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Human Rights Watch urges world leaders to call on Sri Lanka to free hundreds of thousands of displaced people detained in camps since the island's civil war ended. ( The Straits Times ) A Polish court awards €7,400 damages to Alicja Tysiąc , likened to a child killer and Nazi war criminal by Catholic magazine Gość Niedzielny for wanting an ...
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Fiji is suspended from the Commonwealth of Nations, only the second full suspension in the organization's history. (Times of India) Alain Robert scales Tower Two of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, using no safety equipment. (New Straits Times) The unemployment rate across the Eurozone reaches a ten-year high of 9.5%.
In rugby union, South Africa defeat New Zealand 32-29 to win the 2009 Tri Nations Series. (Sport24) (IOL) [ permanent dead link ] The Guatemalan Army is accused of abducting over 300 children during the 1960–1996 Civil War and selling them for adoption.
The death toll from an earthquake and tsunami in the Samoan Islands region in the South Pacific rises to at least 113. ()A 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes western Indonesia, killing at least 75 and trapping thousands of people under rubble.
China lodges a complaint with the World Trade Organization over the United States' decision to impose import duties on Chinese-made tires. (China Daily) (Financial Times) A large area of Toronto, Canada, is evacuated after a Pipe bomb was found in a truck, but the bomb is neutralized by the Toronto bomb squad.