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Current events of
September 28, 2011
(
2011-09-28
)
(Wednesday)
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Armed conflict and attacks
The
Prime Minister of New Zealand
John Key
announces that a second
New Zealand Special Air Service
soldier has died in fighting in
Afghanistan
.
(Xinhua)
Business and economy
Greek
transport workers commence a two-day strike over the latest austerity measures passed by the
Hellenic Parliament
overnight.
(ABC News Australia)
The first
Boeing 787 Dreamliner
arrives in Tokyo, Japan, to commence service with
All Nippon Airways
.
(AFP via
Sydney Morning Herald
)
Disasters
The United States
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
links an
outbreak
of
listeriosis
that has caused 13 deaths and 72 illnesses in 18 states to infected
cantaloupes
from
Colorado
.
(CNN)
Residents and authorities in the
Philippines
clean up after
Typhoon Nesat
which killed at least 20 people, most in and near the capital
Manila
.
(AP via
The Guardian
)
(AP via
The Star-Tribune
)
A
stampede
on a docked ferry in
Indonesia
's
East Java
province results in eight deaths and dozens more injured.
(TV New Zealand)
The Chinese city of Shanghai shuts down
line 10
of its
metro
system and slows down train speed following a collision that injured 271 people.
(Bloomberg via
Business Week
)
The iconic sport and concert venue
K.B. Hallen
,
Copenhagen
from 1938 burns down.
(
Copenhagen Post
)
International relations
Japan asks South Korea to block plans to build a monument to
Korean
World War II "
comfort women
" near the Japanese embassy in
Seoul
.
(Yonhap)
Law and crime
Australian
newspaper columnist
Andrew Bolt
loses an action in the
Federal Court of Australia
in relation to breaches of the
Racial Discrimination Act
in columns about nine prominent
aborigines
.
(
The Australian
)
The
FBI
arrests
Rezwan Ferdaus
, a 26-year-old American citizen, for plotting to fly remotely-controlled planes filled with explosives into
The Pentagon
and the
United States Capitol
in Washington, D.C.
(BBC)
Politics
Henry Tang
resigns as the
Chief Secretary for Administration
in Hong Kong with the expectation that he will run for
Chief Executive of Hong Kong
in next year's election.
(Bloomberg via
Business Week
)
Sport
In
baseball
, the
St. Louis Cardinals
and the
Tampa Bay Rays
qualify for wild card positions in the playoffs for the
2011 Major League Baseball season
, while the
Philadelphia Phillies
complete their
season
with 102 wins, breaking their franchise record set in
1976
for most wins in a season.
(AP via
Wall Street Journal
)
(
Atlanta Journal Constitution
)
(CSN Philly)
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