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Portal:Current events/2009 March 27

March 27, 2009 (Friday)

Serial Shooter Dale Hausner receives six death sentences for six murders committed between 2005 and 2006. (AP via KSWO)
All six people in a recent helicopter accident are discovered dead in Turkey. (AP via Fox News)
A flash flood and the Situ Gintung dam's failure kill at least 58 people in Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia. (BBC)
A suicide attack kills at least 50 people and injures 100 others in Jamrud, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
A radioactive lead ball containing caesium-137 is missing from a deconstructed factory in Tongchaun, Shaanxi, China. (RTÉ)
Russia will establish a military force to protect its territorial claims in the Arctic. (BBC)
The Lancet accuses Pope Benedict XVI of "distorting...science" in his argument against the use of condoms. (BBC)
The United Kingdom's economy contracted by 1.6% in the fourth quarter of 2008. (Sky News)
Corsican nationalist Yvan Colonna is imprisoned for life for murdering Corse-du-Sud Prefect Claude Érignac in 1998. (France 24)

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