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Current events of
October 11, 2008
(
2008-10-11
)
(Saturday)
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Global financial crisis of September–October 2008
:
United States
President
George W. Bush
commits to collaborative action with
G7
finance ministers.
(BBC News)
The
International Monetary Fund
warns of a
global meltdown
and offers to lend to countries if needed.
(BBC News)
Former
South African
President
Thabo Mbeki
will mediate between the
Movement for Democratic Change
and
Zimbabwean
President
Robert Mugabe
's
government
after Mugabe takes control of ministries that command the
military
and the
police
, an action that allegedly violates the
power-sharing agreement
reached last month.
(AFP via Yahoo News)
The
U.S. State Department
removes
North Korea
from its list of
sponsors of terrorism
.
(BBC News)
An
earthquake
struck southern
Russia
with tremors felt across five Russian regions. The epicentre was in
Chechnya
, with 12 dead.
(Russia Today)
2008 Pacific hurricane season
:
Hurricane Norbert
reaches
Category 3 strength
as it nears
Baja California
in
Mexico
.
(Canadian Press via Google News)
Turkey
bombs
Kurdish
military
targets in northern
Iraq
.
(AP via Yahoo News )
(Voice of America)
Malaysia
's
opposition
leader
Anwar Ibrahim
says he expects to seize power by December by winning over defectors of the ruling
Barisan Nasional
government
.
(Reuters via Yahoo News)
Singapore
Police Commissioner
Khoo Boon Hui
is elected the new president of
Interpol
.
(Channel NewsAsia)
European Union
monitors in
Georgia
confirm that
Russia
has met the
withdrawal deadline
.
(Irish Times)
Austrian
right-wing politician and
Governor
of
Carinthia
Jörg Haider
is killed in an automobile accident near
Klagenfurt
in Carinthia, his political stronghold.
(BBC News)
Extrajudicial killings
in the
Philippines
decrease as noted by the
Commission on Human Rights
.
(Inquirer)
.
The
University of Toledo
's Rockets stunned the
Michigan Wolverines
13-10 at the Big House, in the first ever match up between the two schools, only fifty miles apart.
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