Portal:Current events/2008 March 9

• Venezuela announces that it will reopen its embassy in Colombia and welcome back the Colombian diplomats it expelled during the March 2008 Andean diplomatic crisis. (Associated Press)
• French voters go to the polls for the French municipal elections, 2008. (BBC News)
• The Spanish Socialist Worker's Party is projected to win the Spanish general election, 2008. (BBC News)
• The first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules-Verne is launched by Ariane 5 to the International Space Station. (ESA) (AP via CNN)
• An Argentine train headed for Mar del Plata from Buenos Aires slams into a bus at a rural rail crossing near Dolores, province of Buenos Aires, killing 18 people and leaving at least 47 others injured. (AP via Yahoo! News)
• A flight crew prevented an apparent attempt to crash a Chinese jetliner last week, an official says today. (AP via Yahoo! News)

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