Portal:Current events/2009 September 29

Current events of September 29, 2009 (2009-09-29) (Tuesday)

• At least 40 people are killed as Typhoon Ketsana makes landfall on Vietnam. (Press Trust of India) (Xinhua)
• A court in Malaysia upholds a whipping punishment for Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno who was convicted of drinking beer. (Malaysia Star) (Al Jazeera)
• Former President of Peru Alberto Fujimori pleads guilty to charges of bribery and spying on his old rivals during his presidency. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
• The European Commission denies accusations that it broke Irland's laws against using taxpayers' money on referendum spending after an EU office in Dublin paid €150,000 to insert a guide to the Treaty of Lisbon into all Sunday newspapers as the country's second referendum approaches. (The Irish Times)
  • Former MEP Patricia McKenna promises legal action against any newspapers found carrying the Commission's guide, with legal advisers to Europe's Council of Ministers expressing "some concern" about its content. (The Irish Times)
• At least 87 people die in a crackdown by the Military of Guinea on an opposition rally against the country's leader Moussa Dadis Camara. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
• Gabon's constitutional court recounts votes from last month's disputed presidential election won by the son of longtime leader Omar Bongo. (IOL)
• A 14-year-old schoolgirl in Coventry, England, who died after being given a cervical cancer vaccine as part of that country's national immunisation programme is found to have suffered from a tumor in her heart and lungs. (The Times) (BBC)(MSNBC)
• An 8.3 magnitude earthquake strikes the Samoa Islands, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 20 in the nation of Samoa and another 14 in American Samoa. (Reuters) (BBC)