Portal:Current events/2009 October 13

• Members of the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize jury speak out in defense of selecting U.S. President Barack Obama for the award. (AP via Google News)
• Czech President Václav Klaus tells his supporters he will never sign the Treaty of Lisbon. (The Times)
• Séamus Kirk is elected the 16th Ceann Comhairle of Ireland following the resignation of John O'Donoghue. (RTÉ)
• An autopsy on the body of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately finds he died of natural causes. Andrew Cowles blames himself. The Bulgarian who found his body speaks out for the time. (The Irish Times) (CNN) (CBC) (The Times of India) (Sofia Echo)
• New Zealand police say an autopsy on two-year-old Aisling Symes reveals she drowned. She had initially been thought abducted but lay in a drain for one week as police searched. (news.com.au) (RTÉ) (The Daily Telegraph)
• A previously unrecognized painting is attributed to Leonardo da Vinci on fingerprint evidence. (BBC)
• The Philippines deploys soldiers and gunboats to surround the strongholds of suspected militants and pressure them to release an abducted Irish priest. (CBC)
• The Romanian government loses a motion of no confidence, the first government to fall in 20 years since the fall of communism in the country. (HotNews) (AFP)
• A Russian court rejects a libel suit by the grandson of Joseph Stalin, who claimed the Novaya Gazeta newspaper lied about Stalin personally signing death warrants. (RIA Novosti) (The Daily Telegraph)
• Spanish authorities arrest five members of the banned Basque political group Batasuna. (BBC) (Press TV)
• North and South Korea agree to hold talks on flood control and family reunions, after North Korea fired several short range missiles earlier this week. (Joongang Daily) (Yonhap) (BBC)
• Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo agree to stop deporting each other's citizens in a dispute between the two countries. (The New York Times) (BBC)
• More than 260 Sri Lankan asylum seekers threaten to blow up their boat if Indonesian authorities force them to disembark. (The Australian)
• South African police use tear gas to disperse protesters demonstrating against poor living conditions in several towns. (Al Jazeera) (Associated Press)

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