Portal:Current events/2009 February 6

February 6, 2009 (Friday)

Sweden ends its moratorium on the construction of nuclear power plants. (Financial Times)
The United States Food and Drug Administration approves ATryn, the first drug made using genetically engineered animals. (Reuters)
Late 2000s recession:
- U.S. President Barack Obama creates the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. (ABC News)
- The U.S. economy lost 598,000 jobs during January 2009, with unemployment rising to 7.6 percent. (New York Times)
- Canada's economy lost 129,000 jobs during January 2009, an all-time record, with unemployment rising to 7.2 percent. (AP via Google News)
- Bankruptcies in the United Kingdom rose during 2008 by 50 percent to an all-time high. (ABC News Australia)
- California's Alliance Bank and Georgia's FirstBank are closed, raising the number of 2009 U.S. bank failures to eight. (Reuters)
A teething drug is withdrawn from circulation after killing 84 Nigerian children in three months. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan is released from house arrest in Islamabad. (BBC)
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits Iraq to meet with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. (AFP via Google News)
Sri Lanka's government refuses to negotiate with the Tamil Tigers at what it calls a "crucial and final stage" of the ongoing civil war. (Sky News)
Russia's government will allow the U.S. Armed Forces to ship nonlethal equipment to Afghanistan through Russian territory. (International Herald Tribune)
Somali pirates will release the MV Blue Star and her crew of 28 Egyptians upon receiving a ransom. (IHT) (Melbourne Herald Sun)
The USS Port Royal runs aground off Hawaii. (Inquisitr)
Chief Minister of Perak, Malaysia, Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin is forcibly removed from office and threatens legal action. (BBC)
Archbishop Desmond Tutu will help establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the Solomon Islands. (Radio Australia)

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