Portal:Current events/2010 February 23

Current events of February 23, 2010 (2010-02-23) (Tuesday)

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and the main Darfur rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement, sign a ceasefire deal. (CNN) (Xinhua) (BBC) Former Irish Green Party leader Trevor Sargent resigns as Minister of State for Food and Horticulture after admitting "an error of judgment" involving his contacts with the Garda Síochána. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times) Assassination of Hamas official in Dubai: Two more fake Irish passports are identified by the United Arab Emirates as being involved in the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior Hamas official in Dubai, bringing the current total to seven. (The Irish Times) One of the first five passport holders used a vacant Dublin home address belonging to the brother of former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds. (The Irish Times) A United Nations report says mobile phones are used by around 4.6 billion in total or two-thirds of the world population, including more than half of people in the developing world. (Digital Trends) (Globe and Mail) China increases controls on the internet, requiring anyone who wishes to set up a website to produce identification and meet regulators. (BBC) (China Daily) Mauritania recalls its ambassador from Mali after the latter released four members of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. (BBC) (Reuters South Africa) Iranian authorities arrest the leader of the Jundallah, Abdolmalek Rigi, a Sunni militant organisation based in southeastern Iran. (Press TV) (CNN) At least five people are killed and dozens buried in a landslide near Bandung in West Java, Indonesia. (BBC) (Jakarta Post) (New Straits Times) A 250lb car bomb explodes outside a courthouse in Newry, Northern Ireland, the first such bomb to explode in the area since 2000. (BBC) Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen carries out a major cabinet reshuffling, bringing in female ministers in charge of Defence and Foreign Affairs, the first in Denmark's history. (Copenhagen Post)