Portal:Current events/2009 August 8

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• One of Southeast Asia's most wanted terror suspects, Noordin Mohammed Top, is allegedly killed after a 16 hour siege at a house in Java, Indonesia. [http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/08/08/noordin-m-top-reportedly-killed-a-bathroom-after-16-hour-seige.html (Jakarta Post)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8190071.stm (BBC)] [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/08/200987213621943955.html (Al Jazeera)]
• The second hearing in the trial of Iranian election protesters resumes. [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/08/20098843439590151.html (Al Jazeera)] [http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/08/content_11847420.htm (Xinhua)] [http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=102827§ionid=351020101 (Press TV)]
• Local government elections take place in northern Sri Lanka, the first elections since the end of the civil war. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090811133117/http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/08/08/pol01.asp (Daily News)] [https://www.reuters.com/article/asiaCrisis/idUSCOL461692 (Reuters)] [http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=102844§ionid=351020406 (Press TV)]
• A small plane and a tour helicopter collide over the Hudson River in the United States. [http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/08/hudson.helicopter.crash/index.html (CNN)]
• A suicide bomber detonates a bomb outside the French embassy in Nouakchott, Mauritania, wounding two. The attack is the first suicide bombing in Mauritania's history.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090825152039/http://www.france24.com/en/20090809-two-wounded-suicide-bombing-outside-french-embassy- (France 24)][http://www.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/116/article_4690.asp (RFI)]

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