Portal:Current events/2008 October 11
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- Global financial crisis of September–October 2008:
- U.S. president George W. Bush commits to collaborative action with G7 finance ministers without mentioning new policies or concrete plan. (AP via Yahoo News) (BBC News)
- Former South African President Thabo Mbeki to mediate after Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change says move by President Robert Mugabe to control ministries that command the military and the police would violate a power-sharing agreement reached last month. (AFP via Yahoo News)
- The United States State Department removes North Korea from its list of sponsors of terrorism. (BBC)
- An earthquake struck southern Russia with tremors felt across five Russian regions. The epicentre was in Chechnya, where five people were killed. (Russia Today)
- 2008 Pacific hurricane season: Hurricane Norbert reaches Category 3 strength as it nears Baja California in Mexico. (Canadian Press via Google News)
- Turkey bombs Kurdish military targets in northern Iraq. (AP via Yahoo News ) (Voice of America)
- Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim says he expects to seize power by December by winning over defectors of the ruling Barisan Nasional government. (Reuters via Yahoo News)
- Singapore Police Commissioner Khoo Boon Hui is elected the new president of Interpol. (Channel NewsAsia)
- European Union monitors in Georgia confirm that Russia has met the withdrawal deadline. (Irish Times)
- Austrian right-wing politician and Governor of Carinthia Jörg Haider is killed in an automobile accident near Klagenfurt in Carinthia, his political stronghold. (BBC News)
- Extrajudicial killings in the Philippines decrease as noted by the Commission on Human Rights. (Inquirer)
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