Category:Current events

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• Russian physicist Vitaly Ginzburg, a Nobel laureate and one of the fathers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, dies in Moscow, aged 93.
• Finland and Sweden approve construction of the controversial Nord Stream, a natural gas pipeline from Vyborg, Russia, to Greifswald, Germany, in their exclusive economic zones (map pictured).
• A gunman opens fire at Fort Hood, a United States Army base in Texas, killing 13 people and injuring 30 others.
• Cambodia and Thailand recall their ambassadors from each other over the Cambodian government's appointment of deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra as an economic advisor.
• The Sa'dah insurgency, a civil war in Yemen, spreads into Saudi Arabia.
• In baseball, the New York Yankees defeat the Philadelphia Phillies to win their 27th World Series, and the Yomiuri Giants defeat the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters to win their 21st Japan Series.