAWN) (BBC Sport) (Reuters via Gulf News)
Kim Clijsters of Belgium wins her second successive US Open championship, defeating Russia's Vera Zvonareva 6-2 6-1. (CNN)

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10 September 2010 (Friday)

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5 Palestinians are wounded during 4 separate Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip in response to the fourth rocket attack on southern Israel from Gaza in the last two days. (The Jerusalem Post) (BBC)
Details of 300 cases of sexual abuse, mainly on minors, allegedly perpetrated by Belgium's Roman Catholic clergy are released by Church investigator Peter Adriaenssens. 13 are found to have committed suicide. (BBC)
An alleged suicide bomber is detained after "suicide" blast at hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark. (BBC)
A Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations plane loaded with victims of the 2010 Vladikavkaz bombing lands at Moscow's Ramenskoye Airport as the death toll reaches 17. (RIA Novosti) (RIA Novosti)
A British Army soldier from the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment dies of injuries he received in the war in Afghanistan. (BBC)

Business and economy

Mining in 3 eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo provinces is banned by President Joseph Kabila. (BBC) (AFP)

Disasters

More than 50 people are injured in an oil pipeline blast in northeastern Iran. (Press TV)
Thousands of people are evacuated in Delhi over flooding fears. (BBC) (The Hindu) (The Times of India)
The death toll from the fire in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno in the U.S. state of California, reaches 4, with 50 other people injured. (ABC News America)

International relations

Yang Jiechi, the Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China, calls for Japan to immediately release a fishing boat captain captured in disputed waters in the East China Sea. (Reuters)
Iran delays the release of United States detainee Sarah Shourd because the legal processes have not been completed. (BBC) (Reuters via Fox News)
President of the United States Barack Obama urges Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu to extend a partial construction freeze on the West Bank. (Los Angeles Times)

Law and crime

Mexico:
- At least 71 prisoners escape from jail in the Mexican city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, across the U.S. border from McAllen, Texas. (BNO via Wire Update)
- The city of Ciudad Juárez had as many as 25 murders recorded in the past day mostly due to the Mexican Drug War. (Xinhua)

Politics

Mário Viegas Carrascalão resigns as the Deputy Prime Minister of East Timor leaving the Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão without a majority in the Parliament. (Canadian Press via Google News)

September 10, 2010 Wikinews articles

9 September 2010 (Thursday)

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Islamist militant group Boko Haram raid a prison in Bauchi, northern Nigeria, freeing 721 inmates. (Al Jazeera) (Times of India) (AllAfrica.com)
At least 16 people are killed and 98 injured in an apparent suicide bombing in the Russian Caucasus city of Vladikavkaz. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald), (RIA Novosti), (RIA Novosti)
Battle of Mogadishu (2010)
- A bomb explodes at Mogadishu Airport in Somalia. (Reuters)
United States Marines board and seize control of a German-owned vessel, Magellan Star, previously captured by pirates off the coast of Somalia. (CNN)

Arts and culture

Archaeologists date the mound of Moot Hill in Scone Palace where medieval Kings of Scotland including Robert the Bruce were crowned back to at least 1,000 years ago. (The Scotsman)

Business and economy

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission rejects a $A13 billion bid by the National Australia Bank for AXA Asia Pacific. (Sydney Morning Herald)

Disasters

Tropical Storm Meranti is forecast to bring heavy rains to Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan provinces in the People's Republic of China, as well as in Taiwan. (Xinhua)
The 2010 San Bruno, California fire begins with a massive explosion in a natural gas line destroying dozens of houses, killing at least 6 people, and continues burning in San Bruno, California near the US city of San Francisco. (Marketwatch), (San Francisco Chronicle), (Silicon Valley Mercury News)

International relations

Iran
- An Iranian diplomat at the United Nations states that United States citizen Sarah Shourd will be released "very soon". (AFP via Google News)
- The National Council of Resistance of Iran claims that Iran is building a secret uranium enrichment facility in Abyek. (Haaretz)
"Ground zero" mosque and cultural centre controversy
- Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the President of Indonesia, and Asif Ali Zardari, the President of Pakistan, call on President of the United States, Barack Obama, to stop International Burn a Koran Day being organised by the Dove World Outreach Center. (The Telegraph)
- Barack Obama describes the event as "a clear recruitment bonanza for al-Qaida" and warns that it will endanger US soldiers. (MSNBC)
- US businessman Donald Trump offers to buy out one of the major investors in the Park51 site in New York City where a Muslim group wanted to build a 13-story Islamic centre and mosque. (AP via Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
- Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center agrees to call off the Koran burning in return for the Park51 community center being relocated, though those associated with Park51 have stated no such agreement exists. (BBC), (MSNBC)
  - Pastor Terry Jones later reassesses his position after he claimed that he received incorrect information that the Park51 community center would be relocated. (CNN), (The Wall Street Journal)

Law and crime

Wang Huayuan, a top anti-corruption official in China's Shandong province, is sentenced to death for accepting $1 million in bribes. (AP via Google News)
Investigators in the Philippines admit that Manila Police District officers may have shot dead some of the tourists killed in the Manila hostage crisis in August. (AFP via Google News)
US District Court Judge Virginia A. Phillips rules that the United States military's don't ask, don't tell policy violates the First Amendment rights of gay men and lesbians. (Los Angeles Times)
A woman kills two people and injures another at a shooting incident at a Kraft baking plant in the United States city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (MSNBC)

Politics

Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, pays tribute to freedom of speech at a ceremony to honour Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist at the centre of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. (Reuters)
The President of the United States Barack Obama selects Austan Goolsbee to replace Christina Romer as the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. (Reuters)

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Elections
Recent: August 21: Australia, Federal Recent: September 5: Moldova, Constitutional referendum 12: Turkey, Constitutional referendum Upcoming: September 16: Tuvalu, General 18: Afghanistan, Parliament 18: Slovakia, Political reform referendum 19: Guinea, President (2^nd Round) 19: Sweden, General 22: Switzerland, Federal Council (indirect) 26: Venezuela, Parliament 26: Switzerland, Referendum Upcoming: October 2: Latvia, Parliament 3: Brazil, General 3: Bosnia and Herzegovina, General 10: Kyrgyzstan, Parliament edit sidebar

Trials
Recently concluded Australia: Jayant Patel Cambodia: Kang Kek Iew France: Manuel Noriega Germany: Nadja Benaissa India: Ajmal Kasab Japan: Peter James Bethune Portugal: Casa Pia child sexual abuse scandal Ongoing Argentina: Jorge Rafael Videla Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal China: Organized crime in Chongqing France: Church of Scientology, Air France Flight 4590, Jérôme Kerviel Germany: Heinrich Boere, John Demjanjuk Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY), Geert Wilders Palau: Tommy Remengesau Peru: Joran van der Sloot Philippines: Andal Ampatuan, Jr. Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra United States: David Headley, Rod Blagojevich Upcoming Singapore: Alan Shadrake Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein United States: Viktor Bout, Noshir Gowadia, Allen Stanford, Nidal Malik Hasan edit sidebar

Holidays and observances
September 2010 Current Upcoming 15: Independence Day (Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador) 15: Battle of Britain Day (United Kingdom) 15: Engineer's Day (India) 15: Littoral Union Day (Slovenia) 15: Silpa Bhirasri Day (Thailand) 15: Grito de Dolores (Mexico) 15: International Day of Democracy 16: International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer 16: Malaysia Day (Malaysia) 16: Independence Day (Mexico, Papua New Guinea) 17: Constitution Day (United States) 17: Heroes' Day (Angola) 17: Yom Kippur (begins at sunset, Judaism) 18: Oktoberfest begins 18: National Day (Chile) 19: Day of the Glories of the Army (Chile) 19: Independence Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis) 19: International Talk Like a Pirate Day (United States) 20: Respect for the Aged Day (Japan) 20: Youth Day (Thailand) edit sidebar

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