Portal:Current events/2008 September 10
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- 2008 United States presidential election: Former Republican candidate Ron Paul endorses third-party candidates Chuck Baldwin, Bob Barr, Cynthia McKinney and Ralph Nader, calling the two-party system a "charade."[http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-thirdparty11-2008sep11,0,1874271.story (Los Angeles Times)]
- President of Bolivia Evo Morales expels the United States ambassador, Philip Goldberg, for allegedly encouraging anti-government protests. [http://cbs2chicago.com/national/bolivia.us.ambassador.2.814449.html (CBS)]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- OPEC announces it will cut oil production by 500,000 barrels a day; prices rise accordingly. [http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i5TtajgUpSm7KY5jf-lCJGHBB-tAD933LA780 (AP via Google News)]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- U.S.-based financial services company Lehman Brothers announces a third-quarter loss of $4.9 billion and plans to sell assets. [http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/10/news/newsmakers/lehman_fuld.fortune/index.htm (CNN Money)]
- The European Commission predicts the U.K., Germany, and Spain 'to fall into recession'; the outlook for rest of the Eurozone is gloomy. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7607920.stm (BBC News)]
- The Yonhap News Agency in South Korea reports North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has a serious health problem. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080910201948/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j2zReXndGtxbEQ9gsY3SWxImKHHw (AFP via Google News)]
- Western intelligence officials say Kim Jong-il might have suffered a stroke [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7607513.stm (BBC News)] [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94449410 (NPR)], which North Korea denies. [https://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSSEO30199920080910 (Reuters)]
- CERN successfully circulates a beam through the entire Large Hadron Collider for the first time. [https://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/09/gallery_cern (Wired)] [http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/first-beam-circ.html (Wired)]
- 2008 South Ossetia war:
- Some members of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs have expressed disagreement with Georgia's actions in the war: 'The recent fighting [...] was started by Georgia. The Georgians broke the truce, not the Russians' said Dana Rohrabacher, Senior Republican. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIZu-rLLtlY (RT via YouTube)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20080910172637/http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/30197 (RT)]
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