Portal:Current events/2008 November 9
November 9, 2008 (Sunday)
- A total of €750 million of cocaine is seized off the coast of Ireland, in the largest such seizure in the country's history. (The Sunday Business Post)
- The Latvian government effectively nationalizes the country's second-largest bank, Parex, acquiring a controlling 51% stake for the symbolic sum of just two lati.(Reuters)
- The owner of the Haitian school that collapsed is arrested on charges of involuntary manslaughter. (UPI)
- An accident aboard K-152 Nerpa, a nuclear-powered Russian Navy submarine doing a test run in the Sea of Japan, kills more than 20 people. (Al Jazeera)
- Huda bin Abdul Haq, Imam Samudra, and Amrozi bin Nurhasyim are executed by firing squad on Kambangan Island in Indonesia for their involvement in the 2002 Bali bombings. (BBC News)
- An anti-police riot in Shenzhen, China involving 400 people, takes place after a police official threw a walkie-talkie at a motorcyclist causing his death. (AFP via Yahoo! News)