Portal:Current events/2009 April 8
April 8, 2009 (Wednesday)
- Thousands of people in Pyongyang, North Korea, celebrate the “successful” launch of the Bright Star-2 communications satellite into Earth's orbit. (BBC)
- Chinese and Russian cyber-spies allegedly infiltrate the United States' electrical grid. (AP) (Wall Street Journal)
- Police in Chişinău reclaim Moldova's Parliament from protesters of the Communist Party's absolute majority in the country's legislative election. (BBC)
- Thirty thousand National United Front demonstrators assemble at Government House in Bangkok, Thailand. (Reuters)
- Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and Chinese President Hu Jintao meet in Beijing. (AFP)
- One person is killed and four are injured in a shooting in Temecula, California, United States. (Sky News)
- Somali pirates hijack the Danish container ship MV Maersk Alabama in the Indian Ocean. (BBC)
- A rogue French Foreign Legionnaire kills four people in Chad. (BBC)
- The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development removes Costa Rica, Malaysia, and the Philippines from its blacklist of non-cooperative tax havens. (BBC)
- The United Kingdom Independent Police Complaints Commission announces an inquest into Ian Tomlinson's death. (The Guardian)