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2009

• According to the UN, camps sheltering 50,000 displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been torched.[1]
• Riot police resorts to tear gas and attacks the residents of Elliniko village near Ioannina, Greece who prevented the construction of an open-refuse dump.[2]
• At least 18 civilians including children ranging in age from six months to 15 are reportedly killed in Afghanistan in an air strike by NATO forces.[3]

2008

• Cuban president Raul Castro visits Moscow, which is the first visit by a Cuban leader since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Both sides want to improve bilateral relations. [4]
• The World Health Organization (WHO) said that over 60,000 citizens in Zimbabwe are infected by cholera. [5]
• Protests are going on in Iceland against capitalism and the government. [6]
• Chinese navy begins anti-piracy mission in Somalia. [7]
• Riot police in the Morumbi district of Sao Paulo, Brazil have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at other police officers who are striking for better pay.[8]
• "Evo Morales announces general elections for 2009".[9]
• Venezuelan ex-defense minister and critic of Hugo Chavez on corruption issue Raul Baduel faces problem. This happens a couple of weeks after Venezuela expelled two Human Rights Watch members from the country for publishing report critical of Chavez administration.[10]
• It is reported that US presidential candidate Barack Obama, if elected, will increase foreign aid to Israel.[11]
• The main police headquarters in Pakistan's capital Islamabad is attacked in a suspected suicide bombing.[12]
• Low-paid workers at McDonald's and the Farmers department store in Auckland and Hamilton in New Zealand are striking for better salary and working conditions.[13]
• Venezuela's finance minister Ali Rodriguez said that the country's 2009 budget "will have significant restrictions" compared to US$63.9 in 2008. He said "There are expenses that must be eliminated and others that must be reduced. Many expenses, such as expenses on certain types of vehicles, celluars and parties, will be eliminated."[14]
• 27 people have been killed in a suspected suicide bomb attack in Sri Lanka.[15]
• 15 Indian officials are arrested by the Anti-Corruption Branch of the Delhi Government for bribery.[16]
• Farmers in Argentina are protesting. "They want government help for small- and medium-scale farmers and aid for those in the north of the country hit by the worst drought in 100 years."[17]