Template:In the news
- A common market comes into force in the East African Community.
- Christian Wulff (pictured) is elected president of Germany.
- Former Olympic champion Pál Schmitt is elected president of Hungary.
- At least 21 people are killed in severe flooding in Romania.
- The People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan) sign the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement, intended to boost trade across the Taiwan Strait.
- A new constitution is approved in a referendum in Kyrgyzstan.
- Mexican politician and state gubernatorial candidate Rodolfo Torre Cantú is assassinated in the country's ongoing drug war.
- Robert Byrd, the United States' longest-serving senator, dies at the age of 92.
- Representatives of the G-20 major economies meet in Toronto.
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