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Current events of
November 13, 2009
(
2009-11-13
)
(Friday)
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Philippines
President
Gloria Arroyo
signs a law banning
torture
, making it a criminal offence punishable by up to 30 years imprisonment.
(
Philippine Inquirer
)
(
Bangkok Post
)
The
Turkish
government unveils a plan to improve rights of the
Kurdish
minority to end the
decades long ethnic conflict
in the southeast of the country.
(
Today's Zaman
)
(AFP)
(Xinhua)
Cambodia
detains a
Thai
man on charges of spying for Thailand.
(
Bangkok Post
)
(
Times Live South Africa
)
(Sina)
Microsoft
admits that the
Windows 7
USB
/
DVD
download tool contains code that is covered by the
GNU General Public License
and offers to make it available under the terms of that license.
(PC Magazine)
American
politician
William J. Jefferson
, former
Democratic Party
Congressman
from the
U.S. state
of
Louisiana
, is sentenced to 13 years in prison for corruption.
(AP via
Houston Chronicle
)
NASA
claims to have discovered
water
after the
LCROSS
satellite crashes near the South Pole of the
Moon
.
(
New York Times
)
South African
President
Jacob Zuma
says the police do not have a "licence to kill" after recent incidents of innocent people being killed by police.
(Eyewitness News)
(BBC)
Two people are killed and 43 rescued from a bomb shelter in a fire that triggered
multiple explosions at an arms depot
near
Ulyanovsk
, western
Russia
.
(BBC)
(RIA Novosti)
(Al Jazeera)
At least 240 villages in southwestern
Saudi Arabia
are evacuated
due to fighting
between
Yemeni
Houthi
rebels and Saudi forces along the border.
(Reuters)
(Al Jazeera)
Chinese
nationals in
Angola
say they are increasingly being targeted in "mafia-style" attacks by Angolan gangs.
(AFP)
(BBC)
Four members of
Algeria
's
national football team
are injured when their bus comes under attack by stone throwers in
Cairo
,
Egypt
.
(BBC)
(
Taiwan News
)
38 people are killed in collapsed school buildings and road accidents caused by heavy
snowfall
in
China
, the heaviest in 60 years.
(BBC)
(
China Daily
)
(
Times of India
)
Czech
Prime minister
Jan Fischer
deposits
the
Treaty of Lisbon
ratification instrument at the
Italian
foreign ministry in
Rome
.
(Foreign ministry of Italy)
Tens of thousands of
Maoist supporters
in
Nepal
block the headquarters for the
Nepali government
for a second day.
(AP)
(Al Jazeera)
The diaries of
Gareth Jones
, a British reporter who exposed the
1933 famine in Ukraine
, are put on public display for the first time.
(AP)
(BBC)
A bomb hits the
Peshawar
office of
Pakistan
's
Inter-Services Intelligence
agency with at least seven people dead and 35 injured.
(BBC)
Jersey
's
Chief Minister
Terry Le Sueur
hosts the 13th summit of the
British–Irish Council
.
(RTÉ)
The
Japan Coast Guard
evacuates 28 passengers and crew from the
Ariake
commercial ferry after it rolls over onto its side in rough seas off
Mie Prefecture
in the
Pacific Ocean
.
(
Mainichi Shimbun
)
(IOL)
Kosovo
prepares for historic elections after a flare-up earlier this week targeted Prime Minister
Hashim Thaci
in the western town of
Deçan
.
(CNN)
Actor and film director
Clint Eastwood
is made a commander of the
Légion d'honneur
.
(Xinhua)
(ABC News)
(
Gulf Daily News
)
A court in
Buenos Aires
declares
Argentinean
law restricting
marriage to a man and a woman unconstitutional
, allowing
a same-sex couple to marry
; the city government announces it will not appeal.
(Reuters)
(CNN)
The
United States
opens its first
marijuana
cafe.
(Reuters)
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