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Current events of
August 19, 2009
(
2009-08-19
)
(Wednesday)
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Seven car bombs
are detonated
in Baghdad, killing at least 95, and wounding nearly 600.
(The Times)
Sierra Leone
's annual rains kill 15 people and displace hundreds of others.
(IOL)
The
United States
and
Switzerland
sign an agreement designed to end a tax evasion dispute surrounding
UBS
U.S. customers.
(BBC)
Spanish
police capture two suspected members, Aitzol Etxaburu and Andoni Sarasola, of the
Basque
-region separatist group
ETA
.
(CNN)
John Marek
becomes the 68th death row inmate in the state of
Florida
,
United States
to be executed by
lethal injection
since the death sentence was re-instated in 1979
.
(Miami Herald)
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