Events in September 2010
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Sep. 2
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The Israelis and the Palestinians begin direct peace talks in Washington. |
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An oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico explodes off Louisinia and a mile-long oil sheen is said to be spreading. |
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Sep. 3
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India and South Korea sign landmark memoranda of understanding on defence, in Seoul. |
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Sixty persons are killed and more than 200 injured in a suicide attack on a Shia procession in Quetta, Pakistan. |
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Sep. 4
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A 7 magnitude earthquake devastates New Zealand. |
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Sep. 5
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Basque separatist group ETA declares a ceasefire in its bloody 42-year campaign for a homeland independent of Spain. |
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Israel names Major General Yoav Galant its next military chief. |
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Sep. 6
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Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame is sworn in for a second term at the capital Kigali. |
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Nineteen persons are killed in a suicide bomb attack on a police station in Lakki Marwat, a district in Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa, Pakistan. |
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Sep. 7
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard wins a 17-day political marathon to lead a minority government in a hung Parliament. |
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A general strike against pension reforms throws life out of gear in France. |
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Eighteen persons are killed in a blast that rips through the police lines in Kohat, a cantonment town in Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa, Pakistan. |
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Officials hoist a 70 foot steel column salvaged from the rubble after the September 11 2001 attack on the World Trade Center at ground zero in New York. |
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Japan detains a Chinese ship captain Zhan Qixiong after accusing him of ramming his fishing trawler against two patrol vessels near a disputed area in the East China Sea. |
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Sep. 8
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The Sri Lankan Parliament approves amendments to the 1978 Constitution, including lifting the two-terms limit on the post of President. |
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Sep. 9
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At least 17 people are killed and more than 140 injured in a suicide car bomb attack in Russia’s violent-turn North Caucasus region. |
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Hyundai Motor unveils BlueOn, South Korea’s first full-speed electric car in the capital Seoul. |
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Sep. 10
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India commits wide-ranging aid to Laos after talks between Presidents Pratibha Patil and Choumally Sayasone in Vientiane. |
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Sep. 11
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The former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is allocated Foreign Ministry. Wayne Swan is Deputy Prime Minister and Stephen Smith gets Defence. |
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Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere bags the Golden Lion Prize at the 67th Venice Film Festival. The Silver Lion for best director goes to Alex de la Iglesia for Balada triste de Trompeta (A Sad Trumpet Ballad). |
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Sep. 12
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Turkish voters back a package to reform the Constitution in a referendum. |
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Sep. 15
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Russia and Norway sign The Treaty on Maritime Delimitation and Cooperation in the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean, in the Russian seaport of Murmansk. |
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Egypt announces the discovery of a 2,800 year old burial chamber which belongs to the priest Karakhamun from 25th Dynasty. |
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Sep. 16
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Four high-ranking leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge government are indicted for “crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide”. |
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Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Edinburgh beginning the first-ever state visit by a Pope to Britain. |
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Sep. 17
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Twentyfive persons are killed in a blast at a police station in Batticaloa district, Sri Lanka. |
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A court marshal recommends a three-year jail term for former Sri Lankan Army Chief Sarath Fonseka. |
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Sep. 18
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Afghanistan holds crucial parliamentary polls despite a string of rocket attacks. |
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Philippe Croizon, a Frenchman and quadruple amputee swims across the English Channel using leg prosthes that have flippers attached. |
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Sep. 19
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China suspends contacts with Japan. |
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Two car bomb blasts leave 29 persons dead and 111 injured in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. |
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Hung House in Sweden after parliamentary polls. |
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Sep. 20
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European leaders offer $ 1.3 billion on the first day of a three-day summit on the Millennium Development Goals at the United Nations, New York. |
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Fredrik Reinfeldt is re-elected Swedish Prime Minister. |
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Sir Mota Singh, the United Kingdom’s first Sikh and Asian Judge receives the Pride of India Award 2009 instituted by the India International Foundation, in London. |
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Sep. 22
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A bomb blast at a military parade leaves 10 persons killed and 57 injured in the Iranian city of Mahabad. |
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Sep. 23
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The 2010 World Statesman Award is presented in absentia to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New York. |
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Sep. 24
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Teresa Lewis (41) is executed by lethal injection at Greensville Correctional Centre in Jarratt in Virginia. |
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A U.S. court sentences Pakistani neuro-scientist Aafia Siddiqui to 86 years in prison for shooting at American soldiers in Afghanistan. |
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Sep. 25
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Japan frees a Chinese boat captain held a fortnight ago for ramming the vehicle on to Japanese Coast Guard vessels off the Diaoyu Islands in the East China sea. |
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Chocolate maker Georges Larnicol sails his 3.5 metre-long 1.2-tonne boat made of chocolate in Concarneau Port, Western France. |
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Sep. 26
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A boat named ‘Irene’ carrying Jewish activists sets sail from Cyprus for Gaza. |
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Sep. 27
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Russia, China sign a series of commercial and political deals. |
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Balaji Sadasivan (55), Singapore’s Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs dies of cancer. |
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Construction work resumes in West Bank as Israel does not extend the 10-month freeze. |
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Sep. 28
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About 1,000 people are feared killed after a hillside collapses in southern Mexico, burying up to 300 homes. |
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North Korea’s Kim Jong Il names his youngest son Kim Jong-un vice-chairman of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea’s central military commission. |
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Sep. 29
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Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa approves a 30-month rigorous jail term for the former Army chief Sarath Fonseka. |
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