Portal:Current events/2008 October 9

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Narcoterrorist attack on a military convoy by Shining Path guerrillas kills 19 including women and children in southeast Peru. [http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/081010/world/peru_rebels_unrest (AFP via Yahoo News)]
Montenegro and Macedonia recognize Kosovo, bringing the total number of United Nations members recognising Kosovo to fifty. [http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/09/europe/EU-Montenegro-Kosovo-Serbia.php (International Herald Tribune)]
The U.S. National Security Agency is accused of listening to Americans' private phone conversations.[https://web.archive.org/web/20081010073404/http://abcnews.go.com//Blotter//story?id=5987804&page=1 (ABC News)]
Nobel Prize:
French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio is announced the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature.
2008 Pacific hurricane season : Tropical Storm Odile forms south of Mexico while Hurricane Norbert weakens to tropical storm strength northwest of Odile. [https://web.archive.org/web/20081028190532/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gVWjsPEiqe1tEu2mhBIRaxxGi8owD93MSJBG0 (AP via Google News)]
Global financial crisis of September–October 2008:
Head of International Monetary Fund says the US financial crisis threatens to send the world into a recession. IMF releases World Economic Outlook report with gloomy projections for the global financial system. [https://web.archive.org/web/20081014190702/http://www.dw-world.de/dw/function/0,2145,12215_cid_3703262,00.html (Deutsche Welle)]
The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 678.91 points to 8,579.19 points. [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/business/10markets.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin (New York Times)]
Greece introduces a 100,000 Euro guarantee for the 230 billion Euro bank deposits in the country for three years, well above the EU-wide Ecofin-mandated minimum of 50,000 Euro for one year, and gives assurances that the Greek banking system is stable, while the Greek central bank announces a drop in the expected growth of the Greek economy to 3.3% (from 4%) because of decreased consumption caused by high petrol and food prices. [http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_economy_1_09/10/2008_101124 (ekathimerini)], [http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_economy_1_09/10/2008_101125 (ekathimerini)], [https://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/10/08/ap5524908.html (Forbes)], (Wikinews)
Kaupthing Bank, Iceland's largest bank, is nationalized by the country's Financial Supervisory Authority. [https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ah7rLJahTxyA&refer=home (Bloomberg)]
North Korea has forbidden ships to sail in an area of the Yellow Sea as it prepares for the launch of 10 short-range missiles. [https://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4984S320081009 (Reuters)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7660444.stm (BBC News)]
Democratic Republic of the Congo accuses Rwanda of sending troops across the border, threatening the city of Goma. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7660592.stm (BBC News)]
War on Terrorism:
NATO commander U.S. Army Gen. Bantz J. Craddock asks member countries for authority to target drug trade in Afghanistan. [https://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4980BC20081009 (Reuters)]
U.S. claims 27 militants killed in military operations in Afghanistan [https://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081009/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrest;_ylt=AphIZVDDDiXvgbEJduZZykkBxg8F (AFP via Yahoo News)]
Suicide bomber attacks police headquarters in Pakistani capital of Islamabad, wounding eight. Two air strikes northwest of Pakistan kill 20 militants. [https://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4983OQ20081009 (Reuters)]
US missile strikes in northwest of Pakistan kill at least nine. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7662127.stm (BBC News)] [https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081009/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan (AP via Yahoo News)]
A roadside bomb in north-western Pakistan hits a school bus and a prison vehicle, killing four school children and at least six others. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7660835.stm (BBC News)]
Court in the United Kingdom hears of how two doctors planned car bomb attacks on London and Glasgow airports in revenge for how UK was treating Muslims [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7660750.stm (BBC News)]
NATO plans on sending seven warships to protect United Nations food aid from Piracy in Somalia. [https://web.archive.org/web/20081014103538/http://www.radionetherlands.nl/news/international/6001529/NATO-to-send-warships-to-Somalian-waters (Radio Netherlands Worldwide)]
North Korea ends its nuclear freeze as it prepares to restart a nuclear facility [https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081009/ap_on_re_as/eu_nuclear_nkorea (AP via Yahoo News)]
No candidate wins a majority in the Maldives' first democratic presidential election; the incumbent Maumoon Abdul Gayoom will face Mohamed Nasheed in a runoff. [https://web.archive.org/web/20081010125850/http://www.minivannews.com/news_detail.php?id=5132 (Minivan News)]
Los Zetas of the Gulf Cartel suspected killers of 5 police near Guadalajara during nationwide crackdown in Mexico. [http://fe6.news.sp1.yahoo.com/s/ap/lt_mexico_violence;_ylt=ArN2xAcCZP6AXc8l.XvnafVsr7sF (AP via Yahoo News)]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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