Template:Current events

• Alexandros Grigoropoulos, a 15-year-old boy, is killed by police in Greece triggering riots. [1]
• The United Nations is concerned over "systematic and widespread" killings of civilians by Colombia's US-backed security forces. Navanethem Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that the 'extrajudicial killings' by Colombian forces could categorize it as 'crime against humanity'.[2]
• According to the UN, camps sheltering 50,000 displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been torched.[3]
• 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.[4]
• 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.[5]
• 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.[6]
• "Evo Morales announces general elections for 2009".[7]
• 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.[8]
• It is reported that US presidential candidate Barack Obama, if elected, will increase foreign aid to Israel.[9]