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{{*mp|September 20}} In [[basketball]], '''[[EuroBasket 2009]]''' concludes with [[Spain national basketball team|Spain]] defeating [[Serbia national basketball team|Serbia]] |
{{*mp|September 20}} In [[basketball]], '''[[EuroBasket 2009]]''' concludes with [[Spain national basketball team|Spain]] defeating [[Serbia national basketball team|Serbia]] at the [[Spodek]] arena ''(pictured)'', [[Katowice]], [[Poland]]. |
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{{*mp|September 20}} [[Switzerland|Swiss]]-based [[multinational company]] [[Trafigura]] reaches an [[Settlement (litigation)|out of court settlement]] with 31,000 people affected by its '''[[2006 Côte d'Ivoire toxic waste dump|2006 dumping of toxic chemicals]]''' in [[Abidjan]], [[Côte d'Ivoire]]. |
{{*mp|September 20}} [[Switzerland|Swiss]]-based [[multinational company]] [[Trafigura]] reaches an [[Settlement (litigation)|out of court settlement]] with 31,000 people affected by its '''[[2006 Côte d'Ivoire toxic waste dump|2006 dumping of toxic chemicals]]''' in [[Abidjan]], [[Côte d'Ivoire]]. |
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{{*mp|September 18}} At least thirteen miners are killed and thirty others injured in a '''[[2009 Wujek-Śląsk mine blast|mine blast]]''' in [[Ruda Śląska]], [[Poland]]. |
{{*mp|September 18}} At least thirteen miners are killed and thirty others injured in a '''[[2009 Wujek-Śląsk mine blast|mine blast]]''' in [[Ruda Śląska]], [[Poland]]. |
Revision as of 10:28, 21 September 2009
- In basketball, EuroBasket 2009 concludes with Spain defeating Serbia at the Spodek arena (pictured), Katowice, Poland.
- Swiss-based multinational company Trafigura reaches an out of court settlement with 31,000 people affected by its 2006 dumping of toxic chemicals in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
- At least thirteen miners are killed and thirty others injured in a mine blast in Ruda Śląska, Poland.
- The 15,762nd and final episode of Guiding Light, the world's longest-running soap opera, airs on the American television network CBS.
- Noordin Mohammad Top, Indonesia's most wanted Islamist insurgent, is killed in a police raid in Solo, Central Java.
- Kenya begins clearing Kibera, one of the largest slums in Africa with approximately one million residents.
- Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and the Red-Green Coalition win the Norwegian parliamentary election.
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