Portal:Current events/2009 September 17
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- The Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Jan Fischer, says that President Barack Obama told him that the United States is abandoning plans for a missile shield based in Poland and the Czech Republic. (AP via Houston Chronicle) (RIA Novosti)
- Two large explosions hit the main base of African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu, Somalia. (AP via Chicago Star-Tribune) (Xinhua)
- Sa'dah insurgency: More than 80 people are killed in an air raid on a camp for displaced people in northern Yemen. (BBC)
- A number of children are injured in an attack at the Carolinum secondary school in the Bavarian town of Ansbach. German police arrest a man. (BBC)
- Colombia says it would consider quitting UNASUR if the block does not agree to debate issues related to drug trafficking, terrorism and arms purchases. (MercoPress)
- Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi denounces an International Crisis Group (ICG) report that warns his country could descend into ethnic violence ahead of its first national election since a 2005 poll triggered deadly street clashes. (IOL)
- A large car bomb attack in the centre of Kabul, Afghanistan kills six Italian ISAF soldiers. (BBC)
- Egypt's top Islamic authority, Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa, defends women's rights to wear trousers in public following the high-profile court case in neighbouring Sudan where women, including Lubna al-Hussein, were flogged for dressing in the garments. (IOL)
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