Portal:Current events/2009 December 26

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• A bomb squad in Reykjavík, Iceland, searches a diverted Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to Detroit, Michigan, United States, that carries a bag whose owner did not make it onto the plane. [https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE5BP08M20091226?type=marketsNews (Reuters)]
• A bomb explodes under the car of a suspected Hamas member in southern Beirut, Lebanon, killing at least one person and injuring two others. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110318122838/http://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/phpfolder/loadpage.php?page=E32.html (Lebanese National News Agency)] [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/12/2009122620121458922.html (Al Jazeera)]
• Countries around the Indian Ocean hold commemorations on the fifth anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that killed around 250,000 people. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8430675.stm (BBC)] [http://www.euronews.net/2009/12/26/tsunami-victims-remembered-five-years-on/ (euronews)]
• A bridge over the Chambal River in Kota, India, collapses with 45 people thought to have been killed. [http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/12/26/india.bridge.collapse/index.html (CNN)]
• It is confirmed that all nine missing crew members — six Filipinos and three Greeks — from yesterday's ship fire disaster off the coast of Venezuela are dead. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8430663.stm (BBC)]
• Ten people die and two more receive injuries after being pierced by a metal guard rail during a bus crash on a major highway in Ipoh, Malaysia. [http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/12/26/nation/20091226095008&sec=nation (Malaysian Star)]
• Five Chinese are sentenced to execution by firing squad before a court in Vietnam for their roles in one of the largest drug seizures in the country's history. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5i2O3H_dd78kSww4_94P40n6x_17w (Press Association)]

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