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A 5.8 M_w earthquake kills 13 in Chechnya, Russia.
Iceland faces a major financial crisis affecting all three major banks of the country.
Martti Ahtisaari (pictured), a former President of Finland and a United Nations diplomat, wins the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.
With no candidate winning a majority in the first democratic presidential election in the Maldives, the incumbent Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and Mohamed Nasheed move on to a second-round runoff.
French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio wins the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The British Government announces details of a financial rescue package aimed at stabilizing and restoring confidence in the British banking sector.

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October 13, 2008 (Monday)

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October 12, 2008 (Sunday)

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The Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd announces that the Government of Australia will guarantee all deposits in all Australian banks for three years as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis. (ABC News Australia)
New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates will also guarantee all bank deposits in their banks. (RTÉ News)
Alphonsa Muttathupadathu, a nun from Kerala, becomes India's first female saint in the Roman Catholic Church. (BBC), (VoA)

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October 11, 2008 (Saturday)

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Global financial crisis of September–October 2008:

United States President George W. Bush commits to collaborative action with G7 finance ministers. (BBC News)
The International Monetary Fund warns of a global meltdown and offers to lend to countries if needed. (BBC News)

Former South African President Thabo Mbeki will mediate between the Movement for Democratic Change and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's government after Mugabe takes control of ministries that command the military and the police, an action that allegedly violates the power-sharing agreement reached last month. (AFP via Yahoo News)
The U.S. State Department removes North Korea from its list of sponsors of terrorism. (BBC News)
An earthquake struck southern Russia with tremors felt across five Russian regions. The epicentre was in Chechnya, where five people were killed. (Russia Today)
2008 Pacific hurricane season: Hurricane Norbert reaches Category 3 strength as it nears Baja California in Mexico. (Canadian Press via Google News)
Turkey bombs Kurdish military targets in northern Iraq. (AP via Yahoo News ) (Voice of America)
Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim says he expects to seize power by December by winning over defectors of the ruling Barisan Nasional government. (Reuters via Yahoo News)
Singapore Police Commissioner Khoo Boon Hui is elected the new president of Interpol. (Channel NewsAsia)
European Union monitors in Georgia confirm that Russia has met the withdrawal deadline. (Irish Times)
Austrian right-wing politician and Governor of Carinthia Jörg Haider is killed in an automobile accident near Klagenfurt in Carinthia, his political stronghold. (BBC News)
Extrajudicial killings in the Philippines decrease as noted by the Commission on Human Rights. (Inquirer)

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October 10, 2008 (Friday)

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Pirate spokesman threatens to blow up MV Faina, which has been held off the coast of Somalia since September 25, if $20 million is not paid by October 13. (BBC News)
The president of Peru accepts the resignation of his entire cabinet in response to an oil kickbacks scandal. (AP via Yahoo News)
Gunmen kill 11 in a bar in Mexico in drug smuggling related violence. (Reuters via Irish Times)
27 people were killed by a suicide car bomb in Pakistan near the Afghanistan border during a tribal meeting planning the eviction of the Taliban from the area. (BBC News)
Dozens of bodies that washed ashore in Yemen are believed to be from the 130 migrants from Somalia thrown overboard by smugglers; prompting calls for action against human trafficking in the Gulf of Aden. (AP via Yahoo News)
An Alaskan legislative committee finds that the Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her authority in terminating the Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan. (AP via New York Times)
The Connecticut Supreme Court rules that gay and lesbian couples have the right to marry in Connecticut. (CNN)
Oxfam says those needing food aid in Ethiopia has risen to 6.4 million, nearly two million more than in June . (Radio Netherlands Worldwide)
NATO ministers reach a deal after overcoming resistance from France, Italy and Germany by agreeing that only willing countries temporarily "act in concert with the Afghans, against [drug] facilities". (Deutsche Welle)
Nobel Prize:
- The Nobel peace prize is awarded to former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari for mediation for the resolution of international conflicts who, as a UN special envoy, guided Namibia to independence in 1990, oversaw the 2005 reconciliation between the government of Indonesia and rebels in Aceh, and mediated a peace deal in Kosovo.(AFP via Yahoo News)
Former Russian cross country ski champion Alexey Prokurorov dies after he is hit by a car while crossing a road in Vladimir.(RIA Novosti)
A Swedish appellate court sentences Chilean opera tenor Ernesto "Tito" Beltrán to two years and six months in prison for raping an 18-year-old nanny and molesting a 7-year-old girl.(Associated Press)
North Korea draws nearer to a compromise in a nuclear deal that would prompt Washington to remove it from a list of State Sponsors of Terrorism. (Reuters via Yahoo News)
Global financial crisis of September–October 2008:
- European markets fall steeply upon opening. (BBC News)
- Fears of a global recession send Asian markets tumbling. (AP via Yahoo News)
- The Australian Stock Exchange suffers its greatest fall since the crash of 1987 (The Age).
- The Dow Jones finished down 128 points, after twice reaching down 700 points and below 8000 points. (CNN)
- The United States Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson says that the Bush administration will proceed with plans to buy stocks in United States financial institutions.(AP via USA Today)
- Group of Seven finance ministers who met in Washington with IMF chief and World Bank president announce a plan to combat the crisis including the use of "all available tools" to support key institutions and prevent their failure. (NineMSN)
Leaders of the anti-government protests in Thailand surrender to thepolice. (BBC)
The Republic of China (Taiwan) celebrates its 97th National Anniversary on Double Ten Day, with its newly elected President Ma Ying-jeou. (The China Post)
Scores missing as migrant vessel sinks off the coast of northern Morocco in a route used by illegal migrants trying to reach Europe. (BBC News)
Fifteen killed when JEM rebels ambush a government convoy in west Darfur. (AFP via Yahoo News)

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October 9, 2008 (Thursday)

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Narcoterrorist attack on a military convoy by Shining Path geuerillas kills 19 including women and children in southeast Peru. (AFP via Yahoo News)
Montenegro and Macedonia recognize Kosovo, bringing the total number of United Nations members recognising Kosovo to fifty. (International Herald Tribune)
The U.S. National Security Agency is accused of listening to Americans' private phone conversations.(ABC News)
Nobel Prize:
- French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio is announced the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature.
2008 Pacific hurricane season : Tropical Storm Odile forms south of Mexico while Hurricane Norbert weakens to tropical storm strength northwest of Odile. (AP via Google News)
Global financial crisis of September–October 2008:
- Head of International Monetary Fund says the US Financial Crises threatens to send the world into a recession. IMF releases World Economic Outlook report with gloomy projections for the global financial system. (Deutsche Welle)
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 678.91 points to 8,579.19 points. (New York Times)
- Greece introduces a 100,000 Euro guarantee for the 230 billion Euro bank deposits in the country for three years, well above the EU-wide Ecofin-mandated minimum of 50,000 Euro for one year, and gives assurances that the Greek banking system is stable, while the Greek central bank announces a drop in the expected growth of the Greek economy to 3.3% (from 4%) because of decreased consumption caused by high petrol and food prices. (ekathimerini), (ekathimerini), (Forbes), (Wikinews)
- Kaupthing Bank, Iceland's largest bank, is nationalized by the country's Financial Supervisory Authority. (Bloomberg)
North Korea has forbidden ships to sail in an area of the Yellow Sea as it prepares for the launch of 10 short-range missiles. (Reuters) (BBC News)
Democratic Republic of the Congo accuses Rwanda of sending troops across the border, threatening the city of Goma. (BBC News)
War on Terrorism:
- NATO commander U.S. Army Gen. Bantz J. Craddock asks member countries for authority to target drug trade in Afghanistan. (Reuters)
- U.S. claims 27 militants killed in military operations in Afghanistan (AFP via Yahoo News)
- Suicide bomber attacks police headquarters in Pakistani capital of Islamabad, wounding eight. Two air strikes northwest of Pakistan kill 20 militants. (Reuters)
- US missile strikes in northwest of Pakistan kill at least nine. (BBC News) (AP via Yahoo News)
- A roadside bomb in north-western Pakistan hits a school bus and a prison vehicle, killing four school children and at least six others. (BBC News)
Court in the United Kingdom hears of how two doctors planned car bomb attacks on London and Glasgow airports in revenge for how UK was treating Muslims (BBC News)
NATO plans on sending seven warships to protect United Nations food aid from Piracy in Somalia. (Radio Netherlands Worldwide)
North Korea ends its nuclear freeze as it prepares to restart a nuclear facility (AP via Yahoo News)
No candidate wins a majority in the Maldives' first democratic presidential election; the incumbent Maumoon Abdul Gayoom will face Mohamed Nasheed in a runoff. (Minivan News)
Los Zetas of the Gulf Cartel suspected killers of 5 police near Guadalajara during nationwide crackdown in Mexico. (AP via Yahoo News)

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October 8, 2008 (Wednesday)

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2008 Ukrainian political crisis:
- Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dissolves Parliament and calls an early election. (Reuters)
Former South African Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota says that it is "inevitable" that South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) will split. (BBC News)
The United States embassy in Beirut seeks assistance in finding two US journalists missing in Lebanon. (CNN)
Nobel Prize:
- The 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein (GFP).(Nobel Foundation)
Yeti Airlines Flight 103 crashes in the Everest region of Nepal killing 18 passengers. (AFP via Google News)
Subprime mortgage crisis:
- Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling releases details of a rescue package aimed at restoring confidence in British Banks. As part of the deal the British Government will provide £50bn of investment, provide a further £200bn in short term loans and guarantee up to £250bn of intra-bank loans (BBC News)
- The United States Federal Reserve Board cuts interest rates by half a percentage point to 1.5% as part of coordinated activity with the European Central Bank and other central banks. (Los Angeles Times), (New York Times)
- Ford Motor's Volvo subsidiary tripled the number of jobs it planned to cut to 6,000 positions, or 25 percent of its work force, citing a "rapidly deteriorating" auto market.(CNN)
2008 Russian financial crisis:
- The RTS and MICEX stock exchanges halt trading until Friday after opening for just more than half an hour as prices plummeted in tune with the overall situation in the world's stock markets and falling oil prices. (Interfax via Onet.pl)
Voters go to the polls in the Maldivian presidential election, the first democratic elections held in the Maldives, with six candidates including incumbent Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. (AFP)

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October 7, 2008 (Tuesday)

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Portugal recognizes Kosovo.(BalkanInsight)
War on Terrorism in Afghanistan:
- In talks brokered by Saudi Arabia, the Taliban renounces its ties to al-Qaeda and sues for peace with Afghanistan. (CNN)
Nobel Prize:
- The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded Yoichiro Nambu for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics, and Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.(Wall Street Journal)(Nobel Foundation)
2008 Thai political crisis: The anti-government protester group were injured as police attacked barricades outside Thailand's parliament in Bangkok injuring over 400 people, 2 found dead. (BBC News) (Reuters)
Subprime mortgage crisis:
- Russia agrees to provide Iceland with emergency loans of 4 billion euros ($5.4 billion).(Reuters)
- Iceland's Financial Supervisory Authority takes control of troubled Landsbanki Bank.(MarketWatch)
- The Reserve Bank of Australia reduces interest rates by 100 basis points to 6.0 per cent to combat the effect of the subprime mortgage crisis. (Financial Times)
- The United States Federal Reserve announces plans to buy billions of dollars of short-term commercial paper to restore liquidity to the money market. (Los Angeles Times)
- The Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke warns that the crisis will weaken the United States economy well into 2009 and expressed a willingness to cut interest rates. (CNN Money)
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 500 points following Bernanke's comments. (New York Times)
2008 Russian financial crisis:
- President Dmitry Medvedev announces an extra 950 billion roubles ($36.4 billion) of new emergency credit for banks at a Kremlin meeting. (Reuters)
A Hungarian plane is forced to land in Iran, countering earlier reports of a US military jet being forced to land for violating Iranian airspace. (BBC News)
A bus carrying farm workers returning from Houtkop Farm plunges off a bridge on the outskirts of Piet Retief, Mpumalanga, South Africa, killing at least 31 and injuring 29.Condolences conveyed after Mpumalanga horror crash (SABC News)30 die, including two kids, as bus plunges off bridge (Sowetan)

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Ongoing events
Nobel Prize announcements Diplomatic response to Abkhazian and South Ossetian independence Diplomatic response to Kosovar independence Global financial crisis Treaty of Lisbon ratification Subprime mortgage crisis World food price crisis Piracy in Somalia

Recent deaths
October 11: Jörg Haider 10: Alton Ellis 10: Alexey Prokurorov 8: Eileen Herlie 8: Norman Hogg 7: George Emil Palade 4: Mahir al-Zubaydi 2: Choi Jin-sil 2: Rob Guest 1: Nick Reynolds 1: Boris Efimov September 30: Ed Brinkman 30: Henry Adler 30: Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam edit sidebar

Ongoing conflicts
Acholiland insurgency Israeli–Palestinian conflict Colombian armed conflict Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir Iraq War Insurgency in the Philippines Fatah–Hamas conflict War in Somalia Turkey-PKK conflict Iran-PJAK conflict Second Chechen War Insurgency in Ogaden South Thailand insurgency Sri Lankan Civil War War in Afghanistan War in North-West Pakistan War in Darfur Civil war in Chad Sa'dah insurgency

Elections
Recent September 2 September: Vanuatu, Parliament 5–6 September: Angola, Legislature 6 September: Pakistan, Presidential election (indirect) 7 September: Hong Kong, Legislature 15–18 September: Rwanda, Parliament 19 September: Swaziland, Parliament 19 September: Mauritius, President (indirect) 21 September: Slovenia, Parliament 21 September: France, Senate (third of the seats) (indirect) 25 September: South Africa, President (by the parliament) 28 September: Ecuador, Constitutional referendum 28 September: Austria, Parliament 28 September: Belarus, Parliament October 8 October: Maldives, President Upcoming October 12 October: Lithuania, Parliament (1^st Round) and nuclear power referendum 14 October: Canada, Parliament 15 October: Azerbaijan, President 15 October: Jersey, General (1^st Round) 16 October–: United Nations, Security Council 17/18 October and 24/25 October: Czech Republic, Senate (one third) 26 October: Lithuania, Parliament (2^nd Round) 29 October: Maldives, President (2^nd Round) 30 October: Zambia, President

Trials
Upcoming Austria: Josef Fritzl Canada: Larry O'Brien Estonia: Herman Simm Italy: Rudy Hermann Guede, Raffaele Sollecito, Amanda Knox Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim Netherlands: ICTY Radovan Karadžić Singapore: Peter Lloyd U.S.: Aníbal Acevedo Vilá U.S.: Viktor Bout U.S.: Tom DeLay U.S.: Noshir Gowadia U.S.: William J. Jefferson U.S.: Kwame Kilpatrick U.S.: James Charles Kopp U.S.: Ehren Watada Ongoing Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Iraq: Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal Netherlands: ICC Thomas Lubanga Netherlands: ICTY Peru: Alberto Fujimori Sierra Leone: SCfSL Charles Taylor Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra US: Jena Six US: Brian Nichols US: José Padilla US: Phil Spector US: Ted Stevens

Upcoming holidays and observances
October September 30-October 14: Dasain (Nepal) 12: Freethought Day (Freethinkers) 12: Our Lady of Aparecida & Children’s Day (Brazil) 12: Independence Day (Equatorial Guinea) 12: Hispanic Day (Spain) 12: Day of Indigenous Resistance (Venezuela) 12: Día de la Raza (Latin America) (observed on the 13) 13: Columbus Day (United States, Turks and Caicos Islands) 13: Discoverer's Day (Hawaii) 13: Discovery Day (Bahamas) 13: National Heroes' Day (Bermuda) 13: Tangbi Mani (Bhutan) 13: Thanksgiving (Canada) 13: Health and Sports Day (Japan) 13: Mother’s Day (Malawi) 13: Navy’s Birthday (United States) 13 evening - 20: Sukkot (Judaism) 14: World Standards Day 14: Mother’s Day (Belarus) 14: Thadingyut (Burma) 14: Chişinău City Day (Chişinău) 14: Svetitskhovloba (Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church) 14: Teachers’ Day (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Poland) 14: Nyerere Day (Tanzania) 15: Global Handwashing Day 15: International Day of Rural Women 15: Vap Full Moon Poya (Buddhism) 15: Foundation of the Black Panthers Day 15: Teachers’ Day (Brazil) 15: Valmiki’s Birthday (India, Sri Lanka) 15: Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day (Canada & United States) 15: White Cane Safety Day (United States) edit sidebar