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The Reserve Bank reduces interest rates by 100 basis points to 3.25%. (NineMSN Money) [permanent dead link ] Iran announces the launch of its first domestically constructed satellite, Omid. Suspected Taliban militants suspend NATO supply lines by destroying a bridge on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
The death toll from the 2009 Java earthquake rises to at least 57. Gabonese presidential election. The results of Gabon's presidential election were delayed as backers of the main candidates waited outside the offices of the Electoral Commission. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Treaty of Lisbon: . Ireland approves the European Union’s Treaty of Lisbon by a margin of 67.1% to 32.9% in a second referendum. (The Guardian) (Toronto Star)Czech President Václav Klaus declines to say how he would proceed in ratification of the Lisbon Treaty after the second referendum is approved by Irish voters.
National People's Assembly Speaker Raimundo Pereira becomes Guinea-Bissau's interim President following the assassination of João Bernardo Vieira.; The European Court of Human Rights rules that Turkey's government violated the property rights of a Greek Orthodox foundation by seizing its land and fines it €105,000.
(New York Daily News) Evidence that haggis was invented by the English is unearthed. (News.com.au) Iran is reportedly ready to build a nuclear weapon, according to Western intelligence services. Barclays posts a profit of £2.98bn for the first half of the year, up 8% on the same period of 2008.
China emphasizes domestic demand and targets 8% economic growth in 2009. (Xinhua News) ... Next day. March 6 This page was last edited on 11 March 2022, at 15:16 ...
President Jacob Zuma vows to create 500,000 jobs through 2009 in South Africa's State of the Nation Address. The Nigerian government recaptures 130 of 150 inmates who escaped from a prison in Enugu. Former Malagasy President Marc Ravalomanana is sentenced in absentia to incarceration until 2013 for misconduct.
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