Portal:Current events/2009 September 27
September 27, 2009 (Sunday)
- Turkey announces it is to establish formal diplomatic relations with Armenia on October 10. (The Hurriyet) (BBC)
- Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown denies rumours concerning his health as the British Labour Party gathers for its conference in Brighton, expressing his amazement with Andrew Marr of the BBC for questioning him live on television. (The Times) (The Daily Telegraph)
- In Germany the Christian Democrats and the Liberals win the federal election and announce their intention to form a new government with Angela Merkel as Chancellor. The Social Democrats concede defeat. (Der Spiegel) (The Daily Telegraph) (Al Jazeera)
- The Socialist Party win the Portuguese legislative election to elect members of the Assembly of the Republic, with 36.6% of the vote. (euronews) (The Independent) (Trend News Agency)
- Second South America-Africa Summit (ASA) on Isla Margarita:
- The leaders of Libya and Venezuela, Muammar al-Gaddafi and Hugo Chávez, call on the continents of Africa and South America to unite to secure prosperity for future generations. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters) (BBC)
- Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says that ASA member countries have achieved concrete results since the 1st ASA Summit in Abuja in 2006. (Xinhua)
- Film director Roman Polanski is arrested in Zurich on a 31-year-old US arrest warrant. (BBC) (Angola Press)
- Afghan Energy Minister Ismail Khan survives a roadside blast which kills four people and wounds seventeen outside a school in Herat. (BBC) (Times of India)
- The death toll from Tropical Storm Ketsana rises to 73, with more than 300,000 people displaced. (Philippine Inquirer) (BBC) (China Daily)
- The Swiss multinational Nestlé is buying milk from a farm seized from its white owners and now owned by the wife of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, according to England's The Sunday Telegraph. (BBC)
- American General Stanley McChrystal, Commander of the International Security Assistance Force, formally requests more troops for the War in Afghanistan. (BBC)
- The American television series Family Guy is outlawed by authorities in Venezuela due to an episode promoting the legalization and use of marijuana. (BBC)
- Iran's Revolutionary Guards test fire several short-range missiles – the Fateh-110 and Tondar-69. (Press TV) (Chosun Ilbo) (The Independent) (Xinhua)
- Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi tells a rally in Milan about his encounters with President of the United States Barack Obama, saying: "What's his name? Some tanned guy... Ah, Barack Obama!", also commenting on his wife Michelle: "You won't believe it, but two of them went to the beach because the wife is also tanned". (IOL) (The Daily Telegraph)
- Honduras issues a 10-day deadline to Brazil asking it to decide the status of deposed President Manuel Zelaya, who is residing in its embassy in the capital Tegucigalpa. (CNN) (Reuters)
- Discworld author Terry Pratchett, who has Alzheimer's disease, criticises new guidelines on assisted suicide. (BBC)
- An award-winning essay written by Paul McCartney as a 10-year-old for the coronation of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is found after lying undiscovered in Liverpool's Central Library for more than 50 years. (BBC) (The Guardian) (CBC) (NME) (The Sunday Times)
- Four people injured in a South African plane crash in Durban on Thursday are still recovering in hospital. (IOL)