Portal:Current events/2008 September 10
September 10, 2008 (Wednesday)
- 2008 United States presidential election: Former Republican candidate Ron Paul endorses third-party candidates Chuck Baldwin, Bob Barr, Cynthia McKinney and Ralph Nader, calling the two-party system a "charade."(Los Angeles Times)
- President of Bolivia Evo Morales expels the United States ambassador, Philip Goldberg, for allegedly encouraging anti-government protests. (CBS)[permanent dead link]
- OPEC announces it will cut oil production by 500,000 barrels a day; prices rise accordingly. (AP via Google News)[permanent dead link]
- U.S.-based financial services company Lehman Brothers announces a third-quarter loss of $4.9 billion and plans to sell assets. (CNN Money)
- The European Commission predicts the U.K., Germany, and Spain 'to fall into recession'; the outlook for rest of the Eurozone is gloomy. (BBC News)
- The Yonhap News Agency in South Korea reports North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has a serious health problem. (AFP via Google News)
- Western intelligence officials say Kim Jong-il might have suffered a stroke (BBC News) (NPR), which North Korea denies. (Reuters)
- CERN successfully circulates a beam through the entire Large Hadron Collider for the first time. (Wired) (Wired)
- 2008 South Ossetia war:
- Some members of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs have expressed disagreement with Georgia's actions in the war: 'The recent fighting [...] was started by Georgia. The Georgians broke the truce, not the Russians' said Dana Rohrabacher, Senior Republican. (RT via YouTube) (RT)