Portal:Current events/2009 March 1

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• The Basque Nationalist Party wins a plurality of seats in Spain's Basque Country's parliamentary elections. [http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/01/spain.basque.vote/ (CNN)]
• Canada's Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute discovers a new method to create embryonic-like stem cells that could cure spinal-cord injuries and Parkinson's disease. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090303215542/http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/abc/home/contentposting.aspx?isfa=1&feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V3&showbyline=True&date=true&newsitemid=CTVNews%2F20090227%2Fstem_cells_090228 (CTV News)]
• The United States Coast Guard searches Florida's west coast for a fishing vessel carrying National Football League players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,502785,00.html (Fox News)]
• China's first lunar probe, Chang'e 1, impacts the Moon. [http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/01/content_10923205.htm (Xinhua News)]
• The United States, Israel, and Canada will boycott the Durban Review Conference. [http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/37160/format/html/displaystory.html (Jewish News Weekly)] [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1067506.html (Haaretz)] [https://www.forbes.com/2009/03/01/obama-israel-anti-semitism-opinions-contributors_durban_islam.html (Forbes)]
• ASEAN concludes its annual summit in Hua Hin, Thailand, and calls for coordinated action against the current recession. [https://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSSP47915520090301 (Reuters)]

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