Portal:Current events/2009 March 27

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• Serial Shooter Dale Hausner receives six death sentences for six murders committed between 2005 and 2006. [http://www.kswo.com/global/story.asp?s=10084250 (AP via KSWO)]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• All six people in a recent helicopter accident are discovered dead in Turkey. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,511014,00.html (AP via Fox News)]
• A flash flood and the Situ Gintung dam's failure kill at least 58 people in Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7967205.stm (BBC)]
• A suicide attack kills at least 50 people and injures 100 others in Jamrud, Pakistan. [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/03/2009327101924713636.html (Al Jazeera)]
• A radioactive lead ball containing caesium-137 is missing from a deconstructed factory in Tongchaun, Shaanxi, China. [http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0327/china.html (RTÉ)]
• Russia will establish a military force to protect its territorial claims in the Arctic. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7967973.stm (BBC)]
• The Lancet accuses Pope Benedict XVI of "distorting...science" in his argument against the use of condoms. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7967173.stm (BBC)]
• The United Kingdom's economy contracted by 1.6% in the fourth quarter of 2008. [http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Business/Recession-Deeper-Than-First-Feared-As-GDP-For-Last-Quarter-Of-2008-Falls-By-16/Article/200903415250279?lpos=Business_First_Buisness_Article_Teaser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15250279_Recession_Deeper_Than_First_Feared_As_GDP_For_Last_Quarter_Of_2008_Falls_By_1.6%25 (Sky News)]
• Corsican nationalist Yvan Colonna is imprisoned for life for murdering Corse-du-Sud Prefect Claude Érignac in 1998. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090331051941/http://www.france24.com/en/20090327-corsican-nationalist-sentenced-life-imprisonment-1998-murder-erignac-colonna (France 24)]

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