Portal:Current events/2008 November 9

November 9, 2008 (Sunday)

A total of €750 million of cocaine is seized off the coast of Ireland, in the largest such seizure in the country's history. (The Sunday Business Post)
The Latvian government effectively nationalizes the country's second-largest bank, Parex, acquiring a controlling 51% stake for the symbolic sum of just two lati.(Reuters)
The owner of the Haitian school that collapsed is arrested on charges of involuntary manslaughter. (UPI)
An accident aboard K-152 Nerpa, a nuclear-powered Russian Navy submarine doing a test run in the Sea of Japan, kills more than 20 people. (Al Jazeera)
Huda bin Abdul Haq, Imam Samudra, and Amrozi bin Nurhasyim are executed by firing squad on Kambangan Island in Indonesia for their involvement in the 2002 Bali bombings. (BBC News)
An anti-police riot in Shenzhen, China involving 400 people, takes place after a police official threw a walkie-talkie at a motorcyclist causing his death. (AFP via Yahoo! News)

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