Portal:Current events/2008 December 6

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• Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao defeats Mexican American Oscar De La Hoya during a welterweight bout at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. [https://web.archive.org/web/20081207230226/http://sports.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view/20081207-176612/Pacquiao-TKOs-De-La-Hoya (Inquirer)]
• United States President-elect Barack Obama nominates General Eric Shinseki to be the next Secretary of Veterans Affairs. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/07/2439877.htm (Reuters via ABC News Australia)]
• India arrests two men accused of providing mobile phone cards to the gunmen in the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. [http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24760844-2,00.html (Reuters via News Limited)]
• The Republic of Ireland recalls all Irish pork products after the discovery of contaminated fodder. [http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/1206/agriculture.html (RTÉ)]
• Joseph Cao defeats William J. Jefferson in Louisiana's 2nd congressional election, a major upset victory for the Republican Party. He is the first Vietnamese American ever to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. [http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/gop-appears-to-knock-off-rep.-jefferson-2008-12-06.html (The Hill)]

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