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Portal:Current events/2010 September 27

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;Armed conflicts and attacks

  • A suspected U.S. drone fired missiles at a house in northwestern Pakistan in Khushali, a village near Mir Ali, killing four people. [http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/09/27/suspected-us-missile-strike-kills-4-nw-pakistan.html (Jakarta Post)]
  • Rwanda withdraws a threat to remove its peacekeepers from Darfur after a United Nations report accused the Rwandan army of genocide in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ilu2FiLQ_eAlFa-Jl065PDYBPsXw (AFP)] [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11417721 (BBC)] [http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/OpEd/letters/Rwanda%20committed%20to%20African%20peace/-/434756/1018348/-/4tqqbg/-/ (The East African)]
  • Around 70 insurgents are killed when two NATO helicopters strike inside Pakistan in its northwest Khost tribal area bordering Afghanistan. Pakistan strongly condemned the attack, calling it a violation of its airspace. [https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100927/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan (Yahoo! News)] [http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-09/27/c_13530862.htm (Xinhua)] [https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68P1RF20100926 (Reuters)] [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11416088 (BBC)]
  • President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos describes the killing of Mono Jojoy as the "beginning of the end" for the Farc organization. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11415821 (BBC)] [http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/beginning-of-end-for-colombian-rebels-20100927-15suc.html (AFP via The Sydney Morning Herald)]
  • Afghanistan:
  • Three former Australian soldiers are charged with offences including manslaughter following an action in the Afghanistan War in which six civilians died. [http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/national/three-former-soldiers-charged-over-afghan-civilian-deaths/story-e6freooo-1225929947663 (Courier Mail)]
  • The Taliban claim that they are holding a British foreign aid worker and offer to exchange her for Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistan scientist recently jailed in the United States. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8027030/Taliban-demand-prisoner-swap-for-kidnapped-British-aid-worker.html (The Telegraph)]
  • Three Palestinians said to be members of the Islamic Jihad group are killed in an Israeli air strike on the southern part of the Gaza Strip. [http://english.aljazeera.net//news/middleeast/2010/09/201092723256191228.html (Al Jazeera)]

;Arts and culture

;Business and Economy

  • Unilever plc, an Anglo-Dutch consumer products giant, has entered into an agreement to buy Alberto-Culver, a manufacturer of hair and skin care products, for $3.7 billion. [http://www.thestreet.com/story/10871500/1/unilever-to-buy-alberto-culver-for-37b.html (TheStreet)]

;Disasters and accidents

  • At least thirteen people die in the Gulf of Aden after a small boat capsizes with a rescue effort by the USS Winston S. Churchill saving another 61 passengers. [http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/thirteen-drown-in-us-navy-rescue-in-gulf-of-aden/story-e6frfku0-1225930520649 (News Limited)]
  • A 6.1 magnitude earthquake southwest of the Iranian city of Shiraz kills at least one person and injures three. [http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFHOS75362020100927 (Reuters)]
  • A landslide in the town of Giraldo in Colombia's Antioquia Department buries 30 people with authorities believing there is little chance of them being rescued. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jhqX8HkzPKZgfemBzLvCNEtQycAw?docId=CNG.bf57684dba4b5bc4d7503b36b06a8e30.3f1 (AFP via Google News)]

;International relations

;Law and crime

  • 95 people, including two former mayors and planning chief of Marbella, appear in court in Malaga in one of Spain's biggest corruption trials. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/8028039/95-defendants-pack-into-court-for-one-of-Spains-biggest-corruption-trials.html (The Telegraph)] [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11421331 (BBC)]
  • Chinese police investigate claims that a security firm colluded with officials to detain protesters in secret prisons. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11420443 (BBC)] [http://www.eeo.com.cn/ens/homepage/briefs/2010/09/27/181849.shtml (China Economic Observer)] [http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5imWnlnHjdcR3sLTlyankeEemuTbgD9IG4VJO0 (AP)]
  • The trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić resumes at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. [http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/09/27/hague.karadzic.trial/ (CNN)]
  • Brandon Joseph Rhode is executed at a prison in Jackson, Georgia in the southern United States. [https://web.archive.org/web/20101001095559/http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/georgia-executes-inmate-who-639195.html (AJC)]

;Politics and elections

;Sports

;Weather

  • Los Angeles experiences all-time record high temperature day at 45°C or 113F. [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/09/at-113-degrees-downtown-la-hits-all-time-record-high-temperature.html (Los Angeles Times)][http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/09/la-sets-record-high-temperature-of-113/1 (USA Today)]

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