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Current events of
June 17, 2009
(
2009-06-17
)
(Wednesday)
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Pope Benedict XVI
warns
traditionalist Catholic
organisation
Society of St. Pius X (SSPX)
not to go ahead with plans to
ordain
more than 30
priests
on June 19 and 27, saying the move could incur disciplinary action.
(BBC)
Kitty Ussher
resigns as
Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury
and announces that she will stand down as
Member of Parliament
for
Burnley
at the next general election following involvement in the
United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal
.
(BBC)
United States
President
Barack Obama
extends
some benefits
to the same-sex partners of federal government workers.
(BBC)
2009 Iranian election protests
:
Mir-Hossein Mousavi
calls for a
day of mourning
and rallies after several people die in
protests
following the
presidential election
.
(Reuters)
(
The Times
)
(BBC)
Fans and members of the
Iranian national football team
protest during a
World Cup qualifier
against
South Korea
.
(CBC)
(Al Bawaba)
Over 100
Romanians
flee their homes in
Belfast
after being attacked.
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
Burma
's
Supreme Court
accepts an appeal by lawyers for
National League for Democracy
General Secretary
Aung San Suu Kyi
on whether to allow more
defense
witnesses to testify at her
trial
.
(
Bangkok Post
)
Seventeen people, including the head of
Mogadishu
's police force, are killed in
fighting
between the
Transitional Federal Government
and
al-Shabaab
.
(Xinhua)
(AP)
Maoist
fighters kill 3 members of the ruling
Communist Party
in
West Bengal
.
(Reuters)
(
The Times of India
)
Indian
Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh
meets with
Pakistani
President
Asif Ali Zardari
.
(
The Times
)
(Xinhua)
The
Peruvian
government
is to revoke land laws that resulted in
deadly clashes
with indigenous protesters in the
Amazon
.
(BBC)
NASA
defers the launch of
Space Shuttle
Endeavour
for a second time until July.
(AFP)
A laptop containing unencrypted bank account details of 75,000
Bord Gáis
customers is stolen in
Dublin
.
(RTÉ)
(BBC)
Eddie Bauer
, the well-known retailer of outdoor apparel, filed for bankruptcy in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in
Delaware
.
(Reuters)
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